Our Father, we ask that you would be honored this morning, and that your rule would be extended this morning in our hearts and minds as your word is preached. We ask that you would feed us with your word through your Spirit, for we are hungry and needy. Forgive us, Lord, for the ways we at times do not posture ourselves to receive your word preached, and we pray that you would activate our minds and help us in the weakness of our flesh to receive from you and your spirit. Protect us from the devil who would want to distract us and pluck your word from our minds before we even leave this building.
In Christ's name we pray. Amen. Let me just ask, how does our culture normally think of the devil or when they hear the word Satan? Probably some picture like this comes up in their minds, a pitchfork and a horn and tail and, and things like that.
And there are people that are actually, quite frankly, shocked that there's still people in this modern world that believe in such a character called the devil. It was only a couple of weeks ago that Supreme Court Justice Scalia expressed his belief in The devil in an interview with New York Magazine. And have you guys heard about this? OK.
Some people have been talking about it. Most of the quotes that I've seen online, they take a little snippet, try to make Scalia look as foolish as possible. but Christianity Today picked up the article and quoted him more full. Jennifer Senior, the one who was interviewing him after he had admitted that he believed in the devil, she comes back and says, Isn't it terribly frightening to believe in the devil?...
