The Battle That Never Happens

I think change is great, but why in society and the church do some people like to keep jumping from camp to camp or group to group? How dangerous can this be?

• The devil (Satan) is pretty doomed from starts out doing evil. But he wants to fight until the bitter end.
• Revelation 20 v 7-10
• He has been in captivity for 1,000 years and yet he still wants to fight one last battle, to try and destroy God and His people.
• Yet the battle never happens. God puts a stop to it.
• Satan is very good at recruiting people to something they don't fully understand.
• It says is army was as in number like the sand on the seashore. 
• I don't think this is just a coincidence this terminology is used. 
• Hebrews 11 v 8-12 - "⁸ By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. ⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. ¹¹ And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise. ¹² And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore."
• The father of faith was promised by God and God followed through, that he would have children as numerous as the sand on the seashore (v12). 
• Abraham fathered a great nation; he was instrumental in the whole story of the bible and the salvation of the world.
• Yet some of his children eventually become a part of Satan's army.
• John writes Satan's army was as many as sand on the seashore; some of Abraham's promise has been corrupted by us and Satan. The promise is still at work as more descendants are born but how they choose to live is a different matter.
• How we choose to live is our choice. Who we choose to live for is our choice. I know I have made an informed decision to follow God with all I am. 
• People like choice and change, change is great because we constantly need to adapt and grow but never compromise which is what some choices can bring.
• If people jump from camp to camp and reject God they will end up on the losing side.
• We need to pray and be proactive in showing people God and allowing them to make a decision for Him.
• Satan and his army were defeated.
• We have victory in God.
• Help to save people from the dangers of not committing or focusing on God by modelling something real - a relationship with God that is well connected and a life worth living.