🕊️ INTRO — HELL’S CHECKLIST, HEAVEN’S DELIVERER
Saints, hear me tonight. Satan keeps records too. The devil’s got a checklist—a hit list—and at the top of that list was a fisherman named Peter.
Satan wrote: “Target acquired. Weakness discovered. This one’s emotional. Hot-headed. Full of pride. Easy to sift!”
He thought he had Peter. He thought he destroyed him. He thought it was over. But the Lord said, “I prayed for thee!”
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations!”
You listen to me, Church — the devil has a list. But Jesus has the Lamb’s Book of Life! And your name isn’t on Satan’s list anymore!
😈 SATAN’S 12-STEP HIT LIST — “HOW TO KILL A SAINT”
Satan tried twelve strikes against Peter (ALL in 1 Chapter). But Jesus swung back with one nail-scarred hand.
1) PRIDE — “Boast Before You Break”
That’s how it starts. The devil whispers, “You’re stronger than the rest.” Peter said, “Not me, Lord! I’ll never fall.”
Pride puts the devil in business and keeps men in bondage. Pride puts “I” in the middle — and every “I” will bow before Him. If you boast, you’ll roast. God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
2) DECEPTION — “Lie to the Lord”
He looked Jesus in the face and lied. Once you lie to God, you start lying to yourself.
You can’t worship with a lying heart; you can’t pray through with hidden sin; you can’t walk in victory with deceit on your tongue. But thank God — mercy still finds liars!
3) SLEEP — “Knock Out His Prayer Life”
The devil loves a sleeping saint. A sleeping church can’t fight devils — it just hosts them.
If you sleep through prayer, you’ll weep through pain. Prayer keeps you from falling, from fainting, and from becoming another statistic on hell’s clipboard. “I’m waking up tonight!”
4) UNCRUCIFIED FLESH — “Let His Flesh Live”
Let him sing, preach, shout — just don’t let him crucify the flesh. When your flesh is alive, your altar is dead. When your ego breathes, your anointing suffocates.
Paul said, “I die daily.” Tell the devil, “You can’t kill what’s already dead.”
5) SELF-RELIANCE — “Make Him His Own God”
He tried to fix it himself. The devil loves it when you stop waiting on God: stop trusting, start forcing, start fixing.
Peter cut a man — and Jesus had to heal what his flesh hurt. Don’t make God clean up your carnal reactions. Surrender it before you swing it.
6) ABANDONMENT — “Make Him Run”
Peter fled the presence of the One he once followed — but you can’t run far enough that mercy can’t chase you down.
Jonah ran and God sent a whale. Adam hid and God said, “Where art thou?” Peter ran — and Jesus looked. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly.
7) DISTANCE — “Make Him a Distant Disciple”
Keep him on the fringe: Pentecostal but not prayerful; showing up but never showing out. Afar-off saints watch the fire instead of feeling it. “I’m getting closer!”
8) WRONG COMPANY — “Seat Him with the Sinners”
Now Peter sits with the enemy’s servants. Who you sit with determines who shapes you.
You can’t stay in the enemy’s circle and expect God’s favor. Get up, move your seat, and sit where the Spirit is!
9) DISCOURAGEMENT — “Steal His Hope”
Peter watched from afar, thinking it’s over. Discouragement numbs your purpose and silences your calling. Hell checked “Hopeless,” but Heaven whispered, “Healing’s coming.” Broken hearts are what God can use.
10) FEAR — “Make Him Afraid of Men”
The fear of man will silence your testimony faster than sin. Don’t fear the crowd — fear losing the cloud of His glory. When the Holy Ghost comes, fear flees.
11) DISHONESTY — “Make Him a Liar Again”
Once he lied to Jesus; now he lies to men — swearing oaths. The devil marked “Deception complete.” But honesty found him in tears. Jesus transforms — grace rewrote Peter’s story.
12) DEFILEMENT — “Make Him Curse What He Once Confessed”
Hell concluded the file: “Finished.” — but then Jesus looked.
🕊️ THE LOOK THAT BROKE SATANL’S CHECKLIST
That look wasn’t judgment — it was redemption. “You’re still mine. Hell thought he had you — but I still have you.”
When Peter saw that look, something broke. Tears ran; conviction burned; mercy rewrote every mark on Satan’s list. Hell’s checklist went up in flames. Jesus deleted the record. The blood canceled the file.
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly.”
💥 THE COMEBACK — FROM CHECKLIST TO CHURCH LEADER
The same Peter who failed twelve times preached one sermon that saved three thousand souls.
- He denied to a girl — but declared to a crowd.
- He cursed in fear — but cried out in fire.
- He followed afar off — but walked in upper-room power.
🔥 ALTAR CALL — THE DEVIL’S CHECKLIST JUST CAUGHT FIRE
You may have pride in your past. You may have lied. You may have slept. You may have feared. You may have sat at the wrong fire.
But Jesus is looking your way tonight. That same look that turned Peter around is turning toward you now. You don’t have to end where you fell — you can rise where you wept.
Jesus: “Delivered.”
Jesus: “Forgiven.”
Jesus: “You’re Holy Ghost Alive.”
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations.”
🕊️ CLOSING CHARGE — VICTORY
He delivered Noah from a flood. He delivered Lot from the fire. He delivered Joseph from a pit. He delivered Daniel from lions. He delivered the Hebrew boys from the furnace. He delivered Peter from his failure. And He’ll deliver you — right here, right now.
Because the Lord still knows how to deliver.
Come like Peter came — weeping, broken, and real. The rooster’s crowing. The Master’s looking. And grace is waiting.
📜 Full KJV Passages (for Study & Reading Aloud)
2 Peter 2:9
Matthew 26:33
Matthew 26:35
Matthew 26:40–41
Matthew 26:51
Matthew 26:56
Matthew 26:58
Matthew 26:69–74
Luke 22:61
🏁 Title Thought Wrap-Up
🔥 Twelve Strikes from Hell — and Still Standing!
📖 Text: 2 Peter 2:9 (KJV)
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.”
Therefore we declare: Satan’s checklist failed. Jesus's Blood prevailed.