{"id":2376,"date":"2012-03-14T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2016-01-06T14:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:02:19","slug":"confronting-your-accuser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-welford\/confronting-your-accuser\/","title":{"rendered":"Confronting Your Accuser"},"content":{"rendered":"

“You are rubbish. Honestly you are a total idiot. No one else would waste so much as successfully as you do. No one else would use their time for such idiotic escapades. Who else do you know that abuses grace so profoundly as you? To be honest mate, why don\u2019t you just jack it all in? You lack discipline and you\u2019re probably never going to have enough to be good enough! Yes there\u2019s always grace, but don\u2019t you think you have pushed it a bit too far? How many times can someone like you be forgiven? Does God really forgive everything?!<\/em> You\u2019re not so sure are you? Why don\u2019t you go out and spoil yourself \u2013 there\u2019s a whole world out there to make you feel better \u2013 go for it kid. After all if you\u2019re going to ruin everything you touch you may as well have fun doing it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This is why satan is called the accuser.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Revelation 12:10-11 (NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:\u00a0\u201cNow have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God,\u00a0and the authority of his Christ.\u00a0For the accuser of our brothers,\u00a0who accuses them before our God day and night,\u00a0has been hurled down.\u00a0They overcame him\u00a0by the blood of the Lamb\u00a0and by the word of their testimony;\u00a0they did not love their lives so much\u00a0as to shrink from death.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“Do not be disheartened. Nobody is more sinful than anyone, but not everyone tries to follow Christ like you do. The fact that you try brings me great joy. Sometimes you need me to give you a nudge when you\u2019re drifting off the path, but that\u2019s how I show you I care about your adventure. You claim you don\u2019t understand grace, but your life, your determination and your resilience tells a different story. It\u2019s a story of me teaching you the ways of your saviour Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was sent to remind you of the good when all you can see is the bad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you realise what a privileged position you hold? At your best you reflect God\u2019s light into the darkness, at your worst you are an example of God\u2019s grace.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know what has been said to you by the accuser. But listen to me. God really has forgiven you for everything. This forgiveness is free to those who believe and follow Jesus, the Way the Truth and the Life. I know what you\u2019re thinking; what about the times when you find it too hard? Well, it\u2019s those times that I am here to have the last word.”<\/span><\/p>\n

This is why the Holy Spirit is called the comforter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>John 14:15-18 AMP<\/em><\/p>\n

“If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands.\u00a0And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever –\u00a0The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognise Him. But you know and recognise Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you.\u00a0I will not leave you as orphans [comfortless, desolate, bereaved, forlorn, helpless]; I will come [back] to you.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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