Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Satan's primary tactic

"From Hitler’s vision for a Thousand Year Reich and Lenin’s promise to use the dictatorship of the proletariat to build a workers' paradise, to abortion depicted as a 'women’s health issue' and homosexual behavior justified as an 'alternative lifestyle,' evil always comes to humanity disguised as good. The results are just as invariably consistent -- destruction, suffering and death. Beware the Serpent’s promises." --Dr. Earl H. Tilford

Satan's primary tactic is a 3 step process:

1. Show you something

2. Make it seem appealing

3. Get you to succumb

He has had a lot of success with this approach. We can't stop him from showing us stuff, or trying to make it seem appealing. But we don't have to give in to step 3. Men, we need a strong Biblically-based worldview to counter Satan's tactics. Because we are so easily swayed into thinking something would be good, we must rely not on our own judgments, but the revealed truth of God.

"Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD." (Psalm 31:24)

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