THE DEVIL'S APOSTLES (25 OF 31)
by Jeff Schreve
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 11:5-15
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The Devil's Apostles (25 of 31)
Series: 2 Corinthians
Jeff Schreve
2 Corinthians 11:5-15
If you have your Bible, please turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 11, 2nd Corinthians chapter 11. We want to talk tonight about The Devil's Apostles.
'Now Jesus prayed all night before He chose His twelve apostles, and the Scripture makes it clear the twelve that He chose. And the last name on the list of apostles as you read, as they're given in the gospels, in different areas in the gospels, the last one's always Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him. Now there have been lots of questions as to why in the world did Jesus choose Judas? And that's not the purpose of our message tonight, although it's a good question. But the purpose is to show that, although you had these twelve disciples, these twelve apostles, which means “sent ones,” not all of them were genuine, and not all of them were true. Jesus said in John chapter 6, “Did I not Myself choose you, the twelve, yet one of you is a devil?” And Jesus was referring, obviously, the Scripture says, to Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray Him for thirty pieces of silver. Judas was the devil's disciple. He was the devil's false apostle. Now I think that that is significant for us because it kind of shows that in the church of Jesus Christ since the beginning there have always been false apostles, false disciples, false brethren - those who pretend, who present themselves as one thing, present themselves as genuine, but they're not. They are tares among the wheat, as Jesus told that parable. And they can cause lots of trouble and problems and destruction in the church.
You know when the early church began in the Book of Acts; the devil came at the church with persecution. And persecution is one form of attack that the devil uses. Persecution is, “I'm going to come at you and I'm going to try and root you out.” But then, the devil found you know what? He persecuted the church, and what the church did was scatter. And ...
Series: 2 Corinthians
Jeff Schreve
2 Corinthians 11:5-15
If you have your Bible, please turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 11, 2nd Corinthians chapter 11. We want to talk tonight about The Devil's Apostles.
'Now Jesus prayed all night before He chose His twelve apostles, and the Scripture makes it clear the twelve that He chose. And the last name on the list of apostles as you read, as they're given in the gospels, in different areas in the gospels, the last one's always Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him. Now there have been lots of questions as to why in the world did Jesus choose Judas? And that's not the purpose of our message tonight, although it's a good question. But the purpose is to show that, although you had these twelve disciples, these twelve apostles, which means “sent ones,” not all of them were genuine, and not all of them were true. Jesus said in John chapter 6, “Did I not Myself choose you, the twelve, yet one of you is a devil?” And Jesus was referring, obviously, the Scripture says, to Judas Iscariot, who was going to betray Him for thirty pieces of silver. Judas was the devil's disciple. He was the devil's false apostle. Now I think that that is significant for us because it kind of shows that in the church of Jesus Christ since the beginning there have always been false apostles, false disciples, false brethren - those who pretend, who present themselves as one thing, present themselves as genuine, but they're not. They are tares among the wheat, as Jesus told that parable. And they can cause lots of trouble and problems and destruction in the church.
You know when the early church began in the Book of Acts; the devil came at the church with persecution. And persecution is one form of attack that the devil uses. Persecution is, “I'm going to come at you and I'm going to try and root you out.” But then, the devil found you know what? He persecuted the church, and what the church did was scatter. And ...
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