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Satan is not
omniscient! Satan isn’t
omnipotent! Satan is not
omnipresent! The
idea
that he can and does read the thoughts of billions of people, that he
can and does construct and customize temptations to suit our make-up,
that he is everywhere at the same time constructing custom made
temptations for every person on the planet is not only false, it is
injurious. By the time I hear this (and I hear and read it more often
that I care to) I know I’m being “tempted” to think there are two Gods
rather than one. I hear that Satan has control of planetary weather
conditions like Tornadoes or hurricanes that can blow your house down
and kill your children; that he is in control of lightning storms that
can burn up crops, that he can gather together marauding armies to steal
and devastate property, that he has get into your body and bend your
spine double, gives you disease, ulcers and kill you. The power some of
us ascribe to him is limitless.
I hear that if we don’t take such a Satan seriously, a Satan like that, that we don’t take Sin seriously.
I think if we
did take such a Satan seriously that we would NOT take
our Sin seriously! We’d put all the blame on him and excuse ourselves.
I think if he knew everything he wouldn’t have wasted his time tempting
Jesus and he would have worked to keep Him from the Cross rather than
using Judas to get Him put on it.
And God gave JESUS a name that is above EVERY name…God raised
Him and set Him at his own right hand, far above all principalities,
powers, might and dominion and above EVERY name that is named, not only
in this world but in the world to come.
More to come, God enabling.
