Satan Failed In His Rebellion, But He Remains In The Office God Gave Him. How is the right to Rule won between God & Satan? Many think it is by power, but it is not; there is one thing that we fail at and Satan knows this.
The devil fights with lies, and sometimes his lies sound like truth; but only believers have God truth, which can defeat the devil's lies. The devil often attacks our heart-the seat of our emotions, self-worth, and trust. God's righteousness is the body armor that protects our heart and ensures His approval. He approves of us because He loves us and He sent His Son to die for us.
What we see are the devil's attacks in the form of insults, setbacks, and temptations. But the shield of faith protects us from the devil's fiery arrow. With God's perspective, we can see beyond our circumstances and know that ultimate victory is ours. The devil wants to make us doubt God, Jesus, and our salvation. The helmet protects our mind from doubting God's saving work for us.
The sword is the only weapon of offense in this list of armor. There are times when we need to take the offensive against the devil. When we are tempted, we need to trust in the truth of God's Word.
Why Does Satan Hate You? Answer: You Are Forgiven, He Is Not. You will one day forget your fallen state; he is doomed to his fallen state forever. Psalms 85:2 Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. Ezekiel 18:21. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.
Satan was created. This sets to rest several in-church urban legends. Satan is not omniscient, knowing all things, like God himself. Created beings do not have the ability to know things that are not revealed to them by some outside source. God is a self-contained source, so He knows all. This means that Satan does not know what you are thinking. God has reserved that for Himself:
“The Enemy Uses These Three Things, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, to entice us to sin.” Scripture shows this process at work in both the Garden of Eden and on the Mount of Temptation. 1 Peter 5:8; be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walking about, seeking whom he may devour:
Confused? Have you ever been in a situation where Satan is all in the midst of it? Look like your prayers aren't working. It appears that nothing is working, problems with spouse, family members, children, friends, co-workers or church members. Satan is the source of gossip and confusion. Do not allow Satan to whisper in your ear. Watch your thoughts, Satan sneaks into them. If Satan is whispering to you, tell him to run back to his address! He has to obey you! Yes, that's right; he has to obey you. Remember that when you speak the name of Jesus, Satan and his entire demons tremble now that should tell you something, that our Father's name is powerful in all of heaven and earth. The devil can lead you to sin but he cannot make you sin, you can choose to take action or walk away. God does not make you remember your sin, the devil does. Satan wants to see you fail, matter of fact, the devil will set up your failure for you.
Don't entertain Satan's tactics. He is indeed a deadly force in the world, and he is a personal adversary to us all. You see, sinners like to blame Satan for their sins. Adam, in the garden, blamed Eve for his sin of eating the forbidden fruit, and then Eve blamed Satan. Sure, Satan helped her, he will lead you to sin, but Satan didn’t make her, he didn’t put it in her mouth. No one person in this earth is immune from the attacks of Satan and his minions.
How can Satan harm you? Satan can devour people. The fellowship between Satan and humans is never based on love, constructive activity, or on redemptive actions. It is all about hate, lust, and murder. He is the great devourer: Satan operates through humans in the flesh and through the flesh. The five senses; taste, touch, smell, hearing, and seeing, all report to the carnal mind – which is the enemy of God. These senses are what Satan uses to tempt us! The lust of the flesh includes tasting, touching, smelling, and hearing. The lust of the eyes is seeing. The pride of life is thinking you are special because of who you are, what you have, what you know, or what you look like.
It is all very simple. Satan cannot have his office in heaven back, and he cannot stop Jesus from doing His work: Matthew 16:18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. So, all Satan has left to do is to destroy people by tying them up so well in sin that they cannot reason and understand the Gospel. If he loses someone to Christ, he then attacks them to destroy their Christian victory.
Hebrews 4:12 for the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Satan Will Never Know You As God Know You: 1 Corinthians 13:12 for now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Satan was never, and never will be, like God, but you will: 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
So, why does Satan hate you? Answer: You Know More Than He Does Regarding The Deeper Things Of The Lord And His Work. John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. 1 John 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abides in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. Satan will never again be "with" the Lord, but you will. Satan hates it that mortal beings like you can be forgiven (he cannot) and be like God in some way that we do not fully now understand.
1 Pet. 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. This was spoken to Christians! Our enemy also masquerades as an angel of light. We need to be aware that the enemy is deceitful and can work through people who act as though they are following Christ, and to all outward appearances it looks like they are, but by their false prophesies, preaching of a different gospel, and by the fruit of their actions we can discover that they are really demonized false apostles.
Why does Satan hate you? The enemy is attacking your mind, your rest, your peace, your emotions and your thought life! So what can you do? Will you be loyal to God or Satan?
We become so engrossed in what we see, feel, and hear, that we operate within our natural senses rather than our spiritual ones! However, the Bible instructs us: “Through your faith, God is protecting you by His power” (1 Peter 1:5 NLT). Therefore, you need to keep in mind that your “FAITH” is what activates the Power of God!
Faith Connects Our Weaknesses to God's Strength. Faith helps us to accept what we cannot understand. Faith will take you places that doubt can't. Faith says I don’t know where it is coming from, I don’t know how it’s coming, I don’t care how it’s coming, I just know its coming because God said it was coming. Faith does not believe that God will do what you want; faith believes that God will do what is right. It does not believe that God can but that He will. It may look like your situation is never going to change, but in a split second God can completely resolve it. When you fall in love with God’s Word, you will fall in love with Jesus. God can restore what is broken and make it into something amazing. All you need is Faith. Joel 2:25. He is a God of restoration. When we place the broken pieces of our lives in His hands, he restores them to a beauty that for outshines the former life. God can take your nothing and mould it for everything. God cares about everything that concerns you. God doesn’t just love you when you are good and stand beside you when you are strong, He loves you when you are struggling and holds you when you’re at your weakest. He doesn’t spare us trials but He helps us to overcome them. We have to trust Him. He has brought you through before and He will bring you through again. Make a decision each day to choose faith over fear.
Look at it this way: Before a stone becomes a diamond it’s just carbon put under tons of pressure.
Don't allow Satan to have the final say in your life or situation. You have the right and authority to do that, you can easily reverse that and you can make sure that you have the final say in Satan's life when it comes to you. Send the devil running back to his address. Let him know that any relationship with him is toxic and lethal; there is nothing good that comes from Satan. God will never leave us wanting, He will fulfill every need. There is NOTHING Satan can do for us.
Blessings
J.P. Olson
www.thewordwithjpolson.com
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