I believe that a lot of people that are not saved,
that are false teachers, false prophets, or whatever,
I believe that a lot of them know that they're bad,
but I believe that a lot of them don't necessarily know that they're bad,
or how bad they are.
You see, when a person is unsaved, they are open to being a pawn for the devil.
Now, when we're saved, we have the Holy Spirit living inside us.
Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world.
And so, as Christians, we're not going to be demon-possessed or anything like that.
But unsaved people do get demon-possessed.
But even if they're not demon-possessed, they could often be manipulated by the devil,
and unwittingly be a pawn in his plan, and fulfill his agenda without even knowing it.
Without even realizing that that's what they're doing.
Because you wonder to yourself, you know, why do bad people infiltrate churches,
or why do they do these horrible things, and why would they pretend to be a good person?
And look, you can preach this stuff until you're blue in the face, and people don't get it.
Until they see it for themselves.
And even then, they often don't get it.
But when you point out to them, hey, this person that's been going to our church for years,
actually that person was a false prophet, that person was an infiltrator,
that person was a Judas Iscariot, that person was false brethren.
They'll say, no, there's no way.
I mean, that guy, he, you know, I knew that guy.
I was soul-willing with that guy.
You know, he wasn't a phony.
He was the real deal.
Why would someone do that?
Why would someone go to a church for years and they don't even believe the truth,
or they're a false teacher?
There are a lot of reasons why.
But one reason is that the devil just has them there, and they're just fulfilling the devil's
will, whether they're conscious of that or not, they're fulfilling the devil's will,
whether they realize it or not.
Now, a perfect example of this is Judas Iscariot.
And to sit there, and of course, Judas Iscariot was also ultimately fulfilling God's will.
And even the devil ultimately fulfills God's will.
That's why the devil, that's why God lets the devil out of hell on purpose in, at the
end of the millennium to go out and deceive the nations, because ultimately all things
work together for good to them that love God in the end.
Okay.
Including all the devil's attacks on you.
God's going to turn that around and use that for good in your life.
Okay.
But look what the Bible says here in Ephesians chapter two, and then we'll get into the
example of Judas, but in Ephesians chapter two, it says in verse one, and you had the
quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins, 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, among whom also we all had our conversation
in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of
the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
The Bible's talking about here, people that before they were saved, that they are doing
what?
They are walking according to the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
What's that spirit that's at work in the children of disobedience?
Is that the Holy Spirit?
No, that's the spirit that's of the devil.
And that spirit works in the children of disobedience.
The prince of the power of the air is the devil.
And the Bible's saying that we walked according to his plan.
We were on his program.
We were doing what he wanted to do.
And there's a spirit at work in the children of disobedience.
And it says, among whom also we all had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of
our flesh.
So we think, oh, I'm just fulfilling the lusts of my flesh.
I'm just doing what I want to do.
I'm just going to do what I want to do.
God's not going to tell me what to do.
My parents aren't going to tell me what to do.
Church isn't going to tell me what to do.
I'm just going to follow my flesh, my lust.
But you know who you're really following?
When you do that, you're actually following the devil.
So you think you're following your own lust.
The Bible says you're walking according to his plan, according to the prince of the power
of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
So unsaved people are fulfilling the devil's will, even if they don't set out and say,
man, I'd like to worship Satan.
They do it.
They do his will.
They do his bidding.
They are his pawns.
He manipulates them.
He brainwashes them through the media and through false teachers and liars that will
manipulate them, brainwash them, and then he'll send them into churches as infiltrators
to do damage.