Chapter 3.6
Satan
Three Trick Pony
God’s Will – Satan’s Will – Man’s Will
Desires of the Flesh, Desires of the Eyes
Pride of our lifestyle
First
Word
Make no mistake as we go along
here with a BS process believing that Satan is an equal and opposite force of God; He IS NOT. God created Satan and man; God is Sovereign
Man was created in the Physical realm and
given “little power and authority” but could do whatever he wanted. Free
as a bird; freedom to choose, his life is choice driven within God’s plan.
Satan was created in the Spiritual realm and
was given massive power and authority, but with certain limits. So
Satan is nothing, but a dog on a leash. The Free Will of
Satan and the Free Will of Man both have limits and both operate within
God’s perfect plan. So you can say both
angels and man have LIMITED FREE WILL. As a student of the
Book you may question where in
scripture does it says that Satan has free will,
and I will ask you where it doesn’t; you can observe its existence in all of Satan’s
actions.
Satan was created perfect and was given FREE WILL, which allowed
him to have the potential for the greatest good or the potential for the greatest evil. Somewhere along eternity past Satan SAW all of creation
and focused his WILL on himself and DESIRE was born; he
desired to raise himself up to be equal with God. Desire gives birth to PRIDE of one’s life and with pride comes the fall which
brings on shame, this moves on to corrupted wisdom which
brings on lies; Satan became the Father of Lies.[1]
Satan - Tempting – Deceiving - Tricking
Today
Satan prowls around trying to tempt, deceive and
to trick
us by his masquerading as a good person.[2] He is cunning and resists our efforts; he blinds our
minds and makes us double minded
thus creating doubt. This spawns a spirit of disobedience which steals the
Word of God from our hearts. This causes
us to procrastinate
in our decisions.[3]
Satan is our adversary that seek us out for destruction; to
attack us immediately without hesitation as soon as we seek to do the will of
God. He messes with our lives and even
attacks us with sickness. Today our fight is against his invisible
principalities, his powers and against his rulers of the darkness of this
world.
Tempting – Deceiving –
Tricking Footnotes[4]
Satan Three
Trick Pony
From the beginning of eternity past, Satan has been
a three trick dog and pony show. He
pulls the SAME THREE TRICKS and mankind still falls for it, but we don’t have
to. God does not want us to be ignorant
of the wiles of Satan.[5]
The First Trick is the
desires of our flesh; (self) the craving of
food, drink, pleasure, sex and all that is materialistic, egocentric,
exploitative and selfish.
The Second Trick is the
desires of our eyes; the tendency to be captivated by everything that
entices the eye, basic thoughts of greed and desire; seeing and wanting.
The Third Trick is the Pride
in our lifestyle; this is ostentatious pride that makes us feel
superior to others; the pretentiousness of life; our Public Image.[6]
Let’s look at Jesus: The
tempter comes when we are at our lowest point, when we are weak and tired. Before
trying to trick Jesus, Satan waited until He had not eaten for 40 days. Satan played on hunger to tempt Jesus (the desire of
the flesh), showing Him stones
that could be food (the desire of the eyes); and implied that IF He was really the Son of God He
could produce a miracle; (the pride of one’s lifestyle). Satan implied that IF Jesus was actually the Son of God, He would have the
supernatural ability to provide His own food.[7]
Right here you can see that Satan’s plan
was to cause Jesus, (the second Adam), to test God, to see if God would really
take care of Him. If Satan could just instill second thoughts of
doubt or unbelief, he would have caused Jesus to sin; but Satan failed. Doubt in God is of
Satan and is sin. This action
would have separated Jesus from the perfect access and fellowship of God. Christ did not have to prove anything to
Satan and only quoted
scripture to him. This same principal
applies to sex or to any other realm concerning the desires of the flesh.
Temptation is not
a sin; the sin is giving in to the temptation.[8]
Satan
tried to temp Jesus by offering Him all the kingdoms of the world and they were
all his to give. Satan knew that Jesus
had left from ruling His own dominion (the desire of the flesh) and showed Him his kingdoms of dominion (the desire of
the eyes) and said He could have
it all[9]
(the pride of
one’s lifestyle) if he would just
worship him. But Satan failed again as Christ just
quoted scripture.
Satan
tempted Jesus again; this time taking Him to the very top of the Temple,
probably at a feast or festival time when a multitude of people were
gathering. Satan told Jesus to cast
Himself down demonstrating His superiority (desire of the flesh)
and many people would witness the angels (desire of the eyes) bearing Him
up in front of the multitude (the pride of one’s lifestyle). Jesus just
quoted scripture to him
again. Jesus never performed a miracle in order to
just demonstrate his superiority.
Satan pulled this same trick on Eve in the Garden of Eden. Satan told Eve the fruit was good for food; (desire of the
flesh) she saw that it was a
delight to the eyes, (desire of the eyes)
and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise (pride of one’s
lifestyle), she took of its fruit
and ate.[10]
Satan’s
goal is to keep man from
communicating and fellowshipping with God.
