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05:24 This is the bride of Christ, the church, that presents the 05:28 Messiah to the world. 05:31 You know, the Bible tells us there are seven examples in the 05:34 Bible of women who were barren, but then, through a miracle, 05:37 they had a baby, these were miracle baby boys, and they were 05:41 all types of Christ. 05:43 And so this woman is the consummate example of the church 05:48 who introduces the Messiah, brings forth the Messiah, she's 05:51 got 12 stars above her head, representing the tribes in the 05:56 Old Testament, the apostles in the New Testament, this is the 05:58 bride of Christ. 06:00 How does the devil feel about her? 06:02 "The dragon saw that he'd been cast to earth, he persecuted 06:05 the woman." 06:06 He can't persecute the man Child, it says He was caught up 06:09 to God's throne. 06:10 So, since the devil can't reach Jesus, he goes after the object 06:15 of Christ's supreme regard. 06:18 What institution, what body of people on the earth, does Jesus 06:23 have a special love for? 06:25 That would be more than the church, this is His redeemed, 06:30 this is His bride, and the devil hates her. 06:34 "The dragon saw he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted 06:37 the woman. 06:39 But the woman was given two wings of an eagle, that she 06:41 might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is 06:45 nourished for a time, a times, and half the time." 06:48 After God saved Israel out of Egypt, they went into the 06:50 wilderness, and God fed her there. 06:53 So it's harkening back to that. 06:55 During the time of Elijah, when there was a famine three and a 06:59 half years, Elijah fled into the wilderness, he was fed 07:03 miraculously there by God. 07:05 God will feed His church, amen? 07:08 "So he spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the 07:11 woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by 07:14 the flood." 07:15 Now he wants to drown her. If it's not fire, it's flood. 07:20 "But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth 07:24 and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of 07:27 his mouth." 07:29 You notice, everything he tries, he tries to destroy her, but 07:31 she's given wings of an eagle, he tries to drown her, but the 07:33 earth opens its mouth. 07:35 Now go to verse 17. 07:37 "And the dragon was enraged," if he was wroth before, he's really 07:41 mad now, "Enraged with," what? 07:44 "The woman," "The dragon was enraged with the woman." 07:49 Just as the church is the object on earth upon which Jesus 07:52 bestows His greatest love and regard, the church is the object 07:56 on earth that infuriates the devil the most, because it is 08:01 the vehicle by which Jesus redeems the lost. 08:04 And the devil doesn't want them to be saved, he wants everyone 08:07 to go down with him, he knows his time is short. 08:12 Now, we're going to be looking at seven things, 08:14 time permitting. 08:15 If we run out of time, I'll just stop. 08:17 We're going to be looking at seven things, seven of the 08:21 stratagem that the devil uses to overcome God's people, and I've 08:25 sort of divided them up, to make it easy to remember, as desire, 08:29 disgrace, defamation, discord, distractions, dialogue, 08:34 and disguise. 08:35 Very proud of myself, that I was able to make those all begin 08:40 with one letter. 08:42 Number one, the desire of the devil. 08:47 Turn in your Bibles, please, to 08:49 the book of Job chapter 1, verse 6. 08:53 "When the Devil Goes to Church," you know it happened long ago. 09:01 "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present 09:05 themselves before the LORD." 09:07 Oh, I would like to be there, right? 09:09 Be in this heavenly meeting where the sons of God, probably 09:14 these representatives and leaders of unfallen worlds, they 09:17 come to present themselves before the Lord in this 09:20 celestial gathering. 09:21 And I don't know that it was in heaven itself, because Satan was 09:24 cast out of heaven. 09:25 But it says here, "Satan came also among them." 09:31 Well, it sounded like such a pretty picture until it says 09:33 that the devil showed up at this meeting in the presence of God. 09:38 You know, he's very audacious in that he will invade 09:45 sacred places. 09:47 You know, when I was reading this, and I thought about the 09:49 audacity and boldness of the devil, that here there's this 09:52 heavenly meeting, and all that he's done to the world, and he 09:55 shows up. 09:58 Now, if he would show up in the courts of God's presence, 10:01 wherever this was, then should we be shocked he might show up 10:04 in church? 10:06 The devil's not scared of a church building, he is not 10:09 scared of professed believers. 10:12 And we're going to find out, as we go through this series, he 10:14 often shows up, even in church. 10:18 Matthew chapter 4, verse 5, kind of shocking, do you know the 10:22 devil will take you to church? 10:24 That's right. 