(Robb Brurnansky – The Cripplegate) Martyn Lloyd-Jones, who was a practicing medical doctor before the Lord called him into pastoral ministry, wrote, “I find more and more in my pastoral experience, as I am privileged to interview people, and to help them in their personal fight of faith, and in their personal problems, that the essence of the trouble so frequently is that such people have not realized the powers that are set against them. So often I have to deal with people who have been sent to a psychologist, a psychoanalyst, or somebody like that, and whose problem very frequently is simply that they have without realizing it been besieged and attacked by the devil.” He goes on to note the essence of the cure is to help them see the spiritual battle in which they are engaged, and to fight it with spiritual weapons.
However, a 2009 Barna study showed that sixty-seven percent of professing Christians in the U.S. either do not believe Satan exists or do not know if he exists. Only twenty-six percent strongly disagreed that Satan is merely a symbol of evil. Yet Scripture is clear we have a real enemy who is determined to do what he can to destroy us and assault God’s honor and glory. Ignorance of Satan and his activity leaves Christians vulnerable to his attacks, so we do well to understand what the Bible says about Satan.
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