Now, Jesus did not leave us defenseless in the use of the sword. Turn with me, please, back to Matthew. We will look in chapter 4, verse 1. Here, Jesus is showing us that there are three areas in which we will be attacked by these spiritual terrorists.
Now the word tempt has a dual meaning. One, it means to test; to search out; to try; or to put to the proof. Two, it means to entice; to commit evil. Now to entice to commit evil means to deceive or lure someone into going contrary to God's way, breaking His laws. God will never entice us to sin, but Satan and his host of spiritual terrorists will, because they are evil within.
These examples were written for us. This is not the entire battle between Satan and Jesus. If you put the gospels together, you would see that the battle actually began when Jesus on the first day was driven into the wilderness by the Spirit.
Turn over to Matthew 4. This is the tempting of Jesus Christ. With this, we can see how He handled these things. Jesus was to be tempted by Satan. And, just as His nature was being tested to see if He could be drawn away from His Father's truth (His Father's way of living) by being tempted with evil, so we too are being tested and tempted in the same way. It should encourage you to think about that.
The devil is the Adversary, being full of subtlety. In Ephesians 6, he is referred to as wily - setting traps. He is full of envy and hatred. And this is the one who is doing the tempting.
