Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, May 18th.

Satan is opposed to everything that is godly, but through Christ the

levers have everything we need for victory. In today's podcast we take a

close look at our enemy.

Well it's interesting how in the military, men study very, very thoroughly

their opposing enemy. Well you and I have an opposing enemy and he

poses us at every turn in our life. Everywhere we turn he is there with his

demonic powers in some fashion, some way to cause us the falter and the fall to

step out of God's will and to miss his plan for our life. But isn't it

interesting that we can just sort of go through life and somehow never think to

realize that it's very important that we understand how the enemy thinks.

We have someone who is opposing us who is against us. It's very clear in

the Scriptures how he thinks. In fact you and I have a manual called the Bible

that gives us several thousand of years of how this opposing general, how this

satanic power is going to act, how he responds, how he works in the lives of

others, how he has failed and how he has succeeded so often. What is the

believers in him? And oftentimes the way we believe as act and the way Christians

act, you would think that our enemy is each other. And yet the truth is the real

enemy is none other than Satan himself. But if you notice in this passage it isn't

just Satan because the truth is there's a whole confederation of opposition.

Satan being of course the ringleader and the general but notice what it says. He

says stand firm against the schemes of the devil but then he doesn't stop. He

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