10:26 When Jesus was tempted of the devil in the wilderness, it 10:29 says, "Then the devil took Him up into the holy city." 10:31 What, the devil will take you to a holy place? 10:34 "And set Him on the pinnacle of the temple." 10:37 The temple, what's that? 10:38 The church. 10:40 Here the devil takes Jesus to church, talk about a turn 10:43 of events. 10:45 Why is he doing it? 10:48 Because he wants to disgrace the Lord in front of the church so 10:54 that he can gain possession and get more mileage out of it. 10:59 "He says to Him, 'If you're the Son of God, throw Yourself down. 11:03 For it is written, "He will give His angels charge over you," 11:07 and, "In their hands they will bear you up, Lest you dash your 11:10 foot against a stone."'" 11:11 He wanted to see Jesus fall right in front of the church, 11:15 and there's nothing the devil likes more 11:19 than to disgrace professed believers by having them fall 11:24 visibly in front of the church, where everyone can laugh 11:27 and mock. 11:29 You know where the devil was the most successful is when David 11:33 sinned with Bathsheba? 11:35 Look at all the shame and disgrace that brought on 11:38 God's people. 11:39 When Peter, who would be the great spokesman, when he denied 11:44 even knowing the Lord with swearing and cursing. 11:46 The devil wants you to fall and he wants you to fall right in 11:48 front of the church, he loves to disgrace God's people. 11:53 Why did the devil take Him to the temple? 11:56 Couldn't he have taken Him to a cliff in the wilderness and 11:58 said, "If You're the Son of God, why didn't You jump off 12:01 the cliff?" 12:02 "No, no, no, not here, I want Him to fall in the courtyard of 12:06 the temple, probably on a Sabbath, when everyone's 12:10 watching, and so the people in the world will look and say, 12:13 'Ha-ha, they say they're Christians.'" 12:15 How many times have you heard people out in the world that 12:17 say, "I don't want to be a Christian," and then they start 12:20 to point at the hypocrites or the hypocrisy in the church? 12:23 And it is true, there are a lot of Christian leaders that have 12:26 fallen, there's a lot of hypocrisy you can see. 12:29 I mean, all you've got to do is flip the channel a little bit. 12:32 I went like this, but you don't have those on your TV anymore, 12:36 and now it's like this. 12:38 All you got to do is change channel on the television and 12:41 you can see a lot of examples of these snakes that are out there 12:47 bilking people out of their money, promising them prosperity 12:51 and blessings and all these things, if they'll just send 12:54 their money. 12:55 And then you find out from their personal lives that they're 12:58 totally out of the Lord's will in the way they live. 13:03 So he wants to disgrace the church. 13:08 Another one of his tactics is the defamation of the 13:11 devil, slander. 13:14 He is called, "The accuser of the brethren." 13:18 You go back to the book of Job, Job 1, verse 9, "Satan says to 13:22 the Lord, 'Does Job serve God for nothing? 13:26 The only reason he serves You is because You've made a hedge 13:28 about him, You've just blessed him on the right and on the 13:30 left, and in every way. 13:32 And of course everyone will serve You if You do that. 13:34 He doesn't love You. 13:35 You take away his blessings, he will curse You to your face.'" 13:38 There, Job, I'm sorry, the devil is in heaven, slandering Job, 13:44 he's defaming Job in front of the Lord, and this is one of the 13:48 devil's favorite things to do, is he's called, "The accuser of 13:52 the brethren." 13:54 Look at Zechariah 3, verse 1 and 2, I know I'm jumping around 13:57 a little. 13:58 Says, "Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before 14:02 the Angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand," to 14:07 accuse him, "To oppose him," to defame him, to slander him. 14:13 Why? 14:14 You read on, it says that Joshua the high priest is wearing 14:17 clothes that are dirty, and the devil's pointing and saying, 14:21 "Ah, look at his dirty clothes, You can't save him. 14:23 These are Your people?" 14:25 See, the high priest represented the people, he would bear 14:27 their sins. 14:28 And so when it talks about the high priest having dirty 14:30 clothes, it's basically saying, "The church, they're full of 14:33 hypocrites, they're full of sin, you can't save them." 14:36 How does the Lord respond to the devil's accusations and slander? 14:41 "The Lord rebuke you, Satan! 14:44 The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! 14:47 Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?" 14:50 I have saved them. 14:52 And then it says He told the angel, "Take away his filthy 14:55 garments, and give him clean garments." 14:58 What happened to the high priest in this vision is what the Lord 15:03 wants to do for us. 15:05 Do not be discouraged about being a Christian because you 15:08 see hypocrisy in the church or if you see it in your own life, 15:13 because the devil is going to stand around and point the 15:16 finger, and look at your failings and try to discourage 15:19 you, and think, "There's no hope for me." 15:21 Remember, he did it for God's people. 