Knowing your Enemy - Part 1

Knowing Your Enemy

Introduction

Knowing your Enemy

Part 1

Hierarchy of the Evil Side

Principalities

Powers

Rules of the Darkness of this world

Spiritual Wickedness in high places

[When someone responds to you in a sinful manner, it’s the spirit behind them that wrestle with, not them]

Ephesians 6:12

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Your enemy roars to see if you will accept fear

1 Peter 5:8

8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

When Satan walks about – where does he go?

To and fro – up and down – Don’t be the one he can devour – (Give no place to the devil)

Job 2:2

And the Lord said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

The Devil is called the Wicked one

Wicked means twisted

1 John 3:12

Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Satan as 3 modus operandi

Don’t partner with the Devil because John 10:10 is his end game

John 10:10

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy…

Are we able to resist all temptations?

1 Corinthians 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

The Devil is full of Sin

The Devil sinned from the beginning

1 John 3:8

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

The Devil sets snares

2 Timothy 2:26

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

Don’t give place to the Devil

How do you give place to the Devil?

  • Steeling
  • Corrupt communication

Ephesians 4:27-30

27 Neither give place to the devil.

28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.