Wrong Attitudes- A Negative Mindset, Part 6 (TMF:582)

Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Peace to Live By: Wrong Attitudes- A Negative Mindset, Part 6 (TMF:582) - Daniel Litton
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       But Satan will also use leaders or even our friends to say things that hurt us. Satan uses our weakness and the weakness of others. You might be at a Bible study, for instance, and Satan will tempt one of your friends to say something that will hurt you. His goal is to try to get you angry at the person, and get you feeling down about yourself. But if we realize that there is more going on here than meets the eye—that really it’s not just the person wanting to hurt us—but really that Satan is behind these attacks, it makes it easier for us to be gracious and not fall into his trap that he set for us. Remember, there is spiritual warfare going on, and Satan wants to get every believer down if he can. We also have to guard ourselves that we are not used by Satan to bring hurt upon others, whether Christian or non-Christian. Peter had this problem particularly, as noted in a few instances in the Gospels. Remember Satan used Peter to try to get our Lord to believe that nothing bad would happen to him in Jerusalem, all the while Jesus knew what was to come. And Jesus told Peter, ““Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man” (Mark 8:33, ESV).