Satan’s Strategies – Tempting

Powerpoint Pictures: Piece of chocolate cake on a plate

Children, who would like a chocolate bar?

If you’d like one, there are two things you need to do.

1) You’re not allowed to eat it while I’m talking.

2) You need to hold the bar in a particular way.  As if you are going to open it, without opening it.

Do you think you can do this?

*[Hand out chocolate bars].*

Now we’ve been looking at some of the different tactics that Satan uses to harm people, so that as Paul wrote, *“Satan might not outwit us” (2 Corinthians 2:11)*

*[While you say the rest of the talk, start eating chocolate bar yourself, one after another.  Occasionally interrupt the talk to check how the children are getting on with no opening or eating the bar.  Tell them how good the chocolate tastes.  Say to them things like “Don’t you want to taste the chocolate?”].*

Some of the schemes or strategies the devil uses include lying, pretending to be something he is not, snatching, accusing, poisoning and blinding.

One final tactics I want us to know about is tempting.

Satan tempts.

“But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 11:3)

I’ve been trying to tempt you to eat the chocolate, but what Satan tempts us to do is so, so worse than that.

Satan tempts people to sin.

He did it to Eve in the Garden of Eden.

And he does it to us.