The book of Revelation shows that satan will be thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone with every angel who chooses to follow him into evil by leaving Heaven and with every man who, while upon the Earth, refused to accept redemption by Jesus Christ. If you do not accept Christ’s offer of salvation, satan will succeed in keeping you from the blessing of eternal life and from the earthly blessing and rewards given to believers who love and follow Christ’s commands.
These commands imparted to believers by the Holy Spirit who lives in them tell us how to walk our lives out in the way pleasing to the LORD. A part of this encompasses money management (including work, earning, giving, and expensing) as this is a key area in which satan attempts to control people’s lives by corrupting the way in which their hearts (priorities set by ungodly desires), minds (attitudes establish by pride), and bodies (physical activities engaging lusts) lead them to pursue and expend the manifold monetary resources the LORD entrusts to them throughout their lives.
Understand that satan wants to steal your affection from God by tempting you to doubt salvation in Christ. Secondly, he wants to eliminate your usefulness to God by tempting you to spend so much time fulfilling material desires that you have no time or inclination to spend with the LORD, fellowship with the Church (His body), or spread the gospel. Just as God has shown mankind principles for experiencing abundant and eternally significant lives, satan imparts principles that subtly and insidiously destroy our lives. He knows that the LORD loves us and hurts when we choose to follow satanic pathways instead of choosing to live in His love, abundance, and eternal life.
You are in a spiritual battle whether you want to realize it or not and satan is automatically winning when you do not realize it. Those who realize it understand they were created to by grace through faith thank, praise, and worship the LORD and obey the commands of the Holy Spirit according to the perfect law of liberty, which is to love the LORD with all their hearts, souls, minds, and strength and to love their neighbors as themselves so much that they intimately desire to fulfill the purpose for which He created them by living according to the fruit of the spirit and evangelizing unbelievers and making disciples of believers. When such love is in your heart, your life of faith will produce good works that glorify the LORD, bring good will to other people, and cause you to experience inner peace and joy no matter what the atmosphere and people around you are experiencing.
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Isaiah 14:12-20, 2Corinthians 4:1-7, Galatians 5:13-26, Jude 1:24-25, Revelations 20:1-15
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