The Greatest Harassment By The Greatest Hinderer In The World

Amen. Let's turn again in our Bibles,

this time to 1st Thessalonians chapter 2, and we're going to

read from verse 13 to the end, First Thessalonians chapter 2,

1 Thessalonians 2:13

verse 13, right through to verse 20.

The words will come up on screen for those online.

The words of course of our reading are from the Authorised

Version or properly the King James Bible.

Let's hear God's word First Thessalonians chapter 2 verse

1 Thessalonians 2:13

13. For this cause also thank we God

without ceasing, because when you received the word of God,

which you heard of us, you received it not as the word of

men, but as it isn't truth, the word of God which effectually

worketh also in you that believe.

For ye brethren became followers of the churches of God, which in

Judea are in Christ Jesus. For ye also have suffered like

things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews,

who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have

persecuted us. And they please not God, and are

contrary to all men, forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles,

that they might be saved to fill up their sins all way.

For the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.

But we, brethren, been taken from you for a short time in

presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly

to see your face with great desire, Wherefore we would have

come unto you, even I Paul once and again.

But Satan hindered us. For what is our hope, or joy, or

crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence

of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

For ye are our glory and joy. Amen.

We know the Lord is stamped with his own approval and blessing,

this reading of his own precious and infallible Word.

Amen. Now this morning we're going to

continue with our series of expository sermons in the book

of First Thessalonians, and my text today is taken from First

1 Thessalonians 2:17

Thessalonians chapter 2, verses 17 and 18.

Let's read them together. First Thessalonians, chapter 2,

1 Thessalonians 2:17

verse 17. But we, brethren, being taken

from you for a short time in presence, not in heart,

endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great

desire. Wherefore we would have come

unto you, even I Paul, once and again.

But Satan hindered us. Notice the words.

But Satan hindered us. And there you have, I believe,

the greatest harassment from the greatest hinderer in the world.

Let's remember the context how the Gospel came to Thessalonica.

When the apostle Paul entered the city, he went to the Jew

first for three Sabbath days. That's Jewish Sabbath, Friday

night to Saturday night. He met with them in the

synagogue, and there he preached Christ and the gospel of saving

graves unto them. And if you turn to Acts chapter

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17, and you'll read there in the verses one and two of the

message that Paul preached at that time, it says, and Paul

first two, as his manner was within unto them.

And three Sabbath days reasoned with the mouth of the Scriptures

opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered and

risen again from the dead, and that this Jesus whom I preach

unto you is Christ. You see, the Lord Jesus Christ

lay at the heart of God's great plan of salvation.

He is God's anointed prophet, priest, and king.

As a result of this preaching, many of the Jews got saved.

It says there in Acts chapter 17 and in the verse 4.

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And some of them believed and consorted with Paul and Silas,

and of the devout Jews a great multitude, and of the chief

woman, not a few. However, as this always happens,

not only were people saved, but many were stirred up and became

angry and mad with Paul, it says in verse 5.

But the Jews, which believed not, notice what they did.

They were moved with envy. They got together, a bunch of

men of the baser sort and set the whole city an uproar.

And their mindset was that Paul had to die.

You see, this was a livid and lethal mob who were bent on

Paul's death and destruction. So as a result, the brethren and

sisters, no doubt at Fest and I, get sent Paul away by night to

the town of Berea. I believe these believers were

loathed to send Paul away, but they did so to help him.

They did so to preserve his life.

And after he left, this is what happened.

Then the devil used men to spread some wicked lies about

Paul. Here was the first lie he fled

to see of his own skin. He is more interested in self

than new seals. More than that, he was the

second lie. He has no intention of coming

back. He he said he would come back,

but he has no intention of coming back.

We are sorry that you get carried away with this fellow.

You get carried away with a smooth words, but really he, he

couldn't care less for you. And now you're suffering public

ridicule. Now you're being persecuted

because you believe the things that he taught you.

Listen to us. Here's the third lie.

He doesn't care about you. Now in light of these lies, in

light of these false allegations, Paul, after Timothy

had returned with the good news of the Thessalonians, faith and

love and Christ. Paul explains in part of his

letter that he dealt with these lies and false allegations.

