Until Christ Returns, Part 3
Leading The Way Radio Podcast
Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef
4.9 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, people’s interest in the end times seems to be at an all-time high. That concern, however, is not always translated into everyday life. How can we live in light of Christ’s return? In his eight-part series, Until Christ Returns, Dr. Michael Youssef uses the example of the Thessalonians to encourage Christians not to be deterred by persecution, fear, or human pride, but to actively and outwardly serve the living God, confidently awaiting His return even in turbulent times.
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| 0:00.0 | For a long time, people even in the church had divergent views on Satan and his operations, |
| 0:10.0 | and his schemes, and even his existence. |
| 0:15.0 | C.S. Lewis, who's somehow a brilliant man, he was, that yet he's somehow able to put things in a succinct way |
| 0:23.2 | for me. |
| 0:24.7 | He said there are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall into about |
| 0:33.9 | the devils. |
| 0:36.2 | One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe and feel an excessive |
| 0:45.6 | and unhealthy interest in them. They, the devils, themselves, are equally pleased with both errors. |
| 0:56.7 | Well said. |
| 0:58.6 | The Bible clearly teaches that Satan and his minions, demons, or devils, |
| 1:06.4 | that third of the angelic being that was thrown out of heaven, |
| 1:10.8 | they are real. They are real. |
| 1:13.3 | They are very real. |
| 1:15.9 | That this present world is a battlefield where unseen and powerful forces operate. |
| 1:25.3 | While Satan himself is not an omnipresent, but our God is. It's only present through |
| 1:33.0 | his minions, his demons that are scattered everywhere. While Satan and his minions have power, |
| 1:41.3 | our God's power is far greater than Satan's. And here are some biblical teachings |
| 1:47.1 | about Satan and the demons. Number one, from Job chapter 1 and Luke 4, it tells us that Satan is a |
| 1:57.3 | person. In Ephesians 611 and 2 Corinthians 2.11, we know that he is forever scheming |
| 2:05.8 | against God's people. In Matthew chapter 4, verse 6, we know that he has a thorough knowledge of the |
| 2:15.8 | scripture, the Word of God. In Revelation 12, we know that he controls |
| 2:21.1 | his followers. In 2 Timothy chapter 2, verse 26, he decides things. And in Ephesians 6, he wages |
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