Tell them of Jesus the mighty to save, Rescue the perishing care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.
Though they are sliding Him still, He is waiting, Waiting the pedant and child to see.
Lead with them earnestly, Lead with them gently,
He will forgive if they only believe, Rescue the perishing care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.
Down in the human heart crushed by the tinder,
Feelings like Mary, the praise can restore.
Touched by a loving heart, Paken by madness,
Wards that are broken will vibrate once more.
Rescue the perishing care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.
Rescue the perishing, duty demented.
Strength for the labor the Lord will provide.
Back to the narrow way patiently with them.
Tell them for one for a Savior has died.
Rescue the perishing care for the dying.
Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save.
What is the shepherd's voice I hear?
Down in the desert dark and drear,
Calling the sheep who've gone astray,
Far from the shepherd's fold away.
Bring them in, bring them in,
Bring them in from the fields of sin.
Bring them in, bring them in,
Bring them in from the fields of sin.
Bring them in, bring them in,
Bring them in from the fields of sin.
Bring them in, bring them in,
Bring them in from the fields of sin.
Bring them in, bring them in,
Bring them in from the fields of sin.
from the fields of sin.
Bring them in, bring them in.
Bring the wandering ones to Jesus.
All the last now.
Out in the desert, hear their cry.
Out on the mountains, wild and cry.
Part is the master's peace to think.
Go find my sheep wherever they be.
And 26, we'll get started with our first song.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day in your hymn, song 426.
Sing it out nice and loud on the first.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day.
There, oh, come, build your carol's play.
And while in sleep, the words will be.
A peace that I could build today.
I thought it was the day I'd go.
The bells raise up on Christmas Day.
And all the wandering ones in town.
A peace that I could build today.
And if it's fair, I'd bow my head.
There is no peace on earth, I said.
For pain is wrong and wrong's the sum.
A peace on earth could build today.
Then deal the bells, roll loud and deep.
God is fine there, boys, I'll let you sleep.
The bells help them, the light bring them.
Then peace on earth could build today.
Till ringing, singing on each way.
The love we hold from night to day.
The voice of time, the sense of life.
A peace on earth could build today.
Good singing, let us pray.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for this church service.
Thank you for allowing us to be gathered here.
Thank you for the goodwill you sent us through your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
I pray that you would be with those that are sick,
that you would allow us to have the right spirit for Christmas,
and that we would also share that bright and shining light of the Gospel
with the loss. It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Let's go ahead and sing our second song, 430.
Just flip the page, you're right there.
430.
While shepherds watch their flocks, song 430.
Around, and morning's strong around.
Fear not setting for mighty dread,
that she's there from all time.
That's hiding some pain, joy I bring.
To you and all mankind.
To you and David's now mystic, it's born of David's mind.
For say your new is Christ the Lord,
and this shall be the sign.
And this shall be the sign.
The happy they knew there's now might.
To you and you this way.
All meaning wrapped in swarming vent.
And in a major ring.
All glory be to God, our God, and to the earth he leads.
Goodwill is born from the human being it and never sees.
Being it and never sees.
Thank you for coming to Steadfast Baptist Church.
If anybody lost some keys, I've got some up here, so just FYI.
Also, if you did not get a bulletin and you'd like one, just lift up your hand nice and high.
We have our Bible memory passage, Matthew 28.
We're working on verse number five.
And also on the inside, we have our service, our soul winning times.
Church stats, make sure you turn that into your soul winning captains.
If you have that, or if you just put it in our group chat for your stats.
Also our maps, make sure you're please updating them and putting them in there.
On the right, we have a list of our expecting ladies, if you'd please be in prayer for them.
And then we have a church prayer list.
So if you'd like to have yourself added or friend or anybody that you want prayer for,
you can just email us or you could fill out a communication card and put it
that in the offering plate.
On the back, we had the cleaning volunteer lunch.
Thanks to those who helped clean the church.
We have a Christmas cookie bake off coming Christmas day.
And so we'll have our normal regular service time at seven and we'll have some candlelight service
immediately following the service as well as a cookie competition.
And so we're giving out prizes for the three categories of best tasting,
best decorated and most creative.
And then again, down below, we have a couple other events.
January 1st is going to be a men's preaching night and pizza.
So if you're 18 older, you're a man, you wear a button up shirt and tie,
and you'd like to preach about a five minute sermon.
We'll have that as an opportunity on January 1st.
And then we're going to have a pizza fellowship following January 11th through the 12th.
There is a church down there in Houston,
Springcrest Baptist Church with Pastor Reyes,
who's invited me to come out and preach for them.
And we're going to be having a soul winning event the day prior.
So we'll be meeting there at the church at about 10 a.m.
We can actually meet around 9 a.m. going out around 10 a.m.
For a couple hours of soul winning.
We'll have lunch, have an afternoon soul winning time.
And then also we're going to have kind of a fellowship event.
I'll be preaching both services on that Sunday.
Their Sunday service schedule is actually, I believe the same as ours.
So they have a 1030 a.m. service and then a 430 p.m. service.
And so we'll, I guess we're just setting the trend.
You know what I mean?
So, now, but it makes sense.
And so if you want to join us for those service times,
we'd love for you to come down there
or if you just want to pray for us while we're down there.
That's exciting.
On the inside of our bulletin, we had a little separate printout.
And it was a congratulations to the Brooks on the birth of their daughter,
Rosalie Marie.
She was born on the 12th, 2.52 p.m., 6 pounds and 7 ounces.
Congratulations to them.
And that's pretty much all I have as far as announcements.
We're going to sing our Psalm of the Week.
And it's Psalm 119.
And so if you can get your special handouts, that'll help you.
And we'll sing this one through.
I will live unto my eternal life, unto my eternal life.
Best morning, I will perform it, that I will keep thy rightest judgment.
I have afflicted very much quick in me, O Lord according unto thy word.
The wicked have laid us near for me, and I am from thy precepts.
I stumble, these have been taken as enemies forever.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and the light, unto my path.
Accept I beseech thee, the free will offerings of my mouth, O Lord,
and teach me thy judgments.
My soul is continually in mine, and yet do I not forget thy law.
The wicked have laid us near for me, and I am from thy precepts.
I test the holy staff I take in us, and their image forever.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and the light, unto my path.
