This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Lewis
Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland
County in Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Lewis as he
continues teaching through God's Word.
OK, I don't know why they try to make it seem like, you know, at
the end times there's going to be this big fight between God
and Satan. You know, Satan hits, God hits
him. Satan hits him.
God hit. No, no, he's going to speak a
word and Satan's done. You need to understand the power
of God. His equal was not God.
Satan's equal would be Michael the Archangel.
And if God gives Michael the Archangel the authority and
their command to go and destroy Satan, Satan's gone.
Have you ever watched one of those intense wrestling matches
on social media where two fighters give it their all?
Many people mistakenly believe that God's confrontation with
Satan will resemble such a match too close to call.
However, that couldn't be further from the truth.
Today, Pastor Lewis wants you to understand that the God of the
Bible, the Creator of the universe, has no rival.
There is no one who can even come close to him, not even
Satan. And that day when God erases all
evil is coming sooner than you think.
Now here's Pastor Lewis in the Book of Jude, chapter one with
today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
Oftentimes that's what makes them the Antichrist because they
want to be in authority instead of Christ.
So it makes them an Antichrist. And then of course, the third
thing that they mentioned is the fact that they speak evil of
dignitaries. That's speaking evil with angels
or the glorious ones speaking evil of them.
And it go a little further. We can go down a little further.
And once we get to verse 9, he's going to give an example of what
he means by that. But you know, angels really
played a a very prominent role with the Lord, even though we
know angels are lower than Jesus Christ.
But yet it was angels, It was angels who was here during the
time that the Lord had it even brought in the law.
I'm going to go back to Deuteronomy.
Go Old Testament here for a second and I'm going to try to
show this to you how important it is to God about how important
angels were in the prominent place that they had with Him
because they were there for a number of very important events.
And over here in Deuteronomy chapter 33, it's going to read
this small verse here 33 and verse 2.
I'm going to read 1 and 2. It says now this is a blessing
with which Moses the man of God, blessed the children of Israel
before his death. And he said the Lord came from
Sinai and dawned on them from Sire and he shone forth from
Mount Paran and he came with 10 thousands of Saints, in other
words, 10,000 of angels from his right hand came, came a fiery
law for them. And then verse 3 say yes, he
loves the people and all his Saints are in his hand.
They sit down at your feet. Everyone receives your words.
So angels were there during the time that when he came down and
he appeared and even over here and this is and this is one that
I I thought was very interesting as well over here in Acts.
Let's go to the book of Acts real quick concerning the angels
in the book of Acts Chapter 7, and most of you probably already
know that we're talking about Stephen.
So now we're looking at what happened when Stephen was being
persecuted. And Chapter 7, verse 53, and I'm
going to start at verse 52, he says, which of the angels did
your father's not persecute? He's talking to the Pharisees
and those religious elites who wanted to kill him and they and
they killed those who foretold the coming of the just one of
whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers.
And verse 53 is the one I want you to pay attention to.
He says who have received the law.
How did they receive the law? By the direction of angels and
have not kept it. Direction of angels and have not
kept it. And then just one more Galatians
in the book of Galatians. Just trying to draw a picture
here of the significance of these angels and why he's
talking about how they basically speak evil of dignitaries of
these angels. Galatians chapter 3 and look at
with me at verse 14. I'm going to start at verse 2.
It says this only. I want to learn from you.
Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by the
hearing of faith? Are you so foolish, having begun
in the Spirit that you are now being when I'm now being made
perfect in the flesh? And then I want you to go over
to verse chapter 4 and in chapter 4 go to chapter 3, verse
19. There we go.
OK, chapter 3, verse 19. This is what it says.
What purpose then does the law serve?
It was added because of transgressions till the seed
should come. To whom the promise was made to.
The seed obviously was Jesus Christ, and it was appointed
through angels by the hand of a mediator.
Now a meteor does not mediate for only one, but God is 1.
So he talks about the importance of angels and how important it
was at the time of the law and the presenting of the law, how
the angels even came with him. Over in Exodus talks about how
the angels, the Lord came with him at the time when he came to
to Mount Sier, which is where he came to present the law.
So when you talk about all these things and all these things, how
they combine and these men who did not have a problem was
speaking evil of these dignitaries.
And so he gave an example. He said in the women, you being
mere men don't have a problem speaking evil of dignitaries.
