I John 4:4 "You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he that is in the world." New King James Version.
God created our world, but another power entered when Adam and Eve succumbed to Satan's lies in the Garden of Eden. An angel Lucifer had rebelled in Heaven, was cast out, but took one third of the angels with him. Satan got so much control on earth that he was able to tempt Jesus (unsuccessfully) during the forty days story in the wilderness. We all live in two worlds. One can look around, read the news and watch worldly happenings and understand Satan's world very easily and every day. As one who survived my war in Vietnam, I am acutely aware of the horrors in the world every day: wars, crime, hunger, trafficking, drug and alcohol addictions, beatings, murder, hurtful treatments, sins of thought, word and deed and the list never stops. This litany of issues identifies Satan's world. It is a world without the greater one of God's world. The challenge is reaching humanity for the healing and peaceful world God offers.
There has been a history in the story of the Hebrews and Judaism that expressed true worship and devotion to God. In the New International Version of the Life Application Study Bible (Tyndale and Zondervan 1988) it is written, "(Book of) Hebrews is a masterful document written to Jews who were evaluating Jesus or struggling with this new faith. The message of Hebrews is that Jesus is better, Christianity is superior, Christ is supreme and completely sufficient for salvation." This is the One True and safe world in which to live amidst the chaos, horror, hurts, violence, and depravity et al of the non-Godly world. But we can have a new life when we learn from the Bible's teachings. Hebrews 8:10 "I will put my laws into their minds and write them in their hearts and will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people." Acceptance of Christ offers a distinct and powerful choice to subsist, exist and truly overpower Satan's world, at least for ourselves. And through prayer to change people, events, ourselves and others. We add in prayer, "In the Name of Jesus and by the Holy Spirit.
Even though we accept Christ as personal Savior, all will not be rosy. Satan's evil world will exist, but we have a special weapon to turn on and counter humanity's enemy. At least our own world will take a turn and have a powerful weapon in the daily warfare of our minds and spirits. Christ has been at work through the Holy Spirit since Jesus went to be with His Father in Heaven. We have the weapons to combat the world system. The choice for each of us is "which world do we wish to live in?" I have made my choice, albeit constantly tormented and tempted by the evil one, but, always back to the solid ground on which I walk with Jesus Christ as Savior.
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