O Lord, they are the rejoicing of my heart I have in mine, my heart to perform.
Thy stand shoots away, even unto the end, I hit main parts, but thy law do I love.
The wicked have laid us near for me, and I am from thy precepts.
I test the holy staff I take in us, and their image forever.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and the light, unto my path.
Very good singing. At this time we turn your bibles to 1 Thessalonians chapter number two.
Our ushers are going to pass our offering plates
and we'll read the entire chapter of 1 Thessalonians chapter number two.
Thessalonians chapter two, the Bible says,
For yourselves brethren know our entrance in unto you that it was not in vain,
but even after that we had suffered before and were shamefully untreated as you know
at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.
For our exhortation was not of deceit nor of uncleanness nor in guile,
but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak,
not as pleasing men, but God which trieth our hearts.
For neither at any time used we flattering words as you know,
nor a cloak of covetousness God is witness.
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you nor yet of others,
when we might have been burdensome as the apostles of Christ,
but we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherished her children.
So being affectionately desirous of you,
we were willing to have imparted unto you not the gospel of God only,
but also our own souls because you were dear unto us.
For you remember brethren our labor and travail,
for laboring night and day because we would not be chargeable unto any of you,
we preached unto you the gospel of God.
Year witnesses and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably
we behaved ourselves among you that believe.
As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you
as a father doth his children, that ye would walk worthy of God
who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing,
because when ye received the word of God which he heard of us,
ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth,
the word of God which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
For ye brethren became followers of the churches of God
which in Judea are in Christ Jesus.
For ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen,
even as they have of the Jews who both killed the Lord Jesus
and their own prophets and have persecuted us,
and they please not God and are contrary to all men,
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved.
To fill up their sins all way,
for the wrath has come upon them to the uttermost.
But we brethren being taken from you for a short time in presence,
not in heart, endeavored the more abundantly
to see your face with great desire.
Wherefore we would have come unto you,
even I, Paul, once and again, but Satan hindered us.
For what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing?
Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ
that is coming?
For ye are our glory and joy.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, I want to thank you for this day.
I want to thank you for the reminder this morning
about your great love for us
and the great hope that we have in Jesus Christ.
Please help us to keep our minds on you this Christmas season.
Please bless Pastor Shelly as he preaches the word to us.
Remove all distractions and help us to be attentive
to your word. In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
The Bible says in verse 18 says,
Wherefore we would have come unto you,
even I, Paul, once and again, but Satan hindered us.
And the Bible talks about a particular character,
Satan. And Satan has a couple different names,
Lucifer, the devil, that old serpent.
There's a few different ways that we can describe him.
Sometimes there's also other kind of metaphors or,
you know, talking about Beelzebub or other things
that maybe be alluding to the devil.
But we typically refer to him as Satan.
And what I thought would be interesting
is to look through the Bible and notice the attacks of Satan.
And so the title of my evening sermon is this,
the attacks of Satan.
Notice here that Satan is stopping the apostle Paul
from traveling to certain areas to preach the gospel.
So one of the attacks that the devil does
is he gets people banned or hindered
from going to certain parts of the world
to preach the gospel.
That is something that the Bible is bringing up.
And what I think is interesting is to think about
what the devil does to people in the Bible
and then think about how that may relate to us today.
But I really just want to spend a lot of time quickly
going through the attacks of Satan that we see in the Bible.
Go to Job chapter one.
Go to Job chapter number one.
But the first point is that Satan will stop people
from traveling to certain areas
because he knows how effective they are.
The apostle Paul is a very effective preacher of the gospel.
The apostle Paul is very mission oriented,
evangelistic.
And so the apostle Paul makes a great dent
into the devil when he goes to an area.
And so the devil is preventing him, hindering him.
And what's interesting is that the apostle Paul
is aware of the fact that it's literally Satan.
It's the devil who is causing him
to not be able to travel to certain areas.
And so the devil is aware of the servants of God.
The devil's main goal is to fight
against the servants of God
and to take as many people to hell with them as possible.
Well, who is his biggest opposition?
People preaching the gospel then.
Because if no one preaches the gospel,
the devil doesn't have to do much.
You know, broad is the way which leads to destruction.
I mean, there's not really any reason
for someone to go to heaven apart from hearing the gospel.
That's the only way you can get there.
So if no one's preaching the gospel,
then he doesn't really have to do much.
But of course, because the gospel is so powerful,
the devil has all these different lies
and deceptions and traps to try and stop people
from hearing the gospel, from hearing the truth.
And so one of those is literally preventing people
from traveling areas and preaching the gospel.
Here's other attacks that Satan does.
Job chapter number one,
look at what it says in verse number six.
Now, there was a day when the sons of God came
to present themselves before the Lord
and Satan came also among them.
Here's another lie that the world will teach you
is that Satan is in hell right now
or that Satan is partying in hell
or that Satan is locked up in hell.
But that's not what the Bible teaches.
The Bible teaches that the devil, Satan,
is walking around the earth.
Not only is he walking around the earth,
apparently he has the ability to even go to heaven.
And so the devil presents himself to God in heaven
with the sons of God,
which I believe is just the saints, those who are saved.
And God talks to Satan.
It says in the Lord said unto Satan,
whence cometh thou?
Then Satan answered the Lord and said,
from going to and fro in the earth
and walking up and down in it.
Notice Satan did not say, I came from hell.
Notice the Bible does not say
that Satan came from outer space.
He was from the earth.
He was walking around on the earth.
What do you think he's doing?
Well, the Bible is pretty clear what he's doing.
He's going about as a lion seeking whom he may devour.
He's constantly going around trying to do things
like hindering the apostle Paul
from going out and preaching the gospel.
So who is Satan most focused in on?
The people that are just doing drugs
and doing nothing
or the people that are serving God
and actually trying to be effective
for the kingdom of God.
He's focused in on the people
that actually love the Lord
or servants of God and doing the most for God.
Who's the most doing for God at this time?
Job.
Job is the most effective man of God.
That's what the Bible tells us about him
in verse number one.
So the God first asked Satan,
where'd you come from?
Cotton-eyed Joe.
I don't know.
It's just kind of...
He's like, come from the earth, right?
