No Profits = Losses

(8/22/12)

Acts 16:16-24

Doing the right thing often offends others who then begin going after us. Paul casts out a spirit from a slave girl. This costs the girl to lose the ability to fortune tell. Of course, her masters were profiting from this. They lost their profits and go after Paul and Silas, dragging them to the rulers, accusing them of troubling their city and preaching something that went against them. They reacted negatively because they had lost their profit..

This brings up a good point. Our fight is not with people but against principalities (supernatural spiritual powers, whehter good or evil > in this case evil), against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, & against spiritual wickedness in high places!!! That's our fight.

When we go against satan and his army, persecution will come. Let's think about this. Every soul that hears the gospel from us and is saved by God is costing satan losses-not profits. he doesn't profit from us going against him. He has come to steal, kill, and destroy. Jesus came to give us life and more abundance of life (John 10:10). If he is not stealing, killing, or destroying, he is not profiting! The good news people is this: Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world  (1 John 4:4) & we have overcame satan and his army!!! Yay!!!

Saints, remembeer the battle & remember to stick to the Truth no matter what or who it costs you!!! Our job is to keep satan from profiting and helping others get saved. Stick with the Truth Brothers & Sisters in Christ.

Your Sister in Christ,

Mary