People Who Scare the Devil Out of Me
Jeremiah 5: 2-13
Intro:
1. We live in a day where people say one thing, and then do the opposite. “they swear falsely – no truth in them”
2. The majority of people do not know God or the ways of God and live ungodly.
3. They have “broken the yoke, and burst the bonds” that they used to gladly wear that made them servants of God.
4. We live in a nation full of people who have turned their back on God, and judgment day is coming!!
5. They have denied God. (V-12 “It is not he”)
6. The preachers have become wind, and the word is not in them. (V-13)
7. I am more scared of and scared for people, preachers, and places that have turned their back on God then I am the spook house or Halloween!
8. I’m so scared, I don’t want my family nor my church to be infected or influenced by them.
9. After reading God’s word, ungodly people scare the devil out of me! Let me tell you who they are. . .
Body: People Who Scare the Devil Out of Me!
I. People Who Reject Salvation
2 Corinthians 5:11 - “Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men;”
* We must communicate the terror of the Lord and the terror of hell in order to persuade men to get saved!
A. Torment in Hell is So Fierce
1. The Certainty of It
a. It’s Real!
b. It’s Ready!
2. The Crowd in It
a. The Worldly Crowd goes to Hell!
b. The Wicked Crowd goes to Hell!
c. The Wishful Crowd goes to Hell!
d. The Wavering Crowd goes to Hell!
3. The Character of it
a. It’s Larger! (Hell has enlarged itself.)
b. It’s Lingering! (It never ends.)
c. It’s Lava! (The fires of hell are hotter than ever before!)
B. Time Here is So Fleeing
Proverbs 27:1 “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”
1. One Day It’ll be Too Late to Repent!
2. One Day It’ll be Too Late to get Re-Born!
**People Who Reject Salvation Scares the Devil Out of Me, because they will go to Hell!
Hell
HELL! The prison house of despair,
Here are some things that won't be there:
No flowers will bloom on the banks of Hell,
No beauties of nature we love so well;
No comforts of home, music and song,
No friendship of joy will be found in the throng;
No babies to brighten the long, weary night;
No love nor peace, nor one ray of light:
No blood washed soul with face beaming night;
No mercy, no pity, pardon nor grace,
No water; O God, what a terrible place!
The pangs of the lost no human can tell,
Not one moment's ease ‑ there is no rest in HELL!
HELL! the prison house of despair,
Here are some things that will be there:
Fire and brimstone are there, we know,
For God in His Word hath told us so:
Memory, remorse, suffering and pain,
Weeping and wailing, but all in vain;
Blasphemers, swearers, haters of God,
Christ‑rejectors while here on earth did trod;
Murders, gamblers, drunkards and liars
Will have their part in the lake of fire;
The filthy, the vile, the cruel and the mean,
What a horrible mob in Hell will be seen!
Yes, more than humans on earth can tell,
Are the torments and woes of an eternal HELL.
II. People Who Resist the Spirit
Acts 7:51 "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye."
“Resist” means to strive against; to line up against; and setting yourself up against.
To Resist the Spirit of God is to . . .
A. Defy Your Creator (You have tied His hands.)
1. God cannot benefit you when you resist the Spirit.
2. God cannot bless you when you resist the Spirit.
B. Despise Your Comforter (That scares me!)
1. Rejecting the Spirit of God is saying you hate Joy. (That’s what it gives!)
2. Rejecting the Spirit of God is saying you hate Jesus. (That’s who He is!)
C. Deaden Your Conscience
1. Dead to the Word of God which the Spirit Energizes.
2. Dead to the Witness of God which the Spirit Enables.
3. Dead to the Work of God which the Spirit Employs.
**People that can sit in church and resist the Spirit of God by not repenting, by never telling what God has done has done for them or means to them scares the devil out of me.
** If the Spirit of God never moves you are shows up on you, then it scares the devil out of me for you!
III. People Who Rob the Savior
Malachi 3:8-9 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
Robbery without a weapon.
"More could be learned about a person's commitment by looking at their checkbook than their prayer book"
A. God's apparent problem with believers
1. Personal problem ‑ "Ye" If you don’t tithe it’s talking to you!
2. Particular problem ‑ "Have robbed me."
B. God appointed program for believers
1. The plan ‑ "bring"
The mail does not run on Sunday.
2. The person ‑ "ye"
Bumper sticker that declare, "Honk, if you love Jesus." Heard of another that says, "Tithe if you love Jesus ‑ anybody can honk."
3. The proportion ‑ "tithes"
A tithe is a tenth. "As God hath prospered" and the proportion of our giving is the tithe.
4. The place ‑ "storehouse" local church
When are we to bring our tithes? "Upon the first day of the week" . What happens on the first day of the week? The local NT church gathers to worship.
5. The purpose ,"that there maybe meat in mine house"
6. The proposition
"prove me" ‑ challenge from God
C. God's abundant promise to believers
1. Promise of provision ‑ "I will open ..... the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing."
2. Promise of protection ‑ "I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes"
** People who never tithe and rob God will be dealt with by God and that scares the devil out of me!
IV. People Who Refuse to Submit
A. To Submit means You Obey God
1. Obeying is Responding (You respond to God and do not ignore Him!)
2. Obeying is Humbling (You humble yourself to God and do what He says to do.)
3. Obeying is Following (You follow God wherever He leads.)
**People Who do not Obey God scares the Devil out of me!
Ill. A young boy was applying for a job in a local newspaper press and the employer ask him, “Can you type?” “No sir,” the boy replied. “Can you run a printing press?” “No sir,” he replied again. The employer then asked, “Then what can you do son?” The boy stood tall and smiled and said, “I can do whatever I’m told to do sir!” And with that reply, the boy was hired!
B. To Submit means You Oblige God
(That means you submit to him because you owe Him!)
What if you don’t oblige God?
1. You Endanger Your Companion
2. You Endanger Your Children
3. You Endanger Your Church
4. You Endanger Your Crown
V. People Who Rebuts The Scripture
A. Tune Out the Sermon
I’m so fearful for those who tune out
1. The Sermon that Deals with You!
2. The Sermon that Draws You!
B. Turn Off the Savior
1. Argumentative People turn off the Scripture, the Sermon, and the Savior!
2. Arrogant People turn off the Scripture, the Sermon, and the Savior!
3. Agnostic People turn off the Scripture, the Sermon, and Savior!
** You cannot win someone to the Lord if they rebut the scripture and will not even accept the scripture as the premise for believing upon the Lord!
**People who rebukes and rebuts the scripture, the sermon, and the Savior scares the devil out of me!
Close
Do you want to know why I live the way I live, and why I have turn my life over to the Lord? Because I’ve had the devil scared out of me!
I’ve seen what happens to people who . . .
1. Rejects Salvation . . . they go to hell, and it scares the devil out of me!
2. Resists the Spirit . . . they grow cold and bitter and without the peace and joy of God, and it scares the devil out of me!
3. Robs the Savior . . . they lose everything they have and struggle, and it scares the devil out of me!
4. Refuses to Submit . . . they end up in sinful miserable lives, and it scares the devil out of me!
5. Rebuts the Scripture . . . they end up with their names blotted out of the book of life, and it scares the devil out of me!
Please do not leave this building rejecting salvation, resisting the Spirit, robbing the Savior, refusing to submit, or rebutting the scripture.
There are consequences for your actions and how you respond to the drawing of the Holy Spirit.
Don’t be afraid to come to this altar, but be afraid NOT to come to this altar!
