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you've discovered i'm sure in your
christian life
that the christian life is not a
playground it's a battleground
before i was saved according to
ephesians chapter 2 i 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
before i was saved according to
ephesians 2 i walked in the lusts of the
flesh and those are the three enemies
the christian faces the world
and the flesh and the devil
we're seeing across america a tremendous
satanic revival
if we could have a spiritual revival of
the dimensions of the satanic revival
we're having
we'd win the world
i walked into a very prominent bookstore
in chicago some weeks ago
and surveyed shelf after shelf after
shelf of books about the occult
you can walk down wells street or
michigan avenue and meet people who are
promoting satanism
the satan church today is officially
recognized you won't do it but if you
did give a donation it'd be tax deductible
deductible
i think satan has had more churches than
those who have just officially been
recognized by the way
now the the the christian has to know
how to handle this battle against the devil
devil
i hear people say oh here's a fella
going down clark straight he's reeling
he's drunk the devil's got him that's
the flesh
it's the flesh that makes a man lust
it's a flesh that makes a man drunk i'm
not defending the devil but i do want to explain
explain
from the word of god that satan's
tactics are far more subtle than that
there are christians
in chicago who are being taken in by
satan and don't know it
it's possible there's some christians in
wichita being taken in by satan they
don't know it
and so let's spend our time tonight i
trust profitably in looking at the
strategy of satan
in order to follow the strategy of satan
and learn how to defeat him
we're going to do it the easiest way possible
possible
we're going to talk to four people in
the bible
who had a personal encounter with satan
now interestingly enough all four of
them are in the old testament
did you know that satan is mentioned at work
work
only four times in the entire old
testament now he's there the whole time
don't misunderstand me
but you're gonna find four episodes in
the old testament where satan is dealing
personally with somebody now i seriously
doubt whether satan has much to do with me
me
i'm not that important he has some
junior demon i think assigned to my frequency
you remember you remember in the book of acts
acts
in the book of acts the apostle paul was
casting out demons and some jewish men
came along and thought they'd do the
same thing
and so in trying to cast out this demon
they said to the man in the name of
jesus whom paul preaches sort of a
second hand kind of a formula in the
name of jesus whom paul preaches come
out of him and the demons spoke up and
said jesus i know and paul i know who
that's rather interesting they knew who
jesus was obviously
and they knew who paul was
i imagine out there in the the the
satanic atmosphere where satan and his
armies rally the name of paul was cursed
over and over again because paul had
invaded their territory
you start invading the devil's territory
the demons will get to know you
now in the old testament you're going to
find four persons who had a personal
encounter with satan if you're the kind
of person who takes notes
the outline is going to run like this in
each case there was a target
a weapon
a purpose
and a defense
in each case when satan came to these persons
persons
there was a target he was aiming at
there was a weapon he was using
there was a purpose he was seeking to achieve
achieve
and thank god there's a defense that we
can use against him
now with the lord's help tonight and you
must pray as you listen
with the lord's help tonight i want us
to be able to go away
recognizing the strategy of satan you
say well pastor are there only four
tactics that he uses there are four
basic tactics that satan
uses he said that was more complicated
than that no men have made it more complicated
complicated
but there are four basic tactics that
satan uses
and if you and i can grasp these we'll
be well on our way with the spirit's
help to having victory genesis chapter 3
is the first
person we're going to meet in the person
now the serpent was more subtle 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
and the woman said unto the serpent we
may eat of the fruit of the trees of the
garden but of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden
god has said you shall not eat of it
neither shall ye touch it lest ye die
the serpent said unto the woman you
shall not surely die
for god doth know that in the day ye eat
thereof then your eyes shall be opened
and ye shall be as gods
knowing good and evil
of course you know the rest of the story
the woman saw and she desired and she
took and their eyes were open but not
quite the way she expected and sin has
now entered the human race
now what was the target at which satan
was aiming
keep your place in genesis 3 but turn
back to second corinthians chapter 11.
the greatest commentary on the old
testament is the new testament
and so when you read your old testament
scriptures always trace your cross references
references
i mean many saints of god who have these
beautiful cross references in the middle
of their page or on the edge of the page
never use them
now we're going to follow our cross
reference back to second corinthians
chapter 11
and verse 3.
