Satan's Downfall

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Victory Over Satan

Now, with all the frightening bad stuff behind us…let's turn our attention to the good things…how we can defeat this terrible and most powerful enemy so as not to become his next victim."For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Ephesians 6:12

No lesson about the devil would be complete without an understanding of ... how to defeat the devil. Although the Bible is very graphic in describing the ambitions and efforts of this overpowering enemy…it is also very compelling in assuring us that victory can be ours.

"Then a demon-possessed man he was both blind and unable to talk was brought to Jesus, and Jesus healed him so that he could both speak and see. The crowd was amazed. "Maybe Jesus is the Messiah!" they exclaimed. But when the Pharisees heard about the miracle they said, "He can cast out demons because he is Satan, king of devils." Jesus knew their thoughts and replied, "A divided kingdom ends in ruin. A city or home divided against itself cannot stand. And if Satan is casting out Satan, he is fighting himself and destroying his own kingdom. And if, as you claim, I am casting out demons by invoking the powers of Satan, then what power do your own people use when they cast them out? Let them answer your accusation!

But if I am casting out demons by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has arrived among you. One cannot rob Satan's kingdom without first binding Satan. Only then can his demons be cast out!" Matthew 12:22-29

"But if you keep on sinning, it shows that you belong to Satan, who since he first began to sin has kept steadily at it. But the Son of God came to destroy these works of the devil. The person who has been born into God's family does not make a practice of sinning because now God's life is in him; so he can't keep on sinning, for this new life has been born into him and controls him--he has been born again. So now we can tell who is a child of God and who belongs to Satan.

Whoever is living a life of sin and doesn't love his brother shows that he is not in God's family;" 1 John 3:8-10 "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he (Christ Jesus) also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Hebrews 2:14-15