One of the biggest struggles that we as believers have is the temptations that come our way and
The arch enemy of God is Satan and even Jesus said Satan only comes to steal kill and destroy
But I came that you might have a life and might have it more abundantly
So even Jesus spoke of this spiritual battle between Satan and demons
To the believer and when you are not following Christ, you are not an enemy of Satan
But now you are as a Jesus revolutionary is a Jesus follower
There are satanic and demonic powers that are after you. You see Satan hates you and
He hates you because number one you're created in the image of God. So you kind of look like God and
And Satan hates that and secondly now that you're a Jesus follower and you're a believer in Christ
Your actions and your lifestyle is going to be a direct attack on the darkness
You now have the light the light lives within you and you're going to start experiencing darkness all around you that you never
experienced before so what I want to do is talk about Satan demons in the fourth dimension and
And and how they work how they influence us I'm not going to go into the aspects of demon possession
That's another series that I do
But in this one, I want you to understand the victory that you do have in Christ
But before that I want you to understand the background of who Satan is. So in Ezekiel 28
We have a passage that talks about the history of Satan
Let me read it you were anointed the anointed cherub who covers I
Established you you were on the holy mountain of God
You walked back and forth in the midst of the fiery stones
So here's what we know first of all about Satan is that Satan was an anointed angel anointed angel
over the government of God
Probably an archangel. It doesn't say that specifically but many theologians believe that Satan
IE called also Lucifer was a shining light of God an
Angel of God a created being Lucifer means the idea of light and shining light
Then the passage goes on to say this very interesting
You are perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity
Was found in you so, you know you you if you're talking to your kids ever about sin
A lot of times the question comes up. Where did sin start? Where did sin begin?
Well, it didn't actually begin with Adam and Eve in Genesis 3. It began in the heart of Satan
so something of a
regeneration of pride
came up within Satan and
He rebelled against God, but here's the key point here the key point
And this is really important because so many people can elevate
Satan to a source of power and a level of power. That's just not accurate compared to God
Satan was a created being it says here. It was a created by God. So God is always
over
Satan you have Christ living within you greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world
You have greater power than Satan does believe it or not. You have greater power than Satan does well our passage continues
It says by the abundance of your trading
You became filled with violence within and you sinned
Therefore I have cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God and a destroyed you Oh
Covering chair. That's where we get the idea of Satan being an
Angel or a created being from the midst of the fiery stones. So in this passage
The Prophet
is speaking of
Some kind of violence some kind of a violent anger
within Lucifer within Satan that erupted against God
Sinned against God and God cast this cherub this angelic spirit being
Down to the earth it continues
Your heart verse 17 was lifted up because of your beauty
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground
So it appears that the beauty
that resulted in pride
within Lucifer
Caused this rebellion against God and we're going to learn why this happened in just a moment
But this is the this is the main point
Satan's a created being
Probably
of an archangel or arch cherub some spirit being that sin began to be generated within
its heart he was cast down to the earth so in Isaiah 14 now Isaiah speaks of what actually
happened in Satan's heart let me read it how are you fallen from heaven oh Lucifer
son of the morning how you are cut down to the ground and you have weakened the nation
so again we see that Lucifer or Satan was cast down to the earth pride was birthed in
Satan's heart and then we see we call them I call them the five I wills these five I
wills in rebellion against God which I believe are always the rebellion of all of us in our
lives I think you could say that sin always begins with my will be done rather than thy
will be done and it started all right here so Isaiah continues for you have said in your
heart speaking of Lucifer I will ascend into heaven I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the furthest sides of the
north I will ascend above the heights of the clouds and I will be like the most high
so Satan wanted to be like God Satan wanted to be in control of all aspects of creation
Satan came directly in rebellion against God because of the pride of his own beauty and
God dealt with him cast him down to the earth now Satan's on the earth okay so let's just
get that straight Satan rules over the earth and in one particular temptation in which
Satan or Lucifer comes against Jesus he says I have control over all the earth and Jesus
acknowledges that that is true so where did demons come from what is it with demons well
