A Sermon by Reverend Hollis Ray Mathis

reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

The Devil Satan

GOD, THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, SAID THESE WORDS, “ MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. HOW CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE FALSE PROPHET. YOU CAN IDENTIFY THE FALSE PROPHET FOR ALL MEN SPEAK WELL OF HIM. LK:6:26 WOE UNTO YOU, WHEN ALL MEN SHALL SPEAK WELL OF YOU! FOR SO DID THEIR FATHERS TO THE FALSE PROPHETS. HOW CAN A PERSON RECOGNIZE THE TRUE PROPHET OF GOD? WE ARE REVILED, PERSECUTED, AND MEN SAY ALL MANNER OF EVIL AGAINST US FALSELY. MT:5:11 BLESSED ARE YE, WHEN MEN SHALL REVILE YOU, AND PERSECUTE YOU, AND SHALL SAY ALL MANNER OF EVIL AGAINST YOU FALSELY, FOR MY SAKE. 12. REJOICE, AND BE EXCEEDING GLAD: FOR GREAT IS YOUR REWARD IN HEAVEN: FOR SO PERSECUTED THEY THE PROPHETS WHICH WERE BEFORE YOU. HERE IS THE TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. 2COR:11:24 OF THE JEWS FIVE TIMES RECEIVED I FORTY STRIPES SAVE ONE. HERE ARE A FEW ADJECTIVES TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT KIND OF ADVERSARY THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH. HE IS SUBTLE, WICKED, SLANDEROUS, DECEITFUL, POWERFUL, FULL OF WRATH TOWARD GOD, AND HIS CHILDREN. RV:12:12 THEREFORE REJOICE , YE HEAVENS, AND YE THAT DWELL IN THEM. WOE TO THE INHABITERS OF THE EARTH AND OF THE SEA! FOR THE DEVIL IS COME DOWN UNTO YOU, HAVING GREAT WRATH, BECAUSE HE KNOWETH THAT HE HATH BUT A SHORT TIME. THERE ARE IN THIS PRESENT WORLD TWO CHURCHES, THERE IS THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH WHICH IS THE BODY OF CHRIST, IN THE SPIRITUAL CHURCH THERE ARE ONLY THE ELECT OF GOD AND IN PERFECT UNITY. SECONDLY THERE IS THE PHYSICAL CHURCH. IN THE PHYSICAL CHURCH THERE ARE SPIRIT FILLED CHRISTIANS, AND THERE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD THAT HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, AND THERE ARE CHILDREN OF SATAN. I BELIEVE THAT OVER A PERIOD OF TIME SATAN HAS PLACED HIS CHILDREN IN KEY POSITIONS IN THE PHYSICAL CHURCH, AND WITH PROPAGANDA, HERESIES, AND LIES HAVE CAUSED MANY DIVISIONS. FOR THIS REASON YOU HAVE CATHOLIC, BAPTIST, PENTECOSTAL, METHODIST, PRESBYTERIAN, JEHOVAH WITNESS, CHURCH OF GOD, CHURCH OF CHRIST, SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST, AND MANY MORE DENOMINATIONS. JESUS CHRIST HAS SAID A KINGDOM DIVIDED CANNOT STAND. LK:11:17 BUT HE, KNOWING THEIR THOUGHTS, SAID UNTO THEM, EVERY KINGDOM DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF IS BROUGHT TO DESOLATION; AND A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST A HOUSE FALLETH. YOU MAY WONDER WHEN THE PHYSICAL CHURCH SHALL COME TOGETHER, AND BE ONE CHURCH IN UNITY. I HEARD ONE MAN SAY THE PHYSICAL CHURCH SHALL BE ONE CHURCH AS SOON A CHRIST RETURNS. BUT I BELIEVE THAT IT SHALL COME TOGETHER AND BE ONE CHURCH AS SOON AS THE ANTICHRIST BEGINS TO MAKE WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS. LET ME GIVE YOU SOME OF THE DOCTRINES OF SATAN. FOR EXAMPLE THE DOCTRINE OF CELIBACY. FOR MEN TO FORBID OTHER MEN TO MARRY OR TO ABSTAIN FROM CERTAIN MEATS IS THE DOCTRINE OF THE DEVIL. 1TM:4:1 NOW THE SPIRIT SPEAKETH EXPRESSLY, THAT IN THE LATTER TIMES SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH, GIVING HEED TO SEDUCING SPIRITS, AND DOCTRINES OF DEVILS; 2. SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY; HAVING THEIR CONSCIENCE SEARED WITH A HOT IRON; 3. FORBIDDING TO MARRY, AND COMMANDING TO ABSTAIN FROM MEATS, WHICH GOD HATH CREATED TO BE RECEIVED WITH THANKSGIVING OF THEM WHICH BELIEVE AND KNOW THE TRUTH. 4. FOR EVERY CREATURE OF GOD IS GOOD, AND NOTHING TO BE REFUSED, IF IT BE RECEIVED WITH THANKSGIVING; 5. FOR IT IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WORD OF GOD AND PRAYER. 