And the Lord said unto Satan,
hast thou considered my servant Job?
That there is none like him in the earth,
a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God in a shoe of evil.
Now notice what Satan does not say.
It does not say,
and Satan answered the Lord and said,
I don't even know who Job is.
What's Job?
Who are you talking about?
What does it say?
Then Satan answered the Lord and said,
doth Job fear God for naught?
So he's like, hey, have you ever considered Job?
He's like, yeah, I know about Job.
Why?
Because the devil knows
who is the godly people in this world.
Not only does he just not...
Not only does he not...
Not only does he know who Job is,
notice what he describes him as in verse 10.
Hast thou not made and hedge about him
and about his house
and about all that he hath on every side?
Thou hast blessed the work of his hands
and his substance is increased in the land.
So the devil knows not only is Job exist,
but he knows that Job,
you can't get at this guy from any angle.
Because notice he said like,
hey, you've made a hedge about him on every side.
Sounds like the devil's been trying every side, hasn't he?
Not only has he been trying every side,
hey, you've also been blessing the work of his hands.
He's been effective.
He's doing something.
He's accomplishing something.
Not only is he accomplishing something,
his substance is increasing in the land.
So he's being prosperous.
He's effective.
Job, when you read through the book of Job,
obviously reached a lot of people.
A lot of people sought his wisdom.
He was a elder in a sense
and he taught a lot of people the Word of God
and was a great man of God.
And the devil definitely knows who Job is.
Now, they are going to get in a little bit of an argument here.
This is what the devil says,
but put forth thine hand now
and touch all that he hath,
and he will curse thee to thy face.
And the Lord said in the Satan,
behold, all that he hath is in thy power.
Only upon himself put not forth thine hand.
So Satan went forth from the presence of the Lord.
So what does the devil do?
Well, the devil is going to bring
severe persecution against Job.
Now in the text it tells us that
he loses his children, all 10 of them.
He loses all of his flocks
and his money and his herdsmen
and basically most of his servants
apart from the handful
that basically come to tell him the bad news.
So he basically just has economic loss,
financial loss, family loss, just everything.
I'm not really getting focused in on the details.
This is what I think.
It's just severe persecution
against the best Christian.
If we look at Satan's attack so far,
he's hindering and banning the greatest Christian.
Then we see severe persecution
against the best Christian, okay?
And specifically then he ramps it up
because that doesn't work.
Job still has the right attitude.
Look what he says in verse number 21,
and said,
Naked came I out of my mother's womb
and naked shall I return.
Thither the Lord gave
and the Lord hath taken away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
In all this Job sin not,
nor charge God foolishly.
Even after losing all 10 of his children,
all of his money, all of his goods,
he still was a godly Christian,
was still going to serve God,
wasn't going to say anything against him.
So then verse one of chapter two.
Again there was a day when the sons of God
came to present themselves before the Lord
and Satan came also.
Among them present himself before the Lord.
And the Lord said to Satan
from whence cometh thou?
And Satan answered the Lord and said,
From going to and fro in the earth
and from walking up and down in it.
And the Lord said to the Satan,
Thou consider my servant Job,
that there is none like him in the earth,
a perfect and upright man,
one that feareth God and she with evil.
And still he holdeth fast his integrity.
Although the moves meet against him
to destroy him without cause.
So notice the devil will attack
the best Christians for no good reason,
for no legitimate reason,
not even as a punishment.
So we're going to study the attacks
of Satan so far.
The apostle Paul's band Job
is being severely persecuted for no reason,
for absolutely no fault of his own,
nothing that he did wrong.
He is just being hammered by Satan.
And after withstanding all of that,
he does it again.
He doesn't give up.
He hits him even harder.
Now he says this, verse 4.
And Satan answered,
The Lord in said skin for skin,
Yea, all that a man hath will they give
for his life,
but put forth thine hand now,
and touch his bone in his flesh,
and he will curse thee to thy face.
Well you know what?
Satan was a liar in chapter 1.
So how do I know he's not going to be a liar in chapter 2?
Oh yea, he's the father of lies.
He's going to lie again.
But here's what he did.
Not only did he afflict Job
in such a severe persecution
economically in his children,
he then puts boils all over his body
and gives him the worst pain and suffering
that you could possibly have without dying.
Because God won't allow him to kill him,
but the devil's allowed to afflict his body.
And so we see if we look at the tax of Satan,
he's hindering the best Christians
and he's bringing severe persecution against the best.
Now ultimately the story of Job,
Job ends up succeeding
and not cursing God foolishly.
God eventually delivers him.
But he still has his wife come attack him.
He has his friends attack him.
And they all just like,
man, you're obviously a super sinful guy.
Then he has a bozo come out of nowhere and attack him,
a liehoo who's the worst.
He's like the most frustrating character in the Bible.
Okay. Sometimes you meet people in this world
and you're like, you're like a liehoo.
Go over to 1 Chronicles chapter 21.
But even through all of that,
when Job finally prayed for his friends,
the Lord delivered him
and he even gave him more than he had before.
But when we just look at Satan's part of the equation,
what is Satan doing?
Satan is not severely persecuting random people.
Satan's not randomly persecuting
just drug addicts and the lost and whomever.
Who's he bringing the most severe,
the most harsh, the most extreme,
the most unwarranted persecution against?
It's against the best Christians.
Okay. And that's what we see as a common pattern.
Now 1 Chronicles chapter 21,
also when the devil does that,
note it, you know, if you read the book of Job,
you'll notice a lot of people fall for the tricks.
They actually think like, oh, Job's a bad guy
and he, the devil just tricks a lot of people,
tricks his wife, tricks his friends.
Everybody's kind of giving up on Job.
They can't really figure it out.
1 Chronicles chapter 21, look at verse 1.
And Satan stood up against Israel
and provoked David to number Israel.
Here's another thing that Satan does
is he goes for the leaders.
Have you noticed the theme, Paul, Job, David?
And what is he doing to David?
He's trying to get at, I believe, his pride.
Now there's a couple of different things in this story
and I'm not for a sake of time going to elaborate on everything.
This would be a great story to go through.
But what the Satan will do is he tries to attack leaders
and tries to use pride as a tool to destroy leaders.
