He is wily, smiling and slick-tempered; works by cunning and deception and wins by compromise, tolerance and patience. He gets your confidence and then sells you the Brooklyn Bridge. This smooth, slick serpent is the “confidence man of hell,” with his tricks and his cunning and his deceitfulness. Satan did not go to the desert to destroy Jesus with a blow on the head. He went and said, “Speak to these stones that they be made bread.” He knew that if Jesus, the Son of God, had listened and spoken to a stone and done a miracle outside of the will of God, he would have destroyed the Savior of the
...more
