Satan has schemes. You need to know them. What are some of his favorite strategies? In previous posts, we’ve talked about lying, blinding, hindering, persecuting, tempting, misdirecting and dividing. Now finally, slandering or accusing. One of Satan’s main activities actually is accusing. … Continue reading A Guidebook to Satan’s Strategies: part 8
Satan has strategies. Over the past few weeks we have been looking at different schemes the Bible warns us about. Here’s number 7: Dividing. Instead of warring against sin, or perhaps fighting to make Christ’s name look great, Satan attempts … Continue reading A Guidebook to Satan’s Strategies: part 7
Satan has strategies. What are some of his schemes for attacking us as believers? 1. Lying 2. Blinding 3. Hindering 4. Persecuting 5. Tempting And when he tempts, he is subtle. He tries to make obedience to God look bad. And he … Continue reading A Guidebook to Satan’s Strategies: part 6
It seems to me that if we are engaged in a war with an enemy who has strategies, we would want to know what those strategies are. God in His Word gives us a guidebook to the enemy’s strategies and … Continue reading A Guidebook to Satan’s Strategies: part 5
Jesus described Satan as a murderer. He attacks God’s people and in 1 John 3, we see that Satan has been using people to physically attack God’s people for a very long time. John says verse 12 “We should not be … Continue reading A Guidebook to Satan’s Strategies: part 4
I suppose if Satan can’t get you to listen to a false teacher, he’ll try to stop people from hearing a good one. Sometimes he uses people to distract others from hearing the gospel. We find an instance of that … Continue reading A Guidebook to Satan’s Strategies: part 3
We are working our way through some basic biblical principles regarding spiritual warfare. First, the Scriptures are totally sufficient. Second, God is in complete control. Third, humans are fully responsible. And now, the fourth – demons are presently active. And I almost feel like this principle is too obvious to state, but I really want to be careful that while we try to avoid making the mistake of blaming demonic forces for everything we do that we don’t swing so far in the opposite direction that we end up making another equally fatal mistake and that is to think or … Continue reading Basic Principles of Spiritual Warfare part four
Living in Africa, you hear all sorts of strange things about demons and demonic possession and spiritual warfare. Everybody has some experience to talk about. I suppose that’s not just Africa, either. It wasn’t too long ago now that books like Bondage Breaker were best sellers in the United States. There was a whole lot of talk about demons and the way they not only attack unbelievers but war on believers as well. It can all be a little confusing. How are we supposed to think about spiritual warfare? Before we dive too deep, I think it is important we … Continue reading Basic Principles for Spiritual Warfare part 3
We are at war. If you are a Christian and you believe the Bible is true, I don’t think there is going to be much argument about that. What there can be questions about and I think there are lots of questions about is how exactly we are to fight this battle as a church. It’s obviously not much good to know there is a battle if you don’t have any idea about how you are supposed to fight it. And I think it is really, really important we think carefully about this because the fact is there are so … Continue reading Basic Principles for Spiritual Warfare
