How to Deal with the Devil

Joe Stewart

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Live No Lies

Sunday Morning

How to Deal with the Devil

The problem isn't that we been told lies; it's that we end up living them. The strategy is to recognize and resist the three enemies that sabotage your peace. The world, the flesh, and the devil are at war with our soul. The devil's primary tactic is to drive the soul and society into ruin is deceptive ideas that play to disordered desires which are normalized in a sinful society.

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First Baptist Church Seminole Tx

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1 Peter 2:11-12 HCSB

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.Conduct yourselves honorably among the Gentiles, so that in a case where they speak against you as those who do what is evil, they will, by observing your good works, glorify God on the day of visitation.

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1 Peter 5:6-11 NIV

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.Be alert and of sober mind. 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 the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

Stay on your toes to go nose to nose with the devil.

You can study Satan's strategies, note his tendencies, and live in victory.

1. Start with a Stance

2. Plan in Advance

3. Join the Great Dance.

I. Start with Your Stance - On Your Toes

1 Peter 5:9 NIV

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

1 Peter 5:8 NIV

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Ephesians 6:13 NIV

Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

1 Peter 5:6-7 NIV

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Humility recognizes your insufficiency.

Don’t fear the enemy because of the availability of the mighty hand of God.

II. Plan in Advance - Nose to Nose

1 Peter 5:8 NIV

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Ephesians 6:11 NIV

Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.

2 Corinthians 11:13-15 NIV

For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

John 8:44 NIV

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

2 Corinthians 11:3-4 NIV

But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

Genesis 3:1-6 NIV

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the gardenbut God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’ ”“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.“For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

III. Join the Great Dance

1 Peter 5:10-11 NIV

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.

Revelation 2:7, Revelation 2:17 NIV

Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.

Discussion Questions

What are the three forces that battle against your well-being? Which is most pervasive? Which is most subtle? Which is most challenging?

Do you agree with John Mark Comer's summary that the devil uses deceptive ideas that plays to the disordered desires of our flesh that are normalized in a sinful society, the world? Why or why not?

Which of the two extremes about the devil in The Screwtape Letters do you most live by in default? Do you downplay his influence or exaggerate his importance?

Are you alert? Do you have the proper perspective of a sober mind that prepares your stance to resist the Devil?

How does humility keep the devil away?

Define these terms: enemy, devil, prowls, devour.

How does the devil lie about God? Your identity? Your happiness?

How does a Christian prepare to live in victory?

What claim from the sermon most challenged you?

What claim most comforted you?

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