The Christian’s Warfare: Know Your Enemy Pt. 2

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Outline

1. What are Satan’s Limits?

2. What Are Satan’s Strategies?

Study Questions

1. Satan has been active from the beginning to oppose God and His purposes.

   1. What are some of the ways Satan has been active in the OT? (see Gen 3:1-7; Job 1-2; 1 Chron 21:1; 1 Kings 22. It may be helpful to discover some others, also)

   2. What are some ways Satan has been active in the NT? (see Matt 4:1-11; Luke 13:16; 22:3, 31; Acts 5:3; 1 Thess 2:18; 2 Cor 12:7; Rev 13:2, 4; 16:13-14)

   3. What patterns can you find in Satan’s activity in the Bible?

2. Satan is powerful, but his power is not absolute.

   1. In what two ways is Satan’s power limited (answer was in the sermon)?

   2. Why is it important for believers to understand the vast difference between God and Satan?

   3. How can a firm grasp of God’s sovereignty protect Christians from anxiety or despair?

   4. How should Christians think through the issue of God’s sovereignty and Satan’s activity?

3. Satan is a master strategist and tactician with the resources of the world at his disposal to disrupt God’s purposes through the church in the world.

   1. What are some of Satan’s strategies and tactics?

   2. What was the main strategy or tactic Satan employed in the garden of Eden?

   3. How do we still see this employed in the world today?