Satan Cannot Scare You into Hell

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Satan may oppress you, attack you, and rage against you. But if you are in Christ, he holds no power to finally destroy you.

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0:00.0	Welcome back on Friday of last week in APJ 1869.
0:12.1	We looked at the terrible things that Satan can do to people and to us.
0:18.4	We saw that Satan can bring on physical suffering.
0:22.0	He's behind much sickness.
0:24.8	We know that Satan brought a thorn of physical pain into Paul's life.
0:28.6	He can even throw Christians into prison, we saw.
0:32.8	Satan got Jesus arrested, beaten, and thrown on a cross.
0:38.1	And just as he sought to destroy our Savior, Satan seeks to destroy our faith today.
0:45.3	He's very powerful.
0:47.1	But he's not all powerful.
0:49.0	Where Satan acts, he only acts by permission and never with ultimate control.
0:53.6	Nevertheless, he's real.
0:55.9	He's strong.
0:57.3	He's evil, and he's on a very long leash.
1:01.4	And even on that long leash of God's Providence, he does terrible damage.
1:08.6	Those were the points from that recent episode.
1:11.0	Satan is no joke.
1:12.6	But there's another reality we must add into the mix, and it's this.
1:16.5	There's only one finally destructive weapon in the artillery of Satan.
1:22.3	Only one.
1:23.8	One lethal weapon that he can wield over you and over me.
1:29.4	What is it?
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