A) THROUGH THE POWER OF SUGGESTION.

B) BY RESISTING THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TOWARDS THE BELIEVER.

C) BY FINDING A SOUL NOT FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND ENTERING INTO IT

D) BY DECEPTION (The First Casualty In A War Is Truth).

E) BY WORKING THROUGH THE ELEMENTS.

F) BY YOU NOT BEING FORGIVING.

G) BY BLOCKING YOUR UNDERSTANDING.

H) BY GIVING IN TO SIN.

I) THROUGH HIS WRATH.

 

 

A) THROUGH THE POWER OF SUGGESTION

 

 

Did you know Satan loves tomorrow?  “I’ll do it tomorrow.”  But did you also know that Satan hates today?  “I’ll do it today.”

 

Through the power of suggestion:

Genesis 3:1:  “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.  And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”

 

Through the power of suggestion:

Job 2:9:  “Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.”

 

Through laziness; lack of caring (couldn’t care less):

Matthew 13:19:  “When any one heareth the Word of the kingdom, and understandeth It not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.  This is he which received seed by the way side.”

 

Through laziness; lack of caring (couldn’t care less):

Mark 4:15; Luke 8:12:  “And these are they by the way side, where the Word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the Word that was sown in their hearts.”

 

Through greed:

John 13:2:  “And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him.”

 

 

B) BY RESISTING THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TOWARDS THE BELIEVER

 

 

Daniel 10:13:  “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days:  but, lo, Michael, One of the Chief Princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.”

 

Zechariah 3:1:  “And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.”

 

First Thessalonians 2:18:  “Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.”

 

 

C) BY FINDING A SOUL NOT FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND ENTERING INTO IT

 

 

Matthew 12:43-45 [Luke 11:24-26]:  “(43) When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.  (44) Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.  (45) Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there:  and the last state of that man is worse than the first.  Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.”  [Luke 11:23:  “He that is not with Me is against Me:  and he that gathereth not with Me scattereth.”]

 

Matthew 16:23:  “But He turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind Me, Satan:  thou art an offence unto Me:  for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.”

 

Luke 22:3:  “Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.”

 

 

D) BY DECEPTION (The First Casualty In A War Is Truth)

 

 

Mathew 24:24:  “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”

 

John 8:44:  “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:  for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

 

Revelation 12:9:  “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:  he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”

 

Revelation 13:14:  “And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.”

 

Revelation 20:3:  “And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:  and after that he must be loosed a little season. “

 

Revelation 20:8:  “And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle:  the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.”

 

 

E) BY WORKING THROUGH THE ELEMENTS

 

 

Exodus 7:11-12:  “(11) Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments. (12) For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents:  but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.”

 

Exodus 7:22:  “And the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments. . .”

 

Exodus 8:7:  “And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.”

 

Exodus 8:19:  “Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God.”  Meaning that “the magicians” are admitting that their power came from a different source, whom we know that to bee Satan.

 

Matthew 24:24; Mark 13:22:  “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.”

 

Revelation 13:14:  “And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.”

 

 

F) BY YOU NOT BEING FORGIVING

 

 

Second Corinthians 2:10-11:  “(10) To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also:  for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ; (11) Lest Satan should get an advantage of us:  for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

 

 

G) BY BLOCKING YOUR UNDERSTANDING

 

 

Second Corinthians 4:4:  “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, Who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”

 

 

H) BY GIVING IN TO SIN

 

 

Ephesians 2:2-3:  “(2) Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. (3) Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”

 

Ephesians 6:12:  “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.”

 

First John 2:16:  “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

 

First 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.”

 

First John 3:10:  “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil:  whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.”

 

 

I) THROUGH HIS WRATH

 

 

Revelation 12:12:  “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them.  Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the Devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”

 

Revelation 12:17:  “And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the Commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

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