5 Ways Satan Speaks Bible Study

Before doing this Bible study, you might want to read the 1-minute devotion 5 Ways Satan Speaks for a quick overview. Then check out these full Scripture passages for a deeper understanding of the truths it presents:

Satan speaks by:

 

1. Distorting aspects of creation:

 

He causes people to worship the creation instead of the Creator as explained in Romans 1:18-32. This leads to immorality and depravity.

He also creates theories that deny God as Creator:

 

2 Peter 3:3-7: Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. 4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. 7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

 

2. Misrepresenting God's Word:

 

Notice how Satan misused God's Word in his temptation of Christ (Matthew 4:1-11, esp. v.6). This devotion will give you some insights: 3 of Satan's Tricks.

 

2 Timothy 4:3: For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 

 

3. Offering a fake version of God and godliness:

Satan encourages people to misunderstand the true character of Christ and preach a Jesus who is not the Jesus of the Bible. 

2 Corinthians 11:3-4: But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. 4 For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

4. Watering down the Gospel with human wisdom:

 

Ephesians 5:6: Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. 

Colossians 2:8: See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

5. Creating temptations:

 

I encourage you to study the tricks Satan used with Eve in Genesis 3:1-7. This devotion and Bible study will help: Anatomy of a Temptation.

 

And remember these important safeguards:

 

1 Peter 5:8-9: Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.  

1 Corinthians 10:13: No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

Ephesians 6:10-18 is another important passage about the full armor of God.

 

You might also want to read  5 Ways God Speaks.   

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