I have friends who have made it one of their missions in life to expose the evil works of Satan to anyone who will listen. They do this with good intention and are very effective at it. However, I think there is a far more effective way than persuasion. A way to expose him that the Lord himself began and is asking us to continue.

The gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ itself shines light on the kingdom of darkness.

Neither John the Baptist nor Jesus nor the apostles spent a great deal of time and energy exposing the wickedness in their day. And there was plenty to go after!!

When his disciples would point evil out to them. He would simply say things like “leave them alone”, he basically said, “don’t listen to those guys”, or “their time is passing away.” He did not major on exposing them.

He majored instead on saying things like, “follow me”, “pick up your cross and follow me”, “I am the way”, “I am the door”, “before Abraham was, I AM”. He centered peoples attention on himself. And that’s what the ministry of the church is to be today. Exposing Satan will be a result, its like icing on the cake that we didn’t even plan on.

It happened naturally as he went, it can be fun but it is not a constant ministry in Jesus Christ. It’s a subset of a much greater ministry.

It’s far more fruitful to “expose” Jesus Christ than it is to expose Satan.

Expose Jesus Christ to the world then he will personally open peoples eyes to see Satan and his world system clearly.

If we become preoccupied with Satan, he will pull us down and tie us up for a lifetime with debate and theology and paranoia and anxiety.

But Jesus will have us walking on Satan’s head.