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We need to see and understand the unseen

We need to see and understand the unseen. Men make great mistakes when they lack understanding of causes. We need to see and understand the unseen. Men make great mistakes when they lack understanding of causes. Before we understood about germs, people had terrible “solutions” to sickness.

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We need to see and understand the unseen

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  1. We need to see and understand the unseen • Men make great mistakes when they lack understanding of causes.

  2. We need to see and understand the unseen • Men make great mistakes when they lack understanding of causes. • Before we understood about germs, people had terrible “solutions” to sickness.

  3. We need to see and understand the unseen • Men make great mistakes when they lack understanding of causes. • Before we understood about germs, people had terrible “solutions” to sickness. • Note in the Old Testament how leprosy was handled! No science of that day understood the need for quarantine.

  4. We need to see and understand the unseen • We need to know that there is an unseen world that is behind the struggles of this world! (Eph 6:12)

  5. We need to see and understand the unseen • Ephesians 6:12 - For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

  6. We need to see and understand the unseen • Jesus looked behind the men who attacked Him and knew there was a much greater foe. (Jn 14:30)

  7. We need to see and understand the unseen • John 14:30 - "I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.

  8. We need to see and understand the unseen • I want to introduce you to that terrible being the Bible calls Satan.

  9. The origin of Satan • Satan is a created being.

  10. The origin of Satan • Satan is a created being. • The Bible is very clear that all things in heaven and earth were created except God. (Col 1:15-17)

  11. The origin of Satan • Colossians 1:15-17 - He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.

  12. The origin of Satan • Jesus is not a created being, but the creator!

  13. The origin of Satan • Jesus is not a created being, but the creator! • All things in the spiritual realm, both angels and demons were created.

  14. The origin of Satan • Did God create evil beings as evil? No. (James 1:13, 17)

  15. The origin of Satan • James 1:13 - Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone.

  16. The origin of Satan • James 1:17 - Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

  17. The origin of Satan • We must conclude then that Satan and the demons are fallen beings!

  18. The origin of Satan • We must conclude then that Satan and the demons are fallen beings! • We know that angels can sin but unlike man they have no provision for forgiveness! (Jude 6)

  19. The origin of Satan • Jude 6 - And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day

  20. The origin of Satan • There are verses that hint of this fall. (Lk 10:17-18)

  21. The origin of Satan • Luke 10:17-18 - Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name." 18 And He said to them, "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

  22. The origin of Satan • Some misapply an Old Testament passage of a king named Lucifer to the fall of Satan. (Isa 14:12)

  23. The origin of Satan • Isaiah 14:12 - " How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!

  24. The limits of Satan • He is not omniscient (Job 1:7)

  25. The limits of Satan • Job 1:7 - And the LORD said to Satan, "From where do you come?" So Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.“

  26. The limits of Satan • He is very powerful and very “wise.”

  27. The limits of Satan • He is very powerful and very “wise.” • He also has many allies that he has taught.

  28. The limits of Satan • He is very powerful and very “wise.” • He also has many allies that he has taught. • He is limited by God (Job 1:12; 2:6)

  29. The limits of Satan • Job 1:12 - And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person." So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.

  30. The limits of Satan • Job 2:6 - And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.“

  31. The limits of Satan • God takes care of those who are in fellowship with Him.

  32. The limits of Satan • Without God’s protection men are helpless. (1 Pt 5:8)

  33. The limits of Satan • 1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  34. The limits of Satan • He works through agents and not directly (2 Cor 11:13-15)

  35. The limits of Satan • 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 - For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

  36. The limits of Satan • Being evil he pretends to “help you” while in truth wanting to destroy you!

  37. The limits of Satan • Being evil he pretends to “help you” while in truth wanting to destroy you! • A religious body, church, synagogue can be a church of Satan! (Rev 2:9)

  38. The limits of Satan • Revelation 2:9 - "I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

  39. The limits of Satan • Look out for the scoffers who pride themselves in their spirituality.

  40. The Powerful work of Satan • He has the overwhelming majority of mankind under his control.

  41. The Powerful work of Satan • He has the overwhelming majority of mankind under his control. • He controls governments. (Rev 13:1-2)

  42. The Powerful work of Satan • Revelation 13:1-2 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

  43. The Powerful work of Satan • He controls religions. (Rev 13:13-14; 19:20)

  44. The Powerful work of Satan • Revelation 13:13-14 - He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. 14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.

  45. The Powerful work of Satan • Revelation 19:20 - Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

  46. The Powerful work of Satan • He controls our media.

  47. The Powerful work of Satan • His power if found in deception and lies. (Jn 8:43-45)

  48. The Powerful work of Satan • John 8:43-45 - "Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 "You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

  49. The Powerful work of Satan • 45 "But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

  50. The Powerful work of Satan • He seeks to eliminate reason. (2 Cor 4:4)

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