How to Live Condemnation Free 

Satan The Accuser

The Story of Satan The Accuser. “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.  They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the Word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Revelation 12:9-11. 

The primary activity of Satan against Christians is to accuse them. Is Satan a murderer? Yes. Is he a liar and a tempter? Yes. Is he the one who attacks us? Yes. But this is not all. His primary purpose is to accuse. The scripture above says, “The accuser of our brothers/sisters has been cast down, who accuses them before our God day and night.” We see here that Satan accuses the brothers/sister’s day and night.  

Not only is satan the accuser before our God, but he is also the accuser in our conscience, and his accusations can cause us to become weak and completely powerless if we accommodate it.  

He likes to accuse people to such an extent that they consider themselves useless and thus lose all their ground for resisting him. We are not saying that there is no need for us to deal with sin. We must have a keen sense of sin, but we should not accept the accusations of Satan. 

Once a child of God accepts Satan‘s accusations, he will feel like he is wrong all day long.  

When he rises early in the morning, he will feel like he is wrong. Every time he kneels to pray, he will feel like he is wrong and does not even believe that God will answer his prayer. When he wants to speak a word in the meeting, he will feel like it is of no use because he is not right. When he wants to give an offering to the Lord, he wonders why he should offer anything, because God would indeed not accept an offering from such a person as satan.  

The main concern of these type of Christians is not how glorious, and victorious the Lord Jesus is but how evil and worthless they are.  

The truth is when you accept Christ as your Lord, you are no longer a sinner but a saint. You were once a sinner, but now you are a saint. The sin nature in you before you accepted Christ had been removed. 

“who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness” ……… 1 Peter 2:24. 

That you mistakenly act or do wrong does not mean you are a sinner. A sinner is someone who has not accepted Christ as his Savior. That is why you must stand against every accusation of the Devil. 

People who accept Satan’s lies remain condemned. Throughout the day, they are consumed with the thought of their worthlessness. Whether they are working, resting, walking, reading the scriptures, or praying, a single moment does not pass without their consideration of how worthless they are; that is the accusation of Satan. If Satan can keep them in such a condition of condemnation and worthlessness, he is fulfilled. People in this state are powerless before Satan.

If we accept these accusations, we have sold our birthright as Adam did, and we will no longer maintain the overcomer position. When we are engrossed with the thought of condemnation and evil, it is easy for us to think is Christian humility, not realizing that we are suffering the harmful effect of Satan’s accusations. When we do and act wrong, we must repent and deal with that behavior and learn to not look upon our abilities to act right, but only gaze upon the finished work of our Lord Jesus.

To be sin conscious every day from morning to evening is a sickly condition. It is the result of accepting the accusations of Satan.

We have a new nature in Christ, which is His righteousness nature.

When we are so conscious of this unique righteousness nature, we will keep the accuser away from us. But when we are so full of sin consciousness, then we have willingly opened the door for satan the accuser. 

There are many of God’s children whose conscience is so weak that they have no real awareness of the work of the Lord Jesus. If we ask them if they have a sense of sin, they cannot point to any; yet they always have the feeling that they are wrong. They still feel that they are weak and worthless. Whenever they think of themselves, they lose all their peace and joy. They have accepted the accusations of Satan. Whenever Satan gives us this kind of feeling, we are weakened and can no longer resist him. 

We must not, therefore, lightly esteem satan the accuser. His chief work is to accuse us, and he does it day and night without ceasing.  

He accuses us in our conscience as well as before God until our conscience becomes so weak that it cannot be strengthened. 

In the daily life and work of a Christian, the conscience is of great importance. Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23. 

The apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 8 that if one’s conscience is defiled, he is destroyed.

Being destroyed does not mean eternal perishing but that a person can no longer be built up. He has been so weakened that he has become worthless. 1 Timothy 1 says that a man who thrusts away his conscience is shipwrecked regarding the faith. A ship that is wrecked cannot sail. Therefore, whether a Christian can stand before God depends on whether he has any offense in his conscience. Once he accepts the accusations of Satan, his conscience is offended. Once his conscience is offended, he cannot proceed in his service nor maintain his victorious position in God. We must realize, therefore, that Satan’s primary work is to accuse us, and this is the work we must frustrate. 

How can we frustrate and stop the accusations of Satan?

The voice from heaven tells us, “The blood of Jesus is the basis of our victory, and it is the instrument to frustrate and stop the accusation of Satan to maintain our victorious position in Christ. He may accuse us, but we can answer that the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanses us from every sin [1 John 1:17]. “Every sin” means any sin, whether it is great or small. The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all of them. Satan may tell us that we are wrong, but we have the blood of the Lord Jesus. The blood of the Lord Jesus can cleanse us of our many sins. The Word of God. The blood of Jesus, God’s Son, purifies us from every sin. 

We must not only reject the accusations which are without cause, but we must also deny all the allegations which have a cause. When God’s children have done something wrong, we need only the blood of Jesus, His Son, not an accusation. God’s Word never speaks of the need for accusation after we have sinned. The only problem is whether or not we have confessed our sin. If we have acknowledged our sin or wrong, then what more can be said? If we have sinned and do not disclose, then we deserve to be accused. But where there is no sin, there is no cause for an accusation. If we have sinned and have confessed, we should not be charged. 

If you have sinned, you can confess to God. Immediately the blood of the Lord Jesus will cleanse you. Do not think that you will be a little more holy if you consider how sinful you are, or that you will be more holy if you beat yourself up because of your sin. No. You only must ask yourself one thing: How do I treat the blood of the Lord Jesus?

