DO YOU HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH SATAN?

Every Christian is told to pursue a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We have all seen the consequences of dead religion, of people who claim to worship Jesus, but who do not seem to know him. They relate to Jesus like they relate to their favorite celebrity or the president or to a fictional character. There is nothing real about it. No experiences.

We are told time and again that we have the joy and the responsibility of relating to Jesus in a personal way. He is real. He is alive. He is a genuine person. We can and should and must relate to him personally, in experience!

However, as much as we emphasize a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, we tend to view Satan and his evil forces as an abstraction.  Or as a cartoon character.  We believe that we need to relate personally to the Savior but that we can relate impersonally to the enemy as if Jesus is a person while Satan is merely an idea.  You need to have a personal relationship with Satan as well.

We need to be careful here, obviously. We do not equate Jesus and Satan in some yin and yang kind of relationship. They are by no means equal. Jesus is Creator and Satan is created; Jesus is the Conquerer and Satan the conquered; Jesus is alive forever while Satan knows his time is short and that he must soon be thrown into the pit.

But until then, Satan is alive and on the prowl. He despises those who have a saving faith in Jesus Christ and desires and seeks their destruction. So until the time Christ returns and casts Satan into that pit forever, we need to relate to him as well. This does not mean that we pray to Satan or even speak to him, but it had better mean that we pray to Christ about him and against him and his work in our hearts through indwelling sin, along with his work in the world. 

You need to believe that Satan exists, that he is powerful and that he will stop at nothing to hurt, hinder and destroy your very soul.  

He is not an idea. 

He is not a theory. 

He is not simply a symbol of evil (for scary movies or groups adverse to Christ.) 

 He is real, and it is crucial that we remember and believe it.

Acts 19:15-16 gives us a snap shot of what I am expressing here: 

¹⁵ One day the evil spirit [of Satan italics mine] answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?” ¹⁶ Then the man who had the evil spirit living in him [italics mine] jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.

I hope you will take on the traits of a life that ensures you have a personal relationship with the devil.

A. Believe: (Inside Job) Believing is the difference between facts and faith, between head and heart.

B. Live: (Outside Job) A personal relationship with Jesus that translates into hating and mortifying sin in your heart and reaching others with this wonder working power of the Gospel of Christ. 

Live Holy.

What are you doing to ensure that your face is on the walls of Hell’s post office? 

Satan and his demons are holding committee meetings about me Right NOW for waking you up to this reality. 

I hope this Soy Misto with a Jelly Donut helps someone today!! 

Robbs