Down Is Up | Clip 1

• I think it would be good this evening if I began by briefly recapitulating my message from last night. The theme that I chose that I feel the Lord gave me was a spiritual law that I believe works throughout the entire universe. I pointed out that there are physical laws that we all recognize which operate in every circumstance in which they apply.
• As for instance, the law of gravity. No sensible person today expects the law of gravity to cease working at their convenience. You step out of a fourth floor window. It’s no good expecting that you won’t fall because you know you will. There’s a law at work in that situation. I pointed out that there are also spiritual and moral laws in the universe which are just as universal in their application.
• In fact more so and which it is just as impossible to break. That if you go contrary to those laws you will not break the laws but the laws will break you. Just as with the law of gravity, the particular law that I chose last night to begin to deal with, and I’m going to continue dealing with it tonight is stated three times in the New Testament.
• And each time it’s stated from the lips of Jesus himself. It’s pretty simple. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled. Whoever humbles himself will be exalted. This is a universal law that applies in any situation in any life at any time. If you exalt yourself, you’ll be humbled.
• The King James says, I believe, uh, abased. Perhaps another word would be humiliated. But if you humble yourself, you will be exalted. Put it in a simple phrase, the way up is down. But if you try to go down up, you’ll end by going down. The great example that we took of that last night was the created archangel whose name originally was Lucifer, who was perhaps the most wise and the most beautiful of all the created angels.
• And as I understand, he was in charge of onethird of God’s angels. But the scripture reveals in Ezekiel 28 and elsewhere that because of his beauty and his wisdom, his heart became proud. Pride led to rebellion. He not merely rebelled individually, but he incited rebellion against God amongst all the angels over whom he had charge.
• And he led onethird of the created angels in rebellion against God. and for that was banished from the presence of God. Now tonight I want to focus on the positive aspect of that truth. Lucifer’s name was changed to Satan. Instead of being the son of the dawn, the one who brings light, the one who heralds the dawn, he became Satan, the resistor, the adversary, the one who opposes God’s purposes and God’s people.