The Son of Man came to seek and save that which was lost. It is Jesus' favorite title of Himself. I chosen this title because Jesus loved this title of Himself. We ought to never forget that Jesus is fully God and fully man: two natures in One Person. He is the God-man, the Incarnate Second Person of the Trinity. May we mediate on His life, death, burial, resurrection and ascension that we may be conformed to the image of the divine Son of Man! This blog web site will be a Christian defense of the Reformed doctrines of the Incarnate Son of Man. May all glory be to His name!

Friday, December 21, 2012

Satan: The Adversary

We ought to know God the Son came to crush the work of the Devil, but Satan comes to undo God's work (Mk 4:15), and he makes human beings turn away from God (Job 2:4, 5).  He also instigates evil (Jn 13:2, 27) and gets men to worship him (Lk 4:6-8; 2 Thess. 2:3, 4). 

His character is to deceive (Rev. 12:9), he is the father of lies (Jn 8:44) and the Christian's adversary (1 Pet. 5:8).  His methods are he disguises himself (2 Cor. 11:14), gets people to doubt God and His promises (Gen. 3:1), misuses the Bible (Matt. 4:6), uses evil schemes (2 Cor. 2:11) and afflicts the believer (Lk 13:16).  

We know by the divine Word that Satan is bound (Mk 3:27), cast out (Jn 12:31), judged (John 16:11), bruised (Rom. 16:20) assigned to hell forever without condition (Matt. 25:41).  This means that under no circumstances will the Devil be forgiven; that is, he will never be pardoned by God because there is no redeemer for the angelic race.  God came to redemptively help the offspring of Abraham not angels.