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.
As you wonder to yourself, you know, why do bad people infiltrate churches or why do they
do these horrible things and, and, and, and why would they pretend to be a, a good person?
And look, you can preach this stuff till you're blue in the face and people don't get it until
they see it for themselves.
And then 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-witting 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 God lets the devil out of hell on purpose 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, including all the devil's attacks on you, God's going to turn
that around and use that for good in your life.
But look what the Bible says here in Ephesians chapter 2, and then we'll get into the example
of Judas.
But in Ephesians chapter 2 it says in verse 1, "And you hath he 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?
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 is 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 we all, also we all
had our conversation in time past in the lust of our flesh.
So we think, oh I'm just fulfilling the lust 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.