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- 0:04This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Lewis
- 0:08Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland
- 0:12County in Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Lewis as he
- 0:16continues teaching through God's Word.
- 0:37OK, I don't know why they try to make it seem like, you know, at
- 0:39the end times there's going to be this big fight between God
- 0:42and Satan. You know, Satan hits, God hits
- 0:45him. Satan hits him.
- 0:47God hit. No, no, he's going to speak a
- 0:51word and Satan's done. You need to understand the power
- 0:55of God. His equal was not God.
- 0:57Satan's equal would be Michael the Archangel.
- 1:00And if God gives Michael the Archangel the authority and
- 1:04their command to go and destroy Satan, Satan's gone.
- 1:07Have you ever watched one of those intense wrestling matches
- 1:10on social media where two fighters give it their all?
- 1:14Many people mistakenly believe that God's confrontation with
- 1:18Satan will resemble such a match too close to call.
- 1:23However, that couldn't be further from the truth.
- 1:26Today, Pastor Lewis wants you to understand that the God of the
- 1:29Bible, the Creator of the universe, has no rival.
- 1:34There is no one who can even come close to him, not even
- 1:38Satan. And that day when God erases all
- 1:41evil is coming sooner than you think.
- 1:44Now here's Pastor Lewis in the Book of Jude, chapter one with
- 1:48today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
- 1:52Oftentimes that's what makes them the Antichrist because they
- 1:54want to be in authority instead of Christ.
- 1:59So it makes them an Antichrist. And then of course, the third
- 2:02thing that they mentioned is the fact that they speak evil of
- 2:05dignitaries. That's speaking evil with angels
- 2:07or the glorious ones speaking evil of them.
- 2:12And it go a little further. We can go down a little further.
- 2:14And once we get to verse 9, he's going to give an example of what
- 2:17he means by that. But you know, angels really
- 2:20played a a very prominent role with the Lord, even though we
- 2:26know angels are lower than Jesus Christ.
- 2:29But yet it was angels, It was angels who was here during the
- 2:33time that the Lord had it even brought in the law.
- 2:36I'm going to go back to Deuteronomy.
- 2:38Go Old Testament here for a second and I'm going to try to
- 2:41show this to you how important it is to God about how important
- 2:46angels were in the prominent place that they had with Him
- 2:50because they were there for a number of very important events.
- 2:56And over here in Deuteronomy chapter 33, it's going to read
- 3:01this small verse here 33 and verse 2.
- 3:04I'm going to read 1 and 2. It says now this is a blessing
- 3:09with which Moses the man of God, blessed the children of Israel
- 3:13before his death. And he said the Lord came from
- 3:17Sinai and dawned on them from Sire and he shone forth from
- 3:24Mount Paran and he came with 10 thousands of Saints, in other
- 3:29words, 10,000 of angels from his right hand came, came a fiery
- 3:36law for them. And then verse 3 say yes, he
- 3:39loves the people and all his Saints are in his hand.
- 3:44They sit down at your feet. Everyone receives your words.
- 3:50So angels were there during the time that when he came down and
- 3:53he appeared and even over here and this is and this is one that
- 3:57I I thought was very interesting as well over here in Acts.
- 4:01Let's go to the book of Acts real quick concerning the angels
- 4:06in the book of Acts Chapter 7, and most of you probably already
- 4:10know that we're talking about Stephen.
- 4:12So now we're looking at what happened when Stephen was being
- 4:17persecuted. And Chapter 7, verse 53, and I'm
- 4:22going to start at verse 52, he says, which of the angels did
- 4:26your father's not persecute? He's talking to the Pharisees
- 4:29and those religious elites who wanted to kill him and they and
- 4:33they killed those who foretold the coming of the just one of
- 4:38whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers.
- 4:42And verse 53 is the one I want you to pay attention to.
- 4:44He says who have received the law.
- 4:47How did they receive the law? By the direction of angels and
- 4:52have not kept it. Direction of angels and have not
- 4:57kept it. And then just one more Galatians
- 5:01in the book of Galatians. Just trying to draw a picture
- 5:05here of the significance of these angels and why he's
- 5:09talking about how they basically speak evil of dignitaries of
- 5:14these angels. Galatians chapter 3 and look at
- 5:19with me at verse 14. I'm going to start at verse 2.
- 5:24It says this only. I want to learn from you.
