Standing Against Satan

By Benny Tucker

Ephesians 6:11-13. 11)Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12) For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,[c] against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13) Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Sep 30, 2015
• ISBN: 9781329589421

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Standing Against Satan

Standing against Satan

Standing Against

S A T A N

Ephesians 6:11

Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

First Edition 2015

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King James Version (KJV) of the Bible.

New King James Version (NKJV)

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Dedication

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I believe and understand the word of God, and that without Jesus Christ in my life, there is no hope of my being saved.  I write this book to my family, both near, and far.  My father always desired that his family, and all his children would join him in worship by attending church.  I failed to realize or understand these feelings he had, until I found myself in the position that he was in at the time.  My believing and trusting Jesus has led me to understand what my dad meant, he understood the eternal life that existed after our physical life.  Dad knew that once he passed on, and went into eternity, that he could no longer have an influence on his family to come, and accept Jesus and be saved.  Without Jesus in our lives, there will never be a reunion in Heaven with our love ones.  Not all of the family is lost, but are actually just out of fellowship.  Sin is a stain on our lives that cannot be removed by man.  Jesus can remove this and place our sin in a place never to be remembered again.  Our life style and presentation of how we live, demonstrates our Christian lives, love others, keep the faith, and you will have the hope of eternal life.  We can live life without sin by believing in Jesus, and wearing the armor of God that is taught in this book.  My dad told me not to give up on the family, and continue to try and win them to Jesus.  So I continue day after day praying for them all, believing in my heart that they will come.

This book is dedicated to my Father, Benjamin F. Tucker, born, Feb.19, 1930 and went into glory, Feb 10th, 2009.

I pray God, that You will bless this work, for Your glory, and Lord Jesus please save our children from a sinner’s hell.                         Amen and Amen!!

Introduction

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As we look at our world today we see billions, upon billions of people all over the planet.  Some countries have a few million, while others have a few billion.  They fight, and argue with each other about their thoughts, and ideas of how things should be, and they think their way is the best way.  Governments war back and forth with political jargon that normal people really don’t understand, yet they are forced into compliance because of the political system they find themselves in.  As we begin looking into the mysteries of all this, we will find that all of us, regardless of who we are, have something very much in common with each other, so you ask what?  We are all exposed, and share our domain with a very ruthless, and terrible power that we can’t see, and some folks don’t believe he even exist, but he does, and his name is Lucifer, known and renamed as Satan, better known today as the DEVIL.  Every evil act, every crime committed, has something to do with his influence on the world we live in.  We can never speak of life and this place we live in without the names of sin and evil coming up.  Satan, that old devil, is the author of this evil, and he is the father of lies, and a murderer from the beginning of time.  There is no peace or truth in him.

It is very sad how we, as an entire world, have allowed this enemy to continue to guide and direct the hatred that we all know much too well.  We can’t see past our pain, our individual selfishness.  Our fears are sometimes overwhelming.  We fear situations of our existence, and life itself, we fear death, not knowing when we might pass on, we fear each other, trusting no one, but mainly we fear financial instability in each of our personal lives.  Those who have plenty want more, yet those who have less desire to have enough, then they realize they are supporting those who have plenty because of the government system.  Taxes and the like, dominate the poor in most cases, because they don’t have enough to use all the loop holes in the system that were placed there as an escape mechanism for the rich and powerful.  One thing that we always seem to have enough of is anger, dislike, and hatred in some cases, grief and on and on we could go.  We always seem to have a lot of energy and desire to fight each other, whether it is on an individual bases or countries and nations fighting among themselves.  All over the planet we have different ethnic groups, different races of people fighting against one another trying to keep others, or each other, from taking what they feel belongs to them, and them alone.  They fight over situations, rights, and things they feel belonged to them from years and even decades past, but in reality nothing on this planet belongs to any of us.  Everything on this planet that we use and possess belongs to God, He and He alone created all that we know and have.  We have intelligently manipulated God’s creation and changed the specific substances, by blending and combining them with other substances, and over many ages of time have built all we know today, but we own nothing nor have we created anything.  Now Satan, the devil, knows that God owns everything, and he continues to convince a lot of us to do what he did, which was try and take what belongs to God.  Satan’s utmost desire is that we would all worship him and turn our backs on God.  Satan wants to rule over everything and everybody.   He wants to be king and the ultimate authority, but Satan is like the person that escaped the mental hospital and was convinced he had to go to Washington, D.C. because he was the President of America.  He will not accept the fact that there is only one King and that is the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten son.

The creation of man by God the Father is the most spectacular event in the bible, because the entire bible is written about us, and to us, that is how important we are to God the creator.  Jesus Christ came as man, yet He was God in the flesh and suffered a horrible experience on the Cross of Calvary, He died, was buried, and then God the Father raised God the Son from the grave and He, Jesus returned to Glory as the redeemer of mankind, Jesus is the savior of all men, He conquered Satan, hell and death and took the keys as owner of all forever.  Jesus tells us throughout the bible about Satan, and his true identity, but men will not listen.  We are too busy fighting a cause, which we created by our own fears, ignorance and hatred, we are so busy with everything in this life, except calling on the name of God.  For some unknown reason mankind refuses to recognize God, or is it unknown?  My friends, Satan is the ruler of this world and the bible tells us that he has blinded all the unbelievers who do not know Jesus as their Savior.  You know as we continue in conflict with each other and argue about the way things should be and also about the way things are, deep inside we realize that something is truly wrong that we should not be acting this way after all, do we not live on the same planet?  Listen Church, the devil is not prejudice against any of us.  He hates all of us equally.  It’s real easy to remember, (1). God loves us. (2). Satan hates us, we have been given the freedom to choose, to believe in Jesus or to reject Him.  Unfortunately many people in this world today, because of the lies of the devil, have decided to reject Him.  Satan has planted the mental idea and opinion of atheism and the apostasy against Jesus’s beloved Church and this grows daily. Satan is the great instigator and deceiver, he will use anything and everything against us, it does not matter what it is.  The only thing that keeps Satan under control is God and the Holy Spirit.  Satan is limited at this time as to what totally he can and is allowed to do to man.  But if a person does not know how to resist and stand against Satan then he is powerless against Satan.

