The Sin War

Do you know why you struggle with sin?

Because your fighting a war thats over.

Do you know why you cant win?

Because its already won.

Did you know that the very reason Christ came to this Earth was to destroy sin, the work of the devil who sinneth from the beginning? (1 John 3:8)

Did you know, that the saved, the remnant, will have the testimony of Christ, that being "I will not fail nor be discouraged," and "I do always those things that please my Father?" (Isaiah 42:4, John 8:29, Revelation 12:17)

The word for "Gospel" in Greek is euagellion, it means literally "Good News," or a good message, as received from a messenger.

Historically, messengers were called into service after wars to deliver the Good News of victory, or the bad news of defeat to various military commanders and overseers. Heaven had been in a battle, a war with Satan for souls over sin, for 4000 years before Christ came. When he did, and he died on the cross, his last words were, "It is finished," sealing the plan of redemption, and the victory over Satan for all time.

The Gospel is the Good News of this victory, the victory that Christ has won. As a king, he won not this victory for himself alone, but for his people, and those in his kingdom. All in his kingdom rejoice at the victory he has won, shouting "Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Yahshua Christ."(1 Corinthians 15:57)v

This is why the Gospel is to be carried to all ends of the Earth before the end comes; because the battle is over. Most of the Christian world is fighting a battle that has been over for 2000 years. Why are they failing? Well, what else can be expected? If a country defeats another country in war, but some of the soldiers stay and continue fighting on their own, would they not be killed eventually? Will they not begin to run out of support, when they realize their kingdom has already won and they are on their own?

The kingdom of Christ has already defeated the kingdom of Satan, and yet the entire world is trying to fight the battle on their own. They are soldiers who stayed after the war was ended, who refused to accept the victory that was won, and continue on their own. And on their own they fight. Christ has already won the victory, Satan is a defeated foe. What more can he do? What more can be done for this world of rogue soldiers, who refuse to return under the banners of Christ's kingdom?

Sin has been defeated, it is a vanquished foe, a broken enemy. Christ has come to this Earth, and by his blood after living a life free of its taint, Sin and death were destroyed forever. Their hold over humanity was broken, Christ restored the fallen race and the prince of this world (Satan, at the time) was cast out.

However Satan is stronger than humanity. Weaker than Christ, and defeated by him, he stands as the dethroned ruler of this world. But what about those rogue soldiers? Those who refuse to claim the victory of Christ, and chase Satan to fight him on his own ground? They have no king to lead them, and they perish.

Christ, when he cried "It is finished!" reffered to the plan of redemption, the sacrifices in the temple which were shadows of his own sacrifice, and the war between Heaven and Satan. He has defeated the foe and is alive evermore, Behold, he has the keys of hell and death! (Revelation 1:18).

By his blood he bought back our race, he paid the price we should have paid and he freed us from bondage to sin and to Satan. (1 Cor. 6:20) Worldly Christians teach this but they do not teach just what it means to be free from bondage, and they contradict scripture in their man-made definitions. They say that, to be in bondage to sin is to have to suffer the consequences of it! But what does the one who freed us say?

"Yahshua answered them, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.'" (John 8:34)

By chasing Satan where he falls, by trying to fight him with power of self, humanity fails, they go into the wilderness to be tempted not at the Spirit's leading but of themselves... They sin, and they become the servants of sin. But whos servants are we to be? We cannot serve two masters, Christ tells us this plainly himself. So, if we cannot serve two masters, yet to sin is to be the servant thereof, What can we assume?

We cannot sin if we serve Righteousness.

Does this mean we are saved by the law? Not by any means. If we love him who freed us, we will keep his commandments. If we accept the victory he has won, he gives us the spoils of war that Satan stole from us and that Christ retreived, proceeding to polish them even more beautiful than they were before with his own, personal touch. We are given unfallen natures, not the nature of unfallen Adam even, but we are given the divine nature, the nature of Christ. (2 Peter 1:4)

We are given not the unfallen mind of Adam, but the mind of Christ himself! (1 Corinthians 2:16)

We are given the spirit of Christ, the savior himself, to live within us. Not to walk with us... But to live within us, to be a part of us, and to keep us from ever falling, to present us faultless before the throne of God. (Luke 11:13, Jude 24, 25)

Yet what of those rogue soldiers, those professed Christians who either know not that the war is won, or refuse to accept that it is? They look to their past experience! They say, "We have not seen victory so far, so how can we say we have had it all along? We have fallen to the enemy all the while, we cant stop, it is impossible! We are weak, our natures are not strong enough, how can we withstand? We will wait, until the king comes to rescue us."

