“Your Enemy the Devil”
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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How are Christians supposed to respond to the devil? Fight him? Flee from him? Ignore him? Examine the Evil One’s identity, strategy, and destiny, and learn from the apostle Peter how to actively resist him. Listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, How should we respond to the devil? Do we fight him? Do we flee from him? Do we ignore him? |
| 0:30.6 | Today on Truth for Life weekend, we'll examine the evil one's identity, his strategy, and his destiny, and learn how believers can actively resist |
| 0:39.3 | him. |
| 0:40.4 | Alistair Begg is teaching from 1st Peter chapter 5. |
| 0:48.8 | Let me give you where we're going. |
| 0:51.9 | We're going under three headings. |
| 0:53.8 | First, to pay attention to our enemy, |
| 0:57.8 | then to our activity, and then finally just in a moment to our solidarity. First of all, then our |
| 1:07.8 | enemy. It's interesting, is it not, that Peter identifies the fact |
| 1:12.6 | that Christians do have an enemy. The whole Bible is replete with the exhortation to make sure |
| 1:19.3 | that we don't make enemies of one another. Sadly, the Christian Church has been adept at making |
| 1:25.0 | enemies out of its own. |
| 1:31.3 | And the times when we are most conscious of the enemy factor in relation to our brothers and sisters in Christ |
| 1:33.6 | is probably directly correlative to the times |
| 1:37.0 | when we are least aware of the enemy factor |
| 1:40.5 | in relationship to what the Bible has to say. |
| 1:48.8 | That the devil is our enemy. The reason that he is our enemy is because of a radical transformation having taken place in our lives. |
| 1:55.5 | We were not by nature enemies of the devil, although he has always been about our discouragement and destruction, |
| 2:04.9 | but we were never so radically removed from him until such times as God redeemed us by his grace. |
| 2:13.2 | And when you read, for example, even in 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 9, you are reminded of the fact that when we came to faith in Christ, we were transferred, or we were called out of, darkness, into his wonderful light. |
| 2:30.1 | Now, that didn't mean that we lived in a dark house, and we went to live in a lighthouse. |
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