3 Ways Satan Will Use Scripture against You

In most activity films it's pretty evident who the adversary is. Beside a periodic unexpected development, the malevolent scoundrel is anything but difficult to distinguish. Regardless of whether it be an overwhelming snicker or a disagreeable strive after force, attributes of the miscreants are normally obvious to see. This isn't the situation for Satan, the reprobate in God's story and the adversary of our spirits. His strategies are misleading and difficult to spot in the event that we don't have the foggiest idea about God's promise for ourselves.

He takes the very thing intended to control individuals to God and endeavors to utilize it against us. He did it in the Garden of Eden. He attempted to do it to Jesus, he's actually doing it today. Without a grip on what God's assertion says about us, we are dependent upon the plans of the fiend.

How about we take a gander at a few notable Bible stories to reveal three different ways Satan attempts to utilize Scripture against us.

Satan Uses Scripture to Cause Confusion

"Did God truly state, 'You can't eat from any tree in the nursery'?" Those were the snake's acclaimed words to Eve in Genesis 3:1.

"We may eat the natural product from the trees in the nursery," she answered, "Yet about the product of the tree in the nursery, God stated, 'You should not eat it or contact it, or you will pass on.'"

"No! You will absolutely not bite the dust," the snake advised her.

He disclosed to Eve a falsehood that appeared to be incompletely evident. No, they wouldn't drop dead promptly, yet they would go into a fallen reality where the expense of wrongdoing is demise. They'd presently don't be in direct fellowship with their Creator in the nursery.

The foe realized that God was really ensuring her and Adam. It's obvious, by keeping them uninformed of good and wickedness, God had the option to keep them from transgression, and consequently passing. Similarly as an infant doesn't know directly from wrong and acts absolutely out of guiltlessness, Adam and Eve lived in heaven with God, liberated from blame, disgrace or purposeful wrong.

Satan, being the backstabber he is, needed to strip them of that harmony. He needed them to have a similar hopeless destiny he brought upon himself in light of his own defiance to God. What's more, this is likewise his objective for us today. 1 Peter 5:8 reminds us, "Be calm leaning, be ready. Your foe the demon is lurking around like a thundering lion, searching for anybody he can eat up."

Murmuring misleading statements to us, he trusts we'll misjudge God's words and settle on choices that lead us away based on what's acceptable. It's crucial to learn and contemplate Scripture so we can get on these shrewd endeavors to direct us off course.

Satan Uses God's Word to Cause Impatience

Utilizing a comparative technique as the one in the nursery, Satan attempted to impact Jesus to act rashly. In Matthew 4 he enticed Jesus in the wild, took Him to a high put on the sanctuary, and had the dauntlessness to utilize Scripture against Him!

Satan cited Psalm 91:11-12 and stated, "In the event that you are simply the Son of God, toss down. For it is composed: He will provide his heavenly attendants orders concerning you, and they will uphold you with their hands so you won't strike your foot against a stone."

Indeed, God guaranteed saintly assurance, however not to look good. Doubtlessly He didn't need Jesus bouncing off of a structure to demonstrate any focuses. It wasn't the ideal opportunity for Jesus to be lifted up along these lines. Envision the acclaim and prominence that would've originated from such a demonstration. Nonetheless, that wasn't God's arrangement. Jesus hadn't yet begun His public service, and God planned to lift Him when everything looked good, after He finished His natural mission (Ephesians 1:20).

Similarly, God needs us to look out for Him to refine us. He can utilize both the great occasions and the terrible occasions to develop us and improve us, and He will bring us up in His ideal planning. The adversary needs us to neglect that cycle so we never become all God needs us to be.

God has extraordinary things available for you, some natural and others glorious, yet in the event that Satan can get you to get eager about the guarantees and push you to do things quicker than you should, you may pass up what God has as a primary concern.

The adversary needs you to accept there's a method to pick up progress through him. Take a gander at what he said to Jesus in Matthew 4:9. "I will give you every one of these things in the event that you will tumble down and love me."

Recall that any impermanent increases from following the interruptions of the foe will disintegrate and at last add up to nothing. Song 27:14 lets us know, "Hang tight for the Lord; be solid, and let your heart be valiant. Hang tight for the Lord."

Satan Uses Scripture to Cause Doubt

In this equivalent story, Satan looked to make Jesus question His natural position. Twice he utilized the expression, "In the event that you are the Son of God."

Had Jesus been uncertain of His character, this would have made Him question whether God had sent Him to be the Savior of the world! Obviously that was preposterous, yet these are the kinds of falsehoods the foe needs to plant in our brains. He needs to cause us to deny all the things God has said concerning us.

Satan needs us to question our personality. God says we are His (Psalm 100:3).

Satan needs us to question our salvation. God says we are recovered in Christ (Ephesians 1:7).

Satan needs us to question our motivation. God says we were made for benevolent acts (Ephesians 2:10).

Satan needs us to question our future. God says He has an arrangement for us (Jeremiah 29:11).

These are only a couple instances of how the foe needs us to question the words our Creator has expressed over us. However, his capacity to utilize Scripture against us decreases when we realize what the Bible truly says.

Instructions to Use Scripture against the Enemy

At the point when we go to the expression of God, we see the tricky examples of Satan. He meddled with God's unique arrangement by deceiving Eve. He attempted to meddle with God's salvation plan by enticing Jesus. Also, he presently tries to meddle with God's last compromise plan by deceiving us.

We are his last possibility at trickiness before he arrives at his unavoidable end. So it's no big surprise he attempts to utilize Scripture against us!

We don't need to fear however. Triumph is now our own! We just need to stroll in it, and God has guided us. Ephesians 6:11 says, "Put on the full defensive layer of God so you can remain against the plans of the demon." The section at that point proceeds to clarify what that implies. Stanza 17, specifically, says the expression of God is our blade!

This is the way we destroy the foe—by knowing and applying God's realities to our lives. At the point when we are furnished with the information and intelligence of God, Satan's finesse strategies hold no force against us.