Rick Snodgrass

Rick Snodgrass

Know your enemy: A. Me

Know your enemy: A. Me

B. Departed Spirits; Isaiah 14 & Ezekiel 28

Know your enemy: B. Departed Spirits; Isaiah 14 & Ezekiel 28

• Hebrew = Hasatan= opponent, adversary, accuser

Know your enemy: B. Departed Spirits; Isaiah 14 & Ezekiel 28

• Hebrew = Hasatan= opponent, adversary, accuser

• He knows a lot about me, and I need to know a lot about him.

Know your enemy: B. Departed Spirits; Isaiah 14 & Ezekiel 28

• He knows a lot about me, and I need to know a lot about him.

• If I had a direct encounter with Satan, I would be tempted to worship him.

Know your enemy: B. Departed Spirits; Isaiah 14 & Ezekiel 28

• If I had a direct encounter with Satan, I would be tempted to worship him.

• God isn't a participant in the balance between good and evil.

Zechariah 3:1Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.

1. In my God talks, the enemy tries to show up and confuse.

Zechariah 3:2The Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”

1. In my God talks, the enemy tries to show up and confuse.

2. God is not the one looking to accuse me.

Zechariah 3:3Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood before the angel.

1. In my God talks, the enemy tries to show up and confuse.

2. God is not the one looking to accuse me.

3. Here is the truth about dirty clothes: they are really dirty clothes.

2. God is not the one looking to accuse me.

3. Here is the truth about dirty clothes: they are really dirty clothes.

4. Satan tells the truth about me and lies about God.

3. Here is the truth about dirty clothes: they are really dirty clothes.

4. Satan tells the truth about me and lies about God.

5. God calls me back. Satan drives me away.

Zechariah 3:4-5The angel said to those who were standing before him, “Take off his filthy clothes.”Then he said to Joshua, “See, I have taken away your sin, and I will put fine garments on you.”Then I said, “Put a clean turban on his head.” So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him, while the angel of the Lord stood by.

4. Satan tells the truth about me and lies about God.

5. God calls me back. Satan drives me away.

6. My defense needs to be rooted in what God is doing on my behalf.

Zechariah 3:6-7The angel of the Lord gave this charge to Joshua: “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.

Zechariah 3:8-9“‘Listen, High Priest Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch. See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua! There are seven eyes on that one stone, and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day.

Zechariah 3:10“‘In that day each of you will invite your neighbor to sit under your vine and fig tree,’ declares the Lord Almighty.”

5. God calls me back. Satan drives me away.

6. My defense needs to be rooted in what God is doing on my behalf.

7. God wants my focus to be on the branch, not on me.