Satan's Attraction

John 8 shows the difference between Jesus living in the Spirit and the world living for satan.  The Jewish leaders did not believe that Jesus was the Messiah.  They argued with Jesus about it but they couldn't understand what Jesus was telling them.  Jesus said they didn't understand because their father was "the devil."  They thought Jesus was questioning their paternity. John 8:31-34 says: " To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said,  “If you hold to my teaching,  you are really my disciples.   32  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”" "33  They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants  and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”" Jesus told them that the truth would set them free from satan.  His non-believers thought Jesus was talking about setting them free from slavery. John 8:34 says: " Jesus replied,  “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a sl...

Creator: andipantz |  Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Copyright: andipantz Information extracted from  IPTC  Photo Metadata. From Scripture, the Lord reveals that Eve ate the apple that caused man to die because the serpent was a agent of satan. Genesis 3:1–6 says it. Genesis 3:1 says that “ t he serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made .” So the devil had overtaken the serpent and made it “more crafty” than any of the other wild animals. Making the serpent “more crafty” means giving it satanic power. Since the serpent was more crafty, through the devil, the serpent was able to poison Eve’s mind with  doubt  about what God said and Why. The serpent put doubt in Eve’s mind when he said “Did God really say, You must not eat from any tree in the garden?” (Genesis 3:1) and then when satan said “You will not certainly die,…” Then, to add insult to injury, satan put  greed  in Eve’s mind when he said “…for God knows that ...

      The book of Luke gives clear instructions on overcoming demons.  It also demonstrates how gang stalkers flock around their targets and Jesus' response instructs us to keep faith in Christ Jesus and not satan .      In Luke 4:40, the Apostle Luke says that Jesus healed a lot of people.  At Luke 4:41, the Bible says "...Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah." NIV     The first thing that jumps out is the fact that the demons who came out of people didn't deny Jesus' power and His Lordship.  They recognized Jesus. This illustrates how satan knows his targets.       Jesus points out that the way that He controlled demons was by taking dominion over them and rebuking them and not allowing them to speak.  It sounds abstract, but Jesus Christ Himself states in the Bible that His follo...

" From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life ." Matthew 16:21 NIV In  Matthew 10:34-35 "Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law." NIV The sword that Jesus talks about is His Word.  The Bible.  Thus, truth and consistency are two powerful Christ-like traits.  However, for Christ, they come in tandem because Christ is consistently truthful.  Yet, as consistent as Jesus' truth has always been, and shall always be, He is constantly placed under microscopic judgment by the world at the world's own standard.  The above Biblical verses may sound that Jesus came ...