On the Limitations of Satan and the Christian's Victory over Satan

The believer gains complete victory over Satan the moment he or she repents and believes in Christ. Romans 10:13; Romans 1:17. The believer receives a complete salvation already accomplished by Christ; all of his sins are washed away forever by the blood of Jesus and he is sealed forever by the power of the Holy Spirit. I Corinthians 15:1-4; Revelation 1:5; Ephesians 1:13. God claims the "born again" believer for His own forever and gives them His own eternal life which they can never lose. John 10:28-29.



Satan knows the scriptures. He knows that eternal security is true. Then, why does Satan bother to tempt believers to sin since he knows that they are protected by God and he can never regain control of them? Satan tempts believers to commit sins so that unbelievers will see those sins and conclude that there is no truth to Christianity. Satan tempts believers to sin in order to keep unbelievers from believing. For this reason, believers should pray every day that God will keep them out of sin, and help them to be a good witness for Him that day.



Temptations to sin come from the world, the flesh and the Devil. For this reason, some commentators on the Bible contend that the Devil is not responsible for all our sins. In a sense they are right, but in another sense they are wrong. They are right in that sometimes we sin because we are tempted by the world or our own flesh. However, Satan is the "god of this world," and the flesh stems from original sin which Satan brought into the lives of humans in the Garden of Eden. This makes Satan directly or indirectly responsible for all our sins. But this fact does not mean that sinners can blame Satan and get away with their sins. The only unpardonable sin occurs when a lost sinner refuses to accept by faith the cure for his sins already provided by the Lord Jesus Christ. By refusing Christ's free pardon of sin, the lost sinner cannot avoid taking full responsibility for his own sins.