Look at verse 17. But we brethren, been taken from

you for a short time in presence, not in heart,

endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great

desire. He's telling them, My intention

was only to be taken from you for a short time.

Look, I endeavoured to see your face.

I made repeated attempts to return to you in Fest and Anka

because I greatly desired to see you face to face.

But this is what happened. Notice the words.

But Satan hindered us. Literally.

The devil instigated all of this.

He instigated the uproar that forced Paul to withdraw from

Thessalonians. He was behind the lie that Paul

fled to save his own skin. He was behind the lie that Paul

had no interest or intention in returning.

He spread the lie that Paul didn't care for these people.

Now you understand why Paul wrote these words.

But Satan hindered us. Let's think for a few minutes of

the greatest harassment of the greatest hinderer in the world.

Think of the identity of the greatest hinderer in the world.

If you underline the word Satan, understand.

This morning we'll ask the question, Who's the greatest

adversary of God's people? Who's the greatest accuser of

the brethren with lies and falsehood?

Who's behind every lie? Who's behind every accusation?

Who's behind every falsehood? Well, there's one being that

stands head and shoulders above them all.

And it's not a man, it's not a woman, it's not a politician,

it's not a king or a Prince. It's one being.

And his name is Satan. But Satan hindered us, young

people. Satan is a real spiritual being.

Young people, there's a real personal devil.

Young people, there's an invisible, malignant, powerful,

unmerciful being who is the real enemy of your soul, the real

enemy of God in the world, the real enemy of Jesus Christ, and

the real, a real enemy of every aspect of the work of God and

the work of Greece. Let me illustrate how you sit

and predict it. Today he's presented as a

cartoon character, a man in a red suit with a fork horns.

He's presented to us as some sort of ludicrous monster.

Now he is a monster but, but he's presented as a ludicrous

monster. But I want to tell you he's not

a ludicrous he's a real dangerous monster.

He's a real powerful enemy. Satan is a real spiritual being.

Do you know that Satan was created by God?

Ezekiel, chapter 28, Isaiah 14. I haven't time to turn to that

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this morning. Did you know that Satan rebelled

against God in eternity past being full of pride?

He led 1/3 of the angels in heaven in that rebellion and God

cast them out of heaven. You could read that Isaiah 28

Ezekiel or Ezekiel 28 Isaiah chapter 14.

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He's a very powerful being. Now, he's not God's equal, He's

not almighty, He's not all powerful, but he is very

powerful. He is seductive.

He is very subtle and he's very dangerous.

And in fact, we read there in the book of Matthew, in Matthew

Matthew 25:41

chapter 25 verse 41, these words depart from me.

You curse it into everlasting fire.

Notice these words prepared for the devil and his angels.

God prepared hell for the devil and the fallen angels.

Now what's the devil like? Well, we read there in the

Gospel of John in John chapter 8 and in the verse 44.

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The Lord Jesus said this, Speaking of Satan.

Listen to these words, John 8 and 44.

Ye are of your father the devil and the lust of your father.

Ye will do. He was a murderer from the

beginning. See, you've got to remember the

murder of Abel by Key and his brother, who was the instigator

behind that murder. And abode not in the truth,

because there's no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he

speaketh of his own, for he's a liar and the father of it.

Read over here in first John chapter 5 and in the verse 19

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first John 5 and 19 and we know that we are of God and the whole

world lieth in wickedness. The the idea is of lying in the

lap of the wicked. 1 and over in first Peter and chapter 5 and

verse 8 we read be super vigilant because your adversary

the devil is a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom you

may devour. You think of a roaring lion and

a roaring lion stalking the streets for food, seeking to

devour. And that's a picture of the

devil and one other reference in Revelation chapter 12 and in the

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verse 9 we read, and the great dragon was cast out, that old

serpent called the devil in Satan, which deceiveth the whole

world. He was cast out into the earth,

and his angels were cast out with him.

Now there's 13 different names for Satan in the Bible.

This is one of them, Satan. And every one of those names

reveal a very specific aspect of his character.

Notice we've read here who's a murderer from the beginning.

We've read in John 844 that he was the father of lies, and the

devil is very good at spreading lies.