- 5:28Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the
- 5:32hearing of faith? Are you so foolish, having begun
- 5:37in the Spirit that you are now being when I'm now being made
- 5:43perfect in the flesh? And then I want you to go over
- 5:47to verse chapter 4 and in chapter 4 go to chapter 3, verse
- 5:5219. There we go.
- 5:55OK, chapter 3, verse 19. This is what it says.
- 5:59What purpose then does the law serve?
- 6:02It was added because of transgressions till the seed
- 6:06should come. To whom the promise was made to.
- 6:11The seed obviously was Jesus Christ, and it was appointed
- 6:14through angels by the hand of a mediator.
- 6:19Now a meteor does not mediate for only one, but God is 1.
- 6:25So he talks about the importance of angels and how important it
- 6:28was at the time of the law and the presenting of the law, how
- 6:32the angels even came with him. Over in Exodus talks about how
- 6:35the angels, the Lord came with him at the time when he came to
- 6:39to Mount Sier, which is where he came to present the law.
- 6:44So when you talk about all these things and all these things, how
- 6:48they combine and these men who did not have a problem was
- 6:52speaking evil of these dignitaries.
- 6:55And so he gave an example. He said in the women, you being
- 6:58mere men don't have a problem speaking evil of dignitaries.
- 7:01Yet Michael the Archangel who is more powerful than most men, he
- 7:07wouldn't even speak evil to an Angel.
- 7:10So look at what he says in verse 9, back in Jude verse 9, he
- 7:14says, yet Michael the Archangel and contending with the devil,
- 7:18what he disputed about the body of Moses dared not bring against
- 7:24him a reviling accusation, but said the Lord rebuke you.
- 7:28So he's making a point here. And what he's saying is that
- 7:32these dreamers, these false teachers, they don't mind
- 7:35speaking evil about angels or dignitaries or these spiritual
- 7:40authority, spiritual authorities, they don't mind
- 7:43speaking evil of them and they don't know anything about them,
- 7:46but yet they speak evil of them. But yet Michael the Archangel
- 7:50who was constantly before the throne of God, who was basically
- 7:55the battle Angel. I mean, he would come to me back
- 7:57in the book of Dan and talked about Michael the Archangel
- 8:00doing battle with the devil when he wanted to come to Daniel,
- 8:04when Daniel had requested a word and he was coming, but he was
- 8:08being delayed because he was in battle.
- 8:10What a devil, what a demon. So Michael the Archangel was not
- 8:14a wimp. He was powerful Angel and had a
- 8:17lot of authority. But yet he would not bring a
- 8:20railing accusation against Satan.
- 8:24He said the Lord rebuked you. And it was an example of his
- 8:29understanding of authority to understand that even though he
- 8:35may be as powerful as Satan to see, Satan's equal is not God.
- 8:40Michael the Archangel will be Satan's equal God is not Satan's
- 8:45equal God. Speak with a word and Satan's
- 8:48gone. OK?
- 8:50I don't know why they try to make it seem like, you know, at
- 8:52the end times, there's going to be this big fight between God
- 8:55and Satan. You know, Satan hits, God hits
- 8:58him. Satan hits him.
- 9:00God hit. No, no, he's going to speak a
- 9:04word and Satan's done. You need to understand the power
- 9:08of God. His equal was not God.
- 9:11Satan's equal would be Michael the Archangel.
- 9:13And if God gives Michael the Archangel the authority and
- 9:17their command to go and destroy Satan, Satan's gone.
- 9:22Satan's gone. So we need to understand that.
- 9:24So, but Michael would not do that on his own.
- 9:28That's the whole point. He would not come against Satan
- 9:31on his own and just say, well, I curse you and, and I'm I'm going
- 9:37to cast you out. He don't do that on his own.
- 9:39He submits to the will of God, to the will of the Father
- 9:46because he understands order, he understands authority.
- 9:50And that's the point that Jude is making here.
- 9:52That's really an impressive point.
- 9:54It's an important point because you hear these false teachers,
- 9:58they always want to talk about they casting out the devil.
- 10:01They're casting them out. They're sending him out of here.
- 10:04They're doing this. No, no.
- 10:08Anybody remember the story about the sons of Skiva, seven sons of
- 10:11Skiva over in the book of Acts when they thought that they had
- 10:15the power to just go and cast Satan out on their own, that
- 10:19devil jumped on them. He jumped on them and they end
- 10:24up running out naked and whooped.
- 10:27He said, look, we know, we know Jesus and we even know Paul, but
- 10:33we don't know nothing about you. And they jumped on him.
