I Believe in the Devil!

Does the evangelical church no longer believe in the existence of a personal devil?  Judging from the paucity of sermons preached on this subject, one could be excused for concluding that this indeed the case.  That it is indeed a biblical doctrine no evangelical will deny.  The denial comes, however, when this intensely personal issue is not preached from our pulpits.

Is this because evangelicals, with all their great theological learning and knowledge, believe that this doctrine belongs to the distant past when people were superstitious and not to today’s very clever church?  

If that is the case, then God help us.  If Satan and his nefarious activity is no longer a concern for contemporary Christians, then a most serious question arises about what modern day Evangelicals believe concerning the authority of Scripture.  

How then can they preach those texts in Paul and Peter that deal with the devil and his anti-God activity in Christ’s church and in the world?  Where have all those Christian deviations come from?  Who is behind these?  Who is responsible for all those challenges to the exclusivity of the biblical Gospel way of salvation, if not the devil?  Where did Romanism emerge from if not from the devil’s pit?  How is the resurgence and global murderous activity of Islam explained if there is no devil?

There are many more questions that could be added to these, but the point is well made.  The answers to these questions provide clear demonstrations of Satanic activity on a cosmic scale.  Yet the reformed and evangelical churches are suggesting that this doctrine is outdated and need not be proclaimed as an integral part of the Gospel of God.

Is this lack of recognition not the explanation of the state both of the world and of the church in the world?