Keep Your Eyes

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Keep Your Eyes On Satan
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• We Need To Be..
• Sober serious in mind
• Vigilant keenly alert to or heedful of trouble
  or danger

• The Devil Is Your...
• Slanderer - false statements injurious to a
  person's reputation.
• Accuser - To make a charge of wrongdoing against
  another
• Deceiver causes one to believe what is not true

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary
the devil walks about like a roaring lion,
seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 58
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• We Need To Be..
• Sober
• Vigilant

• Satan...
• Adversary - An opponent an enemy.
• Stalks You - To pursue by tracking stealthily
• Is Never Satisfied. - He wants YOU!

Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary
the devil walks about like a roaring lion,
seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 58
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Satan Hates God And Man
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• He Accuses God before Man
• a charge of wrongdoing against us
• Genesis 34-5
  Then the serpent said to the woman, "You will
  not surely die. "For God knows that in the day
  you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you
  will be like God, knowing good and evil.

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Satan Hates God And Man
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• He Accuses Man before God.
• a charge of wrongdoing against God
• Job...19-11
  So Satan answered the LORD
  and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? 10.
  "Have You not made a hedge around him, around his
  household, and around all that he has on every
  side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and
  his possessions have increased in the land. 11.
  But stretch out your hand and strike everything
  he has, and he will surely curse you to your
  face."

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Satan Hates God And Man
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• He Accuses Man before God.
• a charge of wrongdoing against God
• Zechariah 31
  Then he showed me Joshua the high priest
  standing before the Angel of the LORD, and Satan
  standing at his right hand to oppose him.

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Satan Hates God And Man
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Accuses Men to Each Other
• a charge of wrongdoing against each other
• Colossians...38-9
  But now you yourselves are to put off all these
  anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language
  out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another,
  since you have put off the old man with his
  deeds

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Satan Hates God And Man
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• He Works on Christians
• Ephesians...612
  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,
  but against principalities, against powers,
  against the rulers of the darkness of this age,
  against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the
  heavenly places.

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How Satan Works
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How Satan Works
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• By taking advantage
• 2 Corinthians 28 11
• Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm
  your love toward him..
• lest Satan should take advantage of us for we
  are not ignorant of his devices.

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How Satan Works
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Operates through enticements
• James 114
• But each one is tempted when he is drawn away
  by his own desires and enticed.

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How Satan Works
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Operates on our minds- our heart
• John 132
  And supper being ended, the devil having
  already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot,
  Simon's son, to betray Him

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How Satan Works
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Operates on our minds- our heart
• Acts 53
• But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled
  your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep
  back part of the price of the land for yourself?

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How Satan Works
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Operates through human agents
• Matthew 1623
  But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me,
  Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not
  mindful of the things of God, but the things of
  men.

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How Satan Works
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Operates through human agents
• John 670 71
  Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you,
  the twelve, and one of you is a devil?" He spoke
  of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was
  he who would betray Him, being one of the twelve.

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How Satan Works
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Operates through things that appear right
• 2 Corinthians 1113-15
• For such are false apostles, deceitful
  workers, transforming themselves into apostles of
  Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself
  transforms himself into an angel of light.
  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers
  also transform themselves into ministers of
  righteousness, whose end will be according to
  their works.

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How We Can Be Victorious Over Satan
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How We Can Be Victorious
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Remember, Satan is a liar
• John 844
  "You are of your father the devil, and
  the desires of your father you want to do. He was
  a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand
  in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
  When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own
  resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

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How We Can Be Victorious
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Truth delivers us from Satans lies
• John 832
  "And you shall know the truth, and the truth
  shall make you free."

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How We Can Be Victorious
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Practical Ways to Resist Satan
• James 47
  Therefore
  submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee
  from you.

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How We Can Be Victorious
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Practical Ways to Resist Satan
• Be Alert. - I Peter 58
• Be Armed. Ephesians 611
• Maintain self-control. II Peter 16
• Know your escape routes. - I Cor 1013
• Obey God because of love. John 1415
• Pray. - Luke 2133 -36

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How We Can Be Victorious
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Luke 2134 - 36"But take heed to yourselves, lest
  your hearts be weighed down with carousing,
  drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day
  come on you unexpectedly.
• 35. "For it will come as a snare on all those
  who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36.
  "Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be
  counted worthy to escape all these things that
  will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of
  Man."

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How We Can Be Victorious
Keep Your Eye On Satan

• Jesus is greater than Satan
• 1 John 44
  You are of God, little children, and have
  overcome them, because He who is in you is
  greater than he who is in the world.

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Becoming a Christian...

• Hear the gospel John 1248

• Believe in Jesus John 824

Just a Christian!

• Repent of your sins Luke 133, 5

• Confess Christ Romans 1017

• Baptism into Christ Mark 1616

• Faithfulness Matt 2413 Rev 210