- 10:36So, you know, so he, he's making the point here that we just
- 10:41like, just like Michael the Archangel, we have to submit to
- 10:46the authority of God. And it's God who cast him out.
- 10:50It's it's God who rebukes Satan. It's God who does that.
- 10:55So then in the verse 9. Now, now where the story comes
- 10:58from, I don't know this whole story about how when they were
- 11:01arguing over the body of Moses, it's a book and it's not a
- 11:05scriptural book. It's called the apocryphal.
- 11:08It's an apocryphal book. And the name of the book is
- 11:10actually called Assumption of Moses.
- 11:13I've never read it. Not saying that it's scripture
- 11:17because it's not, but this was the example that he used that
- 11:23apparently there was some story in this book about Michael
- 11:26battling with the with Satan over the body of Moses.
- 11:29Now, I don't know why they were battling over the body of Moses.
- 11:32He may have wanted to Satan might have wanted to get the
- 11:34body of Moses to desecrate it, or he might have wanted to get
- 11:37it to try to make an idol out of it and have people worshipping
- 11:40it. That which would be obviously in
- 11:42contrast with what God wants. God doesn't want him to be
- 11:46worshipped. God is to be worshipped.
- 11:50You know, as we say often times, you know, it's not great men
- 11:53that do great things through God is God who does great things
- 11:56through mere men. So we don't know why he wanted
- 12:00the body of Moses and you know, but he used that example as a
- 12:04way to try to illustrate that even the Michael the Archangel
- 12:08who was powerful, a holy Angel, would not even bring a railing
- 12:12accusation against Satan, but he submitted to the authority of
- 12:16God and says God rebuke you. So we go on down to verse 10 and
- 12:23he says, would these speak evil of whatever they do not know?
- 12:27They speak evil about things that they don't even know.
- 12:29They don't know anything about these spiritual things that they
- 12:32speak of. So they speak evil of it, and
- 12:36whatever they know. Naturally, like Butte beasts, in
- 12:40these things they corrupt themselves.
- 12:43Woe to them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, have run
- 12:47greedily in the air of Balaam for profit, and perished in the
- 12:52rebellion of Korra. A few things here.
- 12:56First of all, let's back up and talk about what he means by they
- 12:58speak evil or whatever they do not know.
- 13:01These are men who don't have the spirit.
- 13:04So because these are men who don't have the spirit, they
- 13:07don't understand spiritual things, they don't understand
- 13:12spiritual things. It doesn't make sense to them.
- 13:15Their spirit is not alive to receive spiritual things.
- 13:20Which is why two people can come into church and sit down and one
- 13:23person, the spirit, will reveal truth to that person.
- 13:26The next person sitting right beside them heard the exact same
- 13:28thing. They don't get it at all because
- 13:32one is dealing with it from the natural and the other one is
- 13:35dealing with it from the spiritual talks a lot about that
- 13:39in Scripture. You know, we can be blind to the
- 13:42things of the truth and have no understanding of those things if
- 13:45we don't have the spirit. I mean, think about yourselves
- 13:49when we when you know, when you tried to read the word of God
- 13:51before you had the Holy Spirit, you couldn't understand what you
- 13:54were reading. You couldn't couldn't even keep
- 13:56your interest. You probably put it down.
- 14:01But once you receive the Spirit and the Spirit opens your eyes
- 14:05and you pray, when you open that Bible woman, I'm not saying
- 14:08anything happens right away. It takes time.
- 14:10You know you got to diligently seek Him.
- 14:12And when you diligently seek Him, he rewards that by
- 14:17revealing more and more truth to you.
- 14:19The more you're seeking, the more you get into His word, the
- 14:23more you come before him, the more you ask Him to reveal the
- 14:27truth to you. But in your natural, there's no
- 14:30way you can do it. We none of us could.
- 14:32We couldn't understand the word of God, couldn't understand it.
- 14:37I like what it says over in second.
- 14:39Over in first Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 14, it says
- 14:43this. It says the natural man does not
- 14:46receive the things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness to
- 14:51him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually
- 14:57deserved. So nor can so he can't even
- 15:01receive them, which means he can't even hear it coming into
- 15:04his heart. He can't even hear it, you know,
- 15:06comes into him and, and just basically bounce out.
- 15:08It's like the it's like the seed that was just tossed and it went
- 15:11wayward. You know, the seed that was just
- 15:13tossing and went by the side just didn't even get it.
