Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher Jim Rickard Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012

Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.— Amen.

John 17 The Great High Priestly Prayer of our Lord!

John 17:6-19 John 17:15-16 The Evil One and His Strategy Part 2

A. The Person of Satan. (continued)

12. He is the greatest deceiver of history. To be such a deceiver the devil must be the greatest and most effective liar in history, John 8:44.

a. When there is no doctrine or establishment truth circulating in the stream of consciousness of either believers or unbelievers, they too will automatically lie.

b. Satan works through human beings who are liars, 2 Thes 2:9 ‑ 10. Believers can be deceived just as easily as unbelievers by the Satanic strategy.

c. Two illustrations of the Satanic lie.

1) Socialism. A theory that actually establishes slavery to the State rather than freedom of self ‑ determination with the government protecting that freedom.

2) Christian Activism 2 Cor 11:2-4

a) Christian activism combines the arrogance skills with legalism; self ‑ righteous arrogance plus crusader arrogance. Temporal solutions to the problems of life are not spiritual solutions.

b) Paul’s warning against the arrogance skills is found in Rom 12:2 ‑ 3. The basis for all satanic religions has always been human sacrifice and the basis for human sacrifice is always a satanic lie.

Activism is a way of thinking of self in terms of arrogance. Thinking in terms of sanity is thinking truth.

James 4:7, “Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”

B. His Names: As ruler of this world, Satan has three primary designations since his fall.

1. Originally he was called Lucifer, the Son of Light. He was the bright and shining angel in the throne room of God.

“Lucifer” is a Latin word used in the KJV of Isa 14:12 where the NASB uses a more literal phrase, “star of the morning”.

They come from the Hebrew Noun HELEL that means, “a shining one, light-bearer, morning star”. Its root HALAL means “to shine”, or it can mean, depending on the context, “to boast or praise”.

The LXX translation of the OT uses the Greek Noun HEOSPHOROS, “Bringer of morning or morning star”.

2 Peter 1:19, “the morning star” is the Greek word, PHOSPHOROS, “light- bringing, the morning star” applied to TLJC who took the title back from Satan due to His victory on the Cross.

2. SATAN in the Hebrew and SATANAS in the Greek, which means “an adversary or enemy”.

In the OT SATAN is used 14 times for the devil in 1 Chron 21:1; Job 1 – 2; Zech 3:1-2.

1 Chron 21:1, “And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.”

Mat 4:10, “Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.’”

3. The Greek word DIABOLOS, “slanderer, false accuser” is translated “devil”. The Latin is DIABOLO. “Devil” is never used in the OT but the Septuagint uses DIABOLOS for SATAN.

Judas had this term applied to him, John 6:70, as it is to men, 2 Tim 3:3; Titus 2:3, and women (she devils), 1 Tim 3:11, (gossipers) who do the work of the arch slanderer.

4. Satan has had three titles compared to our Lord who has three Royal titles. Our Lord is the Son of God, the Son of Man and the King of kings and Lord of Lords.

Grace Fellowship Church Thursday, February 2, 2012 Tape # Jesus Prays for His Disciples Satan’s Strategy – His Names Great High Priestly Prayer, Part 64 John 17:15-16; Isa 14:12; 1Chron 21:1; Mat 4:1-10; Rom 12:2-3; 2Cor 11:2-4 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2012