paul says but i fear
lest by any means as the serpent
beguiled eve through his subtlety
so your minds
should be corrupted
from the simplicity that is in christ
his target was her mind now
now
why in the world would satan want to aim
at my mind for this reason
when god wants to communicate his truth
to me he communicates his truth through
my mind
why is it that many many christians have
the idea that when you walk into the
house of god you take off your half you
take your brain off with it hang both of
them up someplace and come in and sit down
down
the bible was written for the mind as
well as for the heart
god's truth must be taught to the mind
thou shalt love the lord thy god with
all thy heart with all thy soul with all
thy mind
one whole book in the new testament
devoted to the mind the book of philippians
philippians
some 18 times in that in that four
chapter letter paul talks about thinking
remembering knowing the mind the mind
the mind your mind is important
a man said to me one day said pastor
when i pray i just empty my mind i say
you do that and satan moves right in
god never asked anybody some folks don't
have to work too hard but god never
asked anybody
god never asked anybody to empty his mind
we have all kinds of brethren we have
the united brethren and the plymouth
brethren who rarely drive plymouth they
most often drive cadillacs and lincolns
we have the river brethren but paul hit
the nail on the head paul said the
biggest denomination of all the ignorant brethren
brethren
i would not have you to be ignorant brethren
brethren and
and
people say to me they say oh you know i
don't know my bible why
we ought to know the word of god
you say well i've got time i talked to a
young man yesterday he was a member of
our church teaches one of our sunday
school classes
was saved out of a cesspool of iniquity
has a job that would break my neck he's
in construction and he's a supervisor in
construction which often means 14 hours
a day work he devotes two hours a day to
the study of the word of god
it's fantastic
he attacked her mind now what was his weapon
weapon
his weapon was lies
now satan's a liar
jesus tells us that over in john 8 44.
he said to that religious crowd ye are
of your father the devil
he's a liar and he's a murderer
it's rather interesting god's truth
brings life
the devil's lies bring death
you say well i'm sort of neutral you
can't be neutral if a person doesn't
believe truth he ends up believing a lie
god has so constructed the human mind
that if we do not accept truth we end up
accepting lies
now his weapon lies notice how he does
he comes as the serpent
using one of the beasts of the field
he never comes in his true guys
i stopped in a bookstore a couple of
weeks ago i spent a lot of time going
through bookstores but i love books
and i want to see what people are
reading especially my young people here
was a table stacked up with books on the
occult with pictures of satan
i'd fire the artist
satan doesn't look like that
a horned hideous creature with a tail
and a pitchfork that's ridiculous
that came out the comic books that
didn't come out the bible
but satan never comes in his true guys
he always comes disguised the
masquerader notice what he does now in
verse 1 he questions god's word yea hath
god said that's always the first step
the question mark i can't help but think
a question might look like a serpent
here's the question mark ye hath god said
said
thou shalt not commit adultery yea hath
god said it's wrong to cheat on an
examination yea hath god said you
shouldn't gossip about your neighbor
he questions god's word
then the next step is he denies god's
you see if you listen to the question
you'll end up getting the denial
and eve listened to the question
he questioned god's word that he denied
god's word and finally he substitutes
his own lie
and his own lie is something rather
interesting in verse 5 ye shall be as gods
gods
now who can turn that down
you see
satan himself
became the enemy of god because he
wanted to be god
back in isaiah chapter 14 we have
lucifer the light bearer
lucifer one of god's creatures in fact
probably the highest of the angelic creatures
creatures
he's called the anointed cherub that guardeth
guardeth
and lucifer said i will i will i will i
will i will be like the most high
and god said oh no you won't
now by the way it's worth noting in
verse 5 that this is the lie that is
back during world war two mr gobbles who
was adolf hitler's propaganda minister
said if you tell a lie long enough and
loud enough people will believe it
and satan has told this lie long enough
and loud enough and people believe it
what is the lie that man is not a
created being who has an obligation to
his creator man is his own god and has
no responsibility to a creator
paul picks this up over in romans 1 when
he tells us about people who exchanged
the truth of god for
the lie not eli the lie and worshiped
and served the creature rather than the creator
creator
i don't know about what you saw but most
of the people in chicago are living for
the creature and paying no attention to
the creator
consequently our city is in trouble
so he questions god's word he denies
god's word then he substitutes his life
now notice what eve does
he falls for the trap
and in verse 2 she takes away from god's word
word
