You are listening to David Platt Messages, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages from

Pastor, author, and teacher David Platt.

So let me start with two truths.

You might write them down.

I'm going to put it up here on the screen.

Here's the first one.

The devil and his demons are actively and always working to destroy your life.

Now, if you haven't been here the last six weeks, you might feel like we're diving into the deep end from the start, but this is what we've seen over and over again.

There is a devil, and there are demons.

They exist.

There are spiritual forces of evil, cosmic powers over darkness that are actively working with one goal to destroy your life. And your family, your friends, everybody you love. They want to wreck your future forever.

They want and are working for your eternal destruction, right where you're sitting right now.

And this is happening, whether you realize it or not.

Whether you realize it or not, you wake up every single day in the middle of a spiritual war.

And you go throughout your day engulfed in that war.

When you're alone, when you're with others, at work, at school, at the gym,

when you're on your phone, when you're in your home, and you go to bed in this war. And it keeps

going while you're not even conscious. The devil and his demons are always working, even right now in this moment,

tempting some of you to believe that this isn't true. But they're not real. Really? You believe in a devil

with a pitchfork over your shoulder? Are you serious? In his classic screw tape letters,

C.S. Lewis depicts an older demon saying to a younger demon, I do not think you'll have much

difficulty in keeping the patient in the dark. The fact that devils are predominantly comic

...