Now if we think about David in this particular story,
whenever the king or whoever would
cause the nation of Israel to be numbered,
they were all to give a shekel as a ransom for their soul.
And so if you think about it,
what is getting the number kind of due though?
The number could cause someone to get a little bit prideful
or kind of look at my credentials
or look at how powerful we are
because we have a million in the army.
Whereas when you're going through
and you're getting the census
and you're getting that half shekel,
well all that money is then to go to the Lord
and it's a ransom.
So it's like we're not doing this census
to say how wonderful we are.
We're doing the census to collect more money for the Lord
and to pay honor and tribute to the Lord.
And to say, hey, I need to make sure
I'm giving money to the Lord when we do this census
so that we recognize it's by the Lord's might
and the Lord's strength that we are delivered
not by our own might and our own strength.
Now if you got to pay for the government to count you
you probably wouldn't want that to happen very often, right?
But the reason why it's probably in there
is you're trying to understand,
okay, we're not just counting ourselves
as a constantly brag about how many numbers we have
and how big we are.
We're doing this as a result of, hey,
we need to know the number every once in a while
but we want to make sure
that even though we get the number
we're still trusting in the Lord and not our numbers.
Not our own strength, not our own might.
And the devil, Satan, is provoking David to number Israel.
So I believe that that's the best way to understand this story.
There's a couple different pieces here
but we can study it all throughout.
But it's consistent in the Bible
that the devil will attack men of God, preachers, pastors,
kings, governors, leaders through pride.
Pride is the tool and the vehicle of the devil.
Go to 1 Timothy 3 and we'll see the same thing.
I want to use this as, this is a really clear example.
I just wanted to read that because I'm going through
all the mentions of Satan attacking.
But Satan attacked David by provoking him to number Israel.
And again, I believe he's trying to destroy David through pride.
Obviously it cost David severely.
David ended up having to choose between three punishments.
He falls into the hands of the Lord.
The Lord slays a lot of the children of Israel.
Then David has to end up paying a big ransom
in order to deliver them.
And there's all kinds of pictures of the gospel there too.
But at the end of the day, it cost David severely
for that attack that Satan came trying to get at his pride.
And this could happen to any of us.
We could always think that we're prideful.
As Americans, like, oh, we have so many people in our military.
Or we spend so much money on our military.
Or you could look at this as churches.
Churches thinking that they're great
because of their attendance or how many numbers they have.
But we don't want to, we don't ever play this game
where we're thinking we're great
because of numbers or lifting ourselves up by pride.
But recognizing it's by the Lord's will that we exist.
It's by the Lord's strength that we accomplish things.
And only by his favor that we continue to exist.
Now first, Timothy chapter 3 warns in verse 6,
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride,
he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Moreover, he must have a good report of them,
which without lest he fall into reproach
and the snare of the devil.
So notice again, what could cause someone
to fall into the condemnation of the devil is pride.
So I'm using this as kind of a parallel
to notice that leaders or people in positions of authority,
the devil will attack you through pride.
The devil wants leaders and people in positions of authority
to be lifted up and to think that they're more special
than they really are.
Or that they're more important than they really are.
Or that they can do things by their own might
and strength and power and they're not doing them
by the Lord's power strength and might.
And so we always need to make sure that as leaders,
if you're in a position of authority,
that you're not getting lifted up
and allowing the devil to attack you through pride.
Go over to Zechariah chapter number 3.
Go to Zechariah chapter number 3.
So how is Satan attacking?
He's attacking people by getting them banned.
He's attacking people by bringing
severe persecution against the best.
He's trying to use pride to lift up leaders
to get them to sin and cause problems.
Zechariah chapter number 3.
We're going to read about the rebuilding
of the temple specifically.
And it's kind of an interesting period in time.
They're rebuilding the temple.
Joshua is the high priest.
Zerubbabel is going to be lifted up
and going to be put in position of authority and power.
But Joshua is being mentioned here in verse number 1.
It says this.
And he showed me Joshua the high priest
standing before the angel of the Lord
and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
So Joshua is there to build the house of God
in a spiritual sense.
Zerubbabel is there also as the leader and the governor.
But Joshua is there to build the house of God,
the physical house of God, the temple.
And in a sense the house of God is what we call the church today.
That is the church.
So it's like building the church in a spiritual sense.
And you have to understand the most important leader,
the most important man building the house of God
who's right there at his right hand to resist him, it's Satan.
So Satan, what does Satan do?
Satan wants just to not access all the areas of the world
to preach the gospel.
Satan wants to bring severe persecution
against the best Christians that exist.
Satan wants to try and eat at people with pride.
And then Satan's right there to resist
those who want to build the house of God.
Those who are building the house of God,
the devil is right there resisting them
and bringing all kinds of persecution against them.
Now let's keep reading.
It says in verse number 2.
Joshua was clothed with filthy garments
and stood before the angel.
And he answered in spake into those that stood before him
saying, Take away the filthy garments from him.
And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine
iniquity to pass from thee.
And I will clothe thee with change of raiment.
And I said, Let them set a fair miter upon his head.
So they set a fair miter upon his head
and clothed them with garments.
And the angel of the Lord stood by.
So one thing I like about this,
even though Joshua is building the house of God,
notice that the Bible is really clear that he had filthy garments
and that he had iniquity.
Why?
Because God uses sinful men to build the house of God.
And he covers their sin and covers their iniquity
and then allows them to build the house of God by grace.
But here's the thing, the devil's still right there
to resist and to attack
and to go against those who are trying
to build the house of God.
Go to Matthew 4 and we'll see the devil
attacking here in the New Testament.
Matthew chapter number 4.
Satan is mentioned in the Bible a few times,
but notice he's really specific in who he's attacking, isn't he?
I mean, couldn't the Bible just randomly tell us
like there was this random guy walking down the street
and Satan just went after him?
But it's like that's not who is being attacked.
Who's being attacked?
Joshua, the high priest.
Who's being attacked?
David, the king of Israel.
Who's being attacked?
Job, the most upright man in all the earth.
Who's being attacked?
The apostle Paul, the greatest evangelist,
the greatest Christian of all time.
That's who Satan is constantly attacking
because Satan is not God.
Satan is not omniscient.
Satan is not omnipresent.
Satan does not have the ability
to just attack all the people of the earth.
