“DON’T LET THE DEVIL HAVE IT ALL” Amos 3:12

·        Do you bear the marks of a child of God? Can people recognize that you are a Christian? The devil has been hard at working robbing and striping the children of God of important testifying identification.

·        A small part of the children of Israel shall escape when Samaria is taken. When the Babylonians carried away the people into Chaldea they left behind only a few.

·        Two of its legs, or a piece of its ear, just enough to prove by the marks on those parts, that they belonged to a sheep which was the shepherd’s.

Are we going to sit by as the devil destroys and devours, he has already gotten many things from Christians and churches.  Such as:

1.    ATTENTION—{focus, concentration, thoughts}

A.     The Word

B.     The Will of God

C.     The Worship of God

2. INTEREST—{concern, involvement, Affection—{ love, devotion, admiration }

2 Timothy 4:10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved

this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica;

3. INTEGRITY— {purity, cleanness, honor}

4. INFLUENCE—{power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, witness }

·        DAVID LOST HIS INFLUENCE—2 SAM 12:13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. 14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

·        Has the devil destroyed your influence?

5. INTENSITY- zeal, fire, enthusiasm -To have a fervent hope or aspiration for

6. INTENTS—vision, goals, dreams

·        Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish:

·        1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

·        John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:

·        Ephesians 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.

·        James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

·        OUR ADVERSARY WILL STRIVE TO…

1-     Influence our mind

2-    Irritate our spirit;

·        Watch And Pray That He May Not Get Any Place In You, Or Advantage Over You.

·        NOT MUCH LEFT THAT BEAR THE MARKS OF THE SHEPHERD ON THE SHEEP.

Revelation 3:2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die…

·        THE DEVIL IS AFTER OUR:

1-FAMILIES

2-FRIENDS

3-FELLOWSHIP

Is there anything left to salvage? {recovery, rescue}

·         Homes & Marriages are being devoured by the devil.

·         What should we be snatching out of the devil’s mouth?

1-Old time Christianity

2-Old time Convictions

3-Old time Commitment