We battle not against flesh and blood, but against prinicipalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places Ephesians 6:7. Our ultimate victory against evil has been won by Jesus. This victory is ours, that is if we know Jesus as Lord and Savior. Yet, while on this earth until Jesus comes to reign, we still are in a battle against satan and his host of demons. However, we must not despair, knowing Satan’s power has limits. Therefore, as you adorn your spiritual armor remember these 7 Key Principles regarding this truth: Satan’s Power Has Limits.
1. Satan is Accountable to God
- Satan is accountable to God. Regardless that he chooses to believe he can still outsmart God and has some chance of winning—he still must give an account of what he is doing to God. 6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and [e]Satan also came among them. 7 And the Lord said to [f]Satan, “From where do you come?” So Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” Job 1:
2. Satan’s power has limits due to God’s Hedge of Protection
Satan’s power has limits and cannot go beyond the “hedge God places around his children”. “Does Job fear God for nothing? 10 Have You not [i]made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.” Job 1:9-10. This should be a comfort to us:
Psalm 139: 5 You have [a]hedged me behind and before, And laid Your hand upon me.6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain it.
3. Satan is behind the evil of this earth and is restless
- Satan is behind the evil of this earth and is restless. Note he is going to and fro throughout the earth. But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. There is no peace saith my God to the wicked. (Isaiah 57: 20-21). He loves to create chaos, but he cannot cause one to do evil. That is the choice one makes. Satan can tempt and influence, but it is our human nature that desires to be independent of God–to rise above Him. Our desires are by nature self-exalting and self-fulfilling. Satan merely plays upon our sin filled human minds and hearts. Then we choose.
4. Satan’s Power has limits–he does not have divine powers.
- Satan Does not have Divine powers. He is not omnipresent, omniscient, nor all powerful. He cannot be all places at one time. Nor can he read our minds. Notice he was not aware of Job’s heart. He truly believed that Job only obeyed God for what he could gain from God.
37 “When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their [g]cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;38 whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple: 39 then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men), 40 that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers. ( I Kings 8)Only God knows your innermost thoughts. Satan works off the principle of human nature and believes you want to be as he is.
5. Satan’s Power has limits. He must ask permission to sift a believer.
- Satan can do nothing against a believer without God’s permission. Jesus told Peter, Satan has asked to sift you. Satan meant to prove that Peter had no real faith; but Jesus told Peter, He had prayed for Him. And WHEN he returned (not if)-WHEN he returned he would strengthen the brethern. So true for you and I today.
31 [a]And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” Luke 22
6. Satan’s Power has limits: Duration is only as long as God has permitted.
- Satan has limited power as to the duration of our trial. God allows the temptation only to go so far and uses it to bring us good ultimately. It is through our suffering that our hearts are purified. Just as when silver is purified, it is heated. then the Silversmith is able to remove the impurities until he sees his own reflection. Our trials are to transform us into the image of Jesus Christ and endure only as for Him to see His reflection in our hearts, minds and life.
12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to [d]bear it. I Corinthians 10
Satan is a liar and a slanderer and Satan’s power has limits
- Satan is a liar and a slanderer. The greatest desire of Satan is to destroy your testimony; but he cannot. His power is limited by God and by your clinging to the rock that protects you.
Psalm 37: 23 The steps of a good man are [a]ordered by the Lord,
And He delights in his way.
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
For the Lord upholds him with His hand.
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