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The Devil — Part 1
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8).
We have a powerful enemy, and we are no match for this foe, Satan! Don’t think that you can take on the enemy in your own strength. Peter thought he could when the Lord told him, “Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat” (Luke 22:31). He was so sure of himself that he boasted to the Lord that he would never deny Him, and was even willing to go into death with Him. The Lord had to show Peter that he did not know his own heart, nor the power and subtlety of the enemy.
We are told, “Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). How do we resist the Devil? Well, the Lord gives us the key in Luke chapter 4. When the Devil came to tempt Him, He answered every temptation by simply saying. “It is written” (Luke 4:4, 8, 10). In other words, He used the Word of God, and that is what we are to do as well. That is where the power to resists lies. Not in our own ability to reason or argue the situation. Not in our own power, but in the living Word of God.
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