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Unveiling Satan: The Deceiver of the World

Explore the existence and power of Satan as a rational being, adversary, and tempter according to biblical sources. Discover how he deceives and tempts individuals with lies, riches, and worldly pleasures, leading them astray.

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Unveiling Satan: The Deceiver of the World

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  1. SATAN – VARIOUS NAMES - I

  2. Satan – Various Names - I • “Satan” = adversary (enemy of God and man), “A person that is against one.” • “Person that opposes or fights against another; opponent.” • Satan likes the caricatures of him as a red demon or monster with horns and pitchfork, dancing in flames… • Makes him fictional, just a “joke”!

  3. Satan – Various Names - I • He exists! No mythology, fable, joke. • He is “the wicked one,” 1 Jn. 5:19. • He has great power. Acts 26:18, “to turn them from the power of Satan to God” • Col. 1:13, “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”

  4. Satan – Various Names - I • Many religious leaders deny the existence of Satan as a personality. • Some of these say that “Satan” is a concept borrowed from paganism. • This presents another problem: they simply don’t believe the Bible.

  5. Satan – Various Names - I • Satan is a person, a rational being: • He speaks, works, teaches, deceives, lies, performs wonders. • To deny this is to deny the Bible. • “Lucifer” (Isa. 14:12) is not Satan, but the outstanding king of Babylon (v. 4), that was defeated by Medes-Persians. See context.

  6. Satan – Various Names - I • Jude 6, “angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode…” • Obviously this is what Satan did and he is the leader of such. • 1 Pet. 5:8, “Your adversary (Satan), the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” • He certainly devours many.

  7. Satan – Various Names - I • Gen. 3:4, 5, Dares to contradict God. “You shall not eat it … lest you die. Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die.” • Job 1:9-10, Accuses Job . "Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side?”.

  8. Satan – Various Names - I • "But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” • Rev. 12:10, “accuser of our brethren.” • But he loses the battle against the faithful, Rom. 8:1 “now no condemnation…” • Rom. 8:33, 34, “Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect?”

  9. Satan – Various Names - I . Satanisthe “tempter” -- Matt. 4:1 • 1 Thess. 3:5, “lestbysomemeansthetempterhadtemptedyou, and our labor mightbe in vain.” • Marriage is to avoid fornication (1 Cor. 10:13; 7:1, 2). • 1 Cor. 7:5, “Do notdepriveoneanother … so thatSatandoesnottemptyoubecause of yourlack of self-control.”

  10. Satan – Various Names - I • Satan is the great deceiver. • Rev. 12:9, “The great dragon… that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world…” His principal work! • Gen. 3:1, “But the serpent was more crafty (cunning)…” 1 Tim. 2:14, “the woman, being deceived, fell into transgression.”

  11. Satan – Various Names - I • 2 Cor. 11:3, “I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.” • He has schemes (deceitful means and methods). Eph. 6:11, “Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

  12. Satan – Various Names - I • HowdoesSatandeceiveus? • James 1:14, We are temptedwhenwe are seducedbyourownevildesires. • Wethinktheywillgiveussatisfaction, happiness, butit’spuredeception. • Howdoes he deceiveus? He confusesus. He convincesusthatit’sworthittoobtainor do whatwewant. Jn. 8:44, “he is a liar, and thefather of lies.”

  13. Satan – Various Names - I • He tempts us with something that we desire, something that we want or want to do that can only be obtained in disobedience to God. • But instead of bringing happiness and satisfaction, it only brings suffering, misery.

  14. Satan – Various Names - I • He sellsthe lie thatthemostimportantthingisthepleasure of themoment… • That “now” iswhatcounts, that “later” doesn’tmatter. • He convincespeopletoenjoydrinking, usingdrugs, smoking, illicit sex and pornography, dancing, immodestclothing, excess sleeping and eating, etc. and forgetaboutconsequences.

  15. Satan – Various Names - I • Employs the “deceitfulness of riches,” Matt. 13:22, that it’s worth it to obtain material possessions, even though the soul is “choked.” • 1 Tim. 6:9, “those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.”

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