We need to know what Satan’s purpose is…
2 Corinthians 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Devices (Greek) - Noēma - perception that is purpose
Let us ask then… who is Satan?
· John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
o He is the father of lies
o He is a murder
o And he has been this way from the beginning
Who created Satan?
· Isaiah 45:6 That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
· John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
o God created Satan
What were the characteristics of Satan when God created him?
· He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth (John 8:44)
Who did Satan first murder?
Eve was Satan’s first victim. Satan served as an enticement unto Eve’s lust.
· James 1:13-15
· 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
· 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
· 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
§ Satan’s desire for the children of God is spiritual death.
§ Satan accomplishes his task (through the lust of the flesh).
§ Satan was created as a liar and a murder from the begging.
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