Celebrating the Defeat of the Enemy - Satan

 

1.       Aspects of Satan

 

Ezekiel 28:15 and 17

15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.

 

17 Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.  So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.

 

Isaiah 14:12-15

12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn!  You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."
15 But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.

 

Ephesians 2:2

 

2. What he’s Doing Today

 

1 Peter 5:8

8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

 

2 Corinthians 4:4

4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

 

John 10:10a  -  “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;”

 

3. How he First Deceived Mankind

 

Genesis 3:1-6

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.' "
4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

 

Genesis 3:15 and 23

15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

 

23 So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

 

                                                                                                4. The Solution to Sin

 

1 Corinthians 15:55-57

55 "Where, O death, is your victory?  Where, O death, is your sting?"

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

1 John 1:9, Psalm 51:5

 

The Lord Jesus Christ gives us power over sin.

 

John 1:12  - “Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.”