6. IF THOU PUT THE BRETHREN IN REMEMBRANCE OF THESE THINGS, THOU SHALT BE A GOOD MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, NOURISHED UP IN THE WORDS OF FAITH AND OF GOOD DOCTRINE, WHEREUNTO THOU HAST ATTAINED. BECAUSE OF THE DOCTRINE OF CELIBACY MULTITUDES OF PRIEST DO NOT QUALIFY TO BE A BISHOP. TO BE A BISHOP A MAN MUST BE A FAMILY MAN. 1TM:3:1 THIS IS A TRUE SAYING, IF A MAN DESIRE THE OFFICE OF A BISHOP, HE DESIRETH A GOOD WORK. 2. A BISHOP THEN MUST BE BLAMELESS, THE HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE, VIGILANT, SOBER, OF GOOD BEHAVIOUR, GIVEN TO HOSPITALITY, APT TO TEACH; 3. NOT GIVEN TO WINE, NO STRIKER, NOT GREEDY OF FILTHY LUCRE; BUT PATIENT, NOT A BRAWLER, NOT COVETOUS; 4. ONE THAT RULETH WELL HIS OWN HOUSE, HAVING HIS CHILDREN IN SUBJECTION WITH ALL GRAVITY. 1TM:3:5 ( FOR IF A MAN KNOW NOT HOW TO RULE HIS OWN HOUSE, HOW SHALL HE TAKE CARE OF THE CHURCH OF GOD?) 6. NOT A NOVICE, LEST BEING LIFTED UP WITH PRIDE HE FALL INTO THE CONDEMNATION OF THE DEVIL. 7. MOREOVER HE MUST HAVE A GOOD REPORT OF THEM WHICH ARE WITHOUT; LEST HE FALL INTO REPROACH AND THE SNARE OF THE DEVIL. HOW DOES THE DEVIL DESTROY GOD’S CHILDREN? FIRST COMES TEMPTATION, SATAN TEMPTS GOD’S ELECT TO TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD. IF A PERSON YIELDS TO TEMPTATION, THEN COMES SIN, THEN COMES THE CURSE, AND THEN COMES CONDEMNATION. THE OLD SERPENT THE DEVIL WITH ONE TEMPTATION CAUSED THE SPIRITUAL DEATHS OF BILLIONS OF PEOPLE. THE SERPENT TEMPTED EVE WITH THESE WORDS. GN:3:1 NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE SUBTIL THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD MADE. AND HE SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, YEA, HATH GOD SAID, YE SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN? 2. AND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO THE SERPENT, WE MAY EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREES OF THE GARDEN: 3. BUT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN, GOD HATH SAID, YE SHALL NOT EAT OF IT, NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT LEST YE DIE. 4. AND THE SERPENT SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE: 5. FOR GOD DOTH KNOW THAT IN THE DAY YE EAT THEREOF, THEN YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED, AND YE SHALL BE AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL. THE SERPENT DECEIVED EVE, BUT DID NOT DECEIVE ADAM; ADAM KNEW THAT HE WAS GOING TO DIE. FOR THIS REASON, THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS FORBIDS WOMEN TO TEACH MEN. THERE ARE MANY WOMEN PREACHING AND TEACHING MEN, AND THEY ARE IN TRANSGRESSION OF GOD’S LAW. 1TM2:11 LET THE WOMAN LEARN IN SILENCE WITH ALL SUBJECTION. 12. BUT I SUFFER NOT A WOMAN TO TEACH, NOR TO USURP AUTHORITY OVER THE MAN, BUT TO BE IN SILENCE. 13. FOR ADAM WAS FIRST FORMED, THEN EVE. 14. AND ADAM WAS NOT DECEIVED, BUT THE WOMAN BEING DECEIVED WAS IN THE TRANSGRESSION. WHEN ADAM TRANSGRESSED THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, ALL MANKIND WAS IN ADAM. AND WHEN THE SPIRIT OF GOD DEPARTED FROM ADAM WE ALL DIED THE SPIRITUAL DEATH. 