He may seem to leave you, but he is actually waiting for another
opportunity to snag you through temptation and he has plenty of demonic minions
to help him.[11]
The New Old Trick
Satan
has joined the church. The
plan now is to introduce doctrine into the church that tickles the ears of the
saints, to corrupt, compromise and otherwise water down the doctrines of
Christ. Satan makes the Church a VICTIM of change not an INSTRUMENT of change; he cause them to follow not lead.
Satan
deceitfully gets preachers to preach the Bible by what they believe instead of preaching
what they believe by the Bible. SELAH; Ponder that for a minute or two.
Satan
introduces other religions that increase “the man” and diminish God: “Be all that you
can be”, “Prosperity on earth” “You have all you need on the inside” (no repentance
needed)
Have
you noticed that “Teaching” Churches have smaller attendance and
the “Feel Good”
Churches become Mega-Churches? Why is
that? People have itching ears for a
church that preaches what they want to hear.[12]
Sin is not black; it’s 50 shades of grey.
The Take Away
We are no longer ignorant of Satan and his THREE TRICK DOG & PONY SHOW, and
must stay alert and resist temptation and continue to enlarge our faith and
have mercy toward others.[13] It is the supernatural means and actions of
Jesus Christ and His Disciples that has painted a picture for us of “THE WAY” of Hope and eternity with God.[14]
Christ
is our Ladder between this life and the life hereafter. He is the rungs on the
Ladder; He is The Way, The Truth and The Life.[15]
If you reject the supernatural and remove it from scripture, then you
have NO Savior, NO salvation, NO Faith and NO HOPE; with only the death sentence of
everlasting destruction as your future. There is just NO other Name and there is just NO
other Way.[16]
Jesus Christ is THE WAY
[1] Isaiah 14:13-14 – The
five “I Wills” of Satan -- Ezekiel 28:15-16 – Satan’s “WILL” was toward self --
Ezekiel 28:2 – Satan lifted up his thoughts that gave birth to desire -- Ezekiel
28:17-18 – Pride was born within Satan -- Proverbs16:18 – Pride comes and then
the fall to destruction -- Proverbs 11:2 – Pride brought Shame -- Ezekiel 28:17
– Pride corrupted Satan’s wisdom -- John 8:44 – Satan became the father of
lies.
[2] 2 Corinthians 11:14-15 –
Satan masquerades as a good person --1 Peter 5:8- Satan prowls around seeking
someone to trick and devour
[3] 2 Corinthians 2:11 –
Satan is cunning -- Revelation 12:9 – Satan deceives us -- 1 Chronicles 21:1 –
Satan tricks us -- Matthew 4:3 – Satan is The Tempter -- Matthew 4:1 – Satan
tempts us -- 1 Corinthians 3:3 – Satan divides us -- Zechariah
3:1 – Satan resist our efforts -- 2 Corinthians 4:4 – Satan blinds our mind -- James 1:5-8 – Satan makes us double minded
-- Luke 4:3 – Satan creates doubt -- Ephesians 2:2 – Satan spawns a spirit of
disobedience
[4] Luke 8:12 – Satan steals
God’s word from our heart. -- Acts 26:28 – Satan causes us to procrastinate -- 1
Peter 5:8 – Satan is our adversary; seeking us out for destruction -- Mark 4:15
– Satan attack us immediately without hesitation, -- Luke 22:31 – Satan messes with our lives --
Luke 13:16 – Satan afflicts us with sickness -- Ephesians 6:12 – Today our
fight is against invisible principalities and rulers of spiritual wickedness
[5] Romans 11:25 - For I would not have you
ignorant of the mysteries
[6] 1 John 2:16 – Desires of flesh, Desires of
the eyes, Pride of life
[7] Luke 4:1-12 – Jesus was tempted with desires of the Flesh, Eyes and Pride
of life
[8] James 1:13-15 – CAUTION; temptation gives birth to
death
[9] Matthew 4:8-9 – Satan says worship me and you can have it ALL
[10] Genesis 3:6 – Eve saw the fruit; desired it and took it and ate
[11] Luke 4:13 – Satan may leave, but looks for another opportunity
[12] Acts 17:20-21 – People
prefer to listen to the latest strange ideas -- 2 Timothy4:3-4 – People have
turned away from truth and are seeking what their itching ears want to hear
[13] 2 Peter 1:5-7 – We are to
grow and enlarge our faith through Goodliness, goodness, brotherly love and
knowledge of His Word -- Jude 22-23 - We are to be merciful and show mercy to
others
[14]
Acts 19:23 – There was a great disturbance about THE
WAY
-- Revelation
22:17- Where there is a WILL
there is THE WAY --
Proverbs 16:25 – There are ways that
seem right to man, but lead to death -- 1 Peter 1:10-15 – We are no
longer live in ignorance, we know THE WAY -- 1 Peter 5:8-9 – We must stay alert and resist
temptation, the enemy Satan is prowling around like a roaring lion
[15] Genesis 32:3 - Christ is
our ladder between heaven and earth. - Acts
24:14 – We are followers of the sect known as “The
Way” --
[16] John 3:15-16 – Whosoever WILL;
Whosoever Won’t -- Matthew
10:32-33 – Whosoever WILL
confess me, I will confess him before the Father
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