we may eat of the fruit god didn't say
you may eat god said you may freely eat
but she took that word freely out
young people come to me and say why is
god so hard on us
we can't do this and we can't do that we
can't do something else
and i say you ever stop to think of how
good god's been to you
freely you have this and freely you have
that and she drops the word freely and
takes away from god's word in verse 2
and in verse 3 she adds to god's word
you shall not eat of it neither shall ye
touch it now we don't have any record in
chapter 2 that god said they shouldn't
touch it i'm sure it was wrong to do that
that
but she's adding to god's word she takes
away from his graciousness
she drops the word freely and she adds
to his judgment
don't touch it but worse than that she
changes god's word it's bad enough to
add to it and take away from it she
changes it at the end of verse 3 she
says lest ye die and god didn't say lest
ye die god said ye shall
shall surely
surely die
die
but satan's got her
my friend once you and i
question this book
and begin to tamper
with this book
satan's goddess
that's why he hates the bible
that's why he hates churches that preach
the bible
i was chatting with a fellow in chicago
not long ago who was describing to me the
the
iniquitous kind of life he was living
without any blushing or any shame
telling me the the dirty life he was living
living
backing it up with scripture
satan had so gotten ahold of this
fellow's mind that he could use the
his target the mind his weapon lies now
what was his
purpose his purpose was to make eve ignorant
ignorant
of god's will
ignorant of god's will
now friends if you and i don't know the
will of god we're sunk
we're absolutely sunk
here's a young couple establishing their
home if they don't know what the will of
god is for the home they're done for
here's a young man setting off for
university or college if he doesn't know
the will of god for for studying and
learning he's going to be in trouble
here's an older couple coming to
retirement if they don't know what the
bible says about the way older people
are supposed to live and by the way it
does tell us a lot about how older
people are supposed to live i'm studying
they're going to have problems
here's a church seeking to serve the
lord if they don't know what the bible
says about pastors and deacons and
members and churches they're going to
have difficulty
your pastor has this experience as all
of us do folks come in to see and they
sit down you pray and say now what's
your problem they start to tell you this
this long detailed problem that they
have some of these situations are like
trying to unscramble an egg and then
they sit and tell you about it and you
stop them and you say folks want to ask
you a question do you two ever read the
bible no
don't you day by day just read the word
of god and feed your soul and no no we
don't do that well no wonder you got problems
problems
no wonder
satan wants to make us ignorant of god's will
will
i have a friend
who thought he knew the will of god
about something took some very foolish
steps what he thought was faith was presumption
presumption
you say well i don't pray about the will
of god you better
you better pray about the will of god
and here's where we find the will of god
in the word of god and if satan can come
along with lies
and fill our mind with lies or even one
good lie
he's got us
i've seen sunday school classes
completely disrupted by one lie somebody
in that class believes some lie about
somebody else
it's very strange people don't come to
me with gossip you know why i don't
listen to it
whenever folks come to me i say just you
got some witnesses
do i have what you have some witnesses
the bible says in the mouth of two or
three witnesses let every word be no i
you say you're rather you're rather
harsh no i'm scriptural
you want to wreck a church you start
some lies going around
young people want to wreck your youth
group just start some lies going satan's
the liar his target the mind his weapon
lies his purpose to make us ignorant of
god's will now what is our defense the
inspired word of god
the inspired infallible inerrant word of god
it's interesting that when satan came to
jesus and tried to tempt him
jesus didn't argue with him
he could have
jesus christ is the sum total of all of
god's wisdom he didn't argue with satan
he just quoted scripture
you're hungry for 40 days
a couple of weeks ago i heard heaven
announce this is my beloved son beloved son
son
this is what you call love you're hungry
what kind of a father do you have why
don't you turn these stones in the bread
just bring that up to date oh you're one
of god's children
how come your wife's in the hospital
with cancer
god loves you
how come you had that auto accident if
god loves you what are you doing hungry
now why don't you just take a shortcut
and turn those stones in the bread
now jesus didn't sit down and give satan
a long theological argument he just
simply said it is written and by the way
he didn't have to use a concordance to
if the old serpent shows up on many of
us and starts throwing something uh
there's a verse someplace you know
oh no he just said it is written
pulled out that sword man shall not live
by bread alone
imagine using a verse from deuteronomy
to defeat the devil i thought you would
