We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

Everything becomes captive to the truth and obedience to the truth.

As I know the truth, as I obey the truth, Satan is resisted.

Welcome Welcome to Grace to You, featuring the Bible teaching of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Well, in this new year, perhaps you want to be more disciplined to read God's word

or more consistent to tell others about the gospel.

But as you reach for those goals, could you be overlooking the enemy of your soul who wants

to hinder you every step of the way? That enemy, of course, is Satan. So how do you resist his

tactics? And how can you make sure his attacks don't slow down your spiritual

growth in 2026? Find out today on Grace to you as we continue John MacArthur's study called

A Practical Path to Spiritual Maturity. And if you have your Bible handy, open it up and follow

along as John begins the lesson.

What is the general approach of the demons? How do they attack? Well, first of all, Satan

and his demons attack us as individuals. The second thing that they do is they attack families.

They attack families.

Third thing he wants to do is attack leaders, leaders in the church.

So, Satan comes at individuals, he comes at families, he comes at leaders, he comes at churches.

Apart from all the rest of the stuff that he's doing in the world.

But that's the focus of his attack on us.

Now, the question that I want to answer just very briefly now is how do we deal with it?

What do we do?

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