How To Resist The Devil
Important post here for how you can identify and rebuff Satan’s attacks. I’m going to take you through what the bible says about how Satan attacks us and then show you examples of his attacks right from the bible. This short study will also include some nice cross references you can update your bibles with. God tells us that if we resist the devil he will flee from us.
(James 4:7) “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
But first we have to understand how Satan attacks us. If we don’t even know when an attack is happening then how can we rebuff his attack?
Satan will attack you in three ways outlined in the below verses. Notice he uses the love of the world and things in it to deploy his attacks.
(1 John 2:15-16) “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. {16} For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
Those three ways are:
1. lust of your flesh
2. lust of your eyes.
3. Your pride.
Here is an example when he attacked Jesus with those three ways.
Satan’s first attack on Jesus was to appeal to his flesh. After 40 days and nights of fasting Satan tried to get Jesus by appealing to his hunger. I’m sure Jesus was REALLY hungry after 40 days and nights without eating!
(Matthew 4:2-3) “And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. {3} And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.”
Satan’s second attack appealed to pride. Satan basically told Jesus, “If you’re so great you can just jump off this cliff and not die!”
(Matthew 4:5-6) “Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, {6} And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.”
Satan’s third attack was appealing to the eyes. Satan offered him the world. Boy, that must have looked good being offered the entire world and all the pleasures in it.
(Matthew 4:8-9) “Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; {9} And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.”
Of course, Jesus didn’t succumb to these attacks. He simply used God’s word to rebuff them.
1st attack rebuffed by Jesus with God’s word was from Deuteronomy 8:3:
(Matthew 4:4) “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
(Deuteronomy 8:3) “And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.”
2nd attack rebuffed by Jesus with God’s word was from Deuteronomy 6:16:
(Matthew 4:7) “Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.”
(Deuteronomy 6:16) “¶ Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.”
3rd attack rebuffed by Jesus with God’s word was from Deuteronomy 6:13:
(Matthew 4:10) “Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”
(Deuteronomy 6:13) “Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.”
Satan left him alone after his three attacks were rebuffed simply by using God’s word. Those same words are available to each and everyone of us right now in the King James Bible. I suggest you read them, learn them, and apply them so that you can rebuff Satan’s attacks too. I hope this was helpful and I encourage you to read on about how you can be saved for all eternity by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
How To Get Saved
If you are not saved yet by Jesus Christ for all of eternity, God wants you to know that you can be. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done. God loves us so much he gave his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for our sins on the cross even though we don’t even deserve it. He was then buried for 3 days, and then gloriously resurrected 3 days later.
This is what the Bible says about how you can be saved:
(Acts 16:30-31) “And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? {31} And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.”
If you want to know more about salvation and how to live a victorious Christian life after you get saved, I have a salvation guide on profile or here: