I Saw Satan Fall Like Lightning | Luke 10:17–20
Summit Life with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear Ministries
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
When many of us picture Satan, we think of a cartoon character with little red horns and a pitchfork. But is he really just a figment of Hollywood’s imagination, or is Satan alive and active in our world today? Pastor J.D. dives into Scripture to answer that question as he continues our series, “The Difficult Sayings of Jesus.”
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| 0:00.0 | You've ever been trying to share Christ with somebody and just the most bizarre things start |
| 0:04.9 | happening to them, distractions, things that make them doubt? |
| 0:08.9 | And you're like, why? |
| 0:10.0 | It's because Satan begins to target people when they begin to be exposed to the gospel. |
| 0:14.4 | It's why some of our church planners overseas deal with opposition that I've never experienced before because he is putting obstacles in the way. |
| 0:31.2 | Welcome back to more solid biblical teaching here on the Summit Life podcast with Pastor J.D. |
| 0:37.2 | As always, I'm your host, Molly Bidivich. |
| 0:40.0 | This month, we're offering a small booklet called Transcend the Culture War and Transform the |
| 0:45.1 | World. It features a short preview from Pastor Jadie's newest book called Everyday Revolutionary. |
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| 1:02.7 | It's a powerful way to multiply the gospel message and start spiritual conversations. |
| 1:07.5 | No donation required, just visit jiddygrier.com to request your copies tomorrow march 31st is your |
| 1:14.5 | last day for this free resource to be mailed to you so contact us right away today pastor jadie |
| 1:20.8 | helps us understand our adversary and the spiritual battlefield in front of us we continue our study |
| 1:26.8 | of some of the most challenging |
| 1:28.2 | statements Jesus ever made with a message Pastor J.D. titled, I saw Satan fall like lightning. |
| 1:34.6 | Let's get started. We are in the midst of a series called The Difficult Sayings of Jesus. |
| 1:45.6 | Things that Jesus said that don't readily make sense to us, things that may challenge us and shatter some of our preconceptions that we have about Jesus. |
| 1:56.7 | Thomas Jefferson had that famous Bible. |
| 1:58.9 | I think it's in a museum somewhere where he had actually cut out the parts of Jesus' life, the ministry that he didn't like. You may not have actually done that to your Bible, but all of us tend to have kind of a version of Jesus that would gravitate toward that is an edited version. Well, I don't like what he says over here, and I don't like it when he does this right here. You can't do that. You cannot block |
| 2:17.8 | out parts of Jesus' presentation of himself. And what these statements do is it puts the real |
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