Matthew 6:24, 1John 3:8
Get Out
Notice that our text mentions two masters and makes it clear, every
human being serves either on or the other. Their names are Jehovah
God and Satan.
I want to make three statements in my introduction that should shock
you. It may not because many of you have heard them before, but I
want to emphasize them today in such a way that you really grasp them.
1. We are born serving Satan.
2. Many—most—have never stopped.
Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for
wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that
leadeth to destruction, and many there be which
go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the
way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be
that find it.
a. There is only one way to stop.
b. You must move out of his kingdom.
3. The chief evidence of Satan’s influence in our life is sin.
1John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the
devil….
a. We all take sin too lightly.
(1) Sin is the tale-tale sign that we are still living in
Satan’s kingdom.
(2) The more we sin and the greater our transgressions,
the more enveloped into the devil’s kingdom we are.
b. Satan and his kingdom have influenced us so much, that
much of our "natural" behavior has been shaped and molded
by them.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and
the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he
speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for
he is a liar, and the father of it.
(1) We lie because our first king was a liar, and he
influenced us to do so.
(2) We steal because our first king was a thief, and he
influenced us to do so.
(3) We lust, are short tempered, are jealous, are lazy
and so forth, because of the influences of our
first king and his kingdom upon our lives.
c. Now, that is not to lay on the blame of our sinful
behavior on Satan.
(1) The truth is that he may have put the carrot in front
of us, but we all bite into it willfully.
(2) We deliberately sought the joys and pleasures that we
thought sin would bring us.
(3) The Bible often speaks of the temporal pleasures that
sin brings.
Romans 1:32 Who (the lost) knowing the judgment
of God, that they which commit such things are
worthy of death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them.
2Peter 2:12-13 …brute beasts…that count it
pleasure to riot in the day time.
2Thess 2:12 That they all might be damned who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness.
d. However, at some point, every sinful human being gets
utterly sick of their sinfulness.
(1) The drunk gets sick to death of his binge drinking.
(2) The druggie gets sick of his need for a fix.
(3) The sex addict gets sick of his need for lust.
(4) The liar gets sick of his lying tongue.
If you are at that point, it is time to move out of the devil’s
kingdom. How do you do that? Let me give you three actions we must
do. I am going to break these down into three separate acts although
they really should happen at the SAME time.
I. Reject King Satan
A. Like it or not, Satan is the Lord and Master of all those
born on this earth.
1. In this text, Jesus called Satan our master.
2. 2Cor 4:4 calls him the "god of this world."
2Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world
hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ,
who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
3. Eph 2:2 calls him the "prince and power of the air."
Ephesians 2:2 Wherein in time past ye walked
according to the course of this world, according
to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit
that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
4. While we cannot blame all our sinfulness upon Satan, it
is accurate to say that a person who is under Satan’s
lordship is going to do what Satan wants.
5. People are like cattle driven to the slaughter. Satan
is directing and prodding us, but we are walking to the
slaughter on our own legs.
B. Even so, you don’t have to continue having him as your king.
1. Jehovah God sent His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross so
that you would have a choice.
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward
us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us.
1John 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God
toward us, because that God sent his only
begotten Son into the world, that we might live
through him.
2. The Bible emphasizes that the choice of which king you
will serve is now completely yours.
Acts 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that
whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord
shall be saved.
Revelation 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride
say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come.
And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever
will, let him take the water of life freely.
3. If you will acknowledge your sinfulness before God and
accept what Jesus Christ has done for you, you may be
wonderfully and gloriously saved.
C. With that salvation, comes an instantons transfer out of
Satan’s power and domain.
Col 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father…
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the
kingdom of his dear Son:
D. The first step to being free from your sins is to reject the
wicked king you serve.
II. Leave Satan’s kingdom.
A. Few seek the right direction (turning to God through Jesus
Christ).
1. Some, however, do. (Hopefully, that is what each of you
have done.)
2. But many of those who do, still do not leave the old
kingdom.
a. They still talk as they learned in their old kingdom.
b. They still dress as they learned in their old kingdom.
c. They still drink the same drinks,
go to the same clubs,
abuse the same chemicals,
lose their temper the same way,
handle their money in the same way,
view the same kinds of images,
listen to the same kinds of music,
treat their family members in the same ways,
and so forth.
3. Too many are like Lot’s wife.
a. \\#Ge 19:26\\ She had left Sodom and Gomorrah, but she
looked back and longed for it.
b. She was out of the city but the city was not out of
her.
(1) So some say that they have deposed Satan as their
king and exalted Jesus Christ to the throne, but
they still want to live in Satan’s kingdom.
(2) They enjoy living there.
(a) Maybe they don’t like all the repercussions
but they don’t hate them enough to leave
it.
(b) There’s too much of the old kingdom still
inside them.
(c) And as long as they enjoy living there, they
will never be any more free than was Lot’s
wife.
4. You cannot completely rid yourself of your old master if
you don’t leave his old kingdom.
