decrease our witness for Christ on this earth and diminish our reward in heaven. WE CANNOT DEFEAT THE DEVIL IN OUR OWN STRENGTH We cannot defeat the devil by human intellect, cleverness, or force of personality. Defeating the devil is the work of Jesus Christ alone, and that work has been accomplished on the cross. The Scripture never tells us to go out and take on the devil—to seek him out and pick a fight with him. The truth of God’s Word is that the war has already been won. Rather, God’s Word
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