Yet Michael the Archangel who is more powerful than most men, he
wouldn't even speak evil to an Angel.
So look at what he says in verse 9, back in Jude verse 9, he
says, yet Michael the Archangel and contending with the devil,
what he disputed about the body of Moses dared not bring against
him a reviling accusation, but said the Lord rebuke you.
So he's making a point here. And what he's saying is that
these dreamers, these false teachers, they don't mind
speaking evil about angels or dignitaries or these spiritual
authority, spiritual authorities, they don't mind
speaking evil of them and they don't know anything about them,
but yet they speak evil of them. But yet Michael the Archangel
who was constantly before the throne of God, who was basically
the battle Angel. I mean, he would come to me back
in the book of Dan and talked about Michael the Archangel
doing battle with the devil when he wanted to come to Daniel,
when Daniel had requested a word and he was coming, but he was
being delayed because he was in battle.
What a devil, what a demon. So Michael the Archangel was not
a wimp. He was powerful Angel and had a
lot of authority. But yet he would not bring a
railing accusation against Satan.
He said the Lord rebuked you. And it was an example of his
understanding of authority to understand that even though he
may be as powerful as Satan to see, Satan's equal is not God.
Michael the Archangel will be Satan's equal God is not Satan's
equal God. Speak with a word and Satan's
gone. OK?
I don't know why they try to make it seem like, you know, at
the end times, there's going to be this big fight between God
and Satan. You know, Satan hits, God hits
him. Satan hits him.
God hit. No, no, he's going to speak a
word and Satan's done. You need to understand the power
of God. His equal was not God.
Satan's equal would be Michael the Archangel.
And if God gives Michael the Archangel the authority and
their command to go and destroy Satan, Satan's gone.
Satan's gone. So we need to understand that.
So, but Michael would not do that on his own.
That's the whole point. He would not come against Satan
on his own and just say, well, I curse you and, and I'm I'm going
to cast you out. He don't do that on his own.
He submits to the will of God, to the will of the Father
because he understands order, he understands authority.
And that's the point that Jude is making here.
That's really an impressive point.
It's an important point because you hear these false teachers,
they always want to talk about they casting out the devil.
They're casting them out. They're sending him out of here.
They're doing this. No, no.
Anybody remember the story about the sons of Skiva, seven sons of
Skiva over in the book of Acts when they thought that they had
the power to just go and cast Satan out on their own, that
devil jumped on them. He jumped on them and they end
up running out naked and whooped.
He said, look, we know, we know Jesus and we even know Paul, but
we don't know nothing about you. And they jumped on him.
So, you know, so he, he's making the point here that we just
like, just like Michael the Archangel, we have to submit to
the authority of God. And it's God who cast him out.
It's it's God who rebukes Satan. It's God who does that.
So then in the verse 9. Now, now where the story comes
from, I don't know this whole story about how when they were
arguing over the body of Moses, it's a book and it's not a
scriptural book. It's called the apocryphal.
It's an apocryphal book. And the name of the book is
actually called Assumption of Moses.
I've never read it. Not saying that it's scripture
because it's not, but this was the example that he used that
apparently there was some story in this book about Michael
battling with the with Satan over the body of Moses.
Now, I don't know why they were battling over the body of Moses.
He may have wanted to Satan might have wanted to get the
body of Moses to desecrate it, or he might have wanted to get
it to try to make an idol out of it and have people worshipping
it. That which would be obviously in
contrast with what God wants. God doesn't want him to be
worshipped. God is to be worshipped.
You know, as we say often times, you know, it's not great men
that do great things through God is God who does great things
through mere men. So we don't know why he wanted
the body of Moses and you know, but he used that example as a
way to try to illustrate that even the Michael the Archangel
who was powerful, a holy Angel, would not even bring a railing
accusation against Satan, but he submitted to the authority of
God and says God rebuke you. So we go on down to verse 10 and
he says, would these speak evil of whatever they do not know?
They speak evil about things that they don't even know.
They don't know anything about these spiritual things that they
speak of. So they speak evil of it, and
whatever they know. Naturally, like Butte beasts, in
these things they corrupt themselves.
Woe to them, for they have gone in the way of Cain, have run
greedily in the air of Balaam for profit, and perished in the
rebellion of Korra. A few things here.
