Topic: Confronting Satan
Text: I Peter 5:7-9

Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil. Satan is aware of this fact. When Jesus dies, however, Satan thought he was free and breathed a sigh of relief. It was a short-lived relief because, when Jesus rose from the dead, trouble once again erupted for Satan as he realized that Jesus had left the continuation of the establishment of God’s Kingdom on earth in the hands of His disciples. It then dawned on Satan that he now had a lot of people to contend with those who are striving daily to establish the Kingdom of God on earth by destroying the satanic kingdom. This explains Satan’s hatred for you. As we wrestle over souls of men, the enemy hates us because our actions keep depopulating his own camp. We are taking his own people and bringing them to our own side. By winning souls, we are reducing the number of those souls that would have gone to hell with Satan.

Revelation 20:15 says: “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” As soon as someone’s name is written in the book of life, the devil loses that soul, and this hurts him. How does soul winning affect the government? Every soul that you win reduces the number of those that Satan could use as fronts in political posts. It will please him if he can get a nominal Christian to become the president, a governor or senator. This is because anytime he gets a nominal Christian to become president, he scores a double.. In this way, he has someone he can control and, at the same time, use to bring down the name of Jesus, because when the nominal Christian president starts misbehaving people are sure to start saying, “But he calls himself a Christian?” God hates His name to be blasphemed through a believer’s action. When David killed Uriah in order to take Uriah’s wife, God sent a prophet to him to warn him that he had done something wrong. David asked for forgiveness and God forgave him. However, because he caused the name of the Lord to be maligned, the child born to David by Bathsheba had to die. Remember, the devil is a dogged fighter. You must continue to confront him until victory is yours.

Memory Verse: Revelation 20:15 - “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”