July 25, Satan's strategy and your defense.

Be so reminded, be watchful.

Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Resist him firm in your faith.

1 Peter 5, 8 and 9.

The two great enemies of our souls are Sin and Satan.

And sin is the worst enemy because the only way that Satan can destroy us is by getting us to sin and keeping us from repenting.

The only thing that damns us is unforgiven sin, not Satan.

God may give him leash enough to rough us up the way he did Job or even kill us, the way he did the saints in Smyrna, Revelation 210.

But Satan cannot condemn us or rob us of eternal life.

The only way he can do us ultimate harm is by influencing us to sin and keeping us from repentance,

which is exactly what he aims to do.

So Satan's main business is to advocate, promote, assist, titillate and confirm our bent to sinning and to keep us from faith and repentance.

We see this in Ephesians 2, 1 and 2.

You were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you formerly walked according to the Prince of the Power of the Air and ASB.

Sinning accords with Satan's power in the world.

When he brings about moral evil, it is through sin.

When we sin, we move in his sphere. We come into accord with him.

When we sin, we give place to the devil, Ephesians 4, 27.

The only thing that will condemn us at the judgment day is unforgiven sin, not sickness, or afflictions, or persecutions, or intimidations,

or apparitions, or nightmares.

Satan knows this.

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