First of all, let's back up and talk about what he means by they
speak evil or whatever they do not know.
These are men who don't have the spirit.
So because these are men who don't have the spirit, they
don't understand spiritual things, they don't understand
spiritual things. It doesn't make sense to them.
Their spirit is not alive to receive spiritual things.
Which is why two people can come into church and sit down and one
person, the spirit, will reveal truth to that person.
The next person sitting right beside them heard the exact same
thing. They don't get it at all because
one is dealing with it from the natural and the other one is
dealing with it from the spiritual talks a lot about that
in Scripture. You know, we can be blind to the
things of the truth and have no understanding of those things if
we don't have the spirit. I mean, think about yourselves
when we when you know, when you tried to read the word of God
before you had the Holy Spirit, you couldn't understand what you
were reading. You couldn't couldn't even keep
your interest. You probably put it down.
But once you receive the Spirit and the Spirit opens your eyes
and you pray, when you open that Bible woman, I'm not saying
anything happens right away. It takes time.
You know you got to diligently seek Him.
And when you diligently seek Him, he rewards that by
revealing more and more truth to you.
The more you're seeking, the more you get into His word, the
more you come before him, the more you ask Him to reveal the
truth to you. But in your natural, there's no
way you can do it. We none of us could.
We couldn't understand the word of God, couldn't understand it.
I like what it says over in second.
Over in first Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 14, it says
this. It says the natural man does not
receive the things of the Spirit of God for their foolishness to
him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually
deserved. So nor can so he can't even
receive them, which means he can't even hear it coming into
his heart. He can't even hear it, you know,
comes into him and, and just basically bounce out.
It's like the it's like the seed that was just tossed and it went
wayward. You know, the seed that was just
tossing and went by the side just didn't even get it.
Just didn't even get it because they can't receive it and nor
can they know it because it's foolishness to them.
The Word of God, the gospel is foolishness to people who are
not saved, just like it was to us.
How many times do people try to share the word of God with you
before the Spirit opened your eyes and you said, man, what are
you talking about? What are you saying?
Where's the next party? I don't want to hear what you
talking about. I mean, it's being real.
That's the way it was because we couldn't receive it.
I was home one Saturday morning recently and I heard the
knocking on the door, kind of had an idea who it was.
So that's why you didn't rush down to answer, right?
So we come down, we answer the door.
I think my wife actually answered the door 1st and then I
was upstairs. I was trying to hide and and she
eventually answered the door and started talking with them.
And she said, wait a minute, let me ask my husband.
Oh man. So so I came downstairs and
this, you know, woman was there at the door.
There was two other people on the sidewalk looking, watching.
So we knew exactly what this was about.
Total witnesses. So this woman is trying to share
her Watchtower information with me and share her scriptures and
try to make me convince me, you know, that Jesus was not God in
the flesh, right? Yeah.
She's just, you know, I believe in Jesus, too, just like you do.
I said, oh, do you? Yeah, I believe that Jesus, you
know, is the Son of God. Do you?
Yeah, I believe Jesus is the Son of God.
Yeah, well, I believe that Jesus is God in the flesh.
Oh, no, no. So she begins to explain to me
why Jesus is not God in the flesh.
And because she said it's just not logical.
There's a number of things that she mentioned.
It's just not logical. And that's one of the things
I've noticed that they will say when you start talking about the
things of God, you know, these things are not logical.
For example, they think the Trinity is not logical.
So they don't, you know, talk about the Trinity or come, what
are you talking about? You know, God in three persons.
What are you talking about? It's not logical, doesn't even
make sense. So I listened to her talk about
that. And then she, you know, we, you
know, we even talked about the the incarnation.
Of course, you know, she totally got rid of that.
No, Jesus, you know, he, no, no, he's not he, he's the son of
God. He was created being, you know,
but he's not God in the flesh. Talk a little bit about that.
And and then she went to the resurrection, talked a little
bit about about that. Well, he resurrected, but Aiden
resurrect in fully, you know, body he'd resurrect.
He was just a spirit. Well, we just got finished
reading last week, right, that when he resurrected, he
resurrected in the in the body, right?
Because Mary Magdalene grabbed his feet, right?
You can't grab the feet of a spirit, right?
