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brain. Satan had all that power. Then we find that he was able to take life.
He actually took the life of Job’s ten children. Some people say: “Well,
God will let him touch your life, but He will not let him take it”. Satan
had power to take a life. He took Job’s ten children.
Now we are creatures of extremes, you know. We give Satan credit if we
have some petty little annoyance that keeps bothering us. We say, “Oh,
that is Satan! The devil made me do that”, you see. Or, if there is
extensive injury, then we will give Satan credit for that. Hitler and Stalin,
the abuse of communism or the awful corruption in our society. We give
Satan credit for that. But somehow, we seem to shun as a silly fable or
superstition, that Satan is constantly and systematically busying himself
with our concerns. That he is involved in our thoughts, in our words, and
in our deeds. That, by artful suggestion, through his unnumbered hosts, he
is causing us to be tempted every day.
Satan’s work is to resist Jesus Christ. Now if that means to start a national
movement against Christ or if it means to take a child and turn his steps
from the path of righteousness, Satan is against Christ. He does not have
the prerogatives of God. He does not have foreknowledge. He does not
have omnipresence. But he has thousands of years of experience with
men. He has a perfect acquaintance with all the knowledge that is
attainable to created intelligence. He knows anything anybody knows. He
knows more than all of men combined. He has the knowledge of angels.
He is both a master psychologist and a religious fanatic. He knows the
Bible far better than you, and will use it against you everyday. Matthew
Chapter 4. Read all the scripture the enemy uses against the Lord Jesus.

Many times we think that it is our own corrupt nature that causes us to sin.
Let me give you four or five Bible examples. First Chronicles 21:1 says
“Satan moved David to number the people”. Second Samuel 24:1 tells
the same story, and do you know what that one says? It says “God moved
David to number the people”. It is the same incident. One time it says
Satan caused him to number the people, and another time it says God
caused him to number the people.
According to Luke 22:3, what do we learn about the nature of Judas?
Judas was a thief. He was already a thief, and then he sold his Savior for
thirty pieces of silver. Ananias and Sapphira were guilty of selfishness,
greed and desiring filthy lucre. Now, what I am pointing out is this. If the
Bible did not tell us that Satan was involved in David’s sin, if the Bible
did not tell us that Satan made Judas, Ananias and Sapphira do what they
did, we would have never guessed. We would have said “That’s just like
Judas to do that. That doesn’t surprise me”. That is exactly like Ananias to

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