Who's Satan going to basically reserve himself to?
The greatest, the best, isn't he?
He's going to go after the Christians
that are doing the most.
And of course, who's doing the most at the time of Christ?
Christ.
So where is the devil at?
He's right there in the wilderness,
tempting the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God,
in the flesh, right here in Matthew chapter number four.
Now, it says in verse number one,
then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted of the devil.
So the devil comes and tempts him.
Skip down.
I'll show you verse number nine.
It says,
And he saith unto him,
All these things will I give thee
if that will fall down and worship me.
Then said Jesus unto him,
Get thee hence Satan.
For it is written,
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God
and him only shalt thou serve.
So the devil in this particular story
is offering Jesus a bunch of carnal pleasures.
He's offering him power here.
Hey, you worship me.
I'll give you power.
Hey, why don't you turn this,
this stone's into bread.
He's offering him food.
And he's basically just offering him position,
power, protection,
these kind of carnal pleasures.
And so what the devil will do
is he'll take those in positions of authority
or doing great things for God
and he'll try to offer
the carnal pleasures of this life
to distract them
and to get them off from serving
the Lord Jesus Christ,
from serving God.
And that's what he did to Jesus,
but Jesus completely succeeded
and did not go for the carnal pleasures
or the lusts of this world
but rather submitted himself unto God.
Go to Matthew chapter number 12.
So how is Satan attacking?
You know,
really, you have to understand
it's probably every angle and every side.
Didn't he say that about Job?
Now, this is an interesting thing.
The Bible says in verse 25,
and Jesus knew their thoughts
and said unto them,
Every kingdom divided against itself
is brought to desolation.
And every city or house
divided against itself shall not stand.
And if Satan cast out Satan,
he is divided against himself.
How shall then his kingdom stand?
Now, that's an interesting point.
What is the Bible saying?
The Bible is saying that Satan
will not fight against Satan.
So you know what's an interesting thing
about Satan is that Satan
will unite with Satan.
So the enemies of God
will have an unholy union.
You'll see satanic people
not fighting against other satanic people.
What would this look like?
I don't know.
How about a false prophet
or a false preacher of the day
letting pedophiles and sodomites
into their church?
Because you know what?
Satan is not going to fight against Satan.
So you know what?
Satan is bringing more wolves
and more sodomites.
And you know, it's really weird
when preachers and pastors
are more mad at Christians
than sodomites.
That's weird.
Something off about that person.
You know, and again,
you can get mad about things
and that's fine.
But when you're more mad
about Christians
and God-fearing people
and normal people,
then you are about pedophiles
and wolves.
There's something wrong about you.
There's something off about you
because you know what?
It makes sense if you're satanic
because Satan's not going to
fight against Satan.
But you know what?
Those of us that are on the Lord's side,
we wrestle against satanic powers
and against these darknesses
and these forces.
You know, we should hate
these type of people
but you'll see the enemies
united together with the wicked.
And let's keep reading though.
It's interesting.
It says in verse 27,
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils,
by whom do your children cast them out?
Therefore they shall be your judges.
But if I cast out devils
by the Spirit of God,
then the kingdom of God
is coming to you.
Or else,
how can one enter into a strong man's house
and spoil his goods,
except he first
buying the strong man?
And then he will spoil his house.
He that is not with me
is against me.
And he that gathereth not with me
scattereth abroad.
Here's another aspect of Satan
is notice,
if you are for God,
if you're for the Lord Jesus Christ
and this is from another passage,
you would do the opposite here.
You're gathering together.
But if you're not,
what is it saying?
It's saying,
he that is not with me
is against me.
And how do I know this person?
And he that gathereth not with me
scattereth abroad.
So Satan will scatter.
Think about Judas coming in
and he scatters all the sheep away from
the Lord Jesus Christ.
And so you can tell things,
you can tell spirits
by their works.
A work when people come in
and they scatter things.
They're scattering Christians,
they're scattering the work of God,
they're dispersing the word of God.
You know, that is Satan.
And that's how Satan attacks.
Satan comes in,
he wants to divide
and conquer.
What does a wolf do?
A wolf tries to scatter the flock
so that they'll be sheep
by themselves
and he can attack them
and pray on them
when they're alone.
But he can't do that
while they're gathered together
and they're one unit.
So it's necessary for Satan
to come in
and to divide
and to scatter.
And so you can tell,
hey, someone that's of God
is gathering God's people together.
Someone that's not of God
is scattering
the people of God.
Gov'e went to Mark chapter 4,
go to Mark chapter 4.
So we're seeing the attacks
of Satan.
What is Satan like?
What is Satan's modus operandi?
How does he operate?
And you know,
he's not dumb,
so he's not going to
fight against himself.
You know,
Starbucks almost
did this to themselves
where they would,
they put too many Starbucks
next to each other
and they're almost like
fighting themselves
on their own competition.
And it's kind of like
oversaturating the market.
They're basically like
oversaturating their own market.
And so, you know,
businesses want to
strategically place
their different stores
so they're not necessarily
competing and fighting
against themselves.
The same is with the devil.
The devil
doesn't want to just stick
four coffee shops
of his own
all in the same corner.
He wants to diversify
and spread out
and he doesn't want
to attack himself.
Therefore,
he has lots of ministers
and he doesn't want
his ministers
to fight
and go against each other.
That's why
Herod and Pilate
became friends
on the same day.
Hey,
they're on the same team.
They're just anti-Jesus.
You know,
that should be a
warning flag
when somebody's buddies
with all the enemies of God.
When they're friends
with all these people
that are influenced
by the devil
and with Satan.
It's like,
what's wrong with you?
Why are you so friendly
with all of these
individuals?
Mark chapter number four,
look at verse 15.
And these are they
by the wayside
when the word is sown
but when they have heard
Satan come at them
immediately
and take away the word
that was sown
in their hearts.
So it's another thing
the devil does
after you preach
the gospel to someone
and they didn't get saved.
So they've heard it.
Maybe they even
understood some of it
but they're just
not quite there.
They didn't want to
call upon the name
of the Lord.
They didn't want to
believe on him.
And so the devil
comes along
and distracts them,
lies to them,
drags them back
to the Catholic Church,
does whatever he needs to do.