he says oh you're gonna quote the bible
two can play at that game takes them up
on top of the pinnacle of the temple and
says now it says in the bible is satan
can quote the bible
a man came in to see me one day and
prove to me from the bible he was
that interesting
satan knows how to use the bible
he said now the word of god says if you
cast he's going to give his angels
charge over you to keep you in all you
to keep you period and put in all thy
ways he left that out now i want you to
jump down let's see if god will do it
jesus said it is written
thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god deuteronomy
then he gets them up and shows them all
the kingdoms of the world he said i can
give this to you
just once just once not fifty times once
bow down and worship
me and jesus said it is written
thou shalt worship the lord thy god and
him only shalt thou serve and satan said
i didn't say a word about service jesus
said wait a minute whoever you worship
how did jesus defeat satan you say well
he was god jesus did not defeat satan in
the power of deity
jesus defeated satan with the same power
available to us don't ever get the idea
when you read the four gospels that
jesus accomplished what he did in a way
different from our way
the holy spirit of god gave jesus christ
the sword of the spirit and energized
him for battle he'll do the same thing
for us
don't ever sit back and say well i'm not
god i mean he was god
his first words were man
shall not live i'm not here as god
although i am god satan i'm going to
fight this battle the way every one of
my followers is going to fight this battle
battle
with the spirit of god using the word of god
god
by the way do you spend time every day
in god's word
have you got an artillery of good
promises and precepts and principles
from the word of god you can take and
use on the wicked one i hope so
thy word have i hid in mine heart that i
might not sin against thee
the inspired word of god now the second
person we're going to visit tonight is a
very well known person his name is job
job is the second one over in job
chapters one and two he came to eve his
target the mind his weapon lies his
purpose to make her ignorant of god's word
word
our defense the inspired word of god now
job you know the story of job
job was wealthy and godly and had a
godly family
and unknown to him totally unknown to
him up in heaven
there's there's a
a conversation now satan has access to
heaven not until the middle of the
tribulation will satan be thrown out
and so satan says that comes up and
god says where you been oh he said going
to and fro upon the earth
peter later on adds seeking whom he may devour
and god says have you considered my
servant job
he says you bet your life i've
considered your servant job
i've had my eye on him but i can't get
my hands on him
you've hedged him about you've protected him
him
and satan said i'll tell you one thing
if he loses what he's got he'll curse
you to your face
he's what they call in the mission field
a rice christian
i'm sure he's rich he's got a great
god says all right
you can go to work but you can't touch
him aren't you glad that when god
permits satan to work
he sets the boundaries
whenever the lord puts you through the
furnace he always keeps his hands on the
thermostat don't ever worry about that
he knows how much we can take
he knows how much we can take and so in
one day's time the stock market crashed
lost his flocks lost his herds lost his children
children
he didn't lose his wife but the way she
acted maybe he'd have been better off he
had i don't know except
can you imagine here the dear man his
wife just falls apart because he needed
her later on because they they're going
to start all over again
he loses everything what does he do
he says naked i came out of the womb
anybody can say that
and naked i'm going to leave
anybody can say that
the lord gave
the lord hath taken away anybody can say that
that
blessed be the name of the lord takes a
saint to say that
now the the next test was a little harder
harder
satan shows up in heaven and god says i
told you
and imagine all the angels watching this drama
drama
the angels are watching us today they
are learning through the church
the ways of god
i wonder how much they're learning
i wonder
the angels are watching and god said i
told you that man job
sterling character
satan says sure
but skin for skin all that a man hath
he'll give for his life let me touch his
body god says all right but you can't
take his life
and you know the story job woke up
itching one day
before long he was covered with a
a noxious disease with running sores
he describes it in the in the book his
breath got so big chlorophyll didn't
even help at all he
his breath got back people stayed away
from him there he sat just uh just a
complete bundle
now what was satan's target
you say you mean satan attacks the
believer's body that's right why does
satan want to attack my body
for several reasons number one my body
and when god permits satan to attack my
body he's attacking the temple of god
secondly my body is god's treasury
over in second corinthians chapter four
paul says we have this treasure in earth
and vessels and god has deposited this
treasury of grace
satan fights us but the main reason my
body is god's temple and my body is