So anyway I made this one statement to her and this woman
turned into an angry demon and all I said to her well would you
know these things are only discerned in the spirit Only the
Spirit can recognize these things.
Are you saying I don't have the Spirit of God in me?
Yes, yes and she went on a rant that I never thought a woman and
now I was I'm about 6-1 Well I was probably 6-1 then this woman
you know probably came to about here.
But I mean, she just rant and raved and looked up and just, I
mean, I she wow, she was angry. She was really, really angry.
We never had another person come back after that.
Never had another person. Have we had anybody come back
after that? Yeah, we never had another
person come back after that. So she obviously went and told
her homies just bypassed that house, OK, because they hang
with it. But yeah, I couldn't believe how
angry she got. But it's the Spirit of God that
discerns these things. That's why Paul prayed to the
Colossians. When he prayed for the
Colossians Church, he prayed that they would be filled with
the knowledge of his will and all wisdom and spiritual
understanding, spiritual understanding, because that's
how these things are understood. But these false teachers don't
have that. They don't have the Spirit, so
they can't talk about the Scriptures or the things of God
from a spiritual standpoint. They can only look at it through
the natural. They can only look at it through
the natural and that's why they get into so many problems,
because they can't see it through the Spirit.
First Corinthians chapter 2 and 11 says for what man knows the
things of man except the spirit of man, which is in him.
Even so, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
Now we have received not the spirit from the world.
If you have the spirit of the world, you understand the things
of the world. People who are in the world,
they can have a conversation with each other and say things
that to us now those things may sound absurd to us or just like
things. There's no way we're doing that.
You know, there's no way I'm, I'm going to be in agreement
with this, but you can see in the times how people are fine
with some of the way that society is changing.
The people of the world are fine with it.
They're totally fine with it. But us, we're grieved by it.
And it's because the world takes on its own.
The world loves its own. The world deals with its own.
They understand those things because they have the spirit of
the world. But we have received not the
spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we
might know the things that have been freely given to us of God.
We get those things freely through the Spirit of God, but
they, they have no understanding of, but yet they speak
negatively about the Spirit when you know someone that could be
even someone who goes to church all the time.
And because you may be, you know, walking in obedience,
because the Holy Spirit, you're developing this relationship
with the Lord and you're walking in the Spirit and you're
walking, you're trying to, you're walking in obedience to
the Lord as much as you possibly can.
And you know, because and we, we're all still sin and we're
honest about that with each other, but yet you get someone
who's not into walking in obedience and they begin to
start speaking evil of you. Oh, you think she's too good for
us? He thinks he can't do this
anymore. He can't do that anymore.
You know, they start speaking evil of you.
And that's exactly what happened.
When they start speaking evil of the teachers who were teaching
the truth. They're speaking evil.
Those teachers demeaning them to other people.
So then we go on down here to verse 11, like he said, he says,
whoa. He said they're like, you know,
before he said they're like group beasts and they corrupt,
you know, they corrupt themselves with the things that
they do know. And then in verse 11, he says
woe to them for they have gone the way of Cain and in the era
of Balaam for prophet and in rebellion of Korah.
Well, first of all, they're brute beast.
And that means that they're only living in a way that satisfies
the flesh, their primal instincts, brute beasts.
You're living like a brute beast and that means you're just
living to satisfy your urges. That's why animals are able when
he says, you know, they corrupt themselves and in, in those
things that they that they do know, because the only thing
they do know is their urges, their lusts, their desire for
natural things. And that's why animals can get
trapped. We have some people here who are
hunters. They trap animals or they lure
animals. How do they trap them?
They lure them. How do they lure them?
They lure them by things that they're driven to eat, things
that they're driven to do. If you got an animal who loves
meat, you put a piece of meat in a box.
He's coming for it. This has been Living Waters of
Grace, a ministry of Calvary Chapel Westmoreland in
Greensburg, PA Pastor Lewis Harrell has been teaching
through the book of Jude. This is a book of warning as the
audience that Jude was writing to was coming under attack from
false teachers. Even in the early days of the
church, there were teachers who claimed to have a unique
revelation from God that superseded Scripture.
Pastor Lewis wants you to be sure to be on your guard against
those teachers today as they will try to distract you from
following the way of Jesus. By focusing on what God's Word
says, you can call out false teachers for what they are and
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