He literally takes
the word out of their hearts.
They forget
lest they what
believe and get saved.
So the devil is
literally trying to go around
and mop up
soul winning expeditions
that didn't actually
spring forth or germinate.
I mean he's going around
like you have to understand
that not every person
that hears the gospel
will stick with them.
That's why
if someone's receptive
and I have an opportunity
to get them saved
I want to close the deal then
because I don't want
the devil to come behind me
and rip that out.
And you know
it's so frustrating
sometimes this even happens to us.
You're like preaching the gospel
and they are about to be done
and then like the mom
or the dad
or the brother
or someone comes in there
and just rips them away
or drags them off.
And you know what
that is the devil.
That is the satanic thing
when they're coming in there
and trying to
ruin them from getting saved.
You can even have this
in groups
where one friend
is eventually they start
figuring out what's going on
and they're trying to
drag their friend away
or trying to fight them.
So this is a real battle
that we go out there
and fight.
Luke 8 says the same thing.
Sometimes I'll show this
to people.
You know someone's hesitant
to want to actually
you know
make the decision
to trust in Christ.
I will often encourage them
by showing them a few verses
maybe this one in Luke 8
of like hey
if you've understood
what I showed you
you need to just
seal the deal now.
Like don't wait
because you could forget.
You could move on.
You could decide
not to trust in the Lord.
Like we need to do it now.
You know now
is the accepted time.
Now is the day of salvation.
Okay.
And so we want to get saved
now not today now.
That's the modern version.
The modern versions say today
the King James says now.
All right.
So we want to get saved now.
Now it also says in Luke 8
look at verse 12.
Those by the wayside
are they that here
then come of the devil
and take away the word
out of their hearts
lest they should believe
and be saved.
You know they always say
in modern churches
just accept Jesus in your heart.
But wait a minute.
Doesn't this person have
the word of God in their heart?
And they're not saved
because it's not just
hearing the gospel
and saying I like that.
It's not just hearing the gospel
and just saying that sounds true.
It's believing in the gospel
that saves you.
It's accepting the gospel
and receiving Jesus Christ
as your savior
that saves you.
Not just accepting him
into your heart
because that's vague.
That's a meaningless phrase.
It really could mean
anything you want.
It's just kind of a
useless phrase
that doesn't really
have much meaning.
Somebody could mean
the right thing by that.
And someone could mean
something completely different
from that.
So it's important
if someone uses that phrase
to drill down
and ask another
clarifying question
and not just
walk away saying
well they've accepted Jesus
in their heart
but you don't know
what that means.
We need to make sure
that they've actually
trusted in Jesus
and they put their faith
in Jesus Christ.
That's what saves someone
not just having
the word of God
in your heart.
And the devil will come by
and take it out
of people's hearts
so that they can't
believe and get saved.
Notice, think about this.
If saving
if salvation was by
repenting of your sins
this wouldn't even make sense
because the devil
doesn't come around
and just make sure
they keep being sinners.
He has to take the word out
because if they believe it
they'll get saved.
Because salvation is
just by believing.
Salvation is a free gift.
It's a one-time decision
to just trust
Christ and get saved.
That's why the devil
has to take so much
effort and energy
to just take that word away
because if it was
repenting your sins
they could believe it
and still not be saved.
But it's not
by repenting your sins
it's just by believing
in Jesus Christ
and that's why the devil
is coming around
and constantly trying to
take the Gospel
out of people's minds
and out of their hearts
and confuse them
and deceive them
and lie to them
so they don't believe
in Jesus
and get saved.
Because salvation
is a free gift.
That's why people say
oh there's all these
ways to get to heaven
or there's all these
religions and all this
it's just the confusion
of the devil
trying to come there
and take away
the word out of their hearts
isn't it?
And there's so many
false prophets
and false teachers
constantly trying
to take away this
and so you really
see the devil
attacking soul winning.
Go to Mark chapter 8
go back to Mark
chapter number 8
what have we seen so far?
Satan is getting
people banned
from foreign countries
Satan is getting
severe persecution
against the best Christians
Satan is trying
to use pride
to destroy leaders
Satan is resisting
those who are
building the house of God
Satan's offering
carnal pleasures
to stop people
from serving God
Satan is allowing
all the enemies
to unite together
and not to fight
one another
and then the devil
is attacking soul winning.
Now Mark chapter number 8
look at verse 31
Mark chapter 8
look at verse number 31
the Bible says
and he began to teach them
that the Son of Man
must suffer many things
and to be rejected
of the elders
and of the chief priests
and scribes
to be killed
and after three days
rise again
and he spake that
saying openly
and Peter took him
and began to rebuke him
but when he had turned
about and looked
on his disciples
he rebuked Peter
saying get thee behind me Satan
for thou savorest
not the things that be of God
but the things
that be of men.
This is an important point
Jesus is saying
hey I know you guys
want me to show up
in Jerusalem
and just take over
and set up an earthly kingdom
and appoint you guys
is like number two
and three and four in charge
and we're just going
to rule the world
but actually
I'm going to go there
I'm going to be rejected
spit upon
crucified and killed
and there's going to be
severe persecution
and what is Peter's attitude?
No I don't want that
no that's not right
no that's not good
and then what does Jesus say?
Hey you're not savoring
the things that be of God
but of men
so what does man want?
What is the things of men?
pleasure, power, authority
good, positive
what's the thing of God?
Suffering, persecution, sacrifice
and what I've noticed
and I've seen some people do this
is they act like
the things of God
are only positive
not negative
and that they actually get mad at
the idea of suffering persecution
and they want to avoid persecution
they want to avoid drama
and then they'll say like
oh I want to go to a church
that has a sweet spirit
but here's a question
is that sweet spirit
the things that are of God
or is that sweet spirit
the things that are of men?