in Revelation 12 we have this cryptic verse which most theologians believe is the beginning
of how demons came to be with Satan here's what it says in Revelation 12 and another
sign appeared in heaven behold a great fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns
and seven diadems on his head his tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them
down to the earth so we believe that a third of the angels the spirit beings in the fourth
dimensional world rebelled with Lucifer or Satan and came down to the earth so this unseen
dimension which I'm calling the fourth dimension and when I say the fourth dimension I'm making
that in juxtaposition to the three-dimensional world that we live in what we can see and
feel with our senses is a fourth dimensional world and this is where Satan this is where
demons this is where angelic spirits and angels hover they're around here there's probably
angels in your car right now there's there's angels in your room right now there's angels
in this room where we are and it's the only way I can describe it is it's it's sort of
like radio transmission so there are there are sounds there are words there are even
pictures floating through the air right now in this room and if I have an antenna I can
pick it up on my TV set or I can or I can pick it up in a radio transmission so in that
frequency that we would call like radio transmission or TV transmission there's a fourth dimensional
world where spirits are and so and so I'm not going to talk about how demon possession
happens here only to say that there are demons here they can be all around and Jesus squarely
dealt with them so right after Jesus was baptized it says he went into the wilderness in Luke
chapter 4 1 through 19 he's tempted by Satan so Satan actually literally comes to him and
begins to tempt him then Jesus comes out of that temptation and he begins to cast out
demons wherever he goes so Jesus probably the most important ministry of Jesus besides the
literal proclamation of the good news of the kingdom of God was he was casting out demons
wherever Jesus went he was casting out demons he was about the villages the cities the towns
casting out demons and healing the sick so Jesus came with his light to drive back darkness
and in Ephesians 2 2 we read you
once walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air,
that's speaking of Satan,
the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience.
So before you were a believer in Christ,
before you began this journey
of being a kingdom revolutionary,
you were living in a world where Satan and demons
had control over your thoughts and your actions.
Well, you're a believer now.
And in Christ, you have a new power living within you.
In 1 John 3, 8, we read,
he who sins is of the devil,
for the devil has sinned from the beginning.
For this purpose, the son of God was manifested
that he might destroy the works of the devil.
So men and women, the spirit of God lives within you
and you are now walking in a new kind of victory.
You can say no to temptation.
You can say no to the works of the devil.
You can tell demons to leave in the name of Jesus
and they will leave.
Because the scriptures say,
greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.
That spirit of God, that same authority that Jesus said,
destroy the works of the devil,
now lives within you
and you have that power living within you.
And it's actually part of your mandate.
So if we were to go to back to Genesis 1,
listen to the first command,
the first mission given to Adam and Eve
when they were created.
Then God said, let us make man in our own image,
according to our likeness.
That means the image of God.
Let them, meaning man, male and female,
have dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air and over the cattle,
over all the earth and over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth.
So God created man in his own image.
In the image of God, he created him male and female.
He created them.
Then God blessed them and said to them,
be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, subdue it,
have dominion over the fish of the sea,
over the birds of the air
and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
You see?
You see what the original mandate was
for all of us?
That we have authority and power
over every living thing on earth.
That includes Satan and demons.
And you now have Jesus Christ living within you.
You have his power working within you.
And that power to cast out demons
is something that you have.
And you may begin on a regular basis
when you feel temptations, tell the devil to leave.
Tell him to leave.
Tell him to get out of here in the name of Jesus.
In Romans 8, 37, we read,
in all these things, we are more than conquerors
through him who loved us.
So you have this greater spirit,
this greater power living within you.
And I wanna challenge you to go after that.
When you see darkness around you,
when you experience darkness around you,
when you feel temptations and pressure and anxiety coming,
tell it to leave in the name of Jesus
because greater is he that is in you.
Now that means the Holy Spirit.
Greater is he that is in you than he,
meaning Satan and demons that are in the world.
You can walk with that kind of authority and power,
the same authority and the same power
that Jesus Christ had.
So God bless you and start taking authority
over your life in the power of the Holy Spirit.