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).