No he's not...He's already lost the battle and he knows it...but he loves occupying people with trinkets that make them "feel" anything other than security we have in Jesus Christ.
The cross is empty...the grave is empty.....and satan lost in the dessert as well....then he's got the keys!!!!
I thought “The Passion” by Gibson was extremely powerful, and it portrayed the crucifixion.
I find the gospels very powerful, too, and each of them portray the crucifixion.
It was the sacrifice on the cross that paid the penalty for my sins. “He was wounded for my transgressions...the chastisement of my peace was upon Him...and by His stripes I am healed.”
Less than deep Christians run around with an empty cross saying it’s about the resurrection. How silly. They should use an empty tomb to proclaim the resurrection. The empty cross is when they took Jesus to the tomb.
So the crucifix is about the sacrifice.
The empty cross is about the death and removal.
the empty tomb is about the resurrection.
I know Dracula sure is!!!
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Satan is terrified of the Crucifix. As he is regarding the Rosary.
Satan doesn’t fear an object. He fears Jesus.
Crucifixes, Rosaries and Crosses are dead objects crafted by human hands. A Cross can be a useful tool when you teach the Word but it must not be the “focus” of worship; that position rightly belongs only to Jesus. In the end only true faith in Jesus will overcome evil.
Acts 19: 13-20
Some Jews who went around driving out evil spirits tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who were demon-possessed. They would say, “In the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I command you to come out.” Seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. One day the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know about, but who are you?” Then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. He gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding.
When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed what they had done. A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.