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Satan Always Has Counterfeits

Psalm 115:2-3

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.”

A counterfeit will never give you what the original can give. This is why it is a counterfeit. The word “counterfeit” means it is an imitation or a forgery of the original. In other words, a counterfeit only tries to imitate what the original truly is, but it is worthless simply because it is a counterfeit.

We see in this Psalm that the heathen ask the question, “Where is now their God?” to God’s people. It is interesting that the answer is immediately given that “our God is in the heavens.” In other words, our God is not limited to one place as are the idols of the heathen. This verse is actually teaching us the Omni-presence of God and how that God can and is everywhere all the time. As we continue in this Psalm, we see the heathen’s idols have the shape of God, but they don’t respond. Notice, it says these idols have a mouth, but the mouth will not speak. They have ears, but those ears do not hear. They have hands and feet, but they cannot walk or handle things. They even made their idols to have a throat, but the idols could not speak.

Herein lies the problem with the counterfeits of Satan, they may promise a lot, but they cannot produce what they promise, because they are only counterfeits. Praise the Lord, we serve a God who can respond, and speak, and hear, and walk and handle us. We don’t serve a dead God, we serve a living God!

We must learn something about Satan; he is a great counterfeiter. Whatever God has for us, Satan will make a counterfeit for us as well. The only difference is that the counterfeit cannot produce what it says it will. For instance, God gave us a church, but Satan also has churches out there. This is why we must be careful to get into a church that preaches and lives what the Bible says. God gave us a family, but Satan has also offered us his counterfeit for a family as we see today with the sodomite households. These families just will not work for they are against God’s methods. God has music for us to listen to, but Satan has also produced counterfeit music through the Christian rock and the music of the world. God gave us a Bible in the King James Bible 1611, but Satan has also offered us his counterfeits through all the other versions that have been produced. No matter what God offers us, Satan will always have a counterfeit.

Everyday we all must be sure that we don’t accept the counterfeits of Satan. I ask you, is there some counterfeit that Satan has offered to you that you have accepted and are trying to use? Let me just be frank with you, it will never give you what it promises. Oh, at the beginning it may seem to satisfy, but once you put the counterfeit to the test, it will always fail. Only accept what God offers to you and never accept the counterfeits of Satan.