god's treasury according to romans
chapter 6 my body is god's tool
paul says in romans 6 yield the members
of your body as instruments tools
or weapons of righteousness
my hand
can be doubled into a fist and i can
hurt somebody or my hand can pick up a
pen and i can write a letter and
encourage a missionary
god can use my feet and my ears and my
eyes and god says i want your body as my
is his uh target is the body
now what is his weapon his weapon is suffering
suffering
dear christian friend keep in mind that
there are two kinds of suffering in the bible
bible
please keep this in mind
otherwise you may get into
discouragement and defeat
there is correcting suffering and there
is perfecting suffering
now correcting suffering is over in
hebrews chapter 12 where god chastens me
when jonah ran away from god god sent a storm
storm
and in that storm and in being thrown
into the water and swallowed by the fish
and then regurgitated again in all of
this experience
god was correcting jonah
but not all the storms of life are corrective
corrective
one day jesus said to his disciples i'll
meet you on the other side of the lake
remember that
and he went off and they got in the boat
and halfway across boy a storm moved in
like they'd never seen before and these
seasoned fishermen were scared
now why were they in that storm
because they obeyed god
jonah was in the storm because he disobeyed
disobeyed
there are times when god permits
and sometimes he'll allow satan to do it
a few years ago
i was rounding the curve of a very quiet
little highway about three miles from
our home when we were pastoring down in
covington kentucky and a drunken driver
came around the
bend so fast i didn't see him he was
going about 90 miles an hour ran right
smack into me he was killed instantly
five more minutes i would have been dead
and i'll never forget those weeks of
recuperation a week or so in the
intensive care ward and
then in the hospital and then at home
and uh the chaplain of the hospital who
did not happen to be a christian believer
believer
just a nice guy
said to me it's too bad this happened
that's to hear you are a preacher and
this happened to you
i thought you poor blind fella
i said listen i have learned more about
the grace of god in this hospital than i
ever learned in five years at seminary
because when you go through it you know it
it
i said quite frankly it's worth being
within five minutes of death
just to find out how real the whole
thing is
that's perfecting suffering god knew i
needed that just
to help me grow
and that's what god was doing with joel
his target the body
his weapons suffering
his purpose now this is the important
thing you say boy pastor where's me
i felt it in my body
there are dear saints of god who come to
this church week after week whose bodies hurt
hurt
if they were sissies like some other
people we know they'd stay home
they keep coming
and they pray and say oh god why why
here i want to serve you and i want to
what is satan's purpose
he wants to make us impatient with god's will
will
now class job is mentioned only one time
in the entire new testament anybody
happen to know where it is
that's right over in the book of james
chapter five
you know
of the what
patience of job
here here's the book of job with all
these long chapters some 40 42 chapters
and yet when the new testament zeroes in
on job it grabs one thing about him patience
patience
now my friend if the devil can make us
impatient he's got us you remember the
last time you got impatient with god's
will the mess you made out of things
do you ever go through your bible and
make a list of the people who lost their patience
patience
abraham got impatient one day married
the wrong woman
begat a son
and that boy's descendants had been
given the jewish people fits ever since impatience
impatience
he got impatient one day went down to
egypt almost lost his wife almost lost
his life
moses got impatient one day and killed a
man and buried him
god had to put him over in the desert
for 40 years taking care of sheep
then he brought him back and put him to
work and well again one day moses got
impatient and smote the rock
and he lost his ticket into the promised
land he had to wait till a
transfiguration to get there
david got impatient one time
numbered the people 70 000 people died
peter got impatient one night pulled out
his sword aim for a man's throat got his ear
ear
jesus reached over and healed the ear
it's a good thing there would have been
you see impatience is evidence of unbelief
back in the book of isaiah chapter 28
verse 16 the prophet says he that
and when you find yourself getting
nervously impetuous weight
unbelief
is an evidence
impatience is an evidence of unbelief
and impatience is an evidence of
immaturity little children are always impatient
impatient
when we were living in covington my
family lives up in in
hammond indiana it's a long trip from
covington to ham and we'd get in the car
during vacation days to drive up to see
grandma and grandpa
we'd stop at the first stoplight my
little judy would say are we there
i'd say no we've got six hours and 15
minutes more i'll never make it
you see
a lot of people grow old who never grow up
up
and they're still just impatient as
children impatience is an evidence of
immaturity that's why james chapter 1 says
says
count it all joy when you're falling
