The Angels of Christmas

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The Angels of Christmas
Meet the Enemy
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• Where did Satan come from?

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• You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom
  and perfect in beauty. You were in Eden, the
  garden of God every precious stone adorned you
  ruby, topaz and emerald, chrysolite, onyx and
  jasper, sapphire, turquoise and beryl. Your
  settings and mountings were made of gold on the
  day you were created they were prepared. 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.

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• You were blameless in your ways from the day you
  were created till wickedness was found in you.
  Through your widespread trade you were filled
  with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in
  disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled
  you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery
  stones. Your heart became proud on account of
  your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom
  because of your splendor. So I threw you to the
  earth I made a spectacle of you before kings.
  Ezekiel 2811-17

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• What is Satans Objective?

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• You said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven
  I will raise my throne above the stars of God I
  will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on
  the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I
  will ascend above the tops of the clouds I will
  make myself like the Most High. Isaiah 14 13-14

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• How is God Using Satans Rebellion?

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• God uses Satan to Refine the Obedient.

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• have you considered my servant job? There is no
  one on earth like him he is blameless and
  upright , a man who fears God and shuns evil.
  Job 18

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• Very well, then, everything he has is in your
  hands, but on the man himself do not lay a
  finger.
• Job 112

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• The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away may
  the name of the Lord be praised. Job 121

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• Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as
  wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that
  your faith may not fail. And when you have
  turned back, strengthen your brothers. Luke
  2231

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• God Uses Satan to Discipline the Disobedient.

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• The next day an evil spirit from God came
  forcefully upon Saul. He was prophesying in his
  house, while David was playing the harp, as he
  usually did. Saul had a spear in his hand and he
  hurled it, saying to himself, Ill pin David to
  the wall. But David eluded him twice. 1
  Samuel 1810-11

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• Hand this man over to Satan, so that the sinful
  nature may be destroyed and his spirit saved on
  the day of the Lord.
• 1 Corinthians 55

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• God Uses Satan to Keep Us From Corruption.

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• To keep me from becoming conceited because of
  these surpassingly great revelations, there was
  given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of
  Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with
  the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to
  me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power
  is made perfect in weakness. 2 Corinthians 127-8

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