God vs the devil

You hear it all the time, people say that the great battle in the Universe is good versus evil, that the devil is rising up and challenging the Lord God to battle.

That is so far from the truth, but many including Pastors have bought into this lie. But you and I don't need to buy this lie, because there is NO truth in it at all.

The devil has no power over God, or His Kingdom. God cast him and his followers out of heaven, and there is none equal to God. The devil is a created being, and there is only one Creator. The created has no power against it’s Creator.

Isaiah 43:7 Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him." 9 Let all the nations be gathered together, And let the people be assembled. Who among them can declare this, And show us former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified; Or let them hear and say, "It is truth." 10 "You are My witnesses," says the LORD, "And My servant whom I have chosen, That you may know and believe Me, And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, Nor shall there be after Me. 11 I, even I, am the LORD, And besides Me there is no savior. 12 I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, And there was no foreign god among you; Therefore you are My witnesses," Says the LORD, "that I am God. 13 Indeed before the day was, I am He; And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?" 15 I am the LORD, your Holy One, The Creator of Israel, your King."

God has no equal, the power the devil has is against us, NOT God, we are weak and walk in the flesh, that is why Paul tells us to make no accommodations to the flesh,

We must remember this that " For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12

Do you notice it is not God who wrestles, it is US.

Jesus Christ in one death dealing blow lowered the boom on the devil and his minions, and disarmed him and them, the only power the devil has over us is deception. And just as he deceived Adam and Eve in the garden, he does mankind today and this is only because we do not know who we are in Christ. The Spirit is strong, but the Flesh is weak, is what Jesus said in the garden of Gethsemane. We don't study enough on our own the very words of God that He has spoken and recorded for us today. We don’t pray enough to God almighty, because we act like we are defeated by the world, or believe we don’t need God’s help.

Colossians 2:6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. 9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 10 and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. 11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. 16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.

That is powerful, it is over! Don't you think we should live as we are called, we are conquers. We serve the Conqueror, not the conquered, everyday we should read God's word and learn to walk in that victory, it is already yours. When Christ gave up His Spirit and said " IT IS FINISHED" He meant for all time.

1 Corinthians 15:55 "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?" 56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Today is the day the LORD has made, will you join Him in Victory over things in your life, or will you bow your knee to defeat, and be like the fallen world.

And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. Colossians 3:17

In Christ
brian