The Struggle Is Real - The Flesh, The World, and the Devil [Ryan Ashley]

John 8:31-46 

1. For Jesus, there is a Devil… 

2. The Jesus the end goal of the devil is to murder…

3. His Strategy: Lies and Deception

“We live at the mercy of our ideas.”

Dallas Willard

A Lie = An assumption about reality that is not true.

The Devil’s strategy:

Deceitful ideas, that play to disordered desires, that are normalized in a sinful society.

Freedom From vs. Freedom to

“Ideas… are the primary stronghold of evil in the human self and in society.”

Dallas Willard

“The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.”

Winston Churchill

It is about the fight to believe truth over lies.

“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.”

The Usual Suspects