Bought With Blood: The Divine Exchange at the Cross by Derek Prince

Author:Derek Prince
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Christology, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9780800794248
Publisher: Chosen Books
Published: 2007-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

"If you were of the world, the world would love its

own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose

you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."

There can be no doubt about Jesus' meaning. We should

not be shocked if the world hates us. The problem with

the contemporary Church is, the world does not hate us.

Earlier on Jesus said to His brothers who did not believe

in Him, "The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me be

cause I testify of it that its works are evil" (John 7:7). His brothers were part of the world, because at that time they

had rejected God's righteous government in the Person of

their brother.

As long as you are part of the world, it will not hate you.

But if you are separated from the world and bear witness

to the truth of righteousness, the world will hate you. Why

does the world today seldom hate the Church? Because we

do not embarrass it. It feels comfortable with us.

Someone has estimated that there are fifty million born-

again Christians in America. If that were really true, the

world would feel the impact. But the truth is, we

Christians scarcely affect the world. It just shrugs its

shoulders. Similarly, in most European nations today,

Christianity is regarded as an anachronism, a remote

presence from the past. It has cathedrals here and there,

but nothing much to say to contemporary life. The world

is not against Christianity; the world just goes its way.

THE WORLD IS IN

SATAN'S HANDS

Do not get angry with me for what follows. Get angry with

John, who wrote it!

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies

under the sway of the wicked one.

1 John 5:19

Who is the wicked one? Satan. A more literal translation

would be, "The whole world lies in the wicked one." In

other words, he has the whole world under his control.

Revelation 12:9, another passage penned by John, gives t

lie four main titles of Satan all in one verse:

The great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old,

called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole

world.

First, our adversary is the devil. The Greek word diabolos

means, literally, "slanderer." Then, he is Satan, which

means the enemy, the resister, the opposer. Third, he is a

dragon, a monstrous, frightening creature. Finally, he is

the serpent, a wily snake. If he cannot force his way in

through the front door, he will sneak in through the drain

hole!

What does Satan do in these four roles? He deceives the

whole world.

THE WAY OUT OF THE

WORLD'S SYSTEM

If you accept all these statements about the world, you

must acknowledge that, as committed Christians, we have

no place in the world. We simply do not belong in it. The

list I gave of the forms that the world's deceptions take is

far from complete. We must be delivered from the world's

opinions, values, judgments, pressures and enticements.

We cannot allow any of those to dictate our thinking.

The greatest single channel of the world's pressure in our

contemporary culture is television. I am not saying that

all television is wrong, but your TV set channels the world

into your home. Television entices and manipulates. It is a

demonstration of witchcraft, or spiritual control on a vast

scale.

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