Resisting the Devil
1. James 4:1-7
2. 1 Peter 5:1-8
Name: Fridrich Moritz (Artist)
Name of the player : Paul Charles Morphy
Before the devil showed up, God had created a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve could live in perfect relationship with HimBut the devil appeared and destroyed the life and abundance in the garden with lies and temptation. You do not have to fall into that same trap. Instead you can resist the devil’s lies and temptation by leaning on Jesus!
The Bible tells us that Jesus was tempted in every way and can understand the trials that you face.
Fridrich Moritz (Artist)
A Professor in Royal Academy of Dristan
• In this painting the chess board id placed on the top of a coffin. (The meaing the life and death)
• The devil man the one side and the man on the other side
• The devil is seated on thrown like a lion.
• The claw of the lion is on a skull, it’s a pernicious victim, me and it’s a symbol of death.
• The devil has his cap with a red color feather (which indicates cunning and tricky fellow).
The chess painting represents his own kingdom
1. Female = Represents pleasure
2. Representing anger
3. Representing pride
4. Representing falsehood (lie)
5. Representing unbelief
6. Representing Dangerous and death.
The man on the other side he is representing
1. Peace
2. Hope
3. Love
4. Innocence
5. Humanity (Charity)
6. Truth
His side is the people who are praying of him in perfect control.
There is a spider in the bottom which is weaves is web and any other insect will get caught into it and the spider will devour it.
You and I we are hand in hand fighting with the devil.
This is not just a chess game it’s war against the godly and the devil.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
“The plan of the devil is to make every man think that the sin looks good and God looks bad”
Chess players thinking
• An average chess player thinks on e mover at a time
• A good chess player this 4 to moves at the time
• A great player can things 20 moves ahead
But the devil thinks and waits patiently to make you fall.
How can I over come
Without the Bible we canton know what is right and what is wrong.
How dest the devil make the good God look bad;?
1. He blames God for all your pain and suffering.
2. He bring temptations
Our God is a loving father that is the story of the Bible
How to resist temptations?
James 4:7
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you”.
Three key moves we need to make to win the game of life.
1. We need to belive the truth ( devil calls you useless. But God calls you his child).
2. We need to accept Jesus to be you friend
3. Surrendering to God and His purpose
Revelation 12:11 says,
"They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death".
Hebrew 12:2 says,
‘Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God’.