into various testings knowing that the
trying of your faith works what patience
patience
but let patience have her perfect work
that you may be perfect mature wanting nothing
nothing
but the devil can get a hold of an
impatient christian he can wreck a
church he can blow up a home
he can split a sunday school class
because impatience is one of the works
of the flesh
his target the body
his weapon suffering
his purpose to make me impatient with
god's will what's my weapon this is what
blesses me
when he comes at my mind i have the
inspired word of god when he comes at my
body i have the same thing paul had the
imparted grace of god
and lest i should be exalted above
measure wrote the apostle there was
given unto me with a strange gift there
was given unto me a thorn in the flesh
the messenger of satan to buffet me lest
i should be exalted above measure he
starts and stops the verse the same way
and for this thing i besought the lord i
just pray i besought the lord three
times just like jesus in gethsemane
and god said paul i'm not going to
answer your prayer but i am going to
meet your need
by the way make a list someday of all
the unanswered prayers in the bible
have you lived long enough to be
take it away god said paul if i took
why you've been up to the third heaven
and if you want to have great
experiences like that there's a price to pay
you know you get your hands out and god
loads your hands with blessing if he
keeps on loading your hand with blessing
you it'll help you fall flat in your face
face
so he put some burdens on your back to
and paul said lord take it away and god
said i won't do it i want you to be the
i'll tell you what i'm going to do
my grace
is sufficient
for thee
then paul changed his tune and said most
gladly therefore
will i rather glory in my infirmities
for when i'm weak
i'm strong
the imparted grace of god i'd love to
linger on that but i'll i'll just drop
this into your mind into your heart
you are saved by grace you have to live
by grace
if you can explain what god is doing in
your if you can explain what's happening
that's right
if you can explain what happens in a
church god's not doing it they say well
we we have a great church because we
have no no it's god who has to do it
god's grace
why what do we deserve
we deserve hell great
great
aren't you glad he's the god of all
grace he's cornered the market on grace
the god of all grace
uh suffering grace my grace is
sufficient for thee singing grace
singing with grace in your heart
strengthening grace thou therefore my
son be strong in the grace that is in
christ jesus
there's all kinds of grace in the bible
he's the god of all grace this book is
the word of his grace here's the bank
book and just turn the pages and find
out about all the kinds of grace god
wants to give you
you say i don't read my bible then
you're poor
god has given you a vast inheritance of grace
grace
and here's the bank book here's the guidebook
he's the god of all grace and the bible
is the word of his grace
and his throne is the throne of grace
and when the child of god who's been
saved by grace comes to the god of all
grace with the promises of the word of
grace at the throne of grace he can say
with james he giveth more grace are you
living by grace tonight
now when satan brings some circumstance
to your life that makes your body
uncomfortable doesn't have to be
sickness and accident it could just be
i've seen saints lose their
i was stranded at o'hare field one day
which is not unusual
and i've learned to accept these things
from my father's hands all things work
together for good
what can you do anyway
and so i'm sitting there reading i
always carry a book with me i read an
entire i've read i read two entire books
sitting in tulsa one day waiting for a
plane to show up
i'm sitting there and here's a fella
pacing around and swearing and smoking
one cigarette after another
he said to me how can you be so calm
so i told him i said you know i said the
delta doesn't run this airline
my father does
and i've learned that my father arranges
things and i'm just not going to work he
said do you really believe that i said
yes i do he just shook his head he
thought he was uh cornered with a with
an idiot of some kind i think
but isn't it true
we get impatient the imparted grace of god
god
we've got to hurry now would you turn to
first chronicles 21
pastor may i continue a few more minutes
all right you'll be here if nobody else will
first chronicles chapter 21
now if i were to ask you what david's
great sin was
you'd probably say bathsheba
and it was a great sin
he he
committed adultery he made a man drunk
he killed the man he lied about it for a year
year
but you know in first chronicles 21
david commits another sin and 70 000
people died
it was not a sin of the flesh it was a
first chronicles 21 and satan stood up
against israel and provoked david to
number israel
now once a year the jews were supposed
to number the people
starting from 20 years old and on up and
get a half a shekel from them for the sanctuary
sanctuary
this was redemption money once a year
the jew would pony out his half shekel
as a reminder you're not your own you're
bought with a price
nothing wrong with numbering the people
if you do it to the glory of god
but david wanted to be sure he was in
the top 10.
