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Satan wants to destroy families

New Living Translation Chapter 10

25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

He started out first thing in the Garden of Eden

He disrupted the marriage of Adam, and Eve. This carried on over the their off spring , causing Cain to kill Abel.

Why did he do this?

Probably heard, or will hear this verse in the future with the panic that has come across the nation.

He aims in general to destroy what God has created.

That’s just his nature. If God had granted him permission to do so, he would have killed Job.

He wants to destroy the witness of our marriage.

Paul told us in that our marriages are a picture of the gospel. If the enemy destroys marriage, we can not use it as a witness for how Christ loves us.

Satan hates our children.

He delights when our adult decisions affect our children by turning them against God and the church. Sometimes we become the enemy’s tools to do that when we follow his ways more than God’s.

The enemy wants to take out the primary place of disciplemaking.

The first place for making disciples is in the home, where parents are to disciple their children. When that home is messed up, the church’s disciple making work is only harder.

He wants to harm our witness.

Satan loses us from his kingdom when we follow Christ, but he doesn’t back away; in fact, the battle only gets tougher. He can’t rip us from God’s kingdom, but he can dim our light for the gospel.

He wants to remove people from ministry.

There is a confusion in the church as whole as to what disqualifies a person from ministry. I don’t want to argue that today, but the bottom line is that Satan wants to so destroy our homes that we have nothing left for ministry. If he keeps us busy repairing our homes, we have not time for ministry, and family problems takes the pastors time. which disrupts the time for evangelism, and discipleship.

Satan wants to redirect the church away from evangelism.

He will use things like a cornoavirus to keep people out of church. It’s kind of hard to invite someone to visit a church where hundreds are gathered when the government is telling everyone to avoid the crowds.

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