Your Adversary the Devil

Series: Not Against Flesh and Blood

Spiritual Warfare

Your Adversary the Devil

42 min

Series: Not Against Flesh and Blood

Spiritual Warfare

Your Adversary the Devil

42 min

Who is the devil? Where does he come from, and how do modern perceptions of him line up with biblical teaching? On this episode of White Horse Inn, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and special guest Pastor David Cassidy discuss the idea of personified evil and the way caricatures of Satan and his origins have transformed through the ages and are reflected on the pages of Scripture.

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“All we can say with regard to the origin of the devil is that he comes into existence at God’s good pleasure as all creatures do, and that he was created good, but that he fell. Now beyond that, we aren’t told a great deal. We’re told far more about his end than we are about his origin. And it’s that focus on Christ’s triumph over the darkness, rather than the origin of the darkness, which the apostles were majoring on.”

David Cassidy


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Bob Hiller is the Senior Pastor of Community Lutheran Church in Escondido/San Marcos, California. He is the author of Finding Christ in the Straw and the content editor for The Craft of Preaching (1517).

David Cassidy serves as lead pastor of Spanish River Church in Boca Raton, Florida and is the author of Indispensable, A Guide to Christian Basics (P&R). He has been a pastor for 41 years, leading congregations in Kentucky, Texas, and Tennessee, as well as in the United Kingdom. He and his wife Toni have been married since 1980 and are the parents of three children.

Justin S. Holcomb, PhD, is an Episcopal minister and professor of theology at Reformed Theological Seminary and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has authored, coauthored, or edited more than twenty books on numerous topics, including abuse, biblical studies, and theology. Justin and his wife, Lindsey, coauthored the award-winning children’s book God Made All of Me, God Made Me in His Image, and God Made Babies. You can read more from Justin at justinholcomb.com and connect with him on Twitter @JustinHolcomb.

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