You Can Know How to Defeat Satan: A Spiritual Strategy for Victory by Morris Cerullo

Author:Morris Cerullo
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: spiritual warfare, Devil, California, Spiritual Life
Publisher: World Evangelism
Published: 1980-02-14T22:00:00+00:00

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us" (Romans 8:37).

Chapter Twelve

Satan's Power in Lives Today

The Bible clearly states that Satan is real and that he exercises a certain amount of power in this world today:

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" (I Peter 5:8).

In addition to being known as the devil, Satan, and Lucifer, he is mentioned in the Bible as the dragon, serpent, adversary, Belial, Beelzebub, and others at least 175 times. In II Corinthians 4:4 he is referred to as the "god of this world."

In Chapter Six we discussed how he became the "god of the world." When Lucifer rebelled against God's will and was cast out of heaven (Revelation 12:4), it was years before the birth of Jesus as a babe in Bethlehem. However, Christ was present during that judgment. Years later He told His disciples: "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven " (Luke 10:18).

When Satan was cast out, he set up his headquarters, established his armies, and began his all-out invasion of earth's atmosphere.

The flood gates for Satan's power over mankind were opened by Adam in that first act of his obedience to Satan in the Garden of Eden.

"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" (Romans 6.16).

It also brought judgment and death upon all mankind:

"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" (Romans 5:12).

That is why man is degenerate from his youth. His basic nature is now sinful.

There are those who teach that "everyone is inherently good." An internationally known organization has as its slogan, "There is no such thing as a bad boy." Some put a label of "sickness" on such things as homosexuality, alcoholism or other areas of bondage, but the Bible has this to say of fallen man:

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked..." (Jeremiah 17:9).

"Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me" (Psalm 51:5).

"For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not" (Ecclesiastes 7:20).

While the slogans and excuses invented by the world to accommodate their own deeds may sound pleasant to the ear, they simply are not true.

Environment, training, social mores, etc., can cause people to exhibit civilized behavior, "acceptable" habits and characteristics. However, the pull is always downward for the unregenerated person who has not been transformed by the new birth in Jesus Christ.

Several times in the Bible when days of great wickedness are described, the explanation is that:

"...every man did that which was right in his own eyes" (Judges 17:6).

"And ye have done worse than your fathers; for behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me" (Jeremiah 16:12).

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