“SPIRITUAL MONARCHICAL MADNESS ORCHRIST-MASTERED NEWNESS OF LIFE?”
By: J.FARRELL FISHER, JUNE 20-22, 2017
Have you ever known of “men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which come on the earth”, because in their own spiritual monarchical madness they shut Holy God and His redemptive love out of their lives, homes, businesses, even their ‘self-education’ or choosing schools and universities ‘mastered’ by philosophical stupidity?
There is an on-going war for the souls of men – and Satan is the primary leader in ensuring unbelief in a lot of boys and girls, moms and dads, and men and women! Spiritual monarchical madness is the classic theme Satan has used to indoctrinate, yes, nations and schools and universities, families, or the singles that don’t want families, or godless government leaders who seek to ensure God’s absence from what they want to control themselves – all suggested, inspired, instilled by the devil and devilish demons!
It was Noah Webster, founding father of much of our nation’s founding educational system, who wrote in his “The American Dictionary of the English Language,” (NY: S. Converse, 1828, reprinted, San Francisco Foundation for American Christian Education, facsimile edition, 1967), saying: “The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws… (Listen now!)…All the miseries and evil which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
I’m also afraid it’s because men, women, boys, and girls, teachers and professors, pastors and their people, yes, “despise, neglect, or see as unimportant the God-inspired Truths of Holy Scripture” –and, yes, they keep the door open to Satan and his associates to cloud the minds, blind the eyes, seal the hearts from Divine oversight with Christ-Mastered, eternal Wisdom of the Word! Spiritual Monarchical Madness has more than a foot in the door of men’s minds and hearts – too often most men are “diseased” with their monarchical madness in the spirit realm – and that ‘disease’ is contagious!
It’s really, really interesting and eye-opening when one devotes himself/herself to read carefully and intently the Word of God! For instance, come with me to Mark 3:13-15, where Christ Jesus called to Himself the first “twelve apostles” or “those He Himself wanted. AND THEY CAME TO HIM.” Then notice, Verses 14-15, “Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach, AND to have power to heal sicknesses and TO CAST OUT DEMONS!” [Are YOU aware of how controversial it is to even read Scripture about “demons”? I’m sure, if you accept and walk in the Word of God, that at least you know Satan and his army of demons have successfully blinded a lot of preachers and ‘disciples’ (?) in “covering” for them in their degrading, enslaving activities!].
Back in Mark 3:15 after appointing “the twelve” to “have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons,” follow carefully Verses 20-30! [The American “church” and the “church” worldwide must learn about the ministry of deliverance, yes, from demonic activity in their world today!]. Mark 3:20-30 instructs us:
Then the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. But when His own people heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, “He is out of His mind.” (And much of the world in the church today would label any minister of deliverance as being “out of his mind”!).
And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said (of Christ Jesus!) “He has Beelzebub,” and, “By the ruler of the demons He casts out demons.” So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.
Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation” – because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.” [And do you understand that Jesus was condemning those who attribute the works of the Holy Spirit, yes, even deliverance from demons, to be the works of even the devil himself?].
In reading Hebrews recently I paused with, yes, great fear for those who take lightly, if at all, the Holy Word of God! Hebrews 10:26-27 tells us: “For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.” Oh, but then comes Hebrews 10:29-31! It says:
“Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The Lord will judge His people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
I pray that YOU are not one of those “who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul,” and, yes, trust in the Savior to deliver YOU and break your chains of demonic bondage!
Oh, and then reading Spurgeon WITH THE WORD OF GOD, I was awed by his penetrating words when he was teaching about “The Curse Removed,” from his Memorable Library series, Volume 2 of “Spurgeon’s Sermons”, (p.285), when he wrote: “On the walls of heaven you are proscribed, written upon there as “deicides”, who have slain the Savior – as rebels against God’s government, who have committed high treason against him; and perhaps even now the dark-winged angel of death is spreading his pinions upon the blast, hastening to hurry you down to destruction. Say not, O sinner, that I would affright you; say, rather, that I would bring you to the Savior; for whether you hear or not, or believe it or not, you cannot alter the truth thereof – that you are NOW, if you’ve not given yourself to Christ, ‘condemned already’.”