He's very good at sowing seeds of doubt and sowing seeds of

confusion. And he'll charge God and his

people with being unfair and unreasonable.

And at times he'll appear in the world as a roaring lion, and

other times he'll come as a subtle serpent.

And other times he'll come as he's doing today as an Angel of

light. And he's different guises.

And of course he uses guile and subtlety.

One of the things I can say about the devil is this, that

Satan hates God. He hates truth and

righteousness. He hates the person and work of

the Lord Jesus with every favour of his being.

He's consumed with that hatred in his pride.

He's full of hatred now, even hatred for carried off FPC and

every other true Reformed Church.

He's full of hatred 24/7. Young people, there's no let up.

Young people, there's no mercy shown young people, there's no

quarter given. He does everything that he can

to hinder the work of God. And that activity has been going

on since the Garden of Eden. It's going on now.

It's going on day and night. If we can only grasp this,

here's the number one arch enemy of God.

He's an actual evil being. He's behind all the evil in the

world. He is holy evil WHOLLY.

He is completely evil and deprived.

He's powerful, yes. He is seductive, yes, but he's

also dangerous, very dangerous. He's called the God of this

world. We've already read in first John

5 and 19 that the whole world lies in the lap of wickedness.

And the idea behind that is of a of a child in the arms of its

mother. And the whole world lies in the

lap of the wicked one, the world of unconverted souls.

And one of the things that the devil does is he he wages a war

against the Lord and his people. The devil, as I've said, hates

God. The devil opposes the triune

God. He opposes the part of the work

of Christ. He opposes the preaching of the

gospel. He opposes the preacher of the

word of God in the pulpit and on the street corner.

He opposes the people of God. Brothers and sisters, let's

learn something this morning. We are in a spiritual war.

There's a spiritual battle going on and this battle began when

man fell into sin and the state of sin and mystery.

It began in heaven. The devil or Satan is a real

being, and the devil is the adversary of every true born

again Christian, the adversary of every church, the adversary

of every preacher and evangelist, youth worker, Sunday

school teacher, the adversary of every St and is your adversary

today the identity of the great accuser of the people of God.

Secondly, and very quickly, I want you to think of the

strategy of the greatest hinder in the world.

If you come to our text that says, but Satan hindered us,

look at that word hindered. It's very important that you

understand this. In the Greek New Testament, the

idea is the word hindered means to break up the road.

Now you, you think of an advancing army, it's coming to

attack the enemy position and the enemy breaks up the road to

make it difficult to advance to, to stop a smooth progress.

Think of Modern Warfare. They they bomb the road to slow

down the advance of the attacking troops.

They'll bomb bridges and key strategic points.

Think of a road that's full of holes, big holes and small holes

making it impossible for smooth progress.

Big holes that would break the wheels of a chariot in the 1st

century. Big holes that would break the

spring of a car in in today's modern era.

That's the picture of the word hindered to break up the road,

to make it difficult to advance. There's another picture here in

the word hindered and you think of a race.

Think of somebody running hard. He's got a tie in the finish

line and someone just cuts in, someone elbows them out of the

way, and that cut in as so severe that you're elbowed off

course. That's the picture, and that's

what the devil does, Paul says. I was coming to see you in

Thessalonica. Unfortunately, the devil put

roadblocks in the road. Unfortunately, the devil cut in

and elbowed me out to stop me coming to see you.

And I tried repeatedly. I made several attempts, but

each time I tried, the roadblocks were there.

Each time I tried, I was being elbowed off course.

Yes, I know God is sovereign. Yes, I know the Lord allowed the

devil to do it for his own purpose.

But the real culprit behind my hindering and coming to see you

face to face is Satan. I want you to notice something.

If you read Acts 17 very carefully, think of the Jews of

Paul's day. They didn't dismiss or reject

Paul's sermon about Christ and preaching the gospel on

theological grounds. They they didn't pick up the Old

Testament Scriptures and say, now hold on Paul, you're

preaching out of the Scriptures. You've taken that out of context

or this is not right or that's not right.

No, they didn't respond theologically.

They didn't respond doctrinally. How did they respond?

They accused Paul on political grounds.

