{"id":236,"date":"2017-02-19T11:46:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T16:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=236"},"modified":"2017-02-19T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T17:06:03","slug":"spiritual-warfare-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/02\/19\/spiritual-warfare-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Warfare Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satan is still active and adversarial, but he can&#8217;t attack and destroy the lives of believers without permission. We need to be on guard &#8211; the devil was able to snare one of the twelve who walked with Jesus personally into doing his will. If we aren&#8217;t wise and on guard, we too could be snared.<\/p>\n<p>One of his goals is to remain hidden. He doesn&#8217;t want anyone to know he exists &#8211; doing anything that could expose him will probably invite an attack.<\/p>\n<p>It is important that we don&#8217;t fear the devil, but we need to be aware of him. Unlike God, he&#8217;s not all-powerful, all-seeing or all-knowing. He&#8217;s not capable of creating anything &#8211; he can only copy what God has already done.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has his own church<\/li>\n<li>He has his own gospel<\/li>\n<li>He has his own doctrines<\/li>\n<li>He has his own communion supper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How do we become vulnerable to the wiles of the devil?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Right after we have an experience with God<\/li>\n<li>At the beginning of a new spiritual endeavor<\/li>\n<li>When we become weak<\/li>\n<li>When we&#8217;re alone and out of fellowship with other believers<\/li>\n<li>When someone unexpected\u00a0is being used as a tool of the devil<\/li>\n<li>He will always wait for an opportune moment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Scriptures:\u00a0<\/strong>1 Peter 5:8, Luke 22:31-32, 2 Timothy 2:24-26, Ezekiel 28:11-19, Revelation 2:9, Galatians 1:6-9, 1 Timothy 4:1, 1 Corinthians 10:20-21, Matthew 3:16-4:3, Matthew 16:22-23, Luke 4:13<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-236-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-19-17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-19-17.mp3\">http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-19-17.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satan is still active and adversarial, but he can&#8217;t attack and destroy the lives of believers without permission. We need to be on guard &#8211; the devil was able to snare one of the twelve who walked with Jesus personally&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/02\/19\/spiritual-warfare-part-ii\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}