We have sinned, but His blood cleanses us from every sin. “Every sin” means great sin or small sin, recollected sin or forgotten sin, visible sin or invisible sin, sin which we think could be forgiven, and the sin which we do not think could be forgiven; every kind is included in “every.” The blood of Jesus, God’s Son, does not wash us of one or two sins, or even many sins, but it cleanses us from every sin once and for all  

THE NATURE OF SIN 

We admit that we have sinned. We do not say that we are without sin. But regardless of this act of sinning, we do not accept the accusations of Satan. Before God, we are clean because we have the precious blood of Jesus.  

“And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— Colossians 1:21,22. 

We should not believe in the accusations more than we believe in the precious blood. When we are involved in the act of sinning, we do not glorify God, but when we do not trust the precious blood of Jesus and do not believe in the finished work of Christ, we dishonor Him even more. It is a shameful thing to sin, but not to believe in the precious blood is even more shameful. We must learn to trust in the effect of the blood of Jesus. 

Romans 5:9 says, “……having now been justified in His blood.” 

When many people come into the Lord’s presence, they have no peace in their hearts. They also have a feeling of worthlessness and of being wrong within, and this is because they have false hope. They expect that they will have something positive in themselves to offer to God. When they discover that they do not have anything positive to offer in themselves, accusations come in. An accusation goes like this: “A person like you will never have anything good to offer to God and humanity.” But we must remember that we originally possessed no goodness before God. There was nothing good in ourselves that we could offer to God. We could only present one thing to Him; the blood which is Christ in you the hope of glory [Colossians 1:28.].

The blood could only justify us. We do not have any positive righteousness in ourselves. We became righteous only because of the righteousness which we received through redemption. Every time we come to the throne of Grace; we can look to Him for help. It is a throne of grace, not a throne of righteousness. Every time we come before God, our only qualification is that we have been redeemed, not that we have advanced in our Christian life.

No Christian can ever reach the stage where he can say, “I have been doing pretty well recently; now I have the boldness to pray.” No, every time we come before God, our only ground, our superior position, is based upon the blood. We must realize that no amount of spiritual growth can substitute for the effectiveness of the blood of Jesus Christ. Not one spiritual experience can ever replace the work of the blood of Jesus Christ. Even if someone should become as spiritual as the apostle Paul, the apostle John or any of those apostles in Bible history, he would still need the blood of Jesus Christ to stand before God. 

Sometimes when we have done wrong, Satan comes to accuse us, and sometimes when we have not done any wrong, Satan still comes to charge us. Sometimes it is not a problem of whether we have done wrong, but a problem of not having a positive righteousness consciousness to offer to God; so, Satan takes advantage to accuse us. However, we must be clear: We can come into God’s presence only because of the blood, not because of anything else. 

Since we have been justified, redeemed, forgiven, and cleansed by the blood, we are under no obligation whatsoever to accept the accusations of Satan. 

The precious blood of Jesus Christ is the basis for spiritual warfare. If we do not know the value of the blood in Christ, we cannot stand against the accuser. Once our conscience is weakened, we are finished. Therefore, if we do not maintain a blameless and clean conscience, we will have no way to deal with Satan. Satan can use thousands of reasons in his accusations against us. If we accept them, we will fall. But when Satan speaks to us, we can reply to all his reasons with the one answer of the blood. There is not a single reason which cannot be answered by the blood. Spiritual warfare requires a conscience without offense, and the blood alone can give us such a conscience. 

Hebrews 10:2 says, “Because those worshipping, having once been purified, would have no longer had the consciousness of sins…….” When a Christian’s conscience no longer has a sense of sin, it is because of the blood. Once we stand on the ground of the blood, once we believe in the blood, Satan can no longer work upon us. We often like to reason that we can no longer stand against him because we have sinned. But the Lord knows that we are sinful, so He has prepared the blood.

The Lord has a way for sinful man because the Lord has the blood. But He has no way for one who willingly receives Satan’s accusations. Anyone who accepts the allegations of Satan denies the power of the blood. No one who believes in the precious blood can receive Satan’s accusations at the same time. One or the other must go. If we accept the allegations, the blood has to go; if we accept the blood, the accusations have to go. 

The Lord Jesus Christ is the High Priest and Mediator for us.

He is always serving in this position as the High Priest and the Mediator. The purpose of His serving is to keep us from Satan’s accusations. It takes only a moment for the man to receive Him as Savior, but it is a lifelong journey to face the accusations of Satan. The word Mediator means an appointed defender. The Lord is our Mediator, our Defender. The Lord speaks for us. But do we stand on the side of the Mediator or the side of the accuser?

It would be ridiculous if we believed the words of the accuser while our Mediator is in the very act of defending us. If an attorney continually proved that a defendant was not guilty and the defendant persisted in believing the accuser, would that not be quite absurd? May we see that the Lord Jesus is our Mediator and that He is defending us. May we see that the blood is the basis for us to deal with Satan. We should never answer Satan’s accusations with good conduct; we should respond with the blood. If we realize the value of the blood, there would be a significant increase of peaceful and joyful Christians on the earth. 

Remember, from our first scripture: “They overcame him [the accuser] because of the blood of Jesus Christ” [The Lamb] How precious are those words! The brothers overcame him not because of their merit, their advancement, or their experience. They overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb. Whenever accusations come from Satan, we need to deal with them by voicing the blood of Jesus over our mind and conscience. Once we accept the blood, Satan’s power will be nullified.

All we need is to depend on the blood of Christ every day because the blood is our sure foundation. God desires to deliver us from many senseless accusations. He wants to break these chains. We must never feel that we are humble by tolerating accusations day after day. We must learn to overcome these accusations. If we do not overcome charges, we can never be the overcomers that Christ has destined us through the blood. The overcomers must know the value of the blood of Jesus Christ. 

Knowing who you are in Christ, believing in the finished work of Christ, and walking in the consciousness of your new inherited nature in Christ will keep you as an overcomer for life.