Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, August 6th.

Scripture warns us that Satan's attacks are inevitable, but believers don't fight the battle alone.

Here's part one of resisting the devil.

When you attempted to do wrong, what is your response?

Do sometimes you feel guilty even though you didn't do what Satan tempted you to do?

Or there are times when you feel like you are under a specific satanic attack.

That is, Satan is really attacking you in some particular area of your life.

When you attempted by Satan and attacked by him, do you feel absolutely overwhelmed and

helpless and weak as if you cannot help but yield of that temptation?

Well, my friend, Satan is going to tempt you, and what you and I must learn to do is to resist the devil.

Do you know how to resist Satan when he tempts you?

If you don't know how to resist him, you're going to spend your life like a spiritual roller coaster, up today and down tomorrow,

one defeat after the other until you learn how to resist the

devil. And that's what I want to share with you in this time. And if you'll turn to 1st Peter

Chapter 5, and I want us to read two verses concerning this matter of resisting the devil.

Because it is an area in which all of us need to learn how to make application of a spiritual

truth. He says in 1 Peter beginning in chapter 5 verse 8, he says be of sober spirit, be on the

alert, your adversary, the devil prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devout.

But resist him firm in your faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world.

So the first thing I want us to look at here is what he says, or whom he identifies

as our enemy, and he says, your adversary. He didn't say the adversary. He said,

your adversary. Satan is the personal enemy of every single one of God's children. Now,

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