What does John 3:18 tell us from the very lips of Christ Jesus? “He who believes in (trusts in, relies upon, adheres to) Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is CONDEMNED ALREADY, because he has not believed (or trusted in) in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
Satan said what to Eve in Genesis 3? “You surely shall not die,” but Eve and Adam and all of humanity since has lived in need of the Savior and Lord with Satan still saying, “Your sin is not serious – you surely shall not die as you ‘party’ with the world, the flesh, and my fellow demons of darkness!”
Did Spurgeon described fallen humanity as “deicides”? The Random House Collegiate Dictionary of 1975 defines “deicides” as “a person who kills a god or the act of killing a god”, but consider: “Who crucified Christ?” How about Satan and ALL of fallen mankind who live in and through their fallen sin-natures?
Is “the dark-winged angel of death” still spreading his wings, and especially upon you? There’s an awakening event in Luke 9:37-43! [Please! Don’t give me the darkish-rendition that this was an isolated event with a little boy when “the dark-winged angel of death” gloats over men’s spiritual stupidity! The “deicides” are clearly interpreting fallen humanity themselves by their own existence without God!]. Luke tells us:
Now it happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met Him. Suddenly a man from the multitude cried out, saying, “Teacher, I implore You, look on my son, for he is my only child. AND BEHOLD, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out; it convulses him so that he foams at the mouth; and it departs from him with great difficulty, bruising him. So I implored Your disciples to cast it out, but they could not.”
Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.” And as he was still coming, the demons threw him down and convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child, and gave him back to his father.”
The ‘convulsing activity of the devil and his demons’ is as alive today, I think even more so, because of the vast numbers he desires to destroy – but most churches and many pastors don’t even consider that a concern! But in Luke 9:49-50 we read, Now John answered and said, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us.” But Jesus said to John, “Do not forbid him, for he who is not against us is on our side.” THE FREEDOM-DELIVERERS WHO FIGHT THE DEMONS ARE CHRIST’S SERVANTS!
But, if Satan and his ‘soldiers of death, deceit, and enslavement’ are still around, it is certain that true disciples of Christ should not be giving him any of their ground to occupy, but I guarantee you he and his devilish companions will tempt you with devilish activities, and lude-filled lusts that WILL distress you, annoy you, trouble you, vex your best effort, and are capable of ultimately destroying your soul-life!
In Luke 6, after a night of prayer, we learn of Jesus’ encounter with “unclean spirits”. Luke 6:17-19 says, And He (Jesus) came down with them (His disciples and the crowd ) and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed. And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all." A” least four truths I want to enlighten you with, especially brightening your understanding of Christ Jesus “freeing” us from our troubling wars with Satan.
FIRST, SETTLE IT IN YOUR MIND AND HEART THAT SATAN WILL NOT STEAL FROM YOU YOUR CONFIDENCE IN HIS HOLY WORD! What did Satan do with Eve? “Has God really said that you shall not die if you partake of forbidden fruit?” Yes, it’s Satan and his earthly slaves who cast doubt on the Word of God!
Oh, but at the same time, Satan is a stickler for ‘legalism’ apart from grace, mercy, and love! He won’t oppose ‘legalists’ because they are not “born-again disciples of Christ”, but ‘strive’ to enter through their best efforts, when true salvation is the gracious gift of compassionate God through Christ!
But at the same time, Satan twists Truth and misuses Scripture! He fights for what he “thinks” is his! He induces bitter, boastful in self folks, to end their sadness and disappointment in themselves before they find the “joy of the Lord”! Satan is the master of anxiety, worry, fear, doubt, discouragement, eventually majoring on shifts of eye contact from the reality of Christ’s promises to his devilish, fleshly, demonic tendencies!
