Understanding Your Enemy [Dragon Slayer pt. 1]

Gravetop Church

Main Idea: The minute that you become a believer, you’re called to become a dragon slayer. In your confession of faith, you simultaneously join the army of God and enter into the spiritual fight against the devil and his demons. We live in a world that operates in both the physical and spiritual, and because the devil is always working to kill, steal and destroy we must be working to save, deliver and build up. In order to be able to do that, you should learn to understand how your enemy operates.

'Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels. And the dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven. This great dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels. ' -Revelation 12:7-9

People often adopt Hollywood-like ideas of demons and the spiritual world but don’t realize that they are actually glorifying the demonic, making it out to be more powerful and confusing than it actually is. Ironically enough, even when it comes to the idea of defending oneself or fighting against these ooga-booga creatures, because of movies and classic superstitions, most people imagine that you have to use witchcraft-like practices in order to fight against witchcraft-like enemies. Thank God that it is much simpler than that.

Today we’re going to talk about understanding the enemy when it comes to the spiritual world. We’re going to expose his tactics and goals, and we’re going to learn how to identify some red flags of the demonic. And most of all, we’re going to learn about how there is nothing that we should feel intimidated about when it comes to spiritual warfare.

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1. Do I Have Your Attention?

[IF THE DEVIL CAN’T DEMORALIZE YOU, HE’LL DISTRACT YOU]

(Revelation 12:10-11; Acts of the Apostles 16:16-18)

If he can’t steal your confidence in the Lord is try to distract you from your mission and calling. And these kinds of distractions can often come in very disguised packages, so you have to use a level of awareness and discernment in order to be able to expose them. When something curious comes up, you need to simply ask yourself, “what is this taking my attention from? And where is my attention going?”

2. What Sharp Teeth You Have

[DON’T BE TRICKED INTO DARKNESS BY THOSE WHO HATE CHRIST]

(2 Corinthians 6:14-15; 1 Corinthians 5:9-13; Romans 12:21)

We’re called to bring people from death to life. We’re called to love people. We’re called to be merciful and show the compassion of Christ. We were all once dead in our lives of sin and even now, none of us are perfect. But we are not called to trample on the name of Christ to bring someone to Christ. You can not treat the blood of Christ as meaningless to glorify it. You can not defeat darkness with darkness.

3. God Is Bigger Than The Boogeyman

[DARKNESS TREMBLES IN THE PRESENCE OF LIGHT]

(James 2:19; Romans 16:20; Luke 10:17-20)

One of the most important and powerful things to understand about the grace of God that you’ve been given is that just as you have been given salvation without being able to earn it, you have been given authority in the name of Jesus without being able to earn it. You don’t have to fret by the attempted intimidation of the devil because you have already been given the victory over him through Christ Jesus.

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