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=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>*Our Advisory*!!!!!! Destroyer of our mission

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*When the Holy Spirit begins to call His people to a specific task, y**ou can depend on Satan to be ready to stop God’s people.*

*He uses the same methods that have not changed for over 8,000+ years*

*They do not have to – because “we” are predictable people!*

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*Illustration:  Mike Foster*

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*Introduction:**  SATAN is our enemy.*

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Many things can be said about our enemy, we cannot exhaust all that is taught of this ugly foe in 30 minutes.

Let me give you some basic facts: He is* real* and that he is *proactive.*

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!! 1.     *Satan has power of the kingdoms of this world.

**Iran, Iraq, Canada, USA, etc.  *

a.     “According to his own declaration, which Christ did not deny, he [Satan] has power over the kingdoms of this world, which kingdoms he said were delivered unto him, and which power he bestows on whom he will (Luk 4:6  And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.).

*What power he had, as the god of the world, he usurped.

It was not by designated by God*

!! 2.     *He is the prince of the power of the air .

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a.     /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:/

b.    Satan is termed prince of the power of the air, because the air is supposed to be a region in which malicious spirits dwell, all of whom are under the direction and influence of Satan, their chief.

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!! 3.     *He is a defeated foe*

a.     *He will be cast into the lake of fire forever and forever.*

*/Rev 20:10  And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever./*

b.    */When we see him, we will declare:/**/  “./* . .

/Is// this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;/ Isa 14:16 

!! 4.     *It is said of him that he had the power of death*

a.     *Heb 2:14*  */Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil . . . .

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b.    *But that power has been surrendered to Christ* (*Rev 1:18*  */I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.)./*

!! 5.     *Satan’s power and authority are exercised always and only within the permissive will of God.*

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The Scriptures present, then, on the one hand *the great power of Satan and on the other hand that this power is limited and under the sovereign control of God.

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b.    */Job 1:12  /**/And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand.

So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD./*

*/Satan is real and he has the church engaged in a real battle for its mind and very soul./*

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·         *Our one weapon is the truth of Christ as revealed in His Word.*

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*Three tactics Satan will consistently /try/ to use to defeat the Church *

Lies

Deceit

Confusion

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I.  Satan uses Lies   Lie:  saying an untruth

*John 8:44 ** Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.

He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.

When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.*

*/Satan/**’**s/ purpose is to live and propagate himself - a lie./*

The *LIE *found in Satan’s purpose is evident from several factors:

!! *A.    **His original purpose:  **His entire plan and purpose is based on a lie that he himself believes.

That he could actually be God.

The lie he convinced himself to believe, by its very nature, can belong only to God and not to any finite creature, no matter how exalted a position he had in the creation of God;*   

* */Isa 14:12-17/**/  /**/How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!/**/  (13)  /**/For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:  /**/(14)  /**/I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High./**/

(15)  /**/Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

(16)  They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;/**/  (17)  /**/That/**/ made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?/*

* *He is a lie just as Jesus is the truth.*

* */Psa 53:1/**/  /**/The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God./**

I don’t need God.*

* *The greatest fool is the one who believes he is a god.

One who believes that he creates his own path and destiny.

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!! *B.    **His operative purpose* is to *lie to others* into accepting his purposes in place of God’s purposes; */a god needs followers./*

* *He questions the truth God has revealed* – */Gen 3:1/**/  Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.

And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?/**

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* *Then he contradicts the truth God has said* – */Gen 3:4/**/  /**/And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:/*

* *Finally, he concocts an alternative version of “truth.”*

*/Gen 3:5/**/  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil./*

* *Satan says to his followers, “Follow me now . . .

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o  *GOD SAYS:**  Hab 2:15-16*  */Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink,/*

o  *SATAN SAYS:  Awe come on, lighten up, what’s a few beers if you drink responsibly.

That’s it, bow to me.*

o  *GOD SAYS:  **Col 3:19  **/Husbands, love your wives;/**  Eph 5:22  **/Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord./*

o  *SATAN SAYS: What if your husband is an idiot!

Ya!  That’s it, bow to me.

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o  */GOD SAYS:/**/ /**/Pro 21:19  It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

; Pro 25:23  The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue./*

o  *SATAN SAYS: Legalist!

Come on, your only human, don’t listen to that.

* *That’s it, bow to me.*

His operative purpose is to lie to others into accepting his purposes in place of God’s purposes; a god needs followers.

!! *C.    **His intended purpose** /fails/*/;// because it does not correspond to *reality*/*,* thus proving itself unreal and a lie.

*1.     **Look at the fancies that he has us distracted by.  *

*a.     **Prime time TV at night:  good vampires, *good people who see dead people,* good people who touch people and make them alive, *good people who fight and defeat demons, etc.

*b.    **Movies that make fun or light of sacred things *(when was the last time that you saw marriage honored, preachers as noble beings, etc. – i*t is not real!*

*2.     **BUT, His greatest lie is to blind us into believe that there really is not consequence to following him, the devil.*

a.     *Note in **First Chronicles 21:1* states that */“Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel/*.”

b.    Satan targeted David to lead him into sin, and David and Israel suffered the consequences of his actions.

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The parallel account in 2 Samuel 24 *shows the seriousness of this transgression and the subsequent punishment inflicted on David and the nation.

*70,000 people died as a result of David’s sin.

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His account shows Satan may work behind the scenes in ways not discernible by human means.

*If God had not revealed it in His Word, no one would have known of Satan’s role in this incident.*

e.     Sometimes when bad things happen to us because of willful sin, we have our favorite, “Well, God knows and He is in control.*”

Never realizing it might be because of sin.

**SATAN’S INTENDED PURPOSE IS NOT REAL!*

!!!! Illustration:  YRO Bahamas

*Rom 6:16 Have to believe someone - **/Joh 14:6  /**/Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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Satan Deceives   Deceive: to cause to believe what is an untrue

*2 Cor 11:14**  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.*

!! *A.    **Paul wrote that Satan disguises himself as an **“angel of light”*

!! *B.    *The apostle then added that Satan’s deception is carried out by false apostles who “also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness.”

These are real people folk, not unseen flying demons.

!! *C.    **In Romans 16:17–20 Paul warned against false teachers in the church who by “their smooth and flattering speech . . .

deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting” (v.