While many Well, many people say they believe in God, many of those same people doubt that the devil is real.

Maybe that includes you.

The Bible describes Satan as a formidable enemy, and today on Truth for Life, Alastor Begg explains why it's

important to take him seriously. As believers, though, we ought not be preoccupied with his threat.

Let's turn in our Bible to John Chapter 17. Once again, the devil uses the Bible, misquotes the Bible, to try and oppose Jesus.

That's his strategy, to destroy what he has come to do, to discredit the word that he speaks.

And for a third time, he took him, verse 8, to a very high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their glory, and he said to him, all these I will give you if you will fall

down and worship me.

So what does he say?

His strategy is this, to get Jesus, to exchange his love of the Father

for the worship of Satan. Strategy hasn't changed. He would rather that you worshipped him,

went his broad road to destruction, that you bowed down before Jesus as Lord and

King and Savior. So it's no question at all that the evil one, by identity and strategy,

is the Father of Lies. He is the Father of Lies., is the father of lies. He is the father of lies. And as the father of lies,

he's very, very capable. I must keep moving. But 2 Corinthians 4, I find that this is helpful

to remind myself of this. Why are things the way they are? Two Corinthians four and verse three.

Why is it that when we tell people the gospel this fantastic good news? You say, now here's the deal.

You can't earn this for yourself. Jesus has done for you what you cannot do for yourself.

And he has died in order that your dead might be canceled, that you might be forgiven.

And people go like, hey, talk to the hand.

Yeah, sure.

I thank you.

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