You're turning the world upside down.

They accused Paul using a political argument.

You have another king. You you reject Caesar.

You bow the need of Jesus Christ.

And you see what followed using that political argument was

physical persecution. And I want you to see that

that's how they hindered him. They cited and used physical

persecution. There was a riot in

Thessalonica. Read Acts 17 and don't we see

that today? Very same argument used against

the Bible believing church. Same argument used against Bible

believing preachers. Preachers today who preach in

the streets, especially in England, are accused of hate

crimes. They're accused of hitting the

LGBTQ plus community. They're accused of teaching

things that don't fit in with the modern world.

Because we're anti evolutionist. Because we're anti abortionist.

Why? Because the Bible teaches that.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Because the Bible teaches that thou shall not murder.

And we and we condemn the murder of the innocent and condemn the

murder of the unborn. We point out that God hates the

hands that shed innocent blood. And yet we're told, oh, but you

don't fit in with the modern world.

And what do they do? They resort to lies, hate crime.

They, they, they resort to function charges.

And when that's not enough, then they resort to violence, even

murder. You, you think of the context

here that the murder of dear Charlie Kirk, why was Shirley

Kirk murdered? They didn't come with

theological debate. They they didn't come with a

doctrinal reasoning. They didn't come with the

Scriptures in hand and say Charlie, but the Bible says no.

They they couldn't answer him. So they came with what?

They came with physical violence.

They came with murder in their mind and in their heart because

they couldn't debate Charlie Kirk, because they had no

answer. So they resorted what to to

murder him. And that's exactly what the

world does. And that's exactly 1 of the

tactics of the devil. And of course, we know that at

this time there was a period of intense persecution against the

Christian Church, and the whole import was to wipe it out and

destroy the church all together before it really got off the

ground. And that's one of the devil's

subtle movements. He's behind it.

Remember what we read in Acts 16 and in the verse sorry at

Matthew 16 and the verse 18, we have the Lord Jesus on his

promise. And he says this in Matthew

Matthew 16:18

chapter 16 verse 18, a tremendous promise.

He says, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I'll build my

church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

In Ephesians 6 and 12, we're told, for we wrestle not against

flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,

against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against

spiritual wickedness in high places.

And we see this more and more happening in the UK.

And the Christian Church is vulnerable to this.

And this persecution will continue to grow and be pursued.

And we need to be prepared to withstand that.

Here's Paul. And he's urged to flee from his

life because his life was in danger.

And if they could, they would have murdered Paul.

Let me just point out very quickly, the devil uses doubt.

Hath God said the Garden of Eden?

There's a battle going on in the mind.

There's a battle going on for the Bible today.

Doubt about God, doubt about the blood atonement, doubt about the

scriptures of truth, doubt about heaven, doubt about hell, doubt

about who Christ is, who, who's behind all this doubt?

What would? The answer is?

The devil himself. And you know that one time when

Campbell Morgan, I think, was about 19 years of age, he was

reading books by Charles Darwin, Thomas Huckley, Herbert Spencer,

all to do with evolution, all to do with a different world view

than what he had. And he doubted the Bible.

He doubted God. He doubted Christ.

He doubted the plan of salvation.

You know what he did? He locked those books along with

his own Bible in a cupboard, turned the key.

He says he could hear the click. And he went to the bookshop and

he bought himself a new Bible. And for quite a number of months

he locked himself away with his Bible and all he had, he had no

books, no commentaries. He he didn't read anything else

but the Bible. And he became absolutely

convinced of the veracity and truth of the Holy Scriptures.

And he says in 1883, the Bible found me.

And he continued with that mindset right up to 1938 until

he died. You see, the devil uses doubt.

He doubted. He got that young preacher of

doubt about the the, the truthfulness of what the Bible

was teaching. The devil uses discord and how

often he can sow siege of discord among the brethren.

The devil uses deception. Think of Luke chapter 8 and

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verse 12. Remember the parable of the

sore, the seed that fell on the Stony ground.

Remember the fowls of the air came and took away the seed.

And the Lord Jesus used that as an illustration.

