To Be Like Satan

Oh, To Be Like Thee,

Satan!

Stay Away!

• “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your

adversary the devil prowls around like a

roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Resist him, firm in your faith” (1 Pt 5:8-9,

ESV).

Stay Away!

• “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your

adversary the devil prowls around like a

roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Resist him, firm in your faith” (1 Pt 5:8-9,

ESV).

• But, Satan has many admirable attributes!

Stay Away!

• “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your

adversary the devil prowls around like a

roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Resist him, firm in your faith” (1 Pt 5:8-9,

ESV).

• But, Satan has many admirable attributes!

• Tonight, we‟ll think about ways we need

to be like Satan.

IN HIS PREPARATION

In His Preparation

• “Put on the whole armor of God, that you

may be able to stand against the schemes

of the devil” (Eph 5:11, ESV).

In His Preparation

• “Now the serpent was more crafty than

any other beast of the field that the LORD

God had made. He said to the woman,

„Did God actually say, “You shall not eat

of any tree in the garden”?‟” (Gn 3:1,

ESV).

In His Preparation

• “Now the serpent was more crafty than

any other beast of the field that the LORD

God had made. He said to the woman,

„Did God actually say, “You shall not eat

of any tree in the garden”?‟” (Gn 3:1,

ESV).

• What God said: “You may surely eat of

every tree of the garden, but of the tree of

the knowledge of good and evil you shall

not eat” (Gn 2:16-17, ESV).

In His Preparation

• Satan “took [Jesus] to Jerusalem and set

him on the pinnacle of the temple and

said to him, „If you are the Son of God,

throw yourself down from here, for it is

written, “He will command his angels

concerning you, to guard you,” and “On

their hands they will bear you up, lest you

strike your foot against a stone”‟” (Lk

4:9-11, ESV).

HOW PREPARED ARE WE?

In His Preparation

• “As shoes for your feet, having put on the

readiness given by the gospel of peace”

(Eph 6:15, ESV).

In His Preparation

• “As shoes for your feet, having put on the

readiness given by the gospel of peace”

(Eph 6:15, ESV).

• Are we prepared to share our faith?

In His Preparation

• “He told them a parable, saying, „The land of a rich

man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself,

“What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my

crops?” And he said, “I will do this: I will tear down my

barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my

grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul,

you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax,

eat, drink, be merry.” But God said to him, “Fool! This

night your soul is required of you, and the things you

have prepared, whose will they be?”‟” (Lk 12:16-20,

ESV).

In His Preparation

• “What does it profit a man to gain the

whole world and forfeit his soul? For

what can a man give in return for his

soul?” (Mk 8:36-37, ESV).

IN HIS PERFORMANCE

In His Performance

• Satan carries out what he plans to do.

In His Performance

• Satan carries out what he plans to do.

– Garden of Eden.

In His Performance

• Satan carries out what he plans to do.

– Garden of Eden.

– Temptation of Jesus.

In His Performance

• “In this matter I give my judgment: this

benefits you, who a year ago started not

only to do this work but also to desire to

do it. So now finish doing it as well, so

that your readiness in desiring it may be

matched by your completing it out of

what you have” (2 Cor 8:10-11, ESV).

In His Performance

• “My food is to do the will of him who

sent me and to accomplish his work” (Jn

4:34, ESV).

In His Performance

• “My food is to do the will of him who

sent me and to accomplish his work” (Jn

4:34, ESV).

• “I glorified you on earth, having

accomplished the work that you gave me

to do” (Jn 17:4, ESV).

In His Performance

• “My food is to do the will of him who

sent me and to accomplish his work” (Jn

4:34, ESV).

• “I glorified you on earth, having

accomplished the work that you gave me

to do” (Jn 17:4, ESV).

• “I have fought the good fight, I have

finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2

Tm 4:7, ESV).

In His Performance

• “Too many Christians are guilty of

thinking without doing or doing without

thinking.”

IN HIS PERSEVERANCE

In His Perseverance

• “When the devil had ended every

temptation, he departed from him until an

opportune time” (Lk 4:13, ESV).

In His Perseverance

• “When the devil had ended every

temptation, he departed from him until an

opportune time” (Lk 4:13, ESV).

• “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall

never happen to you” (Mt 16:22, ESV).

In His Perseverance

• “When the devil had ended every

temptation, he departed from him until an

opportune time” (Lk 4:13, ESV).

• “Far be it from you, Lord! This shall

never happen to you” (Mt 16:22, ESV).

• “Get behind me, Satan! You are a

hindrance to me. For you are not setting

your mind on the things of God, but on

the things of man” (Mt 16:23, ESV).

In His Perseverance

• “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your

adversary the devil prowls around like a

roaring lion, seeking someone to devour”

(1 Pt 5:8, ESV).

In His Perseverance

• “Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your

adversary the devil prowls around like a

roaring lion, seeking someone to devour”

(1 Pt 5:8, ESV).

• He didn‟t give up on Job!

In His Perseverance

• “He said to them, „Which of you who has a

friend will go to him at midnight and say to

him, “Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend

of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have

nothing to set before him”; and he will answer

from within, “Do not bother me; the door is

now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I

cannot get up and give you anything”? I tell

you, though he will not get up and give him

anything because he is his friend, yet because of

his impudence he will rise and give him

whatever he needs‟” (Lk 11:5-8, ESV).

In His Perseverance

• “He told them a parable to the effect that

they ought always to pray and not lose

heart” (Lk 18:1, ESV).

In His Perseverance

• “He told them a parable to the effect that

they ought always to pray and not lose

heart” (Lk 18:1, ESV).

• “Leaving them again, he went and prayed

for the third time, saying the same words

again” (Mt 26:44, ESV).

In His Perseverance

• “Let us no grow wearing of doing good,

for in due season we will reap, if we do

not give up” (Gal 6:9, ESV).

In His Perseverance

• “Let us no grow wearing of doing good,

for in due season we will reap, if we do

not give up” (Gal 6:9, ESV).

• “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be

steadfast, immovable, always abounding

in the work of the Lord, knowing that in

the Lord your labor is not in vain” (1 Cor

15:58, ESV).

IN HIS PERSUASION

In His Persuasion

• “Even Satan disguises himself as an angel

of life” (2 Cor 11:14, ESV).

In His Persuasion

• “Even Satan disguises himself as an angel

of life” (2 Cor 11:14, ESV).

• “Beware of false prophets, who come to

you in sheep‟s clothing but inwardly are

ravenous wolves” (Mt 7:15, ESV).

In His Persuasion

• “Even Satan disguises himself as an angel

of life” (2 Cor 11:14, ESV).

• “Beware of false prophets, who come to

you in sheep‟s clothing but inwardly are

ravenous wolves” (Mt 7:15, ESV).

• If Satan weren‟t persuasive,

– How else could he get people to sin?

In His Persuasion

• “Even Satan disguises himself as an angel

of life” (2 Cor 11:14, ESV).

• “Beware of false prophets, who come to

you in sheep‟s clothing but inwardly are

ravenous wolves” (Mt 7:15, ESV).

• If Satan weren‟t persuasive,

– How else could he get people to sin?

– Why else would we live in a world full of

sin, sickness, and death?

In His Persuasion

• “Knowing the fear of the Lord, we

persuade others” (2 Cor 5:11, ESV).

In His Persuasion

• “Knowing the fear of the Lord, we

persuade others” (2 Cor 5:11, ESV).

• “Go out to the highways and hedges and

compel people to come in, that my house

may be filled” (Lk 14:23, ESV).