Good morning, everyone. Today is the 13th of December. Most people don't like to talk. They just ignore it. And it was a long time. my life that I ever heard the subject addressed in a from a biblical perspective and So I want to talk about this morning I want to talk about The origin of evil Most people believe that Lucifer had a free will and that the reason that he was evil was because he chose evil. And a lot of people say Larry makes God the author of sin. One time we were talking about this subject about who authored evil And he said well if God didn't authorize it who did authorize it, right? God didn't authorize evil who did authorize evil Well, there's a couple things to consider I was talking to a primitive Baptist minister one time and I said, you know, you can't have non-elect angels if you have elect angels. And he said, that's ridiculous. I go, well, I don't understand how that's ridiculous. Help me understand that. You know, if we look in 1 Timothy 5.21, I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels That thou observe these things without preferring one another doing nothing by partiality The term elect angels as you is is used in first timothy 521 If they're elect angels, then there's some that aren't elect, right? I Now I have a question for you. If God had chosen to create Lucifer such that he would not have fallen, could he have done so? My answer is absolutely he could have done so. Because he created myriads of angels that are still in heaven. Third of them were not elect angels. They fell with Satan a Third of the angels that God created were not elect angels because they fell with Satan Gabriel was an elect angel Michael is an elect angel and many other angels Two-thirds of the angels in heaven are elect. They're never gonna fall but back to our scripture regarding Satan it says that In John 8 44, you have your father devil and the lust your father you will do. He, speaking of Satan, was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth. Satan was a murderer from the very beginning of his creation because there's no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own Who are his own all the non-elect angels all the principalities? For he is a liar and the father of it this was from the beginning of his of his origin a Lot of people say well evil didn't happen until the fall that is not true Evil happened when Lucifer and the non-elect angels were created. Now the other question we have to ask ourselves is why would God create these monsters? Why would God create these monsters? The same reason God creates monsters on the earth called reprobates. You know? We can go back and see why God created monsters. Okay, if you want to call them that. If we look in the 9th chapter of Romans, which a lot of people don't like, the moment you start bringing up the 9th chapter of Romans, They get all upset, don't they? But what does he say in the ninth chapter of Romans regarding Pharaoh? Why did he create Pharaoh? Why was Pharaoh created? The same reason that Satan was created. The same reason all the non-elect angels were created. Very same reason. We'll just read this you want to look at Romans 9 He says in verse 17 for the scripture saith unto Pharaoh Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up That I might show my power in thee and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth That's why he created Pharaoh. That's why he created Satan and That is that his name Christ's name would be declared throughout all the earth Because he's victorious over Satan and his principalities What does 21 say half not the Potter I power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor. That's what happened in the creation of angels. He made one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor. Now he made two thirds unto honor and he made a third unto dishonor. You say well that applies to humans that doesn't apply to angels. Well. No it does because back to our scripture on elect angels You cannot have elect angels and have non elect angels and not have non elect angels. It's an impossibility There's a distinction between angels some are elect and some not elect Now people don't like this teaching, but it's just, it's very logical and it's biblical and it's a rational expression for God's purpose in creating elect angels, non-elect angels, elect people and reprobates. He created someone to honor and someone to dishonor. And, you know, God used Satan in a lot of different instances. Remember when he said to Satan, have you considered my servant Job? Remember that? Satan. another word for Satan and his kingdom if we if we go back to if we look at the origin of evil you know look at the origin of evil it was founded you know Satan was he said I will rise and be as God Even though God created Satan, Satan wanted to come against God and his kingdom, didn't he? I will do this, I will do that, I will do the other thing. Everybody thinks that they got a free will. You know, I was talking to a person the other night, and this subject came up, and he immediately said, we'll just have to disagree. We'll have to agree to disagree on that subject. He said, Scripture is full of instances that man has a free will, but he wouldn't give me any instances. He wouldn't give me any Scripture to back it up. I gave him a lot of Scripture to back up, The God the man does not have a free will It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth, but God that showeth mercy You know For whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be predestined he called whom he called he also justified What shall we say to these things if God before us who can be against us who can lay anything? to the charge of God's elect so He didn't want to talk about it. He says all and I said have you considered Romans 9 John 17 John 10 John 6 He didn't want to talk about it. He didn't want to talk about the scriptures didn't want to talk about it The origin of faith is something that's as important as the origin of evil We didn't concoct our own faith. If we have faith, it was given to us by God himself. We didn't just one day decide, well, I'm gonna have faith to believe in Jesus as Lord. No, God's the one that gave us the faith to believe in. Now, if we go back to Colossians 1, It says, for by him were all things created that are in heaven, that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, that would include Satan's dominion, or principalities or powers, all things were created by him and for him. Satan was created by God and for God. It says he is before all things and by him all things consist There's your answer to the origin of evil right there There's people that have written whole books about God cannot be the author of sin and on and on and on The origin of evil began with Satan and all the non-elect angels and You know, that's where it began. And you can find that when the serpent was placed in the Garden of Eden, it says he was more subtle than any beast that was placed in the garden. And who placed him there? Did Satan just decide that he was going to go down to the Garden of Eden and harass Adam and Eve? No, God placed him in the Garden of Eden. Well, that's what I wanted to point out this morning. May the good Lord be with you. And if you want to take the study, do a word study on Satan and the devil. You'll get your boat loaded. God bless.