And this is what he says in Luke chapter 8 and verse 12 those by

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the wayside are they that hear then cometh the devil and take

of the way the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe

and be saved. You see, every time there's a

gospel mission, you're trying to get people out under the sound

of the gospel. You're trying to get them into

the meeting and they're they're they're not interested.

They haven't got any intention of coming.

Why? Because there's an interference

going on. And when they hear the word of

God preached to them and they're told about their sin and their

need of a saviour, then immediately there's fearance in

their mind. The devil comes and takes it

away from them. Why?

Because he doesn't want them to be saved.

He doesn't want them to believe. And that's what I mean, he uses

deception. People don't know what's going

on, that they're not fully aware of what is taking place in their

heart and mind. They're not conscious that the

devil is the back of this. The devil also uses destruction

and already mentioned that the devil felt threatened here by

Paul and his ministry. He acted as he desired.

He resorted to a destructive tactic that let's murder Paul,

let's take Paul out of the road. And of course, he forgot that

Matthew chapter 16 verse 18 undergirds the work of God.

Matthew 16:18

And there is a real work for God going on around the world today.

And the devil is seeking not only to sow doubt, to not work

and sow discord and bring about distraction, but the devil is

using a destructive tactic when he feels threatened.

And he felt threatened by Paul, then he adopted the destructive

tactic. Here's the man of God, and he

was a threat to Satan, and every praying man of God is a threat

to Satan, and every preaching man of God who's preaching

Christ in the gospel is a threat to Satan.

And every man who practises true religion to the glory of God is

a threat to Satan. Paul and sailors were a threat

to the devil's Kingdom, so their lives were threatened by the

devil. And sadly, although Paul's life

at this time was spared, some lives have been taken and were

taken. We're conscious of that today.

See, the devil fears a praying St.

He fears A preaching ministry. The devil fears A practising

Christian. The devil rejects a life of

fear, the love and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Remember it was said of the sons of Sceva Jesus.

I know Paul. I know who are you?

She's the devil, you Paul and the devil felt threatened by

Paul and the devil moved to destroy him, not by doubt and

discord and deception, but by destruction.

A perilous Christians no threat to the devil preaching a false

Christ and another gospel. There's no threat to the devil.

The devil smiles at that and I'm practising Christian.

Well, it's what it is, a non practising Christian.

It's absolutely no threat to the devil, but a life of faithful

service, a life of joy and peace in the Holy Ghost is a real

threat to the devil. Could I also suggest that the

devil uses distraction? Remember Peter, one of Christ's

disciples? He's full of good intentions.

The Saviour spoke about going to the cross to die.

What did Peter say? Not so, Lord, that's not going

to happen. We're not going to allow that to

happen. And what did the Lord Jesus say

to Peter? Read it there in Matthew chapter

Matthew 16:20

16, verses 20 and following. Get thee behind me, Satan, for

thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things

that be of man. See, Peter was not conscious, I

believe, of Satan at work in his life.

He was not conscious that he was a tool in the hand of the devil,

but he was. The devil used Judas to destroy

Christ due to a love of money. The devil influenced Judas.

He entered into Judas and the devil was allowed to attack Paul

physically. Remember the thorn in the flesh,

the impairment of the eyes, a messenger of Satan to buffet

him, and the devil used it to attack him to hurt Paul.

God doesn't love you, Paul. God doesn't care for you.

Why would he allow you to be like this?

He was all a lie but but that was the devil's tactic.

He was using distraction. He was using this means to get

Paul away from focusing on God's tasks for him.

He prayed about it. Remember 3 times and God says my

grace is sufficient for you. Paul was the most useful bald

headed man with a defective speech, with poor eyesight, and

yet that was the very man that God used, one of the most

prominent men in the New Testament beside the Lord Jesus

Christ. 17 chapters in the book of Acts are given to Paul. 14

letters in the New Testament are from this man's pen according to

the mind of God. I'll tell you one other thing,

the devil uses disruption. He tries to disrupt the

Christian Church in his work. His aim is to shut down

Christian fellowship. His aim is to distrust, disrupt

the life and witness of the church.

He'll get Christians to fall out.

He he'd cause a misunderstanding.

He'd spread a falsehood. He he'll use pride, he'll use

jealousy. He'll use envy.

