Satan is a prowling lion, an enemy of ours who is right now seeking to devour Christians.

But can we be devoured, yikes, or are we safe?

And what does that mean anyways?

And how can we find shelter for such an unseen threat to our eternal security?

John Pepper addressed this important question straight away in his 1994 sermon on 1st

Peter, chapter 5, here's what he said.

Here's another question, can Christians be devoured?

Verse 8 says, your adversary, the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone

to devour.

The word is to swallow whole, like the fish did Jonah, same word in Jonah and sip to it.

Your adversary, the devil wants to make you disappear, vanish, you're out of here,

you're gone, you're going with him to the lake of fire, that's what devour means.

The question is, can that happen to me?

And you, verse 9 says, resist him, and the reason you're to resist him is because he's

trying to devour you.

He's trying to devour you, resist him, is that a serade?

It's war games, they're blanks, they're all blanks, they're no bullets in the gun.

Nobody gets killed in this game, it's just, just resisting because, just do it.

That's really going to happen if you don't, because it doesn't happen to Christians.

Is that right?

Well, I think the devouring is real, and it sure sounds serious to me when Peter says,

resist him, resist him, does it sound like a game?

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