Standing Firm: Recognizing and Resisting the Devil's Schemes
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "When you surrender your life to Jesus, when you receive his forgiveness and grace, you wake up. And you receive his Holy Spirit and begin to, the Holy Spirit begins to help you have discernment between good and between evil. But when the Holy Spirit is not living in you, you're not likely to be aware that there is a constant battle happening between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness." [04:09]
2. "The overarching goal of the devil is to create confusion. His classic way is to mix truth with a lie. Or if you tell a lie enough, long enough, it will begin to sound like a truth. So he's the father of lies." [08:59]
3. "The more Christian you are, the more attacked you will be. The devil does not waste his time on people he's already got. The devil goes after Christians. And specifically Christians who desire to live set-apart lives who are committed to advancing the kingdom of God." [14:39]
4. "When God sent Jesus into this world, He came to destroy the work of the devil. He came to unite us back to the Father by dealing with the consequences of how sin has separated us. He's addressing the chief problem of humanity, which is our fallen human nature, our self-orientation." [22:37]
5. "While the devil is powerful, our God is more powerful. It says in 1 John 4, Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Just say it with me wherever you're listening right now. Say, Greater is he who is in me, than he that is in the world." [39:07]
### Quotes for Members
1. "If the devil cannot convince you that he's not real, the next best thing is to get you to underestimate his power. That's the second scheme. See, if the first point is most common for non-Christians, the most common for Christians is to underestimate his power. And I'm guessing if you're listening to this message, there's a very high likelihood that you believe that the devil is real. And so instead, the enemy wants you to underestimate what he can do to you and to your family." [11:14]
2. "The problem is your side is still built on the fundamental lie that some people are good and some people are bad. The Bible teaches us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. All of us have come under the power of Satan and his many schemes. We have all not been simply tempted, but we've given in to temptation in some way and some time. And so our response is one of humility. It should be one of repentance. It should be one of seeking forgiveness." [24:07]
3. "The enemy is secretive. He will come when you least expect it. At night. In the cover of darkness. And so you have to keep watch at all hours. In all directions. And the way you do that is by putting on the full armor of God. I love what the Puritan minister William Gurnell said 400 years ago. Listen to this. He said, In this armor we are to stand and watch, and never relax our vigilance. For the saint's sleeping time is Satan's tempting time." [38:07]
4. "The more you love, think, and act like Jesus, the more of a threat you become to the enemy. Because when you start growing spiritually, you start playing offense spiritually, which means you start taking ground from the enemy. And if you're a nominal or lukewarm Christian, in other words you confess Jesus with your mouth but deny him with your lifestyle. There's no congruence or alignment. The devil doesn't need to spend any effort trying to get you. He's already got you." [26:38]
5. "Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4, the God of this age, that's the devil, has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ who is the image of God. And so it happens before you are a Christian, but it doesn't stop once you become a Christian. There's an ongoing battlefield of the mind. Where you're asking yourself, do I believe God is who he says that he is?" [28:08]
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1. "When you surrender your life to Jesus, when you receive his forgiveness and grace, you wake up. And you receive his Holy Spirit and begin to, the Holy Spirit begins to help you have discernment between good and between evil. But when the Holy Spirit is not living in you, you're not likely to be aware that there is a constant battle happening between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness." [04:09]
2. "The overarching goal of the devil is to create confusion. His classic way is to mix truth with a lie. Or if you tell a lie enough, long enough, it will begin to sound like a truth. So he's the father of lies." [08:59]
3. "The more Christian you are, the more attacked you will be. The devil does not waste his time on people he's already got. The devil goes after Christians. And specifically Christians who desire to live set-apart lives who are committed to advancing the kingdom of God." [14:39]
4. "When God sent Jesus into this world, He came to destroy the work of the devil. He came to unite us back to the Father by dealing with the consequences of how sin has separated us. He's addressing the chief problem of humanity, which is our fallen human nature, our self-orientation." [22:37]
5. "While the devil is powerful, our God is more powerful. It says in 1 John 4, Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. Just say it with me wherever you're listening right now. Say, Greater is he who is in me, than he that is in the world." [39:07]
### Quotes for Members
1. "If the devil cannot convince you that he's not real, the next best thing is to get you to underestimate his power. That's the second scheme. See, if the first point is most common for non-Christians, the most common for Christians is to underestimate his power. And I'm guessing if you're listening to this message, there's a very high likelihood that you believe that the devil is real. And so instead, the enemy wants you to underestimate what he can do to you and to your family." [11:14]
2. "The problem is your side is still built on the fundamental lie that some people are good and some people are bad. The Bible teaches us that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. All of us have come under the power of Satan and his many schemes. We have all not been simply tempted, but we've given in to temptation in some way and some time. And so our response is one of humility. It should be one of repentance. It should be one of seeking forgiveness." [24:07]
3. "The enemy is secretive. He will come when you least expect it. At night. In the cover of darkness. And so you have to keep watch at all hours. In all directions. And the way you do that is by putting on the full armor of God. I love what the Puritan minister William Gurnell said 400 years ago. Listen to this. He said, In this armor we are to stand and watch, and never relax our vigilance. For the saint's sleeping time is Satan's tempting time." [38:07]
4. "The more you love, think, and act like Jesus, the more of a threat you become to the enemy. Because when you start growing spiritually, you start playing offense spiritually, which means you start taking ground from the enemy. And if you're a nominal or lukewarm Christian, in other words you confess Jesus with your mouth but deny him with your lifestyle. There's no congruence or alignment. The devil doesn't need to spend any effort trying to get you. He's already got you." [26:38]
5. "Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4, the God of this age, that's the devil, has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ who is the image of God. And so it happens before you are a Christian, but it doesn't stop once you become a Christian. There's an ongoing battlefield of the mind. Where you're asking yourself, do I believe God is who he says that he is?" [28:08]
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