SATAN: HE IS THE ACCUSER He accuses the brethren day and night before God, He is the Defamer; he is defaming the Church, and the character of God; and the integrity of Jesus continually. He is the Calumniator; he is ever bringing railing accusations, vile, unclean accusations against the human. He is the Slanderer; he retails all that is vile and unclean. He stirs up dissensions; bitter awful scandals are the delight of this archfiend. It would be well for us to stop here and notice this fact: neither God nor Satan can minister to or destroy the human but through the human. HE USES MAN Satan must use human lips or pen to do his dirty work for him. He has no power to defile, to destroy, or to lead astray, except as he has a human instrument. God has no power to bless, to inspire, to lift, to save men except through a human instrument. It seems a crowning pity that man should lend himself to the Devil as a medium through which he can work to destroy the human race, but he does it. In 2 Cor. 11:3 he is called the Corrupter, But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted From the simplicity and purity that is toward Christ. Here Satan is the corrupter, the defiler, the robber of virtue and the purity of the heart. Satan has always delighted in being the instructor of youth. He uses some vile man or woman to defile a boy or girl and then sends that boy or girl out as a missionary into our public schools and colleges to defile the minds of the innocent. How often our sweet baby boys and girls are corrupted and robbed of their purity of heart before they reach the high school grades; nothing is left holy or pure to them. The holy secrets of life are all dragged into the filth and mire of vile conversation and suggestions, and our sweet babies come back to us scarred forever by Satans defilement. 1 Thess. 3:5, For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the Tempter had tempted you and our labor should be in vain. Here he assumes a new guise, the Tempter. He is the sly serpent, tempting Eve from her purity; and Paul fears that the virgin Church of Thessalonica shall he tempted from her love and fidelity to her Lord. He is called the Seducer. No name is so vile in our English as that, and Satan is known as the Seducer of the virtue and purity of the Church of Jesus Christ. He is vile, sly, and cruel, the old serpent. In Rev. 20:2 is a constellation of names that are hideous ta contemplate, the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan. The Father and His Family Kindly share this post
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