And thus they refuse to prepare for the kingdom. The kingdom of Christ cannot be laid down while there are battles going still, it cannot be laid among chaos. There are still soldiers who have not yet heard the Good News of the victory, and these must be sealed, given the entrance mark to the kingdom, for Christ the King loves his loyal servants, and is "longsuffering us-ward, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance." (1 Peter 3:9)

They are mixed however with those who have or will have by the end, heard the Good News of Victory, and rejected it, in doing so claiming sin as their master, and the wilderness as their domain in place of the Kingdom. These are they who look at their current natures and claim that it is evidence against being given a new one. They look to their past failures but refuse to look to the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. They look to the power of the enemy, and the depths of their own weakness, and claim it as humility to say that their weakness is greater than God's strength. They trust their eyes over the King's word.

They cannot be rescued.

Satan will not be in the new kingdom.. Therefore there will be no tempter from the outside to try and make us commit transgression. And what of our weakness? Well, popular Christianity teaches that we are strengthened in the new kingdom, our natures are created new so that we no longer sin.

Does Yah not have this power now?

What then? If he has the power now, why would he not exercise it? Is it because of Lucifer's presence? Is the presence of Satan a rebuke to the Almighty? Can Yahweh not make us able to withstand, without the enemy being destroyed and hiding us away from his power?

Nay, he has the power now. And he has promised it to all willing to only accept. He has won the victory, but the gospel has not been preached. The Good News has not yet reached the ears of all those rogue soldiers, many of whom fight because they know not that the King has cast out the enemy, trusting the words of their pastoral sargeants. We will be tempted still, for the end of temptation is what truly occurs at glorification. But we will never, ever, fall to it.

The Gospel, The Good News of Victory, will be preached to all nations, peoples and tongues, and then the end will come. Christ will then return for his loyal people, and establish his kingdom on the planet he has claimed with his blood. We are his messengers, who have claimed rest in Christ, who with him have suffered in the flesh, and have ceased to sin in his power.(2 Peter 4:1) We have the testimony of Christ, we are witnesses to the victory he has won for us and for all mankind. If any man reject our witness he rejects the witness of Christ, for we have his testimony, that we speak not of ourselves, but what the Father teacheth us to speak, that we speak. (John 8:28).

This is the gospel that is being preached to you now.

This is your note that the battle is over. This is the Good News. Are you tired of the battle, weary of fighting Satan but falling in the end? This is your rest. Rest in the King who has conquered the enemy forever. Its time to get ready to go home.

Its time to let Christ wash you of the taint of the dirt you have been cast down into, and to never fall to the ground again. Its time to cease fighting, and begin spreading the message to your fellow fighters. Stop fighting. Its won. Your going home.

There will be those who reject the message, who love and live to fight and to fall, who love the territory of the enemy more than the peaceful walls of the kingdom. Some of them will turn their weapons against you for trying to take them from their dark places, and as such your spiritual sword is not of no use yet. However it will be charged with the spirit of Yah, that with it those who seek to silence the message will be cut to the heart, convicted of their wrongdoing.

Some will join in accepting the Good News, and become fellow labourers in the good work of Yah, spreading his message of victory. Using their sword for what it is to be used for, not to wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, the rulers of darkness in the world, and spiritual wickedness in high places.(Ephesians 6:12) Using it to convict other soldiers of the truth of the message, for many if not all need to be disarmed before they can be given the message that it is won, and handed their spiritual weapon back, charged with either the healing truth and love of Yah, or the poisoning fury and hatred of Satan, after making their choice.

Most, upon being peirced will lash out, some may even seek to destroy you. These Christ speaks of when he says to us, "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul." (Matthew 10:28) Against them we are not to revile nor strike back, knowing that these, should they still refuse to repent, will be destroyed with Satan when the kingdom finally does come, Christ our king returning to finish the work on the deceiver that he defeated on the cross two thousand years ago, and to raise those messengers and soldiers who fell not into spiritual death but literal, to the eternal reward he has prepared for them.

Those who reject the message no longer fight alongside those who will one day accept, nor the messengers who proclaim the Good News. They fight against them. They become Satan's agents, working for the destruction of Yah's faithful who seek to go home. Such is their love of the sin war, that they will choose to turn from their King, to ally themselves with the one they fell to so often. Because in their hearts.. they loved to sin. When they were cast to the ground, they had a stilled smile on their faces. When they were thrown down, they felt pleasure in the stead of pain. They would find the peace of heaven torture.

Do not be one of those. Do not love sin more than righteousness and identify yourself with it, when it is destroyed. And, do not be one of those who tarries in doubt, your sword dangling in your hand until the kingdom returns. Do not let the battles of others around you keep you from the sure word of the Lord, proclaiming victory to all who accept. Make the word of God your foundation, not the experiences of the past. Do not look to your old or even recent failures, look to Christ's redeeming power to forgive you, and to keep you from ever failing again. The gospel is the Good News of Victory, through the promise of Christ Yahshua our King.

"The word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you." (1 Peter 1:25)

Yah bless and be with you, and I pray that you will be there on that day when we shall lay down our swords in place of a crown.

Prepare to go home, soldier.

- Luke