Our Unseen Enemy

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Our Unseen Enemy

• 1 Peter 58-15

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Our unseen enemy

• Wake up!

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against the rulers, against the powers,
against the world forces of this darkness,
against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places. - Ephesians 612
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Our unseen enemy

• Wake up!

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the
flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction
of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and
every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge
of God. - 2 Corinthians 104-5
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Our unseen enemy

• Wake up!

There are two equal and opposite errors into
which our race can fall about the devils. One is
to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to
believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy
interest in them. They are equally pleased by
both errors and hail a materialist or a magician
with the same delight. - C.S. Lewis
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (identity)

We know that we are of God, and that the whole
world lies in the power of the evil one. - 1
John 519
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (Goal methods)

And the serpent said to the woman, Indeed, has
God said, You shall not eat from any tree of the
garden? The woman said to the serpent, From
the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat
but from the fruit of the tree which is in the
middle of the garden, God has said, You shall
not eat from it or touch it, or you will die
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (Goal methods)

The serpent said to the woman, You surely
will not die! For God knows that in the day you
eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will
be like God, knowing good and evil. - Genesis
31-5
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (Goal methods)

But each one is tempted when he is carried away
and enticed by his own lust. Then when lust has
conceived, it gives birth to sin and when sin is
accomplished, it brings forth death. - James
114-15
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (Goal methods)

So that no advantage would be taken of us by
Satan, for we are not ignorant of his
schemes. - 2 Corinthians 211
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (methods)
• Deceive

You are of your father the devil. He does not
stand in the truth because there is no truth in
him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his
own nature, for he is a liar and the father of
lies. - John 844
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (methods)
• Deceive

The god of this world has blinded the minds of
the unbelieving so that they might not see the
light of the gospel of the glory of Christ. - 2
Corinthians 44
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (methods)
• Deceive

In later times some will fall away from the
faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and
doctrines of demons. - 1 Timothy 41
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (methods)
• Distort

There are things for humans to do all day long
without His minding in the least - sleeping,
washing, eating, drinking, making love, playing,
praying, working. Everything has to be twisted
before its any use to us. - The Screwtape
Letters
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (methods)
• Distort

Never forget that when we are dealing with any
pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying
form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemys ground.
I know we have won many a soul through pleasure.
All the same, it is His invention, not ours. He
made the pleasures
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (methods)
• Distort

All our research so far has not enabled us to
produce one. All we can do is to encourage the
humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has
produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees,
which He has forbidden. - The Screwtape
Letters
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Our unseen enemy

• Know your enemy (methods)
• Divide

I do not ask You to take them out of the world,
but to keep them from the evil one I ask that
they may all be one even as You, Father, are in
Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us.
- John 1715, 21
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Our unseen enemy

• Resist the Enemy

Satan disguises himself as an angel of
light. - 2 Corinthians 1114
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Our unseen enemy

• Resist the Enemy
• Rest in communion (with God)

Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he
will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will
draw near to you. - James 47-8
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Our unseen enemy

• Resist the Enemy
• Rest in communion (with God)

Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded
permission to sift you like wheat. - Luke 2231
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Our unseen enemy

• Resist the Enemy
• Rest in communion (with God)

The Lord is faithful and He will strengthen and
protect you from the evil one. - 2
Thessalonians 33
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Our unseen enemy

• Resist the Enemy
• Rest in communion (with God)

And the devil who deceived them was thrown into
the lake of fire and brimstone and will be
tormented day and night forever and ever. -
Revelations 201-0
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Our unseen enemy

• Resist the Enemy
• Rest in communion (with God)
• Rest in community (with Gods people)

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