Casting Down The Accuser of The Brethern Part 2
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The Accuser
The Accuser
9 The giant dragon was thrown down out of heaven. (He is that old snake called the devil or Satan, who tricks the whole world.) The dragon with his angels was thrown down to the earth.
9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary Accuser
ACCUSER—Satan is styled the “accuser of the brethren
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (Accuser)
as seeking to uphold his influence among men by bringing false charges against Christians, with the view of weakening their influence and injuring the cause with which they are identified. He was regarded by the Jews as the accuser of men before God, laying to their charge the violations of the law of which they were guilty, and demanding their punishment. The same Greek word, rendered “accuser,” is found in John 8:10 (but omitted in the Revised Version); Acts 23:30, 35; 24:8; 25:16, 18, in all of which places it is used of one who brings a charge against another.
10 When Jesus raised Himself up, He said to her, Woman, where are your accusers? Has no man condemned you?
ACCUSER Legal term describing a person who claims another is guilty of a crime or a moral offense. The Hebrew word for accuser is Satan
False accusation called for serious punishment (Deut. 19:15–21). The psalmist prayed for judgment against his accusers (Ps. 109:4, 20, 29 NASB, NIV, NRSV).
15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
16 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
17 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
18 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
19 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
21 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
16 But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
16 But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses.
Does Your mail man work for God?
Make Sure You are weighing everything thats brought to you about someone else.
a. False accusers led Christ Conviction
12 Then he was slandered and accused by the chief priests and religious leaders, but he remained silent.
b. False Accusers With Apostle Paul
30 On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
C. How Many witnesses should we have?
At lest Two or Three eye witnesses.
60 Many false witnesses came forward, but the evidence could not be corroborated. Finally two men came forward
2. As believers was must guard ourselves from
Arrogance & Ignorance
9 But when [even] the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, judicially argued (disputed) about the body of Moses, he dared not [presume to] bring an abusive condemnation against him, but [simply] said, The Lord rebuke you!
9 Even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil over the body of Moses, dared not insult or slander him, but simply said, “The Lord Yahweh rebuke you!”
11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
9 If the Lord Yahweh rescued Lot, he knows how to continually rescue the godly from their trials and to reserve the ungodly for punishment on the day of judgment.
10 And this especially applies to those who live their lives despising authorities and who abandon themselves to chasing the depraved lusts of their flesh. They are willfully arrogant and insolent, unafraid to insult the glorious ones.
11 Yet even angels, who are greater than they in power and strength, do not dare slander them before the Lord.
3. How Should We Respond & React to False Accusers?
16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
16 with gentleness and respect. Maintain a clean conscience, so that those who slander you for living a pure life in Christ will have to lie about you and will be ashamed because of their slander.
14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
12 And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
3 And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.
2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.
5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
4. Remember The Genesis Of The Accuser
1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied.
3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’ ”
4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman.
5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”
6 The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.
7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves.
8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees.
9 Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
10 He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”
a. The first Accusation- (God Knows!!)
5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing the difference between good and evil and blessing and calamity.
5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”
5 God knows that the moment you eat from that tree, you’ll see what’s really going on. You’ll be just like God, knowing everything, ranging all the way from good to evil.”
b. The Set Up
1 The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the Woman: “Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?”
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
ACCUSER, a-kūzʹēr: This word, not found in the OT, is the rendering of two Gr words: (1) Κατήγορος, katḗgoros, that is, a prosecutor, or plaintiff in a lawsuit, or one who speaks in a derogatory way of another (Acts 23:30, 35; 25:16, 18; Rev 12:10); (2) Διάβολος, diábolos, meaning adversary or enemy. This word is rendered “accuser” in the AV and “slanderer” in the RV and the ARV (2 Tim 3:3; Titus 2:3). According to the rabbinic teaching Satan, or the devil, was regarded as hostile to God and man, and that it was a part of his work to accuse the latter of disloyalty and sin before the tribunal of the former (see Job 1:6 ff; Zec 3:1 f; Rev 12:10).
10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
3 They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good.
6 One day the members of the heavenly court came to present themselves before the Lord, and the Accuser, Satan, came with them.
The Lexham Bible Dictionary Accuser
The Hebrew noun שָׂטָן (satan) means “adversary” or “accuser.” The term appears in Job 1–2 as a title for a heavenly being who has some sort of prosecutorial or adversarial role in the heavenly court
The Lexham Bible Dictionary Accuser
The word can also be used in a general sense for an accuser in a human legal context
The Lexham Bible Dictionary Accuser
or for a military or political enemy
The Lexham Bible Dictionary Accuser
By the New Testament, the Hebrew word satan has come into Greek as Σᾰτάν (Sătan), a name for the devil
c. The Spirit Of entitlement:
The fact of having a right to something
Entitlement can be broken down into two basic ideas:
I am exempt from responsibility
I am owed special treatment
The Book: The Entitlement Cure”, Dr. John Townsend shares some extremely practical characteristics for detecting entitlement:
An attitude of being special
An attitude of being owed
or deserving something
A refusal to accept responsibly
A denial of one’s impact on others