Venom the Symbiote of sin

What

a fun day to be in Plano Tx at Redemption Church. Greetings internet!

My name is Chris Fluitt and I am blessed to be the lead pastor of

Redemption Church.

We

are in the middle of a fun sermon series, but we already need your

help with our next series.

Our

next series will be search engine. In this series we will

interactively answer your questions about faith, life, &

scripture. We need your questions now. Please use our anonymous text

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to ask anything and then join us in mid-June where we will answer

your questions live.

But

for today we are back in our 4th

week of the Jesus Vs series

Jesus

Vs

Scripture

tells us that God will fight for you. So we are taking a look at how

Jesus might fight for us, but hypothetically pitting him against

Marvel comic characters like Thanos, Uatu the Watcher, &

Galactus.

Today

we are talking about the well-known comic villain Venom

Jesus

Versus Venom

How

will Jesus fight the powerful Venom? Let’s learn more about this

bad guy.

Venom

the Symbiote of Sin

What

are we dealing with when it comes to Venom? As you can see from the

picture and our intro video… Venom is a different kind of creature.

The

character is a sentient alien Symbiote with an amorphous, liquid-like

form, who survives by bonding with a host. This dual-life form

receives enhanced powers and usually refers to itself as "Venom".

A symbiote is an organism in a partnership with another in a way that

profits both.

So

when we are talking about Venom we are actually talking about two

characters… #1 being the alien symbiote & #2 being the host it

has bonded with.

When

not bonded, Venom appears like a blob like substance that scampers

around. In this form it does not seem very powerful… yet when it

bonds with a host the power is evident.

The

Symbiote was originally introduced as a living alien costume in The

Amazing Spider-Man #252 (May 1984). In addition to it being a cool

black costume for Spidey to wear, it was also tear resistant. These

were the original benefits of the symbiote, but the black goo had

more to reveal.

As

Peter Parker, **Spoiler Alert** Spiderman… iF you didn’t know

Peter Parker was Spiderman I want to pray with you in this altar

today… As Peter Parker is bonded with the symbiote he starts to

receive power & abilities that are new for even Spiderman.

Here

are the abilities of the symbiote known as Venom…

* Superhuman

strength, durability, & stamina

* Accelerated

Healing Factor

* Webbing

generation (Spider no longer needed web shooters the symbiote suit

did this on its own)

The

Spiderman superhero was more super than ever with the venom symbiote.

He felt more powerful than ever… but the symbiote started to try

to control Peter Parker. It started to control his thoughts… it

started speaking its own will into the mind of Parker. The symbiote

wanted Spiderman to do evil things.

When