Pai da mentira
A Bíblia revela que o diabo é o pai da mentira. Ele engana, acusa e tenta destruir. Mas Cristo veio para desfazer as obras do maligno e nos dar vitória.
O caráter do diabo
Jesus disse que o diabo é mentiroso e homicida desde o princípio. Não há verdade nele — a mentira é sua natureza.
You are of your father the devil, and it is the desires of your father that you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks the lie he speaks from his own things, because he is a liar and the father of lying.
Jesus washes the disciples' feet
And after supper (the devil already having put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him),
And no wonder, because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving,. so that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
As obras do inimigo
O diabo rouba a Palavra semeada, cega o entendimento dos incrédulos e anda em derredor como leão rugidor buscando a quem devorar.
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the malignant one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart—this is the seed sown alongside the road.. Observe that Jesus is teaching that the devil can invade a person’s mind.
The field is the world; as for the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom, while the tares are the sons of the malignant one. The enemy who sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
"I will no longer talk much with you, because the ruler of the world is approaching; actually, he has nothing in me.
Vitória em Cristo
Cristo apareceu para destruir as obras do diabo. Quem está em Deus é protegido, e o maligno não o toca.
to open their eyes, so as to bring them back from darkness into light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified, by faith into me.’
Jesus says to him: "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life. No one goes to the Father except through me.