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MAN DECEIVED AND RUINED

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MAN DECEIVED AND RUINED

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Parents and Grandparents, children and grandchildren, do we ever sit down and think how subtle, how crafty, how sly, how shrewd, how clever Satan works ? Satan is the Devil that deceived Eve in such a crafty, sly, and clever manner, appearing before her in the shape and likeness of a serpent. Satan and the Devil is that old serpent which deceiveth the whole world.”

Did you ever sit down and think about the game that Satan plays ? He is playing a game with you and with me. The game Satan plays is a drawing game. He drew Eve and Adam by his crafty, sly, and clever work into sin. Not that he had any power nor dominion over them nor within them for they were created good and upright in God. But, since Satan became an apostate from his first state, a rebel against God, a traitor, a tempter, a murderer and the ringleader in rebellion, he was envious of man and his happiness. Thus he beguiled, that is, he deceived Eve through his arguments and allurements and fair speeches. However, we can never justify ourselves and charge Satan with our sin. We have actually committed the very sin of disobedience. We freely transgressed God’s command and therefore Satan was the tempter, but we are the sinners. Hence, Satan, that old serpent, has been playing his game against man ever since. He is crafty and he works cunningly within our heart and mind.”

Since he has gained the victory or won the game we are now his subjects. We have sold ourselves to him and are thus guilty of murdering our own soul. We are estranged from God and have forfeited, yea we have actually sold our birthright like Esau sold his.”

Satan continues to deceive us with his clever speeches and crafty manner. And our own evil and corrupt lust continually draws us aside, and entices us to sin and do all that which is evil in the sight of God. Our hearts are now enmity itself against God. It is now impossible for us ever to love and walk in His ways of truth and righteousness. Don’t you believe this? Well, do you think for one moment that Satan will ever allow you to inquire after God? Never! it is against all the rules and regulations of his game. Again, do you think for one moment that your own corrupt heart, mind, and will, would ever once desire to seek after God and a knowledge of His way of truth? Never! for the enmity of our heart by nature will never, never, permit us to inquire after God. We hate God with all our being and powers. Neither are we able to even form one good thought of God within our heart because we have become so depraved in our nature that our very heart is totally corrupt.”

This depravity and corruption of man is truly a spiritual death which we have all died and which reigns over all mankind. So Satan is the murderer of our soul from the beginning and we are guilty of murdering our own soul by our very act and deed of committing the sin of disobedience to God.”

Now think well into this matter. Can a naturally dead corpse ever arise from its bed? Can it open its eyes ? Can it move one hair upon its head? Indeed not, for it is against all the laws of nature. No dead thing can move because if it could it would not be dead. So it is with us in our soul. Our soul or the spiritual life of man has become totally dead, inactive, lifeless, through our sin and trangression. This is directly opposite to what that old serpent Satan said to us. He said “Ye shall not surely die.” Oh, what a deceiver he is. Oh, how crafty and clever he is in his speeches and arguments. See how sly he is ? See how he has slain thy soul before God ? See how we have sold ourselves to do evil and sold our birthright? What for? What have we now in the place of the life of God in our soul ? Can we find anything else but death ? Indeed not! There is not a spark of life left within us. We have been slain and are now ruined in a state of enmity and hatred.”

That subtle, crafty, and sly old serpent, Satan, has taken man captive through his cleverness. He has slain all mankind and now has dominion over man. We are his slaves and must do as he commands us. We are now like the children of Israël were when they were slaves to the Egyptians. We are flogged, we are driven, we must make our tale or number of bricks each day.”

Have we been deceived or not? Do we indeed know God, talk with Him, and walk with Him, in any of our thoughts? Surely, our own conscience condemns us and brands us as guilty sinners. Man, who art thou that dare defy this most evident fact? Dare you say that you love God? Dare you say that God is first in all your thoughts ? Dare you say that you hunger and thirst after righteousness ? How is it possible for you and for me to even have the least inclination toward God since we lie in a ruined heap, like the walls and the city of Jerusalem was, when the enemy destroyed them?”

Now, then, what do we as human beings possess in reality as spiritually dead creatures? What kind of thoughts are we filled with, good or bad? Have we any love for our neighbor? Have we any love toward God? None whatsoever. We are destitute. We are blind (since our eyes were opened in Paradise). In this blindness we are naked and we know it too. Why did Adam and Eve sew fig-leaves together and make themselves aprons? And, dare we then say that we have not been deceived by Satan?”

Satan is cursed. Adam and Eve and in them all mankind are condemned. Man is driven out of the presence of God and he is kept out by the flaming sword and is forever unable to regain an entrance into the courts of ths Lord. God is now a consuming fire and an everlasting burning unto all mankind.”

We have irreparably broken the covenant of works and it is in vain for us to ever hope to obtain righteousness, life, and true happiness, by virtue of this covenant. We can never plead upon this covenant. We have broken the command of that covenant so the curse of it is now in full force upon us. There is no room left us for repentence under that covenant so we are all undone.”

May the Lord discover this lost and undone state and condition unto us. We are indeed hedged in, and, in dire need of being delivered from the power of Satan of which we hope to write next month. Ed.”

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