- 15:15Just didn't even get it because they can't receive it and nor
- 15:21can they know it because it's foolishness to them.
- 15:25The Word of God, the gospel is foolishness to people who are
- 15:27not saved, just like it was to us.
- 15:32How many times do people try to share the word of God with you
- 15:35before the Spirit opened your eyes and you said, man, what are
- 15:38you talking about? What are you saying?
- 15:43Where's the next party? I don't want to hear what you
- 15:47talking about. I mean, it's being real.
- 15:50That's the way it was because we couldn't receive it.
- 15:54I was home one Saturday morning recently and I heard the
- 15:58knocking on the door, kind of had an idea who it was.
- 16:04So that's why you didn't rush down to answer, right?
- 16:09So we come down, we answer the door.
- 16:10I think my wife actually answered the door 1st and then I
- 16:12was upstairs. I was trying to hide and and she
- 16:17eventually answered the door and started talking with them.
- 16:20And she said, wait a minute, let me ask my husband.
- 16:22Oh man. So so I came downstairs and
- 16:26this, you know, woman was there at the door.
- 16:31There was two other people on the sidewalk looking, watching.
- 16:35So we knew exactly what this was about.
- 16:38Total witnesses. So this woman is trying to share
- 16:40her Watchtower information with me and share her scriptures and
- 16:45try to make me convince me, you know, that Jesus was not God in
- 16:51the flesh, right? Yeah.
- 16:52She's just, you know, I believe in Jesus, too, just like you do.
- 16:55I said, oh, do you? Yeah, I believe that Jesus, you
- 16:58know, is the Son of God. Do you?
- 17:00Yeah, I believe Jesus is the Son of God.
- 17:01Yeah, well, I believe that Jesus is God in the flesh.
- 17:03Oh, no, no. So she begins to explain to me
- 17:09why Jesus is not God in the flesh.
- 17:13And because she said it's just not logical.
- 17:15There's a number of things that she mentioned.
- 17:17It's just not logical. And that's one of the things
- 17:19I've noticed that they will say when you start talking about the
- 17:22things of God, you know, these things are not logical.
- 17:24For example, they think the Trinity is not logical.
- 17:27So they don't, you know, talk about the Trinity or come, what
- 17:29are you talking about? You know, God in three persons.
- 17:32What are you talking about? It's not logical, doesn't even
- 17:34make sense. So I listened to her talk about
- 17:37that. And then she, you know, we, you
- 17:39know, we even talked about the the incarnation.
- 17:42Of course, you know, she totally got rid of that.
- 17:44No, Jesus, you know, he, no, no, he's not he, he's the son of
- 17:48God. He was created being, you know,
- 17:50but he's not God in the flesh. Talk a little bit about that.
- 17:53And and then she went to the resurrection, talked a little
- 17:57bit about about that. Well, he resurrected, but Aiden
- 18:00resurrect in fully, you know, body he'd resurrect.
- 18:04He was just a spirit. Well, we just got finished
- 18:05reading last week, right, that when he resurrected, he
- 18:08resurrected in the in the body, right?
- 18:10Because Mary Magdalene grabbed his feet, right?
- 18:13You can't grab the feet of a spirit, right?
- 18:16So anyway I made this one statement to her and this woman
- 18:22turned into an angry demon and all I said to her well would you
- 18:30know these things are only discerned in the spirit Only the
- 18:35Spirit can recognize these things.
- 18:38Are you saying I don't have the Spirit of God in me?
- 18:42Yes, yes and she went on a rant that I never thought a woman and
- 18:51now I was I'm about 6-1 Well I was probably 6-1 then this woman
- 18:57you know probably came to about here.
- 18:59But I mean, she just rant and raved and looked up and just, I
- 19:03mean, I she wow, she was angry. She was really, really angry.
- 19:10We never had another person come back after that.
- 19:15Never had another person. Have we had anybody come back
- 19:17after that? Yeah, we never had another
- 19:18person come back after that. So she obviously went and told
- 19:21her homies just bypassed that house, OK, because they hang
- 19:28with it. But yeah, I couldn't believe how
- 19:31angry she got. But it's the Spirit of God that
- 19:34discerns these things. That's why Paul prayed to the
- 19:39Colossians. When he prayed for the
- 19:40Colossians Church, he prayed that they would be filled with
- 19:46the knowledge of his will and all wisdom and spiritual
- 19:53understanding, spiritual understanding, because that's
- 19:57how these things are understood. But these false teachers don't
- 20:01have that. They don't have the Spirit, so
- 20:04they can't talk about the Scriptures or the things of God
- 20:08from a spiritual standpoint. They can only look at it through
- 20:11the natural. They can only look at it through
- 20:14the natural and that's why they get into so many problems,
- 20:19because they can't see it through the Spirit.
