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S ESSION 4: N URTURE AND T RANSITION • 345

1 John 3.8 (ESV) – Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. Gen. 3.15 (ESV) – “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” Isa. 27.1 (ESV) – In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea. Mark 1.24 (ESV) – “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are – the Holy One of God.”

Luke 10.18 (ESV) – And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.”

John 12.31 (ESV) – Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.

John 16.11 (ESV) – . . . concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

Rom. 16.20 (ESV) – The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Col. 2.15 (ESV) – He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

Heb. 2.14 (ESV) – Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil. Rev. 20.2-3 (ESV) – And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while.

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