david wanted to be sure his press
releases were good
he calls in joab and joab was far from
being the most godly man in the bible
joab was a scoundrel
he said joab number the people joab said
the lord grant to my lord many more
don't do it
isn't it amazing how how i felt like
joab had more sense than david
david said do it or else he did it
they spent some 10 months numbering the
people counted them up and issued the
press release
and god said you know what david you've sinned
sinned
i'm going to give you a choice now what
do you want gave him three choices
do you want to fall before your enemies
what do you want
david said let me fall into the hands of
the lord great are his mercies please
don't let me fall into the hands of man
pestilence hit jerusalem
they begin to die like flies carrying
them out on wagons and david went out oh
it's a sad david went out and he found
the threshing floor he saw the angel of
god with his sword and david bought the
threshing floor where he saw the angel
and he offered sacrifices and god
stopped the plague
the interesting thing is this the sight
of that threshing floor became the
it was rather amazing david committed
two great sins bathsheba
and from that solomon was born
and numbering the people and from that
he got the territory for the temple and
solomon built the temple
where sin abounds grace much more abounds
abounds
but 70 000 people died and the devil did it
it now
now
what was his target not his mind he was
not deluded or deceived
not his body things were never going
better for david by the way watch out
one of the biggest mistakes we
david had won a victory here and won a
victory there and things were going
it wasn't his body it wasn't his mind it
was his will pride
pride
he attacked david's will and his weapon
what was his purpose
not to get him ignorant of god's will
he knew he was out of god's will did it deliberately
not to make him impatient with god's
will things were going great he wanted
he was saying to david hey david you're
somebody important
i don't think you really know how
important you are let's number the
people let's find out how important you are
are
and pride welled up within david's heart
and pride goeth before destruction
pride is satan's sea and the bible warns
us in the new testament about
falling into the snare of the devil
his target the will has satan ever
swooped down upon your will
and sought to capture your will and said
when he attacks my mind i have the
inspired word of god when he attacks my
body i have the imparted grace of god
when he attacks my will i have the
indwelling spirit of god it is god that
worketh in you both to what
will and to do of his good pleasure
philippians chapter 2 verses 12 and 13.
there have been times in my life
times too many to number when satan has
just swooped down upon my will
and said do this
and i've had to cry out to god and say
oh god by your holy spirit get a hold of
my will
and the holy spirit does it
you know paul had a problem romans
chapter 7 he said boy
to will is present with me but how to do
the things i should do i don't do the
things i shouldn't do i do oh wretched
man that i am what's the answer
the holy spirit of god down inside the
average christian doesn't trust the holy spirit
oh you say pastor where is me i face
some awful temptations my will is weak
and our weapon is the ins is the
indwelling spirit of god
who takes the will
and controls it to the glory of god now
i've got to rush because you'll never
invite me back if i keep you here too
long would you turn to the book of james
james chapter four
james makes a a very important statement
here we have to lay hold of
resist the devil and he will flee from
you that's not the whole verse though is it
it
what does he say before that
submit yourselves therefore to god
resist the devil
look right up here
you and i cannot fight the devil until
first we submit ourselves to god you say
fine what should i submit
i want you to quote two verses with me
quote them out loud would you romans 12
1-2 here we go i beseech you therefore
brethren by the mercies of god that you
present your bodies a living sacrifice
holy acceptable unto god which is your
reasonable service and be not conformed
to this world but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind that you may prove
what is that good and acceptable and
perfect will of god what does it mean to
be dedicated to give god three gifts my
body my mind and my will
these are the areas that satan attacks
he says present your body he attacked
job's body he says don't be conformed to
this world get let your mind be renewed
he attacked eve's mind that you might
prove what is that acceptable will of
god he attacked david's will first thing
tomorrow morning before you get out of bed
bed
while you're lying there say thank you
god that i belong to jesus
take my body
take my mind
take my will just give it to him
then get out of bed
open your bible
then get on your knees and pray
and let him get a hold of your will
and you know what when you step out your door
door
you have submitted yourself to god he
has your body
your mind
your will
and during the day when satan attacks
you the spirit of god goes to work to
give you victory
you've got the inspired word of god
you've got the indwelling spirit of god
there's one more person
i won't keep you much longer just be
patient now
fellas said to me one day i said where's
when i listen to you i get numb on one
end and dumb on the other i don't want that
that
these three
three
weapons satan uses on earth
he came to eve on earth attacked her
mind he came to job on earth attacked
his body came to david on earth attacked
his will but you know when we do sin we
