Counterfeit

This post is a brief summary of a message I preached last Sunday morning.  It is rooted in the thought line that "For every powerful and authentic move of God, Satan has a fabricated counterfeit".


Proverbs 14:12 says "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death".


Satan has the perfect package for you.  It is a counterfeit package that gives you a false sense of peace.  It gives you a false sense of security.  It tells you that everything is fine.  It tells you that all is well and life is good.  But as the scripture tells us, it may SEEM like its right in our flesh, but it leads to a path of destruction.


Satan is cunning, charming, and an excellent sales person.  You are more apt to buy a product from someone that is passionate about and believes in what they are selling.  Satan is passionate about seeing you destroyed so he makes his sales pitch and many buy his product!


Two of Satan's purposes I want to mention: 1.) He wants to deny the word of God.  2.) He wants to destroy the work of Jesus Christ.


All throughout scripture and history, Satan has done everything he can to try to prevent the Word of God from reaching people and even personally tried to give Jesus earthly reign if he would only bow down to him.  There are many examples of his plan to prevent the connection between you and God.


Here is a great example of Satan's counterfeit.  The wheat is sewn.  It begins to grow.  But there is a problem.....Satan has done some sewing in the same plot of ground.  Satan did not sew something that could be spotted easily.  He did not plant something that could be separated with ease.  He planted something that resembled the authentic grain.  The tare resembled the genuine grain!  It looked like the real thing! It was not until harvest time that it was separated!  At harvest time the authentic was separated from the counterfeit!


We have to always use discernment when making decisions in our life.  The enemy would love nothing more than to trick you into believeing that something he fabricated and placed in your life was believed to be the authentic will of God.  He wants to give you false peace and false security.  Satan wants you to believe everything is ok so he can rock you to sleep.  He wants you to become comlpacent with your life and never reach your full potential.