Peter didn't want to go down
the persecution road
Peter didn't want to go down
the suffering road
Peter didn't want to go down
the rejection road
Peter wants to go down
the power, authority, fun
positive, good
and you know what
there's a lot of Christians
a lot of people
that are under the devil's
influence
that is trying to teach them
and inspire them
and say hey
you want this positive Christianity
not the sacrifice, rejection,
drama, persecution,
affliction
Christianity
but you know what
that's real Christianity
yea and all that will live godly
in Christ Jesus
shall suffer persecution
and so you could be like
Peter and be like no no no
that's not the right kind
of Christianity
why are you guys always
causing all kinds of problems
and an affliction
and all these struggles
and all this drama
hey
because I'm not of the things
of men
I'm the things of God
you think that Christ
came to bring peace on earth
nay I say division
he did
he came to bring a sword
he did not come to make your life
this is your best life now
if you're saved
this is your worst life now
and it's getting worse
because you're getting older
I mean
there's a peak
like you kind of go up
and it kind of gets like
better better better
but then like at some point
we all hit that climax
and I don't know what age
I'm not going to put it out there
but
we hit a climax
and then it's kind of
downhill
in a sense
and look
there's still great pleasures
and joy
and being older
you know
there's great things
senior children grow up
and then get married
and have grandchildren
and a lot of things like that
but you know
this life
is not our best life now
it's not our best life
that we're ever going to have
only for those that are going to
go to hell
is that their best life now
it is Joel Olsteen's
best life right now
because he will
split hell wide open
and you know
I would love to avoid
drama and persecution
and affliction
like if Jesus was like saying
hey we have two roads
where we can walk down
one we just go in
and take the kingdom
and we rule and reign
the other one
I'm going to
basically be beaten
and put on a cross
and rejected
and everybody's going to hate
hate me
and then you're going to have to
follow my footsteps
of everybody hating you
it's like which one do you want
obviously I know which one I want
but you know
I'm not going to necessarily have to
savor the things of men
I have to savor the things of God
and the things of God
you know he's called us
to be sheep for the slaughter
not to be lions
ruling and reigning
now
that's later
okay
go to John chapter 13
the attacks of Satan
Satan is going to attack
the work of God
Satan is going to lure
through the lust of the flesh
Satan is going to lure
through the pride of life
John chapter 13
look at verse 27
and after the Sop
Satan entered into him
then said Jesus unto him
that thou doest do quickly
what's another attack of Satan
he enters into fake disciples
fake followers
and uses them to betray
the men of God
so what are you
what are you going to see the devil do
he's going to insert
fake disciples
fake people in your movements
and then he enters into their bodies
to betray men of God
that's what Satan does
go to Acts chapter number five
and look at verse number three
Acts chapter number five
look at verse number three
but Peter said Ananias
why has Satan filled
thine heart
to lie to the Holy Ghost
and to keep back part
of the price of the land
so what's another thing
the devil will do
is he tricks people
into lying about money
and being deceitful about money
and he attacks them through
these kind of means
go over to first Corinthians
chapter number seven
first Corinthians
chapter number seven
so we're just kind of quickly going through
all these different attacks
that Satan has
and you know
it's it's such a weird story
because these people give money to church
and then they die
like if you just think about it
from like a net perspective
it's like somebody gave
and not only just some money
they gave more money
than probably most people
like I don't know
we have no idea what the numbers are
but they sold a piece of land
and you know land today
could be pretty expensive
I mean they could have given
a hundred thousand dollars
in today's money
a million dollars
and they didn't give the entire price
of the land that they sold
but God got so mad at them
just because they lied about it
they were deceitful about their gift
they were deceitful about their offering
and you know what God
doesn't want us to lie
about the money that we give
or the things that we're doing with money
or being deceitful
with what we're doing with money
that is a great offense
to the Lord
and Satan had tempted them
to lie about these things
now it says in first Corinthians
chapter number seven
look at verse number five
defraud you not one the other
accept the be with consent for a time
that you may give yourselves
to fasting and prayer
and come together again
that Satan tempt you not
for your incontinency
what's another thing that the devil does
is he tries to attack marriage
by weaponizing
the whole point of marriage
by causing due benevolence
to be a tool used by both male and female
and weaponize that to harm marriages
so if we're looking at how Satan attacks people
we're seeing all kinds of things
go to second Corinthians chapter number two
what are we seeing
he's going to ban people from foreign countries
he's going to bring severe persecution
to the best Christians
he's going to try and attack people
through lifting them up with pride
he's going to resist those that are building
the house of God
he's going to offer carnal pleasures
he's going to allow all the enemies
to unite one with another
he's going to attack soul winning
he is going to try and tell you
to avoid persecution and drama
he's going to bring in fake people
into your movement
and cause them to betray you
he's going to try and inspire people
to lie about money
and do weird things with money
and then he's going to try and attack marriages
by attacking this one
due benevolence area in marriages
look at second Corinthians chapter number two
and look at verse number 10
second Corinthians chapter number two verse 10
to whom you forgive anything I forgive also
for if I forgave anything to whom I forgave it
for your sakes forgave I it and the person of Christ
lest Satan should get an advantage of us
for you are not ignorant of his devices
what's another thing Satan loves to do
is to try and get us to not forgive one another
he wants us to have bitterness
and hatred in our hearts one to another
and not forgive people and not let things go
and that causes us to divide ourselves again
why does he wants to come in
causes us to divide
so one of the devil's tools is to get us to never forgive each other
keep your finger in second Corinthians we're coming back
go to Ephesians chapter four for a second
we'll see the exact same thing
Ephesians chapter number four
look at verse number 26
Ephesians chapter four verse 26
be angry and sin not
let not the sun go down upon your wrath
neither give place to the devil
so again what does the devil want
he wants you to hang on to your anger
and your bitterness and your malice
and your wrath towards people
and then that gives what place to the devil
we shouldn't be ignorant of Satan's devices
the devil wants us to devour each other
he wants us to hate one another
and so he's going to allow us to have this spirit
where we're not forgiving
we as Christians need to make sure
we're constantly forgiving one another
because Satan will attack us through that
look at second Corinthians chapter number 11 now
just flip the page second Corinthians chapter number 11
and look at verse number 12
I've just got a few more
but we're seeing the devil's coming at us
with all kinds of stuff
and the Satan will attack
in all kinds of different areas
I think most of us could probably recognize
that we've already seen some of this haven't we
now second Corinthians chapter 11 look at verse 12
but what I do that I will do
that I may cut off occasion
from them which desire occasion
that wherein they glory
they may be found even as we
for such are false apostles deceitful workers
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ
