Good Morning. There is a Jamaican saying which goes like this: “if you play with dogs you will get fleas”. In John 13:27 we see the negative effects of spending time in the company of Satan and his evil angels. The word of the Lord said, “And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.” Matthew Henry in his commentary on this text said, “Judas himself, instead of being convinced hereby of his wickedness, was the more confirmed in it, and the warning given him was to him a savour of death unto death; for it follows, The devil hereupon took possession of him (v. 27): After the sop, Satan entered into him: not to make him melancholy, nor drive him distracted, which was the effect of his possessing some; not to hurry him into the fire, nor into the water; happy had it been for him if that had been the worst of it, or if with the swine he had been choked in the sea; but Satan entered into him to possess him with a prevailing prejudice against Christ and his doctrine, and a contempt of him, as one whose life was of small value, to excite in him a covetous desire of the wages of unrighteousness and a resolution to stick at nothing for the obtaining of them. But, Was not Satan in him before? How then is it said that now Satan entered into him? Judas was all along a devil (ch. 6:70), a son of perdition, but now Satan gained a more full possession of him, had a more abundant entrance into him. His purpose to betray his Master was now ripened into a fixed resolution; now he returned with seven other spirits more wicked than himself, Lu. 11:26. Note, [1.] Though the devil is in every wicked man that does his works (Eph. 2:2), yet sometimes he enters more manifestly and more powerfully than at other times, when he puts them upon some enormous wickedness, which humanity and natural conscience startle at. [2.] Betrayers of Christ have much of the devil in them. Christ speaks of the sin of Judas as greater than that of any of his persecutors.” There is only one way for us to avoid being possessed by Satan. We must surrender every area of our lives to the Holy Spirit and dwell in the secret place of the most High. We must abide under the shadow of the Almighty so that God can protect us from the negative influences of Satan. Only those who spend time in God’s presence will be protected from the deadly effects of Satan. I want Jesus in my Life - https://youtube/watch?v=ONfQsQzaJQs Have a blessed and Holy Spirit-filled day.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:08:47 +0000
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