When are we most vulnerable to the devil?

[Haidabo]

Here is a prime example
Of leaning to your own
understanding.

Which percentage can/will be reduced as we learn more of GW until we share the mind of Christ (1Cor. 2:16, Eph. 4:11-15).

Thank you for your cooperation.

 

[GWH]

Here is a prime example
Of leaning to your own
understanding.

Thank you for your cooperation.

We make a great team!

 

[DavidLamb]

Which is the greatest
adversary to you.

A. Your sins.

B. The devil.

Impossible to say. Temptation to sin comes from the devil. Jesus said to some of His hearers:

““You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” (Joh 8:44 NKJV)

Paul wrote:

“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” (Eph 6:11 NKJV)

 

[Haidabo]

We make a great team!

As long as I win
you can ride with me.

 

[DavidLamb]

May I suggest
That you stop leaning
to your own
Understanding.

I assure you that I am not leaning on my own understanding, but on what I read in God's word. What in particular did I write in Post 31, to which you were replying, that you felt was me leaning on my own understanding?

 

[Haidabo]

Impossible to say. Temptation to sin comes from the devil. Jesus said to some of His hearers:

““You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” (Joh 8:44 NKJV)

Paul wrote:

“Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” (Eph 6:11 NKJV)

Instead of giving
me your opinion
Why can't you just answer
Simple question
That proves
I'm right
And you're wrong?

Which is your
greatest adversary?

Your sins
Or the devil?

 

[Haidabo]

I assure you that I am not leaning on my own understanding, but on what I read in God's word. What in particular did I write in Post 31, to which you were replying, that you felt was me leaning on my own understanding?

I'm going to go through
All your posts
As time allows
Point out every single thing
That is incorrect
In what you have posted.
And if you reply
Going to prove
By using your own words
That you're wrong.

 

[GWH]

As long as I win
you can ride with me.

We each win when GW is correctly understood by both,
(such as what I cited and hope you read: Rom. 12:2, 1Cor. 2:16, Eph. 4:11-15).

For example, Eph. 2:8 is good, but it really needs to be cited along with Eph. 2:9-10.

 

[DavidLamb]

Instead of giving
me your opinion
Why can't you just answer
Simple question
That proves
I'm right
And you're wrong?

Which is your
greatest adversary?

Your sins
Or the devil?

But it is not possible to give an answer of which is the greater adversary, my sin or the devil. The devil is the one who tempts to sin. If the devil did not exist, there would be no sin. In the Garden of Eden, the serpent, who as Revelation informs us is the devil, tempted Eve to take and eat the forbidden fruit.

 

[Haidabo]

We each win when GW is correctly understood by both,
(such as what I cited and hope you read: Rom. 12:2, 1Cor. 2:16, Eph. 4:11-15).

For example, Eph. 2:8 is good, but it really needs to be cited along with Eph. 2:9-10.

I don't need
to read anything
To learn God's word.
To begin with
If God's word does not
Abide in you
And you do not abide
in God's word
Then all the reading
in the world
Is not going to make
you understand
God's word.

And having said all that
Just for the sake of argument
If I wanted to learn God's word
I certainly wouldn't go to any man
I would go to God

To which brings me
To this point.

1 John 2 verse 27

This is where I dwell.

 

[Haidabo]

But it is not possible to give an answer of which is the greater adversary, my sin or the devil. The devil is the one who tempts to sin. If the devil did not exist, there would be no sin. In the Garden of Eden, the serpent, who as Revelation informs us is the devil, tempted Eve to take and eat the forbidden fruit.

Stubbornness
It's a worse bad habit
Than leaning to thine
own understanding.

I also use to have that bad habit
That one I could not break
On my own.

It took an act of God.
And much much
Suffering
On my part
From it.

 

[Omegatime]

Weakest when you are sleeping

Comes to you in your dreams

 

[DavidLamb]

Stubbornness
It's a worse bad habit
Than leaning to thine
own understanding.

I also use to have that bad habit
That one I could not break
On my own.

It took an act of God.
And much much
Suffering
On my part
From it.

You seem to be claiming to know what I am thinking. There was nothing stubborn in my post. I don't say I am never guilty of being stubborn, but not when it comes to what God says in His word.

 

[Blain]

Your answer
Does not line up
With this scripture.

Whosoever transgresseth
and abideth not in the doctrine
of Christ hath not God.
He that abideth in the doctrine
of Christ, he hath both the
Father and the Son.

~ 1 John 1:9

In what way does this scripture rejrct my answer? pulling verses out of context does not equate a proper answer this verse has nothing to do with my answer

 

[GWH]

I don't need
to read anything
To learn God's word.
To begin with
If God's word does not
Abide in you
And you do not abide
in God's word
Then all the reading
in the world
Is not going to make
you understand
God's word.

And having said all that
Just for the sake of argument
If I wanted to learn God's word
I certainly wouldn't go to any man
I would go to God

To which brings me
To this point.

1 John 2 verse 27

This is where I dwell.

IF you wanted to LGW?!
I keep getting educated on CC;
never heard any "Christian" express that attitude before.
God surely wasted a lot of effort to inspire and ink to write regarding you!

 

[blueluna5]

I thought it might be when we are bereaved, upset, angry. That is when one might think evil spirits would attack , tempt and undermine us.

Yet it could be most likely we are most vulnerable when we have felt closest to our Lord God? When we have been baptized for instance? This was the point at which Jesus Christ Himself was tempted in the wilderness, just after his baptism.
It is interesting to note that Jesus was 'led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil'. (Matthew 4, v 1).
So does the Holy Spirit lead us to the devil too, to be tested?

I think it's when we're at our lowest. Kick us when we're down type of situation. That's how it always was for me.

Also Jesus went 40 days and night without food and that's when the devil showed. Not when he was just baptized.

 

[Haidabo]

IF you wanted to LGW?!
I keep getting educated on CC;
never heard any "Christian" express that attitude before.
God surely wasted a lot of effort to inspire and ink to write regarding you!

I don't have an opinion
concerning it.

In fact I try to not
have an opinion about anything.

Therefore
I'm never wrong

 

[Haidabo]

In what way does this scripture rejrct my answer? pulling verses out of context does not equate a proper answer this verse has nothing to do with my answer

Your answer
Is out of context
With the scripture
Not the other way around

 

[Haidabo]

You seem to be claiming to know what I am thinking. There was nothing stubborn in my post. I don't say I am never guilty of being stubborn, but not when it comes to what God says in His word.

Your words speak
volumes of you.

I just listen to them
to know you.

 

[GWH]

I don't have an opinion
concerning it.

In fact I try to not
have an opinion about anything.

Therefore
I'm never wrong

No, therefore you are always wrong!
God's requirement for salvation requires having the opinion that Jesus is Messiah and Lord.