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When I was a child I learned in Sunday school class the song, Jesus loves the little children. If Satan had a song it would be called, Satan loves all the good people. The song would go something like this.... Satan loves all the good people, all the good people of the world. The generous and kind, the friendly and the caring. Satan loves all the good people of the world. Satan is not opposed to good morals. What he is opposed to is Jesus Christ. Satan doesn’t care if you’re a good person. He doesn’t care if you volunteer at the food bank, recycle your trash, and help old ladies cross the street. He doesn’t care if you are kind, generous, and well-liked by everyone in your community. He cares that you don’t bow your knee to Jesus. Here’s the deception that is damning millions. Satan has convinced people that morality equals spirituality. That being a good person is the same as being a Christian. That if you live right, treat people well, and avoid the big sins, you are acceptable to God.
Titus 3:5 ESV he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
The Pharisees had impeccable morals. They followed the law meticulously. They were well respected, disciplined, and religiously devoted. Jesus called them children of the devil. Why? Not because their morals were bad. Because their morals replaced Christ. Satan’s greatest trick is not making bad people worse. It’s making good people think they don’t need a Savior. Most of the world has Satan pictured as a red horned man with a pitch fork and a pointed tall. They think of him as the evil one that convinces people to kill, steal and cheat. However Satan's greatest tool is deception. Think about it, the atheist who feeds the homeless thinks he’s good enough without God. The Buddhist who meditates and practices compassion thinks they are enlightened without Christ. The Muslim who prays five times daily thinks he’s righteous without Jesus. The moral Christian who goes to church, pays his tithe, and avoids scandal thinks he’s saved without surrender. All of them are headed to the same place, hell and eternal separation from God. Because morality doesn’t save.
Ephesians 2: 8-9 ESV For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Satan loves good people who reject Jesus. They’re his best advertisement for the lie that you can earn your way to heaven. They are living proof that you can be kind without Christ, be generous without God, be disciplined without the Holy Spirit, be respected without redemption and still be lost. Here is what most people fail to comprehend, Satan doesn’t need to make you do bad things, to murder your brother, to steal from your friends or to have an affair with another man's wife. He just needs to keep you from doing the ONE thing that matters the most, surrender to Christ.
John 3:36 ESV Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
You can live a moral life and still die lost. You can be a good person and still face judgment. You can avoid all the big sins and still end up separated from God forever. Because the only sin that damns you eternally is rejecting Jesus Christ. The murderer who repents and believes in Christ will be in heaven. The thief who turned to Jesus on the cross is in Heaven. The prostitute who washed Jesus’ feet with her tears is in heaven. However the moral, religious person who rejects Jesus Christ is damned to hell for eternity. That is why Satan loves all the good
