Body: | The Devil
Introduction
Names & descriptions of the devil:
Devil: Mt 4:1 Belial 2 Cor 6:15 lit: "worthless"
Enemy: Mt 13:39 Serpent: Rev 12:9; 20:2; 2 Cor 11:3
Satan: Mk 1:13 Tempter: 1 Th 3:5; Mt 4:3
Ruler of demons: Mt 12:24 Adversary: 1 Pe 5:8
Strong man: Mt 12:29 Angel of bottomless pit: Rev 9:11
Murderer: Jn 8:44 Great red dragon: Rev 12:3
Liar & father of lies: Jn 8:44 Beelzebub: Mt 12:24
Ruler of world: Jn 12:31; 14:30; 16:11 Accuser of the brethren: Rev 12:10
god of this world: 2 Cor 4:4 The wicked one: Mt 13:19
Heb: "Abbadon" lit-destruction Gr: "Apollyon" lit-destroyer
A. Satan isn't a "red, horned, long tailed being holding fork" 2 Cor 11:14
B. The sinful world is Satan's domain: Job 1:7; 1 Pe 5:8
Ruler of this world: Jn 12:31; 14:31; 16:11
Prince of the power of the air: Eph 2:2
The god of this world: 2 Cor 4:4
He promises the world to those who will obey him: Mt 4:8-9
His domain is a sinful world under evil power: 1 Jn 5:19
God is more powerful than Satan: 1 Jn 4:4 "greater is He..."
Satan rules the world through deception and sin, not legitimately by
God: Rev 12:9
C. Satan's war against God is for domain or property rights of your soul!
Satan gets your soul the first time you sin!
God purchased us from Satan with blood: 1 Co 6:20;7:23; Ax 20:28; 1
Pe 1:18; 2 Pe 2:1; Rev 5:9
Once Christian's, Satan goes to war with us trying to make us fall
away: Eph 6:10-18; 4:27
Satan is more at war with Christians than non-Christians. He wars
primarily with those not his!
Satan schemes to bring Christians under damnation of God: 2 Cor
2:11; 1 Pe 5:8; Mt 13:28,39
He sets hidden snares for Christians: 2 Ti 2:26; 1 Ti 3:7
I. Origin of Satan
A. God created Satan:
God is the only eternal self-existent being represented in the
Bible. Satan is not self-existent
Satan must have therefore had a point of origin: Col 1:16; Jn 1:3;
Heb 1:2
God is the Father of all spirits including Satan's: Eph 2:2
B. Was Satan created good or evil?
All God created was good: Gen 1:31. God must have created Satan
good.
Kind begets kind: God is good therefore He must have created Satan
good.
Satan, like every man can choose to do good or evil.
C. Indications of Satan's fall:
Satan did not abide in truth: Jn 8:44
Satan fell into condemnation: 1 Ti 3:6
Angels (demons) were cast into Hades when they sinned: 2 Pe 2:4
Angels didn't keep their own domain...abandoned their proper
abode...were cast down: Jude 6-7
War in heaven against Satan's army vs. Michael & angels...Satan cast
out of heaven: Rev 12:7-9
D. The Devil is not "Lucifer"
Isa 14:12-15 Refers to king of Babylon not the Devil
V12: "Lucifer" (KJV) "star" (NASB) literally means, "shining one"
Ezek 28:13-19 Refers to king of Tyre not the Devil
This is a very common false teaching.
B. Satan has already lost his war against God
A. Historical victories of Satan:
Adam and Eve eating forbidden fruit
Enticing God's people to worship idols
Murder of Jesus Christ: Lk 22:3
Every time a Christian gives us on the faith and falls away: 1 Ti
1:18-20
Corruption of doctrine: 1 Ti 4:1-4 "doctrines of demons": Today
there are 500 churches!
B. Major defeats of Satan in the Bible:
War in heaven, cast to earth: Rev 12:7-9
Job tests God's wisdom with Job, "you think Job is good, take away
blessings...he will curse you"
Temptation in wilderness with Jesus: Mt 4:1-11
Cast out demons during ministry of Jesus: Lk 10:17-20
Sinless death & resurrection of Christ: Col 2:14-15; Heb 2:14-16; 1
Jn 3:8; Rev 1:18
Every time a sinner becomes a Christian: Acts 26: 18; Col 1:13 + Lk
15:7 "angels rejoice"
C. Satan was bound by Christ:
Ps 72:9, Mt 12:29, Isa 53:10 = Lk 10:17, Acts 2:34-36, 1 Cor
15:25-28, Col 2:15, Eph 4:8, Rev 20:1-6
Satan has power: 1 Pe 5:8, but it is limited: Jas 4:7
Satan is bound like a Pit Bull is chained to a pole. Powerless
unless we enter his "circle"
Satan cannot force us against our will or possess us: 1 Cor 10:13
D. Devil & demons know that God has won & that they are damned: Mt 25:41;
Jn 16:11
Mt 8:29 "Have you come to torment us before the time"
Jas 2:19 "demons believe God is united and tremble" (gr: "tremble"
lit: to bristle up hair)
Mk 5:7; Lk 8:28 "do not torment me"
Mk 1:24; Lk 4:34 "have You come to destroy us"
E. Disobedient men will suffer same fate as Devil: Mt 25:41; Rev
20:10,14-15; 2 Th 1:6-9
Conclusion:
A. The devil will attack you today in one of 5 ways:
Keep you out of the church
Get Christians back into the world
Render Christians useless
Disrupt or corrupt worship & doctrine
Cause trouble & division among brethren
Click Your Choice
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