Being Tested By The Enemy Flashcards
In Luke 22:33
Peter said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.
Did Peter believe this and how do you know?
No Peter did not truly believe this, he was not converted therefore he could not accept the validity of what he spoke.
The proof is when the cock crowed Peter had denied Jesus 3 times already in Matthew 26th chapter.
Every confession that we make must be tested.
What confession did Peter make to Jesus that was tested?
Matthew 26:34-35
Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.
Before Peter could accept the validity of what he said what must he do?
He must go into Solitude, and become changed from what he was.
When you go into solitude your goal should be not to leave until what happens?
Until:
You are made over into a radically different person
You are made over into a radically different disposition
You are made over into a different composition
You are transformed, changed, metamorphosed, transfigured, transposed, altered, or modified.
Faith is built in _______ while you are being ________.
persecution, persecuted
The caterpillar was _______, he became a butterfly.
Converted
What happens when a caterpillar becomes converted?
He becomes something that he never was before.
Whenever we say we are going to make a radical change who wakes up?
Satan wakes up and says I am going to see if you mean that.
Then he leaves you and goes out and attacks everything that you care about, and everyone you care about.
Whenever we make a _______ we ______ the testing of that _______.
Confession, attract, confession
What is the real problem about living in the Kingdom of God?
The real problem is you cannot get anything without confessing it, but when you confess it, that confession will be tested.
Why do people say I was doing fine until I become a believer and now I have all these problems?
The reason for all these problems is that you have confessed that you are going to follow Christ.
John 16:1-3 talks about how we should not be offended and when they should come what else does it talk about?
John 16:1-3
These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
A lot of people are ______ when they are _______ in the _______, because they did not expect it.
If you live ______ you will be hurt in the church.
Offended, attacked, church, godly
Whatever you confess will be tested by the devil, Satan. He is saying I will see if you really believe what you just said.
Explain how God’s confession must be tested using the scriptures?
God said to Satan, have you considered my secant Job, there is no one like him in the earth.
Job 1:8
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
What did Satan do after God made this statement about Job?
“Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?”
Satan went out from the presence of God and attacked everything that job had.
God’s confession was tested
Listen to what Jesus said to the church:
I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. (John 16:12-13 KJV)
What Jesus talking about here?
We need to see things before it arrives, we need to know things before they arrive, and we need to hear things before they arrive.
In what place will we be shown things, hear things, and/or see things before they arrive?
Only in solitude will you be shown things.
Only solitude will you receive the Spirit of truth
Even Jesus refused to deliver the Spirit of truth why is that?
They could not bear the Spirit of truth in the condition they were in.
The apostle Paul talks about persecution because he wanted to encourage us, what did he say?
2 Timothy 3:11-12
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
The only thing that the devil wants is to be worshipped why is worship so important?
God created all things for his pleasure and worshipping is the one thing that God cannot give to himself
Why does the Devil want to be worshipped?
Because he’s got an Ego.
God created all things for his pleasure is found in the book of Revelations, what chapter and verse is it found?
Revelations 4:11
In the book of Revelations it says:
“Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive _____ and _____ and ______: for thou hast created all things, and for thy ______ they are and were created.” (Revelation 4:11 KJV)
glory, honour, power, pleasure,
In order to worship what do you need?
You must have something higher than yourself