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Find Out Who Satan Is

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.  Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.  Ephesians 6:10-11

Sarah Winchester didn’t have to be convinced of the spirit world.  The widow of the man who invented the Winchester rifle believed that the spirits of the people killed by Winchester rifles would haunt her unless they could be driven away by the sound of hammers.  So she had men construct a house built with stairways leading to nowhere and doors leading into one inch deep closets.  For 36 years carpenters labored 24 hours a day.  Eventually a house was built with 160 rooms, containing 47 fireplaces, 13 bathrooms, and 10,000 windows.  Undoubtedly, it is the strangest house ever built.

The West has been behind the rest of the world to have an interest in the spirit world, focusing on the worship of Satan.  But a question eventually must be faced.  Are people who worship Satan playing games with words?  Or, are they worshipping God’s archrival who yet has spiritual power?

Years ago the very conservative Africa Inland Mission reported that members of a Church of Satan in London, Ontario (Canada) had prayed to Satan for the elimination from the Christian ministry of a select list of the city’s leading evangelical leaders by means of immorality or breakdown of marriage and family.  And what happened?  In one year, reported AIM, they succeeded in seeing five of the finest men on their list forced to leave the ministry.

Possibly you are thinking, “I don’t believe that.  It must have just happened.”  Dr. William McRae, then President of Ontario Bible College and Theological Seminary didn’t have to be convinced.  He wrote, “Never in my life have I sensed the reality of our spiritual warfare as during these last two years.  The enemy has brought out his most destructive weapons and leveled them directly at marriage and families.”  The world’s oldest authority on satanic power, the Bible, never scoffs at demonic power.  Peter, the man who witnessed demons going out of a man into a herd of swine during the ministry of Jesus, later wrote, “…Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour” (1 Peter. 5:8).  The Apostle Paul wrote to families at Ephesus and told them that Satan was “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:2, KJV).

There is another factor which has to be considered.  When Satan first attacked the human race, he attacked the family and tried to destroy the relationship of a husband and wife.  As you no doubt have seen, Satan is still at the old business of attacking families.  When Paul wrote that classic passage in Ephesians 6, he encouraged families to “be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.”   He said, “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes” (Ephesians 6:10-11).

The Greek word which is translated, “schemes” is methodeia.   We get our English word “method” from the same word.  It means, “methodical assault.”  The problem confronting so many today is that Satan has had a lot of experience tripping us up, while we are neophytes on the battlefield who have not taken the protection we need to safeguard our lives and families. Do two things:  1) Take a good look at the relationships in your family; and then 2) Read the passage in Ephesians 6 and ask yourself if you need to beef up your protection.

Resource reading: Ephesians 6:10-19

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NBA: Booker triple-double powers Suns past Clippers in West finals Game 1

Devin Booker posted his first career triple-double Sunday afternoon, when he scored 40 points and collected 13 rebounds and 11 assists as the host Phoenix Suns outlasted the Los Angeles Clippers, 120-114, in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals.

Game 2 is scheduled for Tuesday night in Phoenix.

Booker scored 16 consecutive points for the Suns in the third quarter and 29 in the second half for second-seeded Phoenix, which was without All-Star point guard Chris Paul (health and safety protocols). Deandre Ayton scored 20 points with nine rebounds while Mikal Bridges (14 points), Jae Crowder (13 points), Cameron Johnson (12 points) and Cameron Payne (11 points, nine assists) also got into double digits.

Paul George scored 34 points and dueled with Booker throughout the second half for the Clippers, who played the first conference finals game in franchise history. Reggie Jackson had 24 points and DeMarcus Cousins added 11 points off the bench.

Kawhi Leonard missed his third straight game with a right knee injury.

Neither team led by more than five points in the first half, during which there were 18 lead changes and eight ties, before George (16 points) and Booker (18 points) put on a show in the third quarter, when they combined to score almost half the combined points generated by both teams.

The Suns took their first eight-point lead at 76-68 on a pair of free throws by Booker with 7:13 left. George then scored eight straight points to tie the score before Booker drained a turnaround jumper to put Phoenix up 78-76. But Jackson sandwiched a pair of 3-pointers around a basket by Ivica Zubac to complete the 16-2 run that gave the Clippers an 84-78 lead.

Booker scored five straight points and George answered with a 3-pointer. After Zubac hit a free throw, Booker collected seven unanswered points to put the Suns ahead 90-88. George sank two free throws to tie the score again, after which Torrey Craig and George traded 3-pointers to end the quarter.

The teams swapped baskets to open the fourth before the Suns mounted a 10-0 run in which Booker had five points and Johnson had the dunk that gave Phoenix its biggest lead at 105-95.

The Suns maintained a multi-possession lead and seemed on their way to a routine victory when Bridges drained a 3-pointer to extend the Suns' lead to 116-106 with 1:59 left. But Rajon Rondo scored five straight points before Terence Mann's 3-pointer -- the third 3-point attempt of the possession for the Clippers -- cut the lead to 116-114.

Following a timeout, Booker drove the lane for a dunk and Los Angeles missed a pair of shots on its next possession.

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