15:24 In fact, if you look there in Revelation chapter 12, verse 10, 15:29 "I heard a loud voice in heaven." 15:31 We're back in chapter 12 again. 15:33 "I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, 'Now salvation, and 15:36 strength, in the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ 15:40 have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them 15:46 before our God day and night, has been cast down.'" 15:51 See, the devil wants to oppose the work of God in your life so 15:57 that he could also oppose the work of God through your life. 16:02 He's trying to stop what God wants to do in you, by cleansing 16:05 you and by transforming you, so that God can't do anything 16:09 through you. 16:11 And so that's why the devil comes to church and he attacks 16:14 the church. 16:15 Then you've got the discord of the devil, he wants to cause 16:21 division in the ranks. 16:23 Now, I hope that's not a surprise for anybody. 16:25 Proverbs 6:16, I like this verse, Solomon said, "These six 16:30 things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination unto 16:34 Him," it's interesting he starts with six and then he ends the 16:36 seventh, kind of like the week: "A proud look, A lying tongue, 16:41 Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked 16:45 plans, Feet that are swift to running to evil, A false witness 16:50 that speaks lies," and here's what he saved for the seventh, 16:55 "One who sows discord among brethren." 17:00 You know, one of the most successful ways that the devil 17:03 causes problems in the church is by spreading discord. 17:06 How many of you remember reading in the Bible the story where 17:09 Mary Magdalene, or Mary of Bethany, I believe, Saint Mary 17:13 is anointing the feet of Jesus in Simon's house at that dinner, 17:17 and the smell of the perfume fills the house? 17:20 And then Judas, who is rebuked by the generosity of Mary when 17:26 he was a thief. 17:28 Then Judas says, "Wow, what a waste. 17:33 This ointment, if it had been sold, it could have gotten 300 17:37 pence, and look at how much we could have done for the poor, 17:39 and she just poured it all out. 17:41 What a waste." 17:43 Here he is, he's supposed to be an apostle, but he's really the 17:46 accuser of the brethren, isn't he? 17:48 And he's also sowing discord. 17:50 And the other apostles go, "Yeah, it is a waste." 17:53 And Jesus rebukes Judas, He doesn't call him out by name, 17:57 but He said, "Let her alone. 17:59 What she has done will not be forgotten wherever the gospel is 18:03 preached, because she's anointed Me before My burial." 18:06 We usually give people flowers after they're dead and they 18:09 can't smell them, right? 18:11 He said, "She's done this for Me while I'm alive." 18:15 But there he was, he was trying to sow discord. 18:18 Then one of the things the devil does when he comes to church is 18:21 he tries to cause distractions. 18:24 You know, there's a story in Mark 1:21, Mark chapter 1, verse 18:30 21, that helps bear this out. 18:36 Does the devil go to church? Unfortunately, he does. 18:41 Praise the Lord God comes to church too. 18:44 "Then," this is Mark 1:21, "Then they went into Capernaum, and 18:48 immediately on the Sabbath He entered the synagogue." 18:51 On the Sabbath, He went to church, that's what that means. 18:56 "And they were astonished at His teaching," on the Sabbath day, 18:59 in the church, He's teaching the Word. 19:02 "And He taught them as one having authority, and not 19:04 the scribes." 19:05 And people are being moved and inspired by the Word. 19:07 Well, the devil couldn't have that. 19:09 It says, "Now there was a man in the synagogue with an 19:11 unclean spirit. 19:14 And he cried out." 19:15 And you wonder how often he had been to that church and nobody 19:18 knew he had an unclean spirit, but when Jesus was making 19:22 headway, the devil couldn't take it anymore. 19:26 It says, "He cried out, saying, 'Let us alone!'" 19:29 What does "us" mean? 19:31 More than one. 19:33 "Let us alone! 19:34 What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? 19:36 Did You come to destroy us? 19:38 I know who You are--the Holy One of God!" 19:42 Right there in the church service, how could He continue 19:45 preaching with that going on? 19:47 Wouldn't that be distracting? 19:48 Please, don't anyone do that right now. 19:50 I'm not sure I've got the gift of exorcism, so let's not 19:54 find out. 19:55 Right there in the middle, the devil, why did the devil go to 19:59 church that day? 20:02 It's not the first time it happened. 20:05 "But Jesus rebuked him, saying, 'Be quiet, and come out of him!' 20:11 And when the unclean spirit had convulsed him," he didn't just 20:14 come out, there was this big convulsion, "He carried on with 20:18 a loud voice, he came out of him. 20:22 And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among 20:25 themselves, saying, 'What is this? 20:27 What new doctrine is this? 20:29 For with authority He commands even the unclean spirits, and 20:32 they obey Him.'" 20:34 So what do we do about distractions? 