BEHIND ENEMY LINES

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BEHIND ENEMY LINES

• 1Pe 58 Be sober, be vigilant because your
  adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh
  about, seeking whom he may devour

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SATANIC ATTACK

• The devil has an objective in the things that he
  does in the lives of people.

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A Satanic attack is then defined as

• A deliberate willful assault by Satan upon an
  individual for the purpose of bringing that
  person harm in their spirit, soul, or body or
  all three.

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Objectives of Satan
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Objectives of Satan are as follows

• Draw us away from God.
• Cause us to be thwarted in Gods purpose for our
  life. (Will and plan for our life)

• Deny God of His rightful honor, praise, and glory
  by us living a life of obedience.
• To Destroy us.

Joh 1010 The thief cometh not, but for to
steal, and to kill, and to destroy I am come
that they might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly
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Satan loves for people to say,

• I dont believe in the Devil.

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The Barna GroupBelief of Satan

• In 2005 six out of ten adults (60) say that the
  devil, or Satan, is not a living being but is a
  symbol of evil, compared to 58 in 2001
• In 2005 46 of born again Christians deny Satan's
  existence compared with 45 in 2001.
• Slightly more than seven out of ten Catholics
  (73) say the devil is non-existent and only a
  symbol of evil. (2005).
• 61 of men believe that Satan is just a symbol of
  evil versus 57 of women. (2005)

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• Ephesians 611
• Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be
  able to stand against the wiles of the devil

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• We have to ask ourselves what are the wiles of
  the devil?

The word wiles is one of three key words which
you must know and understand.
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• wiles
• devices
• deceptions

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• The word wiles is taken from the Greek
  word methodos (meth-o-dos).
• It is a compound of the words meta (me-ta)
  and odos pronounced (ho-dos).
• The word meta is a preposition which simply
  means with.

The word odos is the Greek word for a road.
By compounding these two words into one, they
form the word methodos. Literally translated,
the Greek word methodos means with a road.
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• This road which the devil is traveling on is
  obviously headed somewhere! Where is that road
  headed?

2 Corinthians 211,Paul gives us a clue as to
where this road the devil is traveling on is
headed. He says, . . . we are not ignorant of
Satans devices.
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• The word devices is taken from the word
  noemata (no-e-ma-ta), which is derived from the
  word nous (pronounced noous).

• The word nous is the Greek word for the
  mind or the intellect.

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• The word devices (noemata) actually depicts
  the insidious plots and wicked schemes of
  Satan to attack and victimize the human mind. One
  expositor has even stated that the word devices
  bears the notion of mind games. With this idea
  of mind games in mind, you could translate the
  verse, . . . we are not ignorant of the mind
  games that Satan tries to pull on us.

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• 1 Corinthians 69 Know ye not that the
  unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
  Be not DECEIVED neither fornicators, nor
  idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor
  abusers of themselves with mankind,
• 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
  revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the
  kingdom of God.

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DECEPTIONfrom the Greek word plan-ah-o

• to cause to stray, to lead astray, lead aside
  from the right way
• one led astray from the right way, roams here and
  there
• error which shows itself in action, a wrong mode
  of acting

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• To be led aside from the path (road) of virtue,

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• Deception occurs when a person believes the
  lies that the enemy has been telling him. The
  moment you begin to believe the lie that the
  devil has been telling you, is the very moment
  when those wicked thoughts and mind games begin
  to produce reality in your life.

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• The word wiles(methodos) tells us that the
  devil operates with a road or primarily with
  one avenue of attack.
• The word devices(noemata) tells us where that
  avenue is headed It is headed toward the mind.
  Once that road is paved into the mind, the enemy
  begins to regularly travel in and out of ones
  mind and emotions to confuse and scramble the
  mind with wrong thinking, wrong believing and
  false perceptions.
• Deception occurs when you embrace that lie that
  the devil is telling you. This false perception
  which you have embraced will empower that lie to
  become a bona fide reality in your life. This is
  completed deception.

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Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be
able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Ephesians 611

• While natural training and education is
  good, and we need to get as much of it as we
  possibly can, eventually we all come to a place
  where we discover that natural weapons and
  natural education will not help us in our fight
  with unseen, spiritual enemies.
• In such moments, we must move beyond the
  flesh, over into the realm of spiritual armor.
  This armor will empower any believer to
  successfully stand against the wiles of the
  devil.

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• Jam 47 Submit yourselves therefore to God.
  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• Jam 47 So place yourselves under God's
  authority. Resist the devil, and he will run away
  from you.
• Jam 47 So let God work his will in you. Yell a
  loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper.

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