Wording of this Handout:
Satan's Tricks
One thing we must never do is blame Satan for everything that happens which seems to us to be bad or unfortunate. Quite often these things are simply a result of our own ignorance or stupidity, and sometimes God is doing something to discipline or teach us.
So what does Satan do?
He blocks the gospel. He stops people from repenting. He fosters any and every belief which opposes God's Word. He organizes unsaved people by entering their minds, and uses them to obstruct and confuse the Christian witness. Satan even stirs up war, and persecution, and physical violence in order to oppose God, and he uses people to do this.
The result of these errors is to rob individuals and whole nations of Christian life. You probably know people at school or elsewhere who believe things which you know are wrong. Satan did that. He did it to you too, until you received Jesus and started to believe the Bible instead of all the garbage you were brought up on.
The Bible (Jesus) said, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life."
John 10:10