I can always tell when a young person is gonna be a powerhouse for Jesus!

  Special lesson this morning, because I lived some of this.  I was not answering God's call from about age 10 ... all the way to 30.  I hope we can cover some verses today that will show, and help identify, when Jesus is talking and when the devil is talking.  It is hard to tell them apart when we are young, unless we take what we are getting and look in the Bible.

Who wrote the Bible?  Why is it still the most read book in the history of the world and still the number one seller each year?  It's because it is real.  If the devil had more power than God or if God was not real, there would be no Bible.  The Bible does not exist because man came up with it, but because God wants us to have it to prove He exists.

The Bible was written over a 1500 year period by forty plus men of all kinds of backgrounds, fishermen to doctors...  God shows his power in his Bible.  Does the devil have power?  Sure does, every denomination, every "new way", every translation  of the Bible, that makes it "easier" to understand.  The world will not understand God's word, that why when you have conflict in life, there is a reason- IT'S BECAUSE SATAN KNOWS YOU ARE GONNA BE A POWERHOUSE FOR JESUS CHRIST, AND SATAN WANTS TO CRUSH YOU!