SATAN'S THREE MAIN KINDS OF ATTACK (2 OF 7)
by Zach Terry
Scripture: 1 Peter 5:8, Ephesians 6:12
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Satan's Three Main Kinds of Attack (2 of 7)
Series: Our Fight: Spiritual Warfare
Zach Terry
1 Peter 5:8, Ephesians 6:12
INTRODUCTION: OPENING JOKE: Perhaps you heard about the lady whose husband came home every night drunk and disorderly. He was making their lives miserable. She tried everything she knew to remedy the situation but nothing seemed to work. So she said to herself, ''I'll scare him out of his drinking habit.'' So one night while he was out getting drunk, she put on a devil's suit. Sure enough at two o'clock in the morning he came through the front door drunk, she jumped in front of him with that devil's suit on and said, ''I'm the devil, you'd better be scared of me.'' ''No, he said. I'm not scared of you. I've been married to your sister for forty years.''??Well if you are a believer there is no real need for fear - for greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
The Bible calls us not to fear, but to sobriety and alertness as we consider the enemy.
TEXT: 1 Peter 5:8 (ESV)
8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
That word Devour means to swallow completely. You look like lunch to demons. Where I see a congregation, Satan seems a buffet.
Paul says it this way in Ephesians 6:12 (ESV)
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
ILLUSTRATION: I'm a UFC fan...last night I saw one of the best matches I've seen in sometime. It was an undercard fight between Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens. At times it would seem as though nothing was happening, one would have the other in a clinch... and they would freeze. But the truth is - in those moments, every muscle is exerted, complete strength is leveraged... and when it's over the fighter with the greater stamina prevails.
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Series: Our Fight: Spiritual Warfare
Zach Terry
1 Peter 5:8, Ephesians 6:12
INTRODUCTION: OPENING JOKE: Perhaps you heard about the lady whose husband came home every night drunk and disorderly. He was making their lives miserable. She tried everything she knew to remedy the situation but nothing seemed to work. So she said to herself, ''I'll scare him out of his drinking habit.'' So one night while he was out getting drunk, she put on a devil's suit. Sure enough at two o'clock in the morning he came through the front door drunk, she jumped in front of him with that devil's suit on and said, ''I'm the devil, you'd better be scared of me.'' ''No, he said. I'm not scared of you. I've been married to your sister for forty years.''??Well if you are a believer there is no real need for fear - for greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
The Bible calls us not to fear, but to sobriety and alertness as we consider the enemy.
TEXT: 1 Peter 5:8 (ESV)
8 Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
That word Devour means to swallow completely. You look like lunch to demons. Where I see a congregation, Satan seems a buffet.
Paul says it this way in Ephesians 6:12 (ESV)
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
ILLUSTRATION: I'm a UFC fan...last night I saw one of the best matches I've seen in sometime. It was an undercard fight between Yair Rodriguez and Jeremy Stephens. At times it would seem as though nothing was happening, one would have the other in a clinch... and they would freeze. But the truth is - in those moments, every muscle is exerted, complete strength is leveraged... and when it's over the fighter with the greater stamina prevails.
...
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