RESIST SATAN

Resist Satan  

1 Peter 5:8-9 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

This verse of scripture tells we are to:

       1. Be self-controlled and alert. Why? Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking to destroy you. 

It tells us what we are to do:

  2.  Resist him! How? By standing firm in the faith.

It also reveals a comforting truth about suffering:      

  3. As a believer, you are not alone: your brothers and sisters throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

Thoughts to ponder:       

• When the first humans chose to disobey God, they sinned, becoming slaves to the very sin they had brought into the world. As a result, they gave up the authority over creation that God had originally delegated to them (Gen 1:26; 2:15). 
• Satan then seized control over mankind and the earth, becoming the leader of the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms (Eph 6:12; 1 Jn).
• Satan now patrols the earth as commander of a host of evil spirits through whom he enslaves and keeps captive those who do not have a personal relationship with Christ (Eph 2:1-3).
• Only Christ’s true and faithful followers have been rescued and liberated from Satan’s power (Eph 2:4-5).
• Yet, Satan like a ferocious lion remains a threat to believers and seeks to ruin and destroy them (1 Pet 5:8). He will spiritually destroy anyone who abandons God’s protective care and turns again to a lifestyle of ungodly behavior.  
• Christ has provided all we need to be victorious over Satan.  We are fully equipped to be defeat Satan’s schemes, to resist him and to stand firm in the faith (Eph 6:11-18).
• As a believer you must never forget that “the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world” (1 Jn 4:4).

God has commanded us to live by what he has revealed in his Word, the Bible.

Questions we need to ask ourselves:

·         Do I believe what God has written?

·         Am I living it? If not, why not?