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A Spirit of Wickedness
Ephesians 6:12-13

• Jonah 2:8 TLB "Those who worship false gods have turned their backs on all the mercies waiting for them from the Lord!"
• Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"

Live On The Life Side

• John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly."
• I John 5:4-5 "For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"
• A life lived in victory and on the offense is a life of faith and knowledge.

The devil is an A.D. Devil

• I John 3:8 "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." 
• Colossians 2:15  "Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it."
  • The cross was a decisive victory over Satan and Satan's host.
• Colossians 1:13-14 "He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins."
  • This victory insured that countless numbers would be delivered from the dominion of darkness and transferred to the kingdom of Christ
• I Corinthians 10:13 "No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man"
  • Believers will not be tempted beyond our power of resistance
• Ephesians 6:11-18
  • The believer has God's armor—the biblical gospel, integrity, peace through Christ, faith in Christ, prayer—as spiritual security
    Satan and demonic forces are active, but they are limited.
  • Satan and demonic forces are active, but they are limited.

Demons Warfare

• Ephesians 6:12-13
  
• II Corinthians 10:3-6
  
• Isaiah 60:1-2
• Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"
  • Revelation 12
    
  • Ezekiel 28:12-19
    
  • Isaiah 14:12-15
• His M.O. (modus operandi)
  • I Peter 5:8-9 - "Like" a roaring lion
  • II Corinthians 4:4 – "As" the god of this world blinding the minds of unbelievers
  • John 10:10 - a thief that comes to steal, kill & destroy
• His work
  • Luke 8:12 – the devil comes to take the seed of the word
  • John 8:44 – a murderer from the beginning – the father of lies
  • Genesis 3 – the initial deceiver

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.
--- A. W. Tozer (1897–1963)

Great opportunity is often accompanied by great opposition!

• Nehemiah 4:9 "Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night."
  • Expect difficulty and resistance when you do what is right!
• I Corinthians 16:9 "For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries."
• I John 4:4 "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."