shouldn't but we do if we do sin he's
got a fourth weapon
not on earth up in heaven
zechariah chapter 3 talks about joshua
the high priest this is not the joshua
who led the jews into the promised land
this is the joshua who was the high
priest when the jews came back from
and zechariah the prophet has a vision
he sees joshua the high priest up in
heaven standing before the lord aha
and satan standing at his right hand
to resist him
now the interesting thing about this is
in verse 3 joshua was clothed with
filthy garments you know why
the jews had sinned against god
the high priest was supposed to stand
before god with clean garments
but in zechariah chapter 3 up in heaven
joshua stands before god in dirty
garments did you ever stand before god
in dirty garments
the last time we sinned we soiled our garments
garments
and when we did we're standing there
before god and satan's standing there as
the accuser
and satan says to god look at joshua
he's one of your chosen he's look at
those jews down there you're a holy god
you see satan is the accuser of the brethren
brethren
revelation chapter 12 verse 10
and every time we sin he stands before
the throne of holiness
and when he accuses me before god it
ricochets back and hits me down here and
i get i get concerned and i get
discouraged the difference between god's
conviction and satan's accusation is
this the devil accuses me because he
hates me god convicts me because he
loves me
the devil accuses me to destroy me god
i finished a radio program one morning
the phone rang
here was a dear lady on the other end of
the line she said pastor i won't tell
you who i am you don't even know me i
want to ask you a question
so when i was 16 years old i fell into
horrible sin
and then i got saved and now i'm trying
to live a christian life with my husband
and my children they've asked me to be a
sunday school teacher should i do it
i said what's the problem look what i
did when i was 16.
i said my bible says the blood of jesus
christ god's son cleanses us from all sin
sin
when you gave your heart to jesus christ
who cares what happened when you were 16.
16.
she began to cry she said to think that
all these years
i've been sitting on the shelf afraid to
serve god listening to satan's accusations
accusations
all across this country i've met people
who are on the shelf because satan keeps
saying remember what you did 30 years ago
ago
remember what you said five years ago i
know about you
my heart
he wants to accuse me and make me miserable
miserable
his weapon accusation
lay hold of this believer he wants to
bring about
an indictment between me and god he
wants me to believe god hates me god's
through with me god can do nothing for me
me
satan is such a rascal before i sin he
says you can get away with it
then after i say he says boy it's all
and people believe this now look when
you've sinned when i've sinned
what do we do
well first john tells us what to do my
little children these things right eye
unto you that you sin not but if any
man's sin we have an advocate with the father
father
let's read about it in zechariah chapter three
now joshua was clothed with filthy
garments and stood before the angel and
he answered and spake unto those that
stood before him saying take away the
filthy garments from him
and unto him he said behold i have
caused thine iniquity to pass from thee
i will clothe thee with change of ramen
that beautiful
oh you see my dear friend when you and i
sin and we stand before god in filthy garments
garments
at our right hand satan stands to accuse
us but at god's right hand stands one to
cleanse us
satan is the accuser but jesus is the advocate
advocate
that word advocate means a lawyer aren't
you glad you have a lawyer up in heaven
and the american bar association cannot
did it ever dawn upon you that when
jesus went back to heaven in a glorified
was wounded
he said here reach reach and
feel my wounds my side
you know when i get my glorified body no
more bridges
and no more eye trouble no more ear
truck when i get my glorified body it'll
be perfect
he went back to him with an imperfect body
body
you know why
those wounds
so i stand before god and i say oh god
he attacked my mind and i believed his lies
lies
or he attacked my body and i got
impatient or or he attacked my will and
i got independent oh god i'm dirty
you see when i'm doing something right
the devil tells lies when i do something
lord what am i going to do
jesus steps up and says i've done it
i've done it
quote it with me if we confess our sins
he is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
with weapons like these we shouldn't
lose we have the inspired word of god
we have the imparted grace of god
we have the indwelling spirit of god we
have the interceding son of god and if
god be for us who can be against us
heavenly father
we pray that the word we've studied
might go to work in our lives in our hearts
hearts
may it not just be truth that we have
learned mentally may it make its way
into our very spiritual being
to control us
lord we would daily surrender body and
mind and will we would daily have the
mind renewed by the word the will
father help us tonight to submit that we
might be able to resist lord of some
dear ones here tonight who's never been
saved may that one come to christ tonight
tonight
if there's some defeated saint of god
who needs victory may that one find in
christ victory tonight
thank you lord jesus for dying for us
when you died you whip the devil praise god
god
we're working not for victory but from
victory hallelujah
make this real to us now for jesus sake
we pray amen
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