Friday, July 15, 2016

The Devil’s Most Wanted List

"My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil’s most wanted list."  Leonard Ravenhill

This is a powerful statement!  If we are on the devil’s most wanted list we are on God’s most useful list!  Leonard would also say that if we are not known in hell we are not worth a hill of beans.  Does the kingdom of darkness know you exist here today?  Are you a threat to the strongholds of the enemy?  If you are not, what good are you to God?  

See our life as a Christian is not to be one of passivity, but of aggression.  We are to be fighting the good fight of faith.  We are to be on the offensive advancing the Kingdom of God and destroying the works of the enemy!  We are to follow Jesus Christ and do as He did.  It says in 1 John 3:8 “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.”  We have a very similar purpose in being birthed into the family of God. Our purpose as a Christian is not to sit around until we are raptured out of here or passively hear a sermon very week or so until we die!  Ever since the very moment you were born again into the kingdom of God you have been called to destroy the works of the enemy!  You are called to be deeply in love with God through Bible reading, prayer and worship.  This intimacy and love for God is to then flow out of you to go and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to all who are lost and captivated by sin.  

If there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner who repents than there must also be more tears and sorrow in hell over one sinner who repents.  For every soul that hears the Gospel and believes, the devil’s strongholds over that person is broken.  Do you want to be on the devil’s most wanted list, then go around telling the world that Jesus Christ is God’s only Son sent to deliver them from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of Gods love.  Begin to do the works of Jesus Christ.  Jesus went about teaching, preaching and healing the sick.  

The devil hates when believers start to operate in the supernatural and perform genuine Holy Spirit empowered miracles.  This is why satan has so many counterfeits.  Praise God though, when the Holy Spirit begins to move and do supernatural things in people, there is nothing more to be said.  When God confirms the Gospel message with true healings, miracles and demonic deliverances, the devil’s power is squashed flat.  Christ has defeated him and the devil stays in submission to His name now and forever.

“Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” 14 Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. 15 And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” 16 Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.”  Acts 19:13-16

Are you known in hell?  Is your life doing something for the kingdom of God?  Let us be like Ravenhill and desire to be on the devil’s most wanted list.  This is nothing to fear, because we know that greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.  We need to make our lives count!  We cannot simply coast through life giving half effort in the things of God.  Let us, by the grace of God, give our all in all!  Let us wage war against the sin, corruption, hunger, homelessness, drug dealers, murderers and overall wickedness of this world.  How do we do that?  By preaching the Gospel!  By saving souls.  By living a holy life full of loving others the way Jesus loved them.

Scripture of the Day:  Acts 19:13-16
“Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” 14 Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. 15 And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” 16 Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.” 

Leonard Ravenhill

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