Who Is Responsible For All the Troubles In the World was the message given by Marcia Plotner at Cedar Creek Seventh-day Adventist Christian Church on Sabbath, 1 August 2020. To listen to the message, please visit my Sound Cloud account. Who Is Responsible Message
Who Is Responsible For All the Troubles In the World
We are all muggers. In the Garden of Eden, all the animals were tame. When sin began, everything changed. Death, decay and disease have been our reality since. Turn in your Bibles to 1 John 3:8.
1 John 3:8
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
Someone is out to kill, steal and destroy. Jesus wants to save us.
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
Revelation 12:7-9
Satan Thrown Out of Heaven
7 And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought, 8 but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. 9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Lucifer was created a perfect angel.
Turn to Ezekiel 28:14:
You were the anointed cherub who covers;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
Ezekiel 28:17
Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
I cast you to the ground,
I laid you before kings,
That they might gaze at you.
People were created to be happy and fulfilled. We were designed to worship God. Some people worship money, idols, or self. The First Commandment says: “You shall have no other gods before Me.”
Who is number one on your throne? We miss blessings if we do not worship God. Imagine you have a lawyer who will help you pick who you allow on your throne, God or Self?
Turn to Isaiah 14:12-15
The Fall of Lucifer
12 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:
‘I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the lowest depths of the Pit.”
Lucifer chose self. Pride caused his fall. Satan spends his time inflicting his anger on people. Satan clearly is Who Is Responsible For All the Troubles In the World.
Turn to Revelation 12:12
12 “Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.”
It is not a pleasant experience to be mugged. Mankind has been mugged by Satan. Turn to Romans 6:23 and we see the results of mankind being mugged.
Romans 6:23
23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Turn back to Romans 5:6-8
Christ in Our Place
6 “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
What a powerful display of God’s Love is the fact that even while we were yet sinners, Jesus Christ died for us. Turn to Titus 2:14
Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.”
Now turn to Philippians 2:13
13 “For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.”
Our part in the process or job is to simply give up and surrender our will to God. Righteousness only comes from Grace.
Today Christianity is dealing with a compromised church because Satan joined the church. Here are the major pagan beliefs that have crept into the church:
1. Infant Baptism
2. Praying to Dead Saints
3. Crawl Up Stairs On Your Knees
4. Pay Penitence
5. Tell People They Will Burn In Hell Forever
God has always had a faithful people. Waldenses in Italy were the people who started a Christian movement that originated in 12th-century France, the devotees of which sought to follow Christ in poverty and simplicity. The movement is sometimes viewed as an early forerunner of the Reformation for its rejection of various Catholic tenets. In modern times the name has been applied to members of a Protestant church.
Marcia’s family came from Turin, Italy. Her great grandfather Segundo Musso was thrown into prison for believing in the Bible. Catholic priests beat Segundo. He started underground churches. The Protestant movement flourished.
Segundo planted churches in Italy that taught liberty of conscious. He came to California in 1866 and taught that the just shall live by faith and Jesus’s Promises everywhere he went.
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