Jesus said of Satan that, “He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” ( John 8:44 ). The devil is not some character out of Hollywood, nor a cartoon character, but is in fact a fallen angel, who has access and dominion in this world. He opposes God and the people of God and is the enemy of mankind. The Lord Jesus came to this earth and defeated him, so that people could be set free from his rule. In the plan of God that is being worked out in the ages, Satan was overthrown and will have his place in the lake of fire ( Revelations 20:10 )

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He Tempts

GENESIS 3:4-5   And the serpent said unto the woman, “Ye shall not surely die.
Vs.5   For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

MATTHEW 4:1   Then Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Blinds Minds

2 CORINTHIANS 4:3-4   But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
Vs.4   In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Sinners Still Under His Rule

ACTS 26:18   To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

Contends With God’s People

EPHESIANS 6:12   For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Preying upon People

1 PETER 5:8   Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
  walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

Resisting Him

EPHESIANS 4:26-27   Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down on your wrath:
  Vs.27   Neither give place to the devil.

JAMES 4:7     Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from
  you.

Christ defeated Satan

HEBREWS 2:14   Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he
  also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him
  that had the power of death, that is, the devil.

1 JOHN 3:8   He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the
  beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the
  works of the devil.

Satan’s Doom

REVELATIONS 20:10   And the devil that deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire
  and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and
  night forever and ever.

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