1COR:15:22 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE. NOW WHEN A CHILD IS BORN INTO THE WORLD, BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL SIN OF ADAM, THE CHILD IS ALIVE PHYSICALLY BUT DEAD SPIRITUALLY, THE CHILD MUST BE BORN AGAIN. THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL MUST BE BROUGHT TO LIFE. THE CHILD MUST BE BORN OF WATER, BAPTIZED, AND BORN OF THE SPIRIT; MUST RECEIVE THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST. JN:3:5 JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 6. THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. HERE ARE SOME OF THE DOCTRINES USED BY THE CHILDREN OF SATAN TO LEAD MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN INTO THE FLAMES OF HELL. “FAITH PLUS NOTHING EQUALS SALVATION.” IF A MAN BELIEVES THAT DOCTRINE AND IS NOT BAPTIZED, HE SHALL BE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND JUDGED BY THE LAW THAT GOD GAVE TO MOSES; AND BY THAT LAW NO FLESH SHALL BE JUSTIFIED. GAL:3:27 FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 1JN:5:11 AND THIS IS THE RECORD, THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. SATAN’S CHILDREN PREACH “PARTAKING OF THE LORD’S SUPPER IS NOT A NECESSITY TO SALVATION.” IF A PERSON BELIEVES THAT DOCTRINE AND REFUSES TO PARTAKE OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, WHICH BECOMES THE BODY, AND BLOOD OF CHRIST AFTER IT IS BLESSED; THEY WILL HAVE NO LIFE, SPIRITUAL LIFE, IN THEM. JN:6:53 THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, EXCEPT YE EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN, AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, YE HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU. HERE IS THE TEMPTATION OF JESUS, THE SON OF THE VIRGIN MARY, NOTICE HOW HE USES THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD, TO FIGHT AGAINST THE TEMPTER. MT:4:1 THEN WAS JESUS LED UP OF THE SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS TO BE TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL. 2. AND WHEN HE HAD FASTED FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS, HE WAS AFTERWARD AN HUNGRED. 3. AND WHEN THE TEMPTER CAME TO HIM, HE SAID, IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, COMMAND THAT THESE STONES BE MADE BREAD. 4. BUT HE ANSWERED AND SAID, IT IS WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD. DT:8:3 THAT HE MIGHT MAKE THEE KNOW THAT MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY BREAD ONLY, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDETH OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE LORD DOTH MAN LIVE. MT:4:5 THEN THE DEVIL TAKETH HIM UP INTO THE HOLY CITY, AND SETTETH HIM ON A PINNACLE OF THE TEMPLE, 6. AND SAITH UNTO HIM, IF THOU BE THE SON OF GOD, CAST THYSELF DOWN: FOR IT IS WRITTEN, HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE CONCERNING THEE: AND IN THEIR HANDS THEY SHALL BEAR THEE UP, LEST AT ANY TIME THOU DASH THY FOOT AGAINST A STONE. 7. JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, IT IS WRITTEN AGAIN, THOU SHALT NOT TEMPT THE LORD THY GOD. DT:6:16 YE SHALL NOT TEMPT THE LORD YOUR GOD, AS YE TEMPTED HIM IN MASSAH. MT:4:8 AGAIN, THE DEVIL TAKETH HIM UP INTO AN EXCEEDING HIGH MOUNTAIN, AND SHEWETH HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD, AND THE GLORY OF THEM. 9;. AND SAITH UNTO HIM, ALL THESE THINGS WILL I GIVE THEE, IF THOU WILT FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP ME. 10. THEN SAITH JESUS UNTO HIM, GET THEE HENCE, SATAN; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, THOU SHALT WORSHIP THE LORD THY GOD, AND HIM ONLY SHALT THOU SERVE. 11. THEN THE DEVIL LEAVETH HIM, AND, BEHOLD, ANGELS CAME AND MINISTERED UNTO HIM. DT:6:13 THOU SHALT FEAR THE LORD THY GOD, AND SERVE HIM. SATAN IN THE BEGINNING OF CREATION WAS CREATED AN ANGEL OF GOD. BUT BECAUSE OF SIN WAS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN TO EARTH AND A SENTENCE OF CONDEMNATION WAS PLACED UPON HIM. IS:14:12 HOW ART THOU FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING! HOW ART THOU CUT DOWN TO THE GROUND, WHICH DIDST WEAKEN THE NATIONS! 