Every one of the sufferings that Jesus went through was lifting sin off of us and

sins the only thing Satan's got to kill us with. And sin's the only thing Satan's got to kill us with. It's the only weapon he's got.

Satan cannot hurt you without sin.

If you solve your sin problem, you solve your Satan problem. He can show you green things in the middle

of the night and terrify you, but he can't hurt you. If God rules over all inanimate and animate things,

how does he relate to Satan and his minions?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper details God's absolute authority over all the spiritual forces of evil.

The seminar was originally given at Bethlehem Baptist Church on November 1st 1995.

Now I want to raise a D issue of what you might call the links in the causal chain.

Satan as a link in the causal chain of Providence in inanimate and animate things.

Now, Matthew 826, we read last time a couple weeks ago which said Jesus gets into the

Jesus gets wake up in the boat that's about to be sunk by the storm and

Jesus said to them, why are you timid? You men of little faith.

Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea and it became perfectly calm.

Now, Steve came up to me after the session two weeks ago and he said what does that word rebuke signify if

if God is so totally in control of all these inanimate things? Why would God's son rebuke God's instrument?

Sharp question. Whoa, I like questions like that. That's the way to read the Bible. So it raised the question about

other wills besides gods in nature, namely maybe Satan.

Do you got anything to do with the wind?

And we looked at numerous texts that says,

God rules the wind. God opens his storehouses and sends the wind. But

rebuked sounds like the wind was being unruly, not just wisely distributed by a Heavenly Father, but unruly as though it were not simply the instrument of God, but of an independent power that the

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