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Well, if you have a Bible, and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with,

let me invite you to open to me to Ephesians Chapter 6.

Feel free to use table of contents if you need to.

It's near the back of the Bible.

I want to start today by asking you a back of the Bible. I want to start today by

asking you a couple of questions and I want to encourage you to really think about the answer to

them. So first, how is Satan currently attacking you and others who are close to you. Now this question presupposes that

Satan is real and that he is currently attacking you and currently attacking others who are close to you all of which I'm about to

show you in the Bible is true but I want to give you a moment to consider this

question knowing there are countless possible answers to it in light of Satan's

varied schemes so if I could put those

schemes or those strategies in general categories, how is Satan most tempting you to sin in your

life right now? And your thoughts, your desires, your words, your actions, how is Satan most enticing your flesh?

Maybe one way to put it, what sins are besetting you? What sins do you find yourself continually

struggling with?

Statistics would say that lust and pornography would be on that list for a large percentage of people in this gathering.

Or maybe it's pride or anger or greed greed, or envy, or gossip, or any number of sins of omission.

So things God is calling you to do, but Satan is tempting you to not do.

Or, so here's another category, how is Satan attacking you with doubt or discouragement or despair?

I was reading 1st Kings 19 recently where Elijah, this prophet, this man mighty with God,

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