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Satan's Devices Can Keep Us From the Kingdom

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Satan's Devices Can Keep Us From the Kingdom

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On the road to anywhere, some items and devices can assist us and some can create difficulties, troubles or even prevent us from reaching our desired goal or outcome. What devices does Satan use to divert us from our goal and purpose in life?

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SATAN HAS DONE A NUMBER ON THE ENTIRE WORLD.

Timothy  Tutt: "The modern Church does not need a make-believe Devil" ...

The Devil wants to knock you out of the battle for Eternity...

IF we expect to survive what is coming in the near future it is CRITICAL that we realize we MUST PRAY AND FAST AND STUDY MORE than we have ever done before.

1Pe 5:8  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
1Pe 5:9  Whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

FOUNDATIONAL SCRIPTURES:

2Co 2:11  Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

ONE STRATEGY: Get people to RESIST Authority!!!!


Eze 28:12  Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Eze 28:13  Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Eze 28:14  Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze 28:15  Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Eze 28:16  By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
The origin of ALL RESENTMENT OF AUTHORITY.

Isaiah 14:14 states he wanted to take over the Throne.

We see the same pattern of rebellion and resentment in the NT

Eph 2:1  And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Eph 2:2  Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Eph 2:3  Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.


1Sa 15:23  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

 SECOND: PRIDE and VANITY are Satan's specialty.
Ezek 28
Eze 28:17  Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Eze 28:18  Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

Php 2:1  If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,

THIRD THING: THE ROOT OF BITTERNESS...
Heb 12:14  Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Heb 12:15  Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
Heb 12:16  Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Heb 12:17  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

your SPIRITUAL SURVIVAL is more important than harboring bitterness.

Fourth: DISCOURAGEMENT AND DEPRESSION.
SATAN WANTS you to Give UP, quit, abandon the race to Eternal Life.

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
When being pushed and stressed, HOW MANY TIMES do you PRAY that GOD will deliver you, strengthen you, empower you to conquer??

FIFTH: Satan will encourage LETHARGY AND SPIRITUAL LAZINESS

CHURCHES of the World are "entertainment" hubs... people are spiritually lazy... Rev 3:14  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Rev 3:15  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Rev 3:16  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Rev 3:17  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:18  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

SIXTH: WORLDLINESS, WANTING TO BE LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD

Luk 21:36  Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Luk 21:34  And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Luk 21:35  For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
AS we approach Passover we need to be praying for all the brethren that GOD will stay Satan's hand from us and intervene in the lives of those who are sick.

Be aware of the ways in which SATAN Works... and that GOD is FOR YOU.