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Satan In the World

        Satan was in the world when he tempted Eve. He was in the world when he tempted Jesus on the mount. He was in the world when Jesus told Peter that Satan wanted to sift him as wheat. He was in the world when Paul wrote, "Satan hindered us." Also, Paul wrote in Ephesians that we need to put on the whole armor of God so we can stand against the wiles of the devil. Peter recognized that Satan was on earth and wrote about him walking about as a roaring lion (1 Pet. 5:8).
    When Satan rebelled against God he boasted that he would be like God, and he has been attempting to be like God ever since. Satan has his false religions. Any religion that does not recognize Jesus as the only Saviour is a false religion.
Satan has false bibles. Any book used as a bible by a false religion is a false bible. Satan has his music. Music with a heavy beat that appeals to the sensual appetites is Satan's music.
     Through the centuries Satan has attempted to destroy the church by infiltration. False religion started in ancient Babylon. In time the city was destroyed, but Babylonian religion was not abandoned. Within a thousand years it spread across the nations. It crossed the sea to Italy, and Rome became its headquarters. Julius Caesar, like other well-to-do Romans, practiced the religion of Babylon, and when he became head of state he was elected pontifex maximus. That made him chief priest of Babylonian religion. All Roman emperors down to Constantine the Great held that title. When Constantine embraced Christianity he became head of the church and remained high priest of the Babylon cult. The practices of the Babylon cult and the church merged, and Satan had infiltrated the church.
     Some churches were not controlled by the new state church. In spite of persecution they remained true to their calling, and after the reformation their number increased greatly. Today the gospel is preached all over the world, and converts are being made at an unprecedent rate.
     What is Satan to do? He still wants to destroy the church, so he is infiltrating the church with the appearance of the world, the music of the world, and the message of the world.
     God's people should realize that being like the world in our worship services does not build a spiritual atmosphere, and that we cannot win worldly people by imitating the world.We should heed the clear command in the Bible to be separate from the world. Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord . . . (2 Cor. 6:17).

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