My Pulpit Message - notes Is it fake news? My Pulpit Message Notes are extracted from the sermon preached at the Nairobi Baptist Church (NBC) Ngong Road on Sunday 10th April 2022. Preacher: Pastor Daniel Kemboi. Topic: Is it fake news? Scripture: Genesis 3:14-15 Many times we receive news from different circles and someone would tell you that is fake news or the truth.
a result of his pride. His rebellion then continued on earth, eventually spreading through the world. Satan and his fallen angels became an organised network of powerful spiritual beings whose aim is to frustrate the Fake news is news or stories created to misinform or deceive the work of God. readers. Sometime back you may remember there was fake news over the Paul refers to him in Ephesians 6:12, “For our struggle is not internet that Don Moen is no more. They even said that TD Jakes prayed against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, for him before his death. People started sending condolence messages to against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of the family until Don Moen came out and said he is alive and still serving evil in the heavenly realms.” God. That was fake news. This is why God said, I will bring enmity between you (serpent) Many in our world today believe that the death and resurrection and the woman. Enmity began before the creation of man and the strugof Christ is fake news. Even Christians have become too familiar with gle is real. the idea that Jesus died for our sin. But with that familiarity it makes no We live in two parallel worlds. We have the physical world in impact in them because they are taking it lightly. which I can come and eat in your house, we can communicate and live However, the Bible is not fake news because God’s rescue mission life as usual and we have the spiritual world that you cannot see with your was fulfilled and many of us are naked eyes, controlled by the anthe recipients of the saving grace gels, the demons. of our Lord Jesus Christ, that is But we who live in Christ, why we come to worship Him beHe guides us on how we can oper“ cause this news is not fake news. Satan thought that he won, but his disappointment came when ate in this spiritual world. From the passage Genesis In fact, it is written in 34 Jesus rose from the grave. The darkest day in human history 3:14-15, going back we see the crebooks in the Bible the mention of ation story and as God is creating gave way to the brightest hope, the resurrection. That is our angels. 103 times in the Old Teseverything He says, ‘It is good”. hope and that is why we are celebrating Easter. tament and 165 times in the New When he created man, He said, Testament. ” ‘It is good’ but He also said, “It is You need to know your ennot good for a man to live alone.” emy and understand how he operDuring that time God created anates. If you don’t believe the exisother creature called a woman and tence of the enemy, he has already God said, it is good. won, because his work is to deceive humanity that we do not believe that Day one to six of creation God said it is good, but after creating there is another world, a spiritual world that is frustrating the works of man, we see God saying, “It is not good for a man to live alone.” God. Once you receive Christ, the Bible says that we are not living here as the owners of this world, but we are sojourners, we are ambassadors From the passage there is a shift and it shows the fellowship that of Christ her. This world is not our home. This world is controlled by the was going on between God and the first people He created, Adam and devil. The god of this world is controlling this world and that is why he is Eve. It reached a time when a creature called the serpent is introduced. trying to frustrate us. This is where we see the darkest verse in the Bible, because before, we In 2007 as a first year student at the university, the second month read ‘It was good’, but when we come Genesis 3:15 it says, And I will put of the first semester we were chosen to go for a school mission. As we enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed; went there we started worshipping and preaching the gospel led some to he will crush your head and your shall bruise his heel.” the LORD as that is what we were called to do. Day one we preached and Enmity means conflict, chaos, hostility. God introduces another many girls gave their lives to Christ. Day two, as we were preaching and aspect of bringing enmity between the serpent and the woman. praying, this is when I realised there was some manifestation as people Satan comes in the form of a serpent and deceived Adam and Eve. were behaving in a weird way. Some of my comrades were thoroughly However, Satan’s rebellion began in heaven when he was still an angelic beaten by the girls and one of them would say, ‘as much as I am a Chrisbeing. tian I will fight you’ and that is when one of girls said, it is not her fighting, but the enemy is fighting you. I remember people praying and casting out Who was this serpent? demons and trying to deliver these girl who was very strong. I was also Revelation 12:9 “And the great dragon was thrown down, the ser- at my corner praying and as I saw one of my friends thoroughly beaten, I pent of old who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole prayed, “God not me, let them be beaten, don’t allow that demon to come [d]world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown to me.’ As we continued to cast out that demon, one girl came to me and down with him.” said, speak. I was really shaking. Three people had already been beaten. I The Bible points out that Satan was an angel who turned a third repeatedly said, ‘In the name of Jesus,’ and the girl became still’ and was of the angels in heaven against God. He was cast down to the earth as told that the demon had left the girl.
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