He'll use a wrong word. He'll use a wrong look.

See, it doesn't take much to wreck a church.

Sure. It doesn't doesn't take much to

destroy a work takes takes a lot to build it up, but it doesn't

take much to wreck a work. And see the devil is at work in

these things. And the devil hates the gospel,

hates the church, hates the preacher, the people of God.

He hates church fellowship. He hates Sunday worship, he

hates faithful Christian service.

So we need to be on our guard and that's why we need to be in

our place in the Lord's Day, and that's why we need to be filled

with a love for the Saints as well as a love for the Saviour.

Make sure that the devil doesn't use us as one of his tools to

sow doubt, discord, or to sow distraction or sow distortion or

certainly to be destructive in any one way.

That's the strategy of the devil very quickly.

And with this, we'll finish this morning.

Think of the victory over the greatest hinderer in the world,

Paul says if we look back at her text.

But Satan hindered us. How was that possible?

How could he elbow Paul out of the road?

How could he set up roadblocks from Paul entering into the

Church of Thessalonica? Surely Paul was the Lord's

servant. Well, you see, I have to say

this. I believe the Lord allowed it.

I believe the Lord permitted it. I believe the Lord is sovereign

and the Lord overruled. The Lord had a double purpose

here. He allowed Satan to do what he

did, but he had a greater purpose.

Satan only did what he did under God.

We think of the move of Satan against Job and what God allowed

him to do against Job and he was allowed to inflict them with

boils and ill health, but he wasn't allowed to take his life.

You see, under God, when Paul was absent from a face to face

fellowship with the Church of Theft and Anka, whenever we

Timothy come back with a faithful report of how the

Saints were getting on, they were full of faith and full of

love and full of joy in the Holy Ghost.

What did God lead Paul to do? Wrote 2 letters to the church.

First Thessalonians. Second Thessalonians.

Oh, Paul's ministry was over his, his voice was long since

silent. And yet we have what Paul wrote

and he wrote it to the Church of Thessalonica.

The Thessalonians received this word in the 1st letter and also

in the second letter. You see, they've got the written

word or they hadn't got the man of God face to face.

The man of God's voice was silent, but they had something

better, something more wonderful.

They had the written word. He does love us.

He does care for us, He does feel for us.

Look, He's written us a message and He's explained it all to us,

how he couldn't come face to face because Satan hindered him.

But the Lord is sovereign. The Lord has overruled.

If you turn in closing to turn to this passage in Second Peter

and we'll look at this here as we finish in Second Peter

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chapter 1. Here's Peter and it says verse

19. We have also a more sure word of

prophecy. Where unto you do well, that you

take heed is unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until

the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts.

You see, this was Peter and he's saying to those to whom he was

writing verse 16. We haven't followed Conley

devised fables whom we made known unto you the power and

coming of our Lord Jesus. He says, but we were

eyewitnesses of His Majesty. Look at verse 17, For he

received from God the Father honour and glory, when there

came such a voice unto him from the excellent mind, the

excellent glory. This is my beloved Son in whom

I'm well pleased. He says in verse 18.

And this voice which came from heaven, we heard when we were

with him in the holy mind, He's saying, look, listen to us, the

mount of Transfiguration, we were there, we saw the power and

glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. We were eyewitnesses of His

Majesty, but we're not depending on that as an eyewitness.

We're not just presenting that to you.

We have something more. We also have a more sure word of

prophecy. For unto you do well heed.

And of course, what is referenced here is the written

word of God. Paul didn't leave them fables or

myths. Are we stories?

Paul, led by the Holy Ghost, penned these two letters to this

church. They did only visit it for about

3 weeks or maybe 4. Paul hadn't forgotten them.

The devil was a liar, Paul. It was a lie to say couldn't

care less because in the end the people got the eternal abiding

word of God. The people were left with a more

sure word than even from the lips of Paul himself, words that

came inspired by God. And that's the victory of the

greatest hinderer in the world. It is written in the Word of

God. I trust and pray this morning

that what I've shared will be helpful.

And I pray that we'll get a glimpse of the great hinderer in

the world. Remember his identity, remember

his strategy, and let's remember how we can be victorious over

him today.