1. Our heavenly Father is a legal father.
2. The heavenly Father desires worship, prayer,
faith and true sonship.
3. The Lord Jesus Christ is both human and God.
4. The Lord Jesus Christ was compassionate, meek,
gentle and loving.
5. The Holy Spirit is our Eternal Counselor.
6. The Holy Spirit teaches us and reminds us all
things in Christ.
7. Water Baptism is an act of obedience.
8. We have been given authority by the Lord Jesus
Christ to evangelize.
9. Witnessing should be part of our daily lives and
is an ______ call.
10. Witnessing involves ________ (being friendly).
When a person commits his life
to Jesus Christ and desires to
follow Him through life, an entire
ARRAY OF FORCES begin to seek
to DESTROY that commitment
and severe that person’s
relationship to Christ.
Satan was one of GOD’S ANGELS
who decided that he wanted to
TAKE God’s place and become
the RULER of the universe; thus
his principle of sin was PRIDE.
As a result of his rebellion, his
nature become CORRUPT and
he became the ultimate source
of all evil in the universe.
As an enemy of God, Satan also
became the enemy of any
human being who wants to
SERVE God. 1 Peter 5:8
1
Satan exercises an INFLUENCE
over all people by means of
his ability to TEMPT them to
sin and to BIND them to the
light of the Gospel message.
2
As part of his work of
DECEPTION, we can identify all
the world’s CULTS and religious
systems which delude people
into thinking that they are right
with God. 2 Corinthians 4:3-4
1
The only way that Satan can
influence the Christian is by
deceiving him into thinking that
he (Satan) has CONTROL over
us. John 8:44
2
In OVERCOMING Satan’s
attack through temptation and
deception, here are things we
need to know:
a
In warfare, we must
constantly be on the ALERT, so
it is with our adversary Satan.
1 Peter 5:8
b
Christians must submit to God
to RESIST Satan and his cohorts.
1 Peter 5:9, James 4:7
c
We do not need to DEFEAT Satan
ourselves because Jesus Christ has
defeated him and DELIVERED us
from his power by dying for us on
the cross. We will just let Satan
know that we know (by faith) that
he has NO POWER over us.
d
2 Corinthians 2:6-11 emphasizes
the importance of FORGIVENESS
within the body of Christ for Satan
wants to DESTROY the bond of
LOVE among believers which is the
most important PROOF that we are
true DISCIPLES.
This term refers to a principle
within each person which
causes them to REBEL against
God’s commandments and
thus to SIN. Romans 7:23
If we are to live as Christ wants to,
we must constantly put this part of
our nature to DEATH by refusing to
SUBMIT to its desires and instead
subjecting ourselves to the
INDWELLING Holy Spirit who is
seeking to lead us into a life of
holiness and RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Romans 8: 4,12-14
This is the key to putting to death
the INFLUENCE of the sinful
nature. This is done by SETTING
our minds on the things of the
Spirit which means simply that we
must learn more and more to give
each moment of our thought life to
God.
This includes thinking over the
TRUTHS of Scripture as well as
PRAYING and giving praise and
THANKSGIVING to God in our
hearts continuously. Galatians 5:16,
Psalm 119:11, Ephesians 5:10-20
This refers to “the spirit of the
Age”, that is the ATTITUDES
of human society with all its
VALUES, GOALS and LIFESTYLE
which leave God totally out of
the picture. 1 John 2:15-17
Christians are people who have
been SENT into the world by
Jesus Christ in order to
PROCLAIM the Good News of
Salvation and make disciples of
all men.
We must see ourselves as GOD’S
AMBASSADORS, His representatives
with a message to our fellowmen.
We are here not to CONFORM to it
but to see it TRANSFORMED by the
power of the Gospel. John 20:21,
Matthew 28:19-20, 2 Cor. 5:20
1. The Word of God
2. Prayer
Paul emphasized that we do not
wage war ACCORDING to the FLESH
that is, with purely human strengths,
but rather, we must learn to fight
using God’s DIVINELY POWER
WEAPONS being “…strong in the
LORD and in the strength of His
might. 2 Corinthians 10:3-4, Ephesians
6:10