13. FOR THOU HAST SAID IN THINE HEART, I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD: I WILL SIT ALSO UPON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION, IN THE SIDES OF THE NORTH: 15. YET THOU SHALT BE BROUGHT DOWN TO HELL, TO THE SIDES OF THE PIT. 16. THEY THAT SEE THEE SHALL NARROWLY LOOK UPON THEE, AND CONSIDER THEE, SAYING, IS THIS THE MAN THAT MADE THE EARTH TO TREMBLE, THAT DID SHAKE KINGDOMS. IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE HEDGE THAT GOD HAS ABOUT US, THE DEVIL WOULD KILL US ALL. JB: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? 9. THEN SATAN ANSWERED THE LORD, AND SAID, DOTH JOB FEAR GOD FOR NOUGHT? 10. HAST NOT THOU MADE AN HEDGE ABOUT HIM, AND ABOUT HIS HOUSE, AND ABOUT ALL THAT HE HATH ON EVERY SIDE? THOU HAST BLESSED THE WORK OF HIS HANDS, AND HIS SUBSTANCE IS INCREASED IN THE LAND. 11. BUT PUT FORTH THINE HAND NOW, AND TOUCH ALL THAT HE HATH, AND HE WILL CURSE THEE TO THY FACE. 12. AND THE LORD SAID UNTO SATAN, BEHOLD, ALL THAT HE HATH IS IN THY POWER: ONLY UPON HIMSELF PUT NOT FORTH THINE HAND. SO SATAN WENT FORTH FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. SATAN KILLED JOBS CHILDREN, AND TOOK AWAY ALL HIS PERSONAL POSSESSIONS, AND PLACED BOILS UPON JOB FROM THE CROWN OF HIS HEAD TO THE SOLES OF HIS FEET. JESUS THE SON OF GOD CREATED THE DEVIL. EPH:3:9 AND TO MAKE ALL MEN SEE WHAT IS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MYSTERY, WHICH FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD HATH BEEN HID IN GOD, WHO CREATED ALL THINGS BY JESUS CHRIST. WHEN THE DEVIL WAS FIRST CREATED HE WAS PERFECT, BUT LATER INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN HIM. EZ:28:15 THOU WAST PERFECT IN THY WAYS FROM THE DAY THAT THOU WAST CREATED, TILL INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN THEE. WHEN MEN AND WOMEN CURSE AND BLASPHEME, THEY ARE GIVING A TESTIMONY THAT THEY ARE SATAN’S CHILDREN. YOU MAY NOT KNOW HOW TO RECOGNIZE THE BORN AGAIN CHILD OF GOD. THE BORN AGAIN CHILD OF GOD WILL NOT WILFULLY TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 1JN:3:1 BEHOLD, WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HATH BESTOWED UPON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD: THEREFORE THE WORLD KNOWETH US NOT, BECAUSE IT KNEW HIM NOT. 2. BELOVED, NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD, AND IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT WE SHALL BE: BUT WE KNOW THAT, WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS. 3. AND EVERY MAN THAT HATH THIS HOPE IN HIM PURIFIETH HIMSELF, EVEN AS HE IS PURE. 4. WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN TRANSGRESSETH ALSO THE LAW: FOR SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW. 5. AND YE KNOW THAT HE WAS MANIFESTED TO TAKE AWAY OUR SINS; AND IN HIM IS NO SIN. 6. WHOSOEVER ABIDETH IN HIM SINNETH NOT: WHOSOEVER SINNETH HATH NOT SEEN HIM, NEITHER KNOWN HIM. 7. LITTLE CHILDREN, LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU: HE THAT DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS IS RIGHTEOUS, EVEN AS HE IS RIGHTEOUS. 8. HE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL; FOR THE DEVIL SINNETH FROM THE BEGINNING. FOR THIS PURPOSE THE SON OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED, THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. 9. WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM; AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD. 10. IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL. WHOSOEVER DOETH NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD, NEITHER HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER. 11. FOR THIS IS THE MESSAGE THAT YE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING, THAT WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER.


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