![]() ![]() And God is faithful He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. 1 Corinthians 10:13 “No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. Matthew 6:13 “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”Ħ. 1 Corinthians 1:9 “God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.”ĥ. 2 Thessalonians 3:3 But the Lord is faithful he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.Ĥ. 1 John 5:18 We know that God’s children do not make a practice of sinning, for God’s Son holds them securely, and the evil one cannot touch them.ģ. Israel Kristilere, Shepherdhill Baptist Church, (Sanctuary of Grace & Glory), Baptist Academy Compound, Obanikoro, Lagos.Does God protect us from evil according to the Bible?ġ. May God break our chains and loosen our bonds from known and unknown, seen and unseen, familiar and strange, big and small, direct and indirect evil. May God deliver us from evil present and future. (John 17: 15-16) For every evil, the evil one and his agents will bring our way, may the finger of God deliver us by fire in Jesus name. But we cannot run away from the world, so we can pray for power to triumph over evil. No doubt, Coronavirus that is ravaging our world is evil. What a perfect petition we all need to make. According to some theologians, the prayer “Deliver us from Evil” is the 7th petition in the Lord’s Prayer. So, we can pray deliver us from evil whether moral or natural, spiritual or physical, penal or afflictive. In this petition, the evil is not specified, for the catalogue will be endless. ![]() Or it may mean, “deliver us from the various evils and trials which beset us, the heavy and oppressive calamities into which we are continually liable to fall.” May God deliver us from evil at home, in the office, on the road, in business, at school and in the environment. The meaning here is, “deliver us from his power, his snares, his arts, his temptations.” Satan is supposed to be the great parent of evil, and to be delivered from him is to be safe. “deliver us from the evil”-the Evil One or Satan. (B) Our Prayer Against Evil – Deliver us From Evil-The original language of this passage has the article “the”-i.e. These evils either have physical or spiritual effect on us and sometimes both. With what I have seen in the world today, I believe there can be a third type which I prefer to call “Mornatural Evil,” which simply means the combination of moral and natural evil. Moral evil covers the wilful acts of human beings, such as murder, rape and kidnapping, among others, while Natural evil refers to natural disasters such as famines, floods and hurricane, among others. In biblical terms, the evils in the world can be categorised into two major groups namely: Moral Evil and Natural Evil. (John 10: 10) The evil spirits in our world today can be divided into (1) Unclean Spirits (2) Lying Spirits (3) Seducing Spirits (4) Spirit of Divination (5) Spirits that cause maladies in health, brain, business and marriages, among others. The major works of the evil one and his agents are to steal, kill and destroy. 12: 3-4) The evil one/Satan is the origin of evil. One third of the angelic beings followed him and they are causing the evil we see in the world today. 14: 12-14) He wanted to be God, if not more. His main sin was pride, which goes before destruction. ![]() He was a good cherub, who later became evil, when he rebelled against God. According to Genesis 1: 31, all that God created originally was good. ![]()
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