Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in My Weakness for His Strength - # 215
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Something
Michael brought to my attention years ago…ONLY God can create. He is THE Creator. Man can only attempt to counterfeit (deceive into thinking or making someone else think), compile two (or more) things together,
or copy (not create) something God
has created. Pride allows man to think
he can create…
DAY 61
Did God Create Satan? Sin?
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name
was Job; and that man was blameless, upright, fearing God, and turning away
from evil. –Job 1:1
It is
helpful to understand that pride
comes before sin. Pride
misuses the natural, as mentioned above, and sin is the result. Pride would
dominate with no regard for that which it controls. This is where Satan reveals
himself to be pure, unadulterated, unrefined pride. God did not create Satan; He created
a heavenly being that chose pride, and this resulted in something called Satan.
He is like the locust that devours without ever looking back and then moves on
to the next living thing. The enemy has no regard for human life or things
created above in the heavens or below on the earth. He destroys and takes no
responsibility for it. Satan sought to totally destroy Job, and for what? For
nothing! For his pride
alone does Satan destroy! If Satan is destroying your family, know this: it is for nothing!
Sin is not a created thing, but something
that comes as a result. Created things are formed from nothing and exist
as though they always were. Sin is the result of two created things being misused. For
example, men and women have a natural sex desire; that is not sin. But then
pride comes bringing chaos with no consideration, and the two natural desires
interact in an unnatural act--sex without marriage--and sin occurs. Sin is therefore a result of
pride.
The
mule--the outcome of the mating of a horse and a donkey that cannot reproduce
itself--can be an example of something that is not a created being but is a
result. Because the mule is a result
being, to be rid of it we would have to attack that from which it springs, its
source; all mules would naturally disappear if every horse or donkey were
killed. Sin is a result of two natural things doing the
unnatural. Sin is the result of the inner and outer life of man saying no in
pride to the Creator. Sin is a parasite on the back of creation, the unnatural
living on the natural. This
is why God did not attack the result (sin), but allowed the inner life (Adam
life) to be killed on the cross with Christ, and thus sin’s source (Adam Life)
was destroyed. The
new inner life we receive, Christ's life, never agrees with the unnatural and
brings the outer life under its subjection. Every person who becomes a believer brings a deathblow
to sin and death. “For
the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;
for these are in opposition to one another, so that you may not do the things
that you please” (Galatians 5:17).
Yellow – VIP, Very Important Point Green
– IT, Incredible Truth
Red – GP, Greatest Promises
Turquoise – UR, Unfathomable Riches Pink
– PV, Priceless Victory
God’s Word has ample warning of two things man falls captive to over and
over again: pride, then wrong choices.
Michael gives us 6 powerful statements to meditate on and ponder over
and over…
1. pride comes before sin
2. even a heavenly being chose pride…who do we think we are?
3. sin is the result of the inner and outer life of man saying “no” in
pride to the Creator.
4. but God did not attack the result (sin), but allowed the inner life
(Adam life) to be killed on the cross with Christ…sin’s source in all Believers
has been destroyed.
5. the new inner life (Christ’s life) all Believers have received never
agrees with the unnatural and brings the outer life under its subjection.
6. every Believer has brought a deathblow to sin and death.
SO…may I add…why would any Believer ever say, “The devil made me do it.”
???
ooooooops….pride raises its
ugly head once more.
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