SECOND, SATAN CONFESSES TO ‘LIES”, NOT TO BIBLICAL TRUTH, AND ENTERTAINS IN EVERY MIND DOUBTS AND FEARS! And, yes, he travels in his ‘fallen spirit’, not some earthly body, yet is still able to speak to you as if you were Eve or Adam!
Reading Spurgeon recently, (same Volume as earlier mentioned, pps.302-304), the brilliant preacher, teacher, and author wrote: “Satan is not very scrupulous, and he sometimes throws the coming (to Christ) sinner down and tears him ‘by telling horrible falsehoods.’ Some of you may not have known this, and I thank God if you do not understand some of the things which I am about to speak. Many a time when the soul is coming to Christ, Satan violently injects infidel thoughts. I have never been thoroughly an unbeliever but once, and that was not before I knew the need of a Savior, but after it.
It was just when I wanted Christ and panted after Him, that on a sudden the thought crossed my mind, which I abhorred but could not conquer, that there was no God, no Christ, no heaven, no hell; that all my prayers were but a farce, and that I might as well have whistled to the winds or spoken to the howling waves. Ah! I remember how my ship drifted along through the sea of fire, loosened from the anchor of my faith which I had received from my fathers.
I doubted every thing, until at last the devil defeated himself by making me doubt my own existence, and I thought I was an idea floating in the nothingness of vacuity; then startled with that thought, and feeling that I was substantial flesh and blood after all, I saw that God was, and Christ was, and heaven was, and hell was, and that all these things were very truths….It is when Satan finds the heart tender that he tries to stamp his own impress of infidelity upon the soul; but, blessed be God, he never accomplishes it in the truly-coming sinner.
He (the devil) labors to inject blasphemous thoughts, and then tells us they are ours. Has he not sometimes poured in most vehement torrents of blasphemy and evil imaginations into our hearts, which we ignorantly thought must be our own? Yet not one of them perhaps belonged to us. I remember I had once been alone musing on God, when on a sudden it seemed as if the floodgates of hell had been loosed; my head became a very pandemonium; ten thousand evil spirits seemed to be holding carnival with my brain; and I held my mouth lest I should give utterance to the words of blasphemy that were poured into my ears.
Things I had never heard or thought of before came rushing impetuously into my mind, and I scarce could withstand their influence. It was the devil throwing me down and tearing me. Ah! Poor soul, you will have that perhaps; but remember it is only one of the tricks of the arch enemy. He drives his unclean beasts into your field and then calls them yours.”
THIRD, SATAN WILL POINT YOU TO YOUR OWN GETHSEMANE BATTLE, ACCUSE YOU OF YOUR WEAKNESSES, AND, WHEN HE SEES YOU CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST, HE’LL NOT STAY AROUND – HE DOESN”T CELEBRATE CHRIST’S SHED BLOOD COVERING YOU BECAUSE HE KNOWS THAT’S HIS DEFEAT, NOT HIS VICTORY! Were YOU “crucified with Christ? Then rest in His shed blood, and Satan and his demon forces will flee!
It’s better to understand “I was crucified with Christ” than to stand with the devil’s crowd who can’t even contemplate talking about Christ and His shed blood setting fallen humanity free from their sin and death! And though Satan inspired, “Crucify Him,” there is no doubt, once done, the devil knew his demise was ushered in because the Resurrection of Christ was soon to come – and “Christ Arose”!
Charles Wesley, in one verse of “O For A Thousand Tongues”, wrote: “He (Christ) breaks the power of canceled sin, He sets the prisoner free; His blood can make the foulest clean; His blood availed for me.” And though ravished by sin and death and the devil’s captivity, a repentant heart and faith-filled soul walks free in Christ’s gift of freedom, liberty, and the gift of eternal life in Him alone! AMEN?