The Pervasive Influence of Darkness

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🗓️ 12 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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When we start talking about spiritual warfare, we immediately think of the serpent in the garden, of New Testament confrontations between Jesus and the demon-possessed, and of chaotic exorcisms depicted in TV and movies. But what kind of power does Satan have, and what are we supposed to do about it? On this episode of White Horse Inn, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and David Cassidy trace the biblical encounters with Satan and consider how he works today, reminding believers to be alert but not afraid.

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0:00.0	In other words, when we talk about what he does, I want us to keep in mind what the objective
0:09.0	is that he has a view.
0:10.4	We've talked about it being an attack on God because humans are his image bear.
0:14.0	But one of the things going on here is that he wants to alienate people from God to, in other words,
0:20.0	attack and destroy faith in God.
0:25.0	So everything that he does from the realm of temptation,
0:30.0	through to the realm of human suffering, through to the realm of human suffering through to the realm of doubt exists to
0:36.7	destroy faith.
0:39.7	Five centuries ago in taverns and public houses across Europe, the masses would gather for discussion and debate over the latest ideas sweeping the land.
0:51.0	From one such meeting place, a small Cambridge inn called the White House the the tradition. Welcome to the White Horse Inn.
1:06.4	If you go to the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia,
1:09.7	you'll find two companion pieces
1:11.6	by the French sculptor August Rodin. find two play. One hand is called the hand of God and the other is the hand of the devil.
1:25.7	Rodin usually depicted only right hands in his multiple hand sculptures, with the exception, the one exception of the hand of the
1:36.3	devil in which Satan's left hand is used to hold and crush a human. The hand is bony, is clutching a small female figure who's
1:48.8	struggling to escape, who's all alone. And Satan's hand is at work its fingers, a spindly fingers moving
1:57.2	within a swirling mass of clay and just as the female figure begins to take shape and rise out of the swirling mass of clay,
2:06.6	the hand is seen pushing it back into nothingness and chaos.
2:11.6	Just as order is ready to be birth, the hand thwarts it.
2:16.0	Chaos is dominant in this sculpture,
2:19.0	and the female figure is alone,
2:22.0	lost and driven away from order back into the chaos. Right next
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