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COLLEGE MATTERS

COLLEGE MATTERS. Our Unseen Enemy. Our Unseen Enemy. Wake Up! “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers … [and] spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” - Ephesians 6:12. Our Unseen Enemy.

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COLLEGE MATTERS

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  1. COLLEGE MATTERS Our Unseen Enemy

  2. Our Unseen Enemy • Wake Up! “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers … [and] spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.” - Ephesians 6:12

  3. Our Unseen Enemy “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.” - C.S. Lewis

  4. Our Unseen Enemy • Wake Up! • Know Your Enemy! • His Identity “We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.” - 1 John 5:19

  5. Our Unseen Enemy • Wake Up! • Know Your Enemy! • His Identity • His Methodology “So that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.” - 2 Corinthians 2:11

  6. Our Unseen Enemy • Deceive “He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is not truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” - John 8:44

  7. Our Unseen Enemy • Deceive Know the Truth of the Word of God!

  8. Our Unseen Enemy • Deceive • Distort Pleasure

  9. Our Unseen Enemy “Everything has to be twisted before it’s any use to us … Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the Enemy’s ground. I know we have won many a soul through pleasure. All the same, it is His invention, not ours. He made the pleasures …

  10. Our Unseen Enemy “… all our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.” - C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters

  11. Our Unseen Enemy • Deceive • Distort Pleasure Exercise Self-Control & Patience!

  12. Our Unseen Enemy • Deceive • Distort Pleasure • Divide & Conquer “Keep them from the evil one … that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You.” - John 17:15, 21

  13. Our Unseen Enemy • Deceive • Distort Pleasure • Divide & Conquer Connect & Confess in Community!

  14. Our Unseen Enemy • Wake Up! • Know Your Enemy! • Resist Your Enemy!

  15. COLLEGE MATTERS Our Unseen Enemy

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