God’s most unwanted: Satan
1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
60+% of Americans (even Christians) do not believe that such a being exists. The Bible uses the words "devil", "Satan", "demon(s)", "evil spirit(s)" 201 times. Should we care?
1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Satan is real
1 st John 4:4 Today’s New International Version You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
1 st John 4:4 Today’s New International Version You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the Holy Spirit who is in you is greater than the Devil who is in the world.
The Spirit is stronger
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Devil Satan "Slanderer" "Opponent"
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version
Be alert and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version
Who is the Devil? ? The Bible never describes the Devil A handsome devil, ain’t he?
2 nd Corinthians 11:14 Today’s New International Version And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version Be alert and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Satan is dangerous
1 st John 4:4 Today’s New International Version You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the Holy Spirit who is in you is greater than the Devil who is in the world.
The Spirit is stronger
Be alert and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version
Satan is deceptive
Revelation 5:5 Today’s New International Version “…the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Revelation 5:6 Today’s New International Version Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain, standing in the center of the throne…
2 nd Corinthians 11:14 Today’s New International Version And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version Be alert and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Satan is territorial
Revelation 12:7 Today’s New International Version And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
Revelation 12:9 Today’s New International Version The great dragon was hurled down – that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. The great dragon was hurled down – that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short. Revelation 12:9 Today’s New International Version But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version Be alert and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
The Spirit is Stronger
1 st John 4:4 Today’s New International Version You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the Holy Spirit who is in you is greater than the Devil who is in the world.
Be alert and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version
Satan seeks assistants
Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 2 nd John 1:7 Today’s New International Version Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
1 st John 2:18 Today’s New International Version Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
1 st John 2:19 Today’s New International Version They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us…
1 st John 2:19 Today’s New International Version …but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
Satan seeks assistants
1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version Be alert and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Be awake and of sober mind. Your opponent the slanderer prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 1 st Peter 5:8 Today’s New International Version
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7 Today’s New International Version Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Place yourselves under God. Stand against the slanderer, and he will flee from you. James 4:7 Today’s New International Version
Satan is real
Satan is dangerous
Satan is deceptive
Satan is territorial
Satan seeks assistants
The Spirit is Stronger