If you are a University Of Michigan football fan who watched the Notre Dame/ Michigan football game a week ago, you know what I mean. If you are Notre Dame fan, you wish the game lasted only 59:52 minutes. But this was just a game!
Life is not in a game. We are in a battle, a life and death battle. It is a battle with Satan. Many people think since Christ defeated Satan at Calvary that the battle is over. Yes, Satan has been defeated. Yes, the sentence has been passed, but Satan has not yet been cast into the “lake of fire” described in Revelation 20-21. This will happen after Christ’s second coming. Until then, Satan is trying to destroy Christ’s body, the church.
If he were, we would not be told to “resist the devil”. If he were bound, we would not need the armor of God to stand against him.
If he were bound, Christ would not have given the keys to heaven to the church:
“upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 19And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven”
Satan is the accuser of the brethren.
Many people think of a little guy in a red suit with a pointed tail that we see in cartoons. Trust me, he is not a cartoon character.
The battle is not over until Christ returns in His glorious appearing. We must be engaged in this battle if we are to fulfill the work assigned to us by Christ.
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