20:37 As often as possible, when the devil distracts you, bring your 20:41 attention back, whether it's in church or in your 20:44 private devotions. 20:45 People say, "Pastor Doug, I'm praying and my mind wanders, 20:47 what do I do?" 20:49 As soon as you recognize it, bring it back. 20:50 And what I do is I pray, "Holy Spirit, help me stay focused, 20:55 and when my mind wanders, help me recognize it and bring 21:00 it back." 21:01 And it's amazing how far and how often your mind can wander when 21:04 you're trying to pray, the devil is always trying to distract us. 21:07 And the more I'm being distracted when I'm praying, I'm 21:10 thinking to myself, "The devil really doesn't want me to pray 21:13 today for some reason." 21:14 That's the time you really need to pray. 21:17 So, don't let him distract you, you know, you've probably 21:20 noticed here and I don't want to be unkind, but when I see 21:23 there's a major distraction in the worship service, I stop, 21:27 because I thought, "I'm wasting my time right now," until we can 21:29 resolve it. 21:31 Whether it's if the mic isn't working, I'll say, "Is something 21:33 wrong, we're getting feedback? 21:35 Let's fix it." 21:36 If parents are trying to settle down their children, you can 21:39 just pause and give them a chance to take care of that. 21:42 But if people are being distracted, you need to 21:44 address it. 21:45 Did Jesus address it? 21:47 Yeah, we need to focus, we want to hear His voice when we come 21:51 to church. 21:52 Now, I've got more I want to share with you, but I'm going to 21:54 close with this. 21:55 I'm not going to give you all of the answers today, but how do we 21:58 deal with the devil and his devices to try to bring us down? 22:05 I want to direct you to Psalm 91, go to Psalm 91 with me. 22:14 "He who dwells in the secret," this is verse 1, Psalm 91. 22:18 By the way, this is a good Psalm to memorize. 22:20 "He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall 22:24 abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 22:27 I will say of the Lord, 'He is my refuge and my fortress.'" 22:31 What is He? 22:32 He is our fortress, a fortress protects you, God protects us 22:37 against the enemy. 22:38 "'My God, in Him I will trust.' 22:40 Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler." 22:44 In the Bible, the devil is called the fowler, someone who 22:47 traps birds. 22:49 "And from the perilous pestilence. 22:51 He will cover you with His feathers, And under His wings 22:54 you shall take refuge; His truth," what is it that 22:57 saves us? 22:58 "His truth will be your shield and your buckler. 23:03 You will not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor the arrow 23:06 that flies by day, Nor the pestilence that walks in 23:09 darkness, Nor the destruction that lays waste at noonday. 23:12 A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your 23:15 right hand; But it will not come near you. 23:17 Only with your eyes will you see, And look at the reward of 23:21 the wicked." 23:22 Why? 23:23 "Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most 23:26 High, your dwelling place." 23:29 It's talking about abiding, if we abide in Him, we will be 23:34 protected from the devil's devices. 23:39 Because you've made the Lord your refuge, "No evil will 23:42 befall you, Nor will any plague come near your dwelling; For He 23:45 will give His angels charge over you," and the devil actually 23:48 misquoted this to Jesus, "He will give His angels charge over 23:52 you, To keep you in all of your ways." 23:53 You will have angelic protection. 23:56 "In their hands they will bear you up, Lest you dash your foot 23:59 against a stone. 24:00 You will tread upon the lion." 24:02 What is the devil compared to in the Bible? 24:04 "Goes around as a roaring lion." 24:06 "You will tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion 24:11 and the serpent you will trample underfoot." 24:14 What's the serpent? 24:17 So, talking about the devil, these are symbols for the devil. 24:20 "Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will 24:24 deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known 24:28 My name. 24:30 He will call Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him 24:33 in trouble." 24:35 Doesn't say you won't have trouble, but He'll be with you 24:37 in trouble, amen? 24:38 "I will deliver him and honor him. 24:41 With long life," namely eternal life, "I will satisfy him, And 24:46 show him My salvation." 24:48 "He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High." 24:51 If we are abiding in Christ, we don't need to be afraid that 24:55 there are devils in the world, God will protect us, amen? 25:02 Doug: Do you sometimes feel like your faith is a little lukewarm, 25:06 do you struggle with motivation when it's time to go to church, 25:10 does it seem, lately, like you're being more easily 25:13 overcome by temptation? 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