1. Doubt
Satan used doubt with Eve. He got her to question God.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
2. Physical Need
Satan appealed to Jesus' appetite after a forty-day fast.
Matthew 4:3 And the tempter came and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”
3. An appeal to ego.
Satan tried to bribe Jesus, who is the Word, with an appeal to vanity by misappropriating the word.
Luke 4:9, 10 and (Satan) said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here; for it is written..."
4. Power and Purpose
Jesus came to preach the kingdom; Satan had a kingdom to barter.
Matthew 4:8, 9 Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.”
Satan used a cocktail mix on KatieLyn in that elements of all these played into her decision to run away in the middle of the night. But the biggie was #3. She needed to be "perfect" and Satan was right there to back up the destruction with misappropriated scripture.
We know the Ten Commandments are important. We know that Paul taught on this subject in his letter to Ephesus. Ephesians 6:1-3 says, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2'Honor your father and mother' (which is the first commandment with a promise), 3'that it may go well with you and that you may be long-lived on the earth.'"
Jesus taught on this subject in Matthew 15:4, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (which is the first commandment with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may be long-lived on the earth."
But what does one do with Jesus teaching in Luke 18:29, 30
"Truly I tell you," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life."Compare with Matthew 19:29
"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of My name will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life."
And Mark 10:29,30
"Truly I tell you," said Jesus, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for My sake and for the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life."
God's will and God's plan for KatieLyn was for her to leave her mother's home. Satan got her to focus so much on honoring her mom that he got her to run away from her 100x blessing!
BUT IT DOES NOT STOP THERE...
After KatieLyn threw Joe under the bus by choosing her mother's desire over God's plan for their lives, a couple of new areas opened up that Satan can use to attack.
The Lesson
This is an important less on because it shows how one unrepentant sin opens additional doors for satanic attack.
1. It opens the door to taking offense. KatileLyn knows this, and the proof is that she "predicted" Joe would grow to hate her. He has not, but in the history of the way she grew up, taking offense and the growth of hate that follows was "normal" for her. That is what she normally would have expected.
That is not what happened; God directed a different outcome.
2. It allowed Satan to bind her in a dysfunctional state where she is experiencing a personality disorder. The proof of this is that she cannot talk about or face what happened. She has to shut out Joe completely in order to function at all. This is not living a full life.KatieLyn still feels a need to be perfect, but the minute that she faces Joe, she realizes that she made a mistake by running. The way she deals is to hide him away where she is not at risk of seeing this imperfection. Willfully blind.
3. It allows Satan to deepen her codependent personality and take it to another downward level. God had planned to raise her up from this in her marriage, but now she is stuck either being single, or worse, marrying into an abnormal power structure. Let me explain:
The thing that KatieLyn's mom, Gwen, did not like about Joe was that she (Gwen) could not control him. She was also offended that she had not been able to participate in choosing him for Katie. These two strikes were heavy against Joe; however, it is easy to see why they were part (one of many) of the reason that God would have chosen to put KatieLyn and Joe together—she needs to establish independence from her mom, and a man with these traits will help strengthen her do that. If KatieLyn marries someone that her mom 100% approves of without first resolving the codependency between Katie and her mother, it means that Gwen is satisfied with the control she has over KatieLyn's husband. It is spiritually and psychologically unhealthy because all of their happiness is dependent upon satisfying The Powers That Be.
4. Satan can continue to exploit her self-pride. KatieLyn has worked very hard to convince herself that she "did the right thing" by running away. Although, we know that if she had been successful in REALLY knowing this, then she would have no problem in facing Joe and she would not have felt threatened by his friends. Satan now has her in bondage that is deeper than before because she has tasted the power of rebellion.
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