and no marvel
for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light
therefore it is no great thing
it is ministers also be transformed
as the ministers of righteousness
whose end shall be according to their works
so we have in this section just a little tidbit here
where the apostle Paul is bringing up
how Satan uses ministers to attack the work of God
what does he do
what is his ministers like
they transform themselves into ministers of light
they pretend to be godly
they pretend to be righteous
but what's one of the things that we can kind of point out
like how do I tell this guy is good or not
well what does it say here in verse 12
that I may cut off occasion
from them which desire occasion
so these people desire occasion
let me let me use a different word
attention
they just their attention horse
they just need attention
and because they don't even get it
and they don't get all the attention they want
how do they try to drive attention
they glory in themselves
that's what he's saying here
that wherein they glory
the apostle Paul is saying like
I'm not walking around
glorying in myself and bragging in myself
that's the little context of this chapter
he's saying like I know there's some fake people in your midst
who are the fake people in your midst
the people that desire occasion
the people that are desiring attention
and are constantly glorying in themselves
and bragging about themselves
and lifting themselves up
those are the ministers of satan
and they've transformed themselves into ministers of light
but really they are the ministers of the devil
and notice this in verse 15
who's in shall be according to their works
hey if you're so great just prove it to us
but then when we look at you
we examine you you don't have any works
you keep telling us how great you are
you keep telling us how wonderful you are
but then we look at you and are like
okay show me the works
and then it's like there aren't any works
or the works are actually negative
they're actually works that don't actually match up
with God's people
they match up with the Satan's people
well that's not the right guy is it
go view it to 2nd Corinthians chapter number 12
you're right here look at verse 7
unless I should be exalted above measure
through the abundance of the revelations
there was given to me a thorn in the flesh
the messenger of satan to buffet me
lest I should be exalted above measure
for this thing I besought the Lord thrice
that it might depart from me
now there's a lot of controversy on what this means
a lot of people have different opinions different ideas
I'm not going to say that I dogmatically know because I don't
some people would suggest that the thorn in the flesh
is a literal infirmity
it's a physical issue that he has
I could see that viewpoint
there's another way that you could look at this is like
it's a spiritual or satanic thing
where he's just being pestered in that way
and there's kind of a third
that's kind of similar to the second
it's like it's a person that's under a satanic influence
that's just kind of a pain in the rear
it's a thorn in the flesh
and that's the messenger of satan
and that's why paul is saying depart from me
because if it's a physical thing
I don't know how that makes sense
that it's like going to leave him or depart from him
but again you can interpret this multiple ways
I think it's valid
but I understand this
as someone who's there to just harass the apostle paul
he's just something look
if you serve god
you will have people that just harass you
you have a literal messenger of satan
to come around and torment you
and won't leave you alone
and it's just like a psycho ex-girlfriend
spiritually speaking
and you're just like
what is wrong with this person
this person's insane
but that's what the devil does
he brings up these messengers of satan
to just harass and attack
and lie and slander
and do all kinds of weird stuff to you
they'll be the first timothy chapter number five
go to first timothy chapter number five
we're seeing what satan does
I didn't write the bible
I'm just showing you all the mentions of satan
what does satan like so far
and boy it's really weird
it's just like coming off the page to me
I don't know if it's doing that to you
but it does to me
look at first to me chapter five verse 11
but the younger widows refuse
for when they have begun to wax
wanting against christ they will marry
having damnation because they have cast off their first faith
and with all they learn to be idle
wandering about from house to house
and not only idle
but tatler's also in busy bodies
speaking things which they ought not
I will therefore that the younger women
marry, bear children, guide the house
give an occasion to the adversary
to speak reproachfully
for some are already turned aside
after satan
so what's another attack of satan
is busy body women and tatler women
that is what the devil uses to attack
God's movement
he uses a bunch of loud mouth women
that is one of the tools of satan
okay
now let's go to revelation chapter two
go to revelation chapter two
and look at verse number nine
I'm just showing you how the devil works
according to the bible
look at verse number nine
I know thy works
talking about the church at smirna
and tribulation and poverty without rich
and I know the blasphemy
of them which say they are jews
and are not
but are the synagogue of satan
if you're none of those things
so the devil will cast some of you in a prison
that you may be tried
and ye shall have tribulation 10 days
be thou faithful in the death
and I will give thee a crown of life
what is another way that the devil attacks
the movement of christianity
is through fake jews
and really it's fake jews only to us
that are saved
who know they're not jews
because to the world
they're jews
because they claim that they're jews
but the bible is saying they're not
so there's a group of people
that call themselves jews
that are attacking
whom?
the christians in the world
so what does the devil use?
he uses jews to attack gods people
and he attacks them through
throwing them in prison
and even killing them
if you read acts chapter number 17
they also rile up the lewd fellows
of the baser sort
to come and set themselves
against the church of god
against gods people
what would this look like?
I don't know
maybe sodomite protesters
what would be jews attacking gods people?
I don't know
maybe like shutting them down at every single bank
I don't know
maybe getting them locked out of access
of all kinds of things in the world
and attacking them
and using law there
and suing them
and evicting them
and all these kinds of things
maybe that's what it would look like
oh yeah that happened to the apostle paul didn't it
the apostle paul being attacked
by the jews
drug through court
drug through all kinds of roman law
and all kinds of different situations
and this is what I was thinking about
this is why I preached the sermon
sometimes you know
when you're going through life
you just kind of step outside of where you're at
just try to think like
I'm just going to distract myself
from everything I believe
everything I know to be true
because I just want to prove it to myself again
right
you just sometimes you just want to say like
am I on the right path
what does it make sense
so I was just thinking you know
let's just see
well who is the devil attacking in the bible
because this is I know the devil is the same
and if the devil has a consistent pattern
in the bible and attacks the same kind of people
then today that same devil
would be doing all these same things
and then that would help me identify something
you know it helped me identify
the best christians in the world
the people who are doing the most for god
the people who are accomplishing the most
because then we see a consistent pattern
I mean let me just remind you
oh yeah
he's getting people banned from countries
he's bringing the severe persecution
against the best christians
he is appealing through pride
to try and destroy different leaders
he is resisting those
that are building the house of god
he's offering carnal pleasures
he is allowing all the enemies of god
to unite together with the wicked
he's attacking soul winning
you