- 20:23First Corinthians chapter 2 and 11 says for what man knows the
- 20:28things of man except the spirit of man, which is in him.
- 20:32Even so, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
- 20:37Now we have received not the spirit from the world.
- 20:43If you have the spirit of the world, you understand the things
- 20:45of the world. People who are in the world,
- 20:47they can have a conversation with each other and say things
- 20:49that to us now those things may sound absurd to us or just like
- 20:54things. There's no way we're doing that.
- 20:57You know, there's no way I'm, I'm going to be in agreement
- 20:59with this, but you can see in the times how people are fine
- 21:03with some of the way that society is changing.
- 21:06The people of the world are fine with it.
- 21:09They're totally fine with it. But us, we're grieved by it.
- 21:14And it's because the world takes on its own.
- 21:16The world loves its own. The world deals with its own.
- 21:18They understand those things because they have the spirit of
- 21:21the world. But we have received not the
- 21:23spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we
- 21:28might know the things that have been freely given to us of God.
- 21:33We get those things freely through the Spirit of God, but
- 21:39they, they have no understanding of, but yet they speak
- 21:43negatively about the Spirit when you know someone that could be
- 21:47even someone who goes to church all the time.
- 21:51And because you may be, you know, walking in obedience,
- 21:54because the Holy Spirit, you're developing this relationship
- 21:56with the Lord and you're walking in the Spirit and you're
- 21:59walking, you're trying to, you're walking in obedience to
- 22:01the Lord as much as you possibly can.
- 22:04And you know, because and we, we're all still sin and we're
- 22:07honest about that with each other, but yet you get someone
- 22:11who's not into walking in obedience and they begin to
- 22:15start speaking evil of you. Oh, you think she's too good for
- 22:18us? He thinks he can't do this
- 22:20anymore. He can't do that anymore.
- 22:23You know, they start speaking evil of you.
- 22:25And that's exactly what happened.
- 22:27When they start speaking evil of the teachers who were teaching
- 22:30the truth. They're speaking evil.
- 22:33Those teachers demeaning them to other people.
- 22:39So then we go on down here to verse 11, like he said, he says,
- 22:42whoa. He said they're like, you know,
- 22:44before he said they're like group beasts and they corrupt,
- 22:48you know, they corrupt themselves with the things that
- 22:50they do know. And then in verse 11, he says
- 22:52woe to them for they have gone the way of Cain and in the era
- 22:56of Balaam for prophet and in rebellion of Korah.
- 22:59Well, first of all, they're brute beast.
- 23:01And that means that they're only living in a way that satisfies
- 23:06the flesh, their primal instincts, brute beasts.
- 23:11You're living like a brute beast and that means you're just
- 23:13living to satisfy your urges. That's why animals are able when
- 23:17he says, you know, they corrupt themselves and in, in those
- 23:21things that they that they do know, because the only thing
- 23:24they do know is their urges, their lusts, their desire for
- 23:29natural things. And that's why animals can get
- 23:33trapped. We have some people here who are
- 23:35hunters. They trap animals or they lure
- 23:38animals. How do they trap them?
- 23:40They lure them. How do they lure them?
- 23:42They lure them by things that they're driven to eat, things
- 23:47that they're driven to do. If you got an animal who loves
- 23:51meat, you put a piece of meat in a box.
- 23:54He's coming for it. This has been Living Waters of
- 23:59Grace, a ministry of Calvary Chapel Westmoreland in
- 24:02Greensburg, PA Pastor Lewis Harrell has been teaching
- 24:07through the book of Jude. This is a book of warning as the
- 24:10audience that Jude was writing to was coming under attack from
- 24:14false teachers. Even in the early days of the
- 24:17church, there were teachers who claimed to have a unique
- 24:20revelation from God that superseded Scripture.
- 24:24Pastor Lewis wants you to be sure to be on your guard against
- 24:28those teachers today as they will try to distract you from
- 24:32following the way of Jesus. By focusing on what God's Word
- 24:36says, you can call out false teachers for what they are and
- 24:41stay on the good path. Do you want to hear more
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