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Satan Wants To Kill This Church

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Satan Wants To Kill This Church

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  1. Satan Wants To Kill This Church W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  2. Satan Wants To Kill This Church Revelation 3:1-6 (NKJV) 1 "And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, 'These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, . . . W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  3. Satan Wants To Kill This Church Revelation 3:1-6 (NKJV) . . . and you will not know what hour I will come upon you. 4 You have a few names even in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. 5 He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. 6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." ' W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  4. Satan Wants To Kill This Church Lessons From The Text • Churches can and do die – • A church may appear to be alive but yet be dead – • Dead churches can be resurrected – • Even dead churches can have spiritually alive individuals – • Judgment is coming - W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  5. Satan Wants To Kill This Church Tactics Used By Satan John 10:10 (NKJV) 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. • Persecution – Rev. 2:9,10 • False teaching – Acts 20:29,30 • Immorality – Rev. 2:20-23 • Materialism – Luke 8:14 • Division – Mat. 12:25 • Discouragement – Num. 32:9 • Indifference – Rev. 3:14-17 W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  6. Satan Wants To Kill This Church He Wants To Ruin Our Purity • Through false doctrine – Rev. 2:14,15; 2 Pet. 2:1-3 • Through immorality – Rev. 2:20-23; 1 Cor. 5:1 • Through worldliness – 1 John 2:15-17; Rev. 2:4; Eph. 5:3-5 • Lack of discipline – Rev. 2:20; 1 Cor. 5:2-8; 2 Thes. 3:6 W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  7. Satan Wants To Kill This Church He wants to destroy our unity • What Satan knows – Mat. 12:25’ Mk 3:23-26; Lk 11:17,18 • A problem at Corinth – 1 Cor 1:10-13; 11:18 • Caused by carnality – 1 Cor 3:1-4; cf. James 4:1-4 • We MUST endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit – Eph. 4:1-6; Ps. 133:1; John 17:20,21 W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  8. Satan Wants To Kill This Church He wants to disrupt our harmony • The importance of harmony – Phili 2:1-4; Acts 4:32-37; Phili 1:27 • What Satan wants – contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, backbitings, whisperings, conceits, tumults; - 2 Cor 12:20; cf. Eph. 4:31; James 3:14-16 W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  9. Satan Wants To Kill This Church He wants to steal our hope • There is the hope of the gospel that keeps us going – Eph. 1:18; Col. 1:5,23; • Satan also wants to steal our goals of growth & success in the kingdom –Phili 4:13; (Satan wants our motto to be “No we can’t”) W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  10. Satan Wants To Kill This Church He wants to discourage us from our work • Satan does not want us bearing fruit – Mat. 13:18-23; John 15:1-8 • Satan wants us to focus on our failures, disabilities, and difficulties – Num. 13:27-14:4 • Satan wants others to be our excuse for not doing what we ought to be doing – 2 Cor. 10:12; Mat. 18:7 W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  11. Satan Wants To Kill This Church • He wants to ruin our purity - • He wants to destroy our unity - • He wants to disrupt our harmony - • He wants to steal our hope - • He wants to discourage us from our work - John 10:10 (NKJV) 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

  12. Satan Wants To Kill This Church • Let us be: • A Holy people – • A united people – • Working together in harmony – • Trusting in the Lord – looking forward - • Encouraging one another - John 10:10 (NKJV) 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. W. 65th St. church of Christ / November 8, 2009

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