Where Is the Devil at Work Today?

Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear

J.D. Greear

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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* First of all, we have to acknowledge that Satan is, indeed real. We have to take him seriously. But some people are guilty of not taking him seriously at all, and some are guilty of blaming every bad thing in life on him.
* A lot of people don't know that the phrase "demon possessed" is actually not in the Bible. The phrase "demonized" is, instead. I don't believe that a demon can actually come in and possess someone who is a believer, but I do think demons can afflict a person who is a believer, especially when they're not walking in obedience or saturated in the Word. We need to be alert and sober-minded, like Peter says.
* When you look at the totality of human history, you would be naive to attribute some of history's greatest tragedies to anything other than the influence of Satan, the prince of this world.
* Fortunately for believers, the blood of Jesus covers us and anything covered by Jesus blood is safe from Satan and his attacks. Second, we have God's Word itself. When Jesus was tempted, he quoted Scripture back to Satan and if it worked for Jesus, we can know it'll work for us. That's why I work to memorize Scripture.

I think Satan LOVES social media, it’s designed to magnify our self-obsession, which is Satan's calling card!

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone.
0:18.0	Hey, everyone. Welcome to Ask Me Anything with Pastor J.D. Greer.
0:22.4	J.D., this is an interesting question, I think.
0:24.5	Pretty interesting.
0:25.3	Like, interesting in a different way than some of our questions are interesting.
0:28.1	We hear a lot about the devil.
0:29.5	Maybe not all the time, but we've definitely heard about him.
0:31.7	Is the devil real?
0:33.0	Is the devil a metaphor?
0:34.5	Is the devil working?
0:35.7	What does that look like?
0:36.7	How is the devil at work right now
0:38.4	yeah so yeah modern people a lot of times will think like well the devil that that's just that's like
0:43.6	a metaphor for the powers of evil at work in the world and surely now now in the 21st century
0:50.3	you know that we have moved beyond that because they get this idea of uh you know red guy with a pitchfork and you know, that we have moved beyond that because they get this idea of, you know,
0:55.0	red guy with a pitchfork and, you know, horns and that sort of thing. I guess what I'll just say
1:01.3	is absolutely. If the Bible is true, if we can take anything in the Bible seriously, then Satan is
1:07.5	real, a real being. And so are demons. I mean, you just look at how often Jesus talked about it, how often he interacted,
1:14.3	for him to willfully deceive us and say, this is just a metaphor, but I'm going to talk about it like it's a person.
1:19.9	If that were true, I'm not sure of really anything that we could believe.
1:24.0	The mistake that Christians make and people make in general when it comes to the devil,
1:27.9	and let me quote C.S. Lewis here.
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