The Devil

Introduction

Names & descriptions of the devil:

Devil: Mt 4:1	Belial 2 Cor 6:15 lit: "worthless"
Enemy: Mt 13:39	Serpent: Rev 12:9; 20:2; 2 Cor 11:3
Satan: Mk 1:13	Tempter: 1 Th 3:5; Mt 4:3
Ruler of demons: Mt 12:24	Adversary: 1 Pe 5:8
Strong man: Mt 12:29	Angel of bottomless pit: Rev 9:11
Murderer: Jn 8:44	Great red dragon: Rev 12:3
Liar & father of lies: Jn 8:44	Beelzebub: Mt 12:24
Ruler of world: Jn 12:31; 14:30; 16:11	Accuser of the brethren: Rev 12:10
god of this world: 2 Cor 4:4	The wicked one: Mt 13:19
Heb: "Abbadon" lit-destruction	Gr: "Apollyon" lit-destroyer

A. Satan isn't a "red, horned, long tailed being holding fork" 2 Cor 11:14

B. The sinful world is Satan's domain: Job 1:7; 1 Pe 5:8

1. Ruler of this world: Jn 12:31; 14:31; 16:11
2. Prince of the power of the air: Eph 2:2
3. The god of this world: 2 Cor 4:4
4. He promises the world to those who will obey him: Mt 4:8-9
5. His domain is a sinful world under evil power: 1 Jn 5:19
6. God is more powerful than Satan: 1 Jn 4:4 "greater is He..."
7. Satan rules the world through deception and sin, not legitimately by God: Rev 12:9

C. Satan's war against God is for domain or property rights of your soul!

1. Satan gets your soul the first time you sin!
2. God purchased us from Satan with blood: 1 Co 6:20;7:23; Ax 20:28; 1 Pe 1:18; 2 Pe 2:1; Rev 5:9
3. Once Christian's, Satan goes to war with us trying to make us fall away: Eph 6:10-18; 4:27
4. Satan is more at war with Christians than non-Christians. He wars primarily with those not his!
5. Satan schemes to bring Christians under damnation of God: 2 Cor 2:11; 1 Pe 5:8; Mt 13:28,39
6. He sets hidden snares for Christians: 2 Ti 2:26; 1 Ti 3:7

I. Origin of Satan

A. God created Satan:

1. God is the only eternal self-existent being represented in the Bible. Satan is not self-existent
2. Satan must have therefore had a point of origin: Col 1:16; Jn 1:3; Heb 1:2
3. God is the Father of all spirits including Satan's: Eph 2:2

B. Was Satan created good or evil?

1. All God created was good: Gen 1:31. God must have created Satan good.
2. Kind begets kind: God is good therefore He must have created Satan good.
3. Satan, like every man can choose to do good or evil.

C. Indications of Satan's fall:

1. Satan did not abide in truth: Jn 8:44
2. Satan fell into condemnation: 1 Ti 3:6
3. Angels (demons) were cast into Hades when they sinned: 2 Pe 2:4
4. Angels didn't keep their own domain...abandoned their proper abode...were cast down: Jude 6-7
5. War in heaven against Satan's army vs. Michael & angels...Satan cast out of heaven: Rev 12:7-9

D. The Devil is not "Lucifer"

1. Isa 14:12-15 Refers to king of Babylon not the Devil
2. V12: "Lucifer" (KJV) "star" (NASB) literally means, "shining one"
3. Ezek 28:13-19 Refers to king of Tyre not the Devil
4. This is a very common false teaching.

B. Satan has already lost his war against God

A. Historical victories of Satan:

1. Adam and Eve eating forbidden fruit
2. Enticing God's people to worship idols
3. Murder of Jesus Christ: Lk 22:3
4. Every time a Christian gives us on the faith and falls away: 1 Ti 1:18-20
5. Corruption of doctrine: 1 Ti 4:1-4 "doctrines of demons": Today there are 500 churches!

B. Major defeats of Satan in the Bible:

1. War in heaven, cast to earth: Rev 12:7-9
2. Job tests God's wisdom with Job, "you think Job is good, take away blessings...he will curse you"
3. Temptation in wilderness with Jesus: Mt 4:1-11
4. Cast out demons during ministry of Jesus: Lk 10:17-20
5. Sinless death & resurrection of Christ: Col 2:14-15; Heb 2:14-16; 1 Jn 3:8; Rev 1:18
6. Every time a sinner becomes a Christian: Ax 26: 18; Col 1:13 + Lk 15:7 "angels rejoice"

C. Satan was bound by Christ:

1. Ps 72:9, Mt 12:29, Isa 53:10 = Lk 10:17, Ax 2:34-36, 1 Cor 15:25-28, Col 2:15, Eph 4:8, Rev 20:1-6
2. Satan has power: 1 Pe 5:8, but it is limited: Jas 4:7
3. Satan is bound like a Pit Bull is chained to a pole. Powerless unless we enter his "circle"
4. Satan cannot force us against our will or possess us: 1 Cor 10:13

D. Devil & demons know that God has won & that they are damned: Mt 25:41; Jn 16:11

1. Mt 8:29 "Have you come to torment us before the time"
2. Jas 2:19 "demons believe God is united and tremble" (gr: "tremble" lit: to bristle up hair)
3. Mk 5:7; Lk 8:28 "do not torment me"
4. Mk 1:24; Lk 4:34 "have You come to destroy us"

E. Disobedient men will suffer same fate as Devil: Mt 25:41; Rev 20:10,14-15; 2 Th 1:6-9

Conclusion:

A. The devil will attack you today in one of 5 ways:

1. Keep you out of the church
2. Get Christians back into the world
3. Render Christians useless
4. Disrupt or corrupt worship & doctrine
5. Cause trouble & division among brethren