The War Against Human Souls

1Peter 5:8-11 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. To Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

2Corinthians 2:11 “lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

(Satan tries to use “’blasphemes against the Holy Spirit’ [Mark 3:29]; ‘disqualified’ [2Corinthians 13:5]; ‘fall away’ [Hebrews 6:6]; and ‘sin willfully’ [Hebrews 10:26],” to devour those without spiritual discernment [1Corinthians 2:14], and uneducated souls [2Peter 3:16]. They are used by God perhaps to chasten and test, but the Lord has not put them there to condemn believers in Jesus Christ.)

John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

Ephesians 6:12 “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

2Timothy 2:3 “You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.”