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

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