GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Answering the Angels

Kameron DeVasher

01 Why Is There Evil in the Universe?

02 How Can an Honest God Defeat a Lying Devil?

03 Why Didn’t Satan Die at Calvary, Too?

04 How Will God Destroy the Wicked Fairly and Finally?

05 Will Heaven Be Safe With Us in It?

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this gorgeous day.

Thank you for these good friends and church family we get to fellowship with.

Thank you for what it reveals to us about who you are and your plans for us and our part in your universe.

Bless us now as we revisit these themes, go deeper into your word and trust in advance that you will bless us greatly for we pray it in Jesus name.

Now, just to review where we've gone so far, we started in Matthew chapter 13, and we looked at the parable of the wheat and the tares.

And we noted that Jesus, per request of his disciples, broke down every element of that and explained how the world was the field.

The good seeds of the righteous, the wicked are the bad seeds, the tears.

The harvest is the end of the age and the reapers are the angels.

And those were the angels who are asking the questions about, Sir, how is it possible that you said you sowed good seed, but we see that there's bad seed?

And we laid the premise from the Bible that it is not disloyalty to have questions for God.

In fact, he's the 1 who invites us, come let us reason together.

We should be able to give a reason for the hope that's in us.

So it's a reasonable thing to have questions because this is a big topic.

The existence of sin, God's response to it, how he's going to end it, and where do we fit into all of that?

So we looked at the first presentation about the enemy.

Of course, it's Lucifer, and God did not create the devil.

He created a perfect being who chose to rebel.

And we notice how God's response was not to destroy him instantly, though he could have, and he would have been just in doing it, but it would not have solved the problem because there was an on-looking universe of people who were evaluating all of these things and trying to wrestle and understand what the deal was.

So the Lord, instead of blotting him out of existence, cast him out of his position in heaven, out of the heavenly realms and to the earth.

So, the man who God had put here on the earth, Adam, to be the ruler of this world, given dominion over creation, as long as he was loyal to God, would hold that rulership position.

But, as Satan accurately recounted in Luke chapter 4 that this authority was given to him when Satan rebelled against God.

So now Christ comes not only to give an answer to the obfuscations and the deceptions and the falses of Satan, but to be the answer to them.

That God needed to not only declare the truth, he needed to demonstrate the truth.

And thus Jesus could say, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father, that my righteousness is to be revealed in the person of Jesus.

And of course, that revelation came to a climax at Calvary.

When Jesus bowed his head and died, but never once for a moment did he give in to Satan, did he sell out in any way, did he rebel against God, he died faithful and he could declare in all honesty, it is finished.

And at that moment of Calvary, The onlooking universe saw for the very first time 2 very critical things.

Number 1, they saw the truth about who God was in the person of Jesus.

They had witnessed his sacrificial life and his ministry, his love and belovedness, and now his self-sacrifice on the cross.

And they realized that everything God had claimed about himself was true, because they could see it in Jesus.

At the same time, everything that God had said about Satan was true too, that he is indeed a liar and or a murderer and we noted that the last link of sympathy between Satan and the heavenly world was broken when they witnessed Calvary and how that power of Christ's sacrifice will be a guarantee that there won't be another rebellion amongst the heavenly universe.

Anyway, that brings us essentially up to speed in our first 2 presentations, but now we go to the next question, which is this.

He said, Now is the judgment of this world.

Now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

The last link of sympathy has been broken, and Jesus is victorious, and all God's people said, Amen.

Well, that leaves us with a question, though.

Why is He still going 2, 000 years later?

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning.'" And notice that the devil didn't just sin, he was the beginning of sin.

Iniquity was found in you, Scripture says.

So, for this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, right?

That is, to be made tangible, to appear here, the Incarnation, why Jesus was sent.

For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might do what?

Okay, So he came here to be the answer to all of Satan's argumentations and slanders and falsehood, to reveal the character of God, to end Satan, and he was successful.

Okay, so we beg the question, if that's why Jesus came, and that's what Jesus accomplished, why is Satan still alive now?

Because as we had talked about, the on-looking universe, the loyal angels and those sons of God in the heavenly realm, apparently for 4, 000 years had some level of sympathy for Satan.

But just like the sons of God and Job, let's hear him out.

But at Calvary, there's nothing more to say.

So, couldn't you, if you were the God the Father, turn to those angelic hosts and say, now do you see Why he can't just be quarantined, he needs to be killed.

Right, this is not a negotiation, we're not gonna have an arbitration, we need an elimination.

I'm guessing all the angel hosts would be like, we see it now, we knew him, but now we're done.

As we already mentioned, Christ's life revealed the character of God, and Christ's death revealed the character of Satan.

Because God had more than 1 purpose in coming to this earth.

Jesus Himself explains in Luke 19, verse 10, 10 For the Son of Man has come to do what?

So did Jesus come to destroy the works of the devil?

He had a phase 2, a secondary purpose, another side of the coin, where not only eliminating evil, but also redeeming, saving what was lost.

Praise the Lord, we don't colloquially refer to this as the plan of destruction.

So in order for the plan to be accomplished, it would be insufficient to merely kill Satan and sinners.

By the way, if God said at Calvary, OK, all the questions have been answered, all Satan and his followers are done, Is that good news?

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

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Answering the Angels

03 Why Didn’t Satan Die at Calvary, Too?

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