Just Look at the Scoreboard

You know the scene: It’s late in the fourth quarter and your favorite football team is up 40 on their much weaker opponent. The game is all but over, but some time remains on the clock and there is still some game left to be played. But, it’s over. You’re team is going to win big.

Then some receiver for the other team makes a great catch for a first down. It really is a great play. Good for him. But instead of walking humbly back to his huddle, he jumps up and starts talking trash. He gets up in the face of the defensive back on your (the winning) team and starts going on and on about how good he is and how bad the other guy is.

Then your team’s defensive back grabs the outspoken receiver by the shoulder pads, turns him around rather roughly and points up. As he does so he says to the receiver, “Hey loser, just look at the scoreboard!”

And in the spirit of that image, I’d like to offer the following:

Hey satan, look at the scoreboard. You need to go read the Book of Revelation. You lose! You’re going to spend eternity in a lake of fire designed just for you.

We hate you. We hate you as much as you hate us. We rebuff your trash talk and call out your stupid tricks for what they are. We out you as the deceiver of the nations and the source of all the hate, pride, fear, prejudice, evil and suffering in the world.

But let us remind you of how this thing ends, or better–ended. We’ve got two images for you satan–a blood-stained cross and an empty tomb. This game is over satan. You can terrorize and tempt and deny God’s existence and harass us all you want to, but none of it is going to change the fact that your evil, lying, rebelling ass is going to be kicked for all eternity. You lose; we win. Rather, we’ve already won because of Jesus’ blood.

Let me say those last two words a little louder as we know how much you love to hear them: JESUS’ BLOOD.

So we will not be intimidated. We’re not going to roll over and play dead. We’re not going to back down. You can’t have our marriages. You can’t have our children. You can’t have our cities or our nation. No. We will fast, pray, repent and exalt the name of Jesus. And we will die if we have to for his cause.

You’ve got nothing satan. You lose. Sucks to suck, doesn’t it?

I’m sure we’ll be hearing from you soon, as this kind of truth really tends to put you in a foul mood. So until you dare to show your face in my blood-covered house, here’s a little excerpt from one of your favorite books:

And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Revelation 20:10

Amen. Lord Jesus, hasten the day.