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KNOW YOUR ENEMY
EPHESIANS 6:10-12, 16
I JOHN 5:19
“…THE WHOLE WORLD IS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE EVIL ONE.”
SATAN’S PERSONALITYHIS ORIGINAL NAME WAS LUCIFER, WHICH MEANS, “SHINING ONE, MORNING STAR, OR SON OF THE MORNING.”
ISAIAH 14:12
“HOW ART THOU FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING!”
EZEKIEL 28:12
“…YOU WERE THE MODEL OF PERFECTION, FULL OF WISDOM AND PERFECT IN BEAUTY.”
EZEKIEL 28:14-15“YOU WERE ANOINTED AS A GUARDIAN CHERUB, FOR SO I ORDAINED YOU. YOU WERE ON THE HOLY MOUNT OF GOD; YOU WALKED AMONG THE FIERY STONES. YOU WERE BLAMELESS IN YOUR WAYS FROM THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED TILL WICKEDNESS WAS FOUND IN YOU.”
ISAIAH 14:12
“HOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE MORNING! HOW YOU ARE CUT TO THE GROUND, YOU WHO WEAKENED THE NATIONS! “
ISAIAH 14:13-14“FOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART: ‘I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I WILL ALSO SIT ON THE MOUNT OF THE CONGREGATION ON THE FARTHEST SIDES OF THE NORTH; I WILL ASCEND ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS, I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.’”
SATAN’S POSITION
1. HE IS A PRINCE (JN. 12:31, 14:30, 16:11, EPH.
2:2)
2. HE IS A RULER (1 JN. 5:19, MT. 12:26, 25:41)
3. HE IS A god (2 Cor. 4:4)
SATAN HAS HIS OWN RELIGION
•HE HAS HIS OWN CHURCH (REV. 2:9, 3:9)
•HE HAS HIS OWN GOSPEL (GAL. 1:8)
•HE HAS HIS OWN MINISTERS (2 COR. 11:15)
•HE HAS HIS OWN DOCTRINE (1 TIM. 1:4)
•HE HAS HIS OWN COMMUNION TABLE AND CUP (1 COR. 10:21)
SATAN’S POWER•THE WORLD IS HELD CAPTIVE BY SATAN (2 THES
2:9)
•SATAN IS NOT ALL-KNOWING OR ALL-POWERFUL
•SATAN IS NO MATCH FOR GOD (I JN. 4:4)
SATAN’S PURPOSES1. HE IS THE GREAT DECEIVER (JN. 8:44, REV. 12:9)
2. HE IS THE GREAT DIVIDER
3. HE IS THE GREAT DESTROYER (I THES. 2:18,
EPH. 6:16)
SOMETIMES B.U.S.Y. MEANS:
BEING
UNDER
SATAN’S
YOKE