Satan has people so rattle brained they don’t realize or understand what is happened, they fight and fear for the dumbest reasons, Satan makes it that way.  People are so busy fighting each other we can’t see clear enough to turn to God.  But, what are we so busy for?  You do realize that we have an expiration date and I will now let you know that Satan knows and realizes that better than we do.  Our time on earth is short and we have a choice to make, like I said earlier, we must choose heaven or hell.  Satan is not going to sit back and let us choose easily. 

Peter says in First Peter 5:8, Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

So as you can see based on the scripture above, Satan is not going to sit back and not fight, he is coming at us like a roaring lion, coming hard with all types of tricks and distractions, lies and deceptions and he will continue to use these until we run out of time and not make a sound choice to follow Jesus.  He will try to damage us so badly, that we won’t even want Jesus or even consider His love and sacrifice for us.

Ephesians 6:12 tells us who we battle with, "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."

See folks, our worst enemy is not each other but actually something other than flesh and blood.  Satan and his demons are our true enemy, they instigate, and whisper lies, tempts, and draws us into a mess, while laughing at us all the way.  Now the good thing about all this is the reason for this book, we do not have to put up with all the tools of Satan.  God has made away for us to escape the torments of all this.  God has made away for us to be free, knowing that He is over all.  There is none, including Satan, that out powers God.  Listen, Satan knows this, his purpose, as said many times before, is to drag us down into hell with him. He knows that is his final judgment he and all his fallen angels they are indeed doomed.  We have the power through the Holy Spirit to rebuke him and turn away from his suggestions.  Today we have to stand up and remember what our country was founded on, The Holy Word Of God.  Even though it seems that evilness runs rampant across, not only this nation, but the whole world, God and only God is in control of every moment of everyday.  We have to turn back to God and repent of our ways, as a nation we need this.  We have to quit being puppet dolls for Satan and his evilness, it is only then that God will hear our cry and restore us to fellowship.

For many years, I felt that because the bible had already told the story, there was no use trying to get God to restore anything because, He says in His precious word, that we are in those last days, and the return of Jesus, and the end is near, and this is indeed true, but then I remembered a verse about King David, when he committed adultery with Bathsheba, and his new born baby was sick and dying, here is what was said, "While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ (Second Samuel 12:22) So when I remembered this verse, I realized that we must still pray, and ask God for His mercy on our nation because, we don’t know God may give us mercy, and restore our land based on the prayers of His people, and we can in effect change the direction we are headed.  Just pray, and pray, it cannot hurt, our God is still on His Throne.

As Christian people in America we must love each other including the unbeliever.  God’s love can restore relationships and mend the deepest hurt.  It is our jobs to witness the Gospel to everyone we meet in life’s journey.  If we don’t reach out and teach the unbeliever, they will be doomed to hell, we don’t want people to go there.  We witness to them, then they must decide, believe or not believe, that is their choice, but if we never witness to them then the Holy Spirit has no chance to operate, we are the start point, we open the door, not the sinner. We have one time to get this right.  One life to live here on earth to choose our eternal destination.  We are here not to live it up we are here to choose.  The enemy knows this and so the lying whispers will keep coming. We must wake up! Wake up to the truth of God through Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

Through the chapters of this book we will learn our enemy, learn the tactics and methods he uses to destroy lives, but most importantly we will learn how to defend ourselves and actually win each skirmish, we have with Satan, if we will apply ourselves, through the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit of God that lives within each born again believer.  May God Richly Bless each of you that read this.

Chapter 1 Know Your Enemy

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Know Your Enemy

Every war, great or small, that has ever been fought in the world, has been led by leaders such as Admirals and Generals alike.  But each of these, whether if they won or lost a particular battle, was decided upon one crucial important item, Intelligence.  No commander of troops during war time can be an effective fighting force without intelligence concerning the enemy and the battlefield.  So what exactly is this intelligence?  Here are some dictionary definitions to help get us started.

1.)  Secret information: information about secret plans or activities, especially those of foreign governments, the armed forces, business enemies, or criminals.

2.)  Gathering of secret information: the collection of secret military or political information.

3.)  People gathering secret information: an organization that gathers information about the secret plans or activities of an adversary or potential adversary and the people involved in gathering such information.

So as you can see intelligence is the ability of any one to gather information that is helpful in defeating and adversary.  To be successful in the realm of spiritual warfare, you must have a clear understanding of who you are fighting against.  The Holy Bible, gives us our intelligence about this battle that we as Christians are up against in our daily life as Children of God. 

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