B. How do we leave the old kingdom behind.
1. We must develop a new attitude toward your old sins.
1Peter 3:10 For he that will love life, and see
good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil,
and his lips that they speak no guile:
11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek
peace, and ensue it.
a. "Eschew" means to hate.
b. Those who are traveling in the right direction on the
right road, are to hate evil and do good.
c. How do we know what good and bad are? Only through
the Bible.
d. This is a new attitude toward the things that we once
took pleasure in doing.
(1) Important question - Do we still enjoy the sins
you engaged in when you were lost?
(2) We must answer honestly.
(3) Do we enjoy the occasional night out on the
town? the buzz of the stimulants in your
system? the excitement at viewing something
you should not?
(4) Until we change our attitude, and utterly hate
sin, we will never get out of Satan’s kingdom!
2. We must confess your sins to Jesus.
a. People like to think their sins are a private matter
but they are not.
(1) Sins are a spiritual matter.
(2) That makes it a matter between you and God and
whoever God brings into your life to help you.
(3) By the way, you may want to keep it a secret, but
after a certain point, God does not.
b. When a true believer willfully sins, he commits an act
of treason against God.
(1) I selected the word TREASON on purpose.
(2) It has not only the right definition but the
right connotation.
(3) Word web (an internet dictionary gives three
definitions:
(a) A crime that undermines the offender’s
government. (Sin undermines God’s rule in
our life.)
(b) Disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior.
(Sin is a rebellious behavior against God.)
(c) An act of deliberate betrayal.
(4) A willful sin is all of those.
Hebrews 10:28 He that despised Moses’ law died
without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye,
shall he be thought worthy, who hath TRODDEN
UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, and
hath COUNTED THE BLOOD OF THE
COVENANT, wherewith he was sanctified,
AN UNHOLY THING, and hath done despite
unto the Spirit of grace?
c. The Bible demands that we confess our sinfulness to
God for such an act.
1John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness.
(1) The word confess means to agree with God in our
heart, but it also implies to specifically name
our sin as sin with our mouths.
(2) The idea is to first have a heart change about
our sin and then to name our sin and tell God
we now understand how wicked we were in
committing it.
(3) If we have changed our attitude about this sin
and now you truly do hate it, there should also
be some sorrow and remorse with it.
(4) There may or may not be tears but there should
certainly be a brokenness that is not soon
forgotten.
James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw
nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners;
and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your
laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy
to heaviness.
III. Surrender yourself to Christ.
A. This is not just a message of moving out. It is also a message
of moving in.
1. Certainly we must depose the devil as our king, but at the
same moment, we are installing Jesus Christ as our King.
2. We are moving out of the devil’s kingdom, but we are
moving into God’s kingdom.
B. What most people want to hear is that there is a third option.
1. You can be part of the devil’s kingdom or…
2. You can be part of God’s kingdom or…
3. You can be an independent kingdom.
C. There is no third option.
1. All the time that you have thought you were doing what you
wanted, you have really been doing what your master the
devil wanted.
2. There are only two kingdoms and only two masters.
D. I speak often of repentance.
1. I do so because I know for a fact that many religious
people are like I was, lost.
2. They believe most or even all the right things, but they
never surrendered to God as their Master.
3. Repentance is moving out of the devil’s kingdom AND
moving into God’s.
4. You have NOT repented until you have done both.
E. God’s kingdom is the kingdom of freedom.
1. It is not the freedom to do whatever you would like. Many
say that, but it is not true.
2. It is the freedom to do whatever you ought to do.
a. A drug addict does not have the freedom to walk away
from his drugs. Only those in God’s kingdom can do
that.
b. A liar, luster, a thief, a pervert, a blasphemer, a
coward, a drunkard, a worrier, a jealous person does
not have the freedom to walk away from their vice.
c. Only those in God’s kingdom do.
3. But those in God’s kingdom are not free to go back into
sin.
a. If they do not, they will surrender their freedom and
be again entangled in the chains of those vices.
b. Even worse, the fact that they are in bondage to sin
may be indicating that they never were saved at all.
1John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the
devil….
c. There is a fine line between being AWOL and
desertion!
(1) AWOL is being absent without leave.
(2) Desertion is quitting.
(3) The only difference is time.
(4) My understanding is that the military gives you
30 days.
(5) Just how long has it been since you left God?
F. I tell you this upfront because this is the cost of being
free.
1. Too many ignorant and foolish people think freedom is
free.
2. Freedom is never free.
a. Someone always has to pay for it.
b. Patriots and soldiers do it every day.
c. They surrender their own freedom to defend ours.
d. Some even surrender their limbs and their lives.
3. You might be thinking, "I thought Jesus paid the price for
my freedom."
a. He did. He died on the cross so that you could be
free.
b. However, just like every generation has to pay a price
to maintain our nation freedom, so every Christians
has to pay a price to maintain his spiritual
freedom.
c. The price - Stay in God’s kingdom and out of Satan’s
camp.
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