How can Satan devour a person?

➣        Jesus tells us in one of the most shocking statements ever made about man.

➣        He said that a person who does not trust and follow God as his Father is actually being led and following the devil as his father.

➣        In other words, Jesus says that all unbelievers have the devil as their father.

✞        “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.” – John 8:44.

Our text this morning teaches us two very important things.

First… every Born Again Believer in Christ has an enemy who desires to steal, kill, and destroy them and the work that they doing for the Lord.

➣        You must “Beware of this enemy and you must be guarded against and resisted this enemy both physically and spiritually.”

Second…. It is God’s will to give His people the abundant life or a life of fulfilled promise and blessing.

➣        However…. We need to actively process this abundant life as the children of Israel did and as they went in and possessed the Promise land.

➣        They had to slay Giants in the land, and we too must fight Giants and Spiritual Enemies who seek to Steal, Kill, and Destroy us.

Notice with me that Jesus is teaching us how satan devours man.

Jesus said….. satan destroy and consumes man by leading them to LUST.

1. The devil leads us to lust. He tempts us to give in to the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.

✞        “15. Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.” 1 John 2:15-16.

Jesus said….. Satan destroy and consumes man by leading them to MURDER.

1. The devil leads us to murder. The devil is behind the murder of human life The devil destroys life and all abundant living when he can: all love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, discipline.

✞        “When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.” – Matthew 13:19.

✞        “9. 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 now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” – Job 1:9-11.

Jesus was saying that one thing is certain: God is not the father of murder…. but—the satan is.

They who commit murder are children of the devil.

✞        In Matthew 5:22 – “But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.”

Murder is…

➣        Anger

➣        Bitterness

➣        Enmity

➣        An uncontrolled spirit

➣        Desiring a person’s ruin

➣        Envying and killing a person’s happiness

➣        Striking out at a person

➣        slandering, speaking ill about a person, and destroying a person’s image (who is created in God’s image)

Jesus said….. Satan destroy and consumes man by leading them to REJECT THE TRUTH.

1. The devil leads men to reject the truth.

✞        “He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.” – 1 John 3:8.

Jesus said….. satan destroy and consumes man by leading them to LIE AND DECEIVE.

1. The devil leads men to lie and deceive.

✞        “But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” – 2 Cor. 4:3-4.

“You Better Beware…. Satan Is Trying To Destroy and Kill You”