The portrait of Satan I see in the scripture is so different from how it's portrayed in modern

culture that no wonder nobody believes in Satan anymore. Who would believe in such ludicrous caricatures?

But Satan in the scripture is the angel of light who will manifest himself not as a Hitler or a

Mussolini or anything like that. He's an angel of light. And so at the same time he's called a

roaring lion seeking those whom he will devour.

Do you believe in the devil? It seems that in the church Christians either ignore the reality

of Satan or they so obsess over him that they almost deify him and forget that like us he's a

creature. I'm Nathan W. Bingham and you're listening to renewing your mind. As we conclude this

section in R.C. Sproul's Pleasing God series on the three enemies that confront Christians,

today he examines the reality and schemes of the devil and he'll explain why it is that culture

has come to portray the devil as one in a red outfit with horns and a pitchfork. Here's Dr. Sproul.

When Martin Luther said that the triad of enemies of the Christian life include the world, the

flesh and the devil. He didn't include the last one, the devil simply as a theological abstraction

or as a matter of doctrine but Luther had a keen and profound personal awareness of the reality

of Satan. You have to understand that when people were concerned with living the Christian life

in the 16th century they had a slightly different view of reality from what is commonplace today.

Luther was so acutely conscious of the presence of Satan that he often spoke of the unfact on

the unbridled assault that the enemy, the Prince of Darkness, was bringing against him in his

personal life and Luther would find that the presence of Satan at times was so tangible that I

want occasion he picked up an ink well that was on his desk because he was writing and through it

in the direction of where he thought Satan was standing and what he got for his trouble was a

wall full of ink. He had some other less tasteful means of getting rid of Satan but I won't

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