I want to introduce today's question with these opening verses from the book of Job.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord,

and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, from where have you come?

Satan answered the Lord and said, from going to and fro on the earth and from walking up and down on it.

So Paul, today's question comes from Heather, who asks, what is the devil's accessibility?

Is he omnipresent?

Yes, it's a really good question.

There is no theology of the omnipresent of the devil in Scripture.

He's not omnipresent.

He's not omnipotent. It's one that the

Bible has a lot to say about. So I want to center my answer on four passages of scripture. First one is

Peter 5, 8, 9. I think this is a very significant passage. It says, be alert and sober-minded.

Your enemy of the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour,

resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout

the world is undergoing the same kind of suffering.

Now, what Peter is saying is, if you're going to be a sober-minded Christian,

you're going to believe in the devil.

You're going to believe that our theology says that there's the presence of real personal evil.

He uses as a word picture that the devil is like a prowling, roaring lion.

I had the experience of going on a safari, and we actually tracked

lions on the hunt. That's a very rare experience, and we watched them separate five kudu deer and

then attack them, and it was bloody and gory, and I won't go into detail.

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