How Satan Steals The Socks Off Our Feet Without Removing Our Shoes by “Brother Bill”
Why do coaches watch game film? To know the opponents ways. Since none of us is as smart as all of us, let’s look at how God’s word and older Christians have prevailed. Since good questions are the precursors to good answers, here are some.
How does Satan steal our socks off us without even removing our shoes? Kill us without a mark and destroy our families, country and world, without getting caught?
Why does the wide road look like an easy short cut to what we want? Are we really truth seekers or just self justifying our life? Until we are willing to fail our way to success we can’t succeed our way to significance.
We all need experience and the cheapest way to get it is second hand. So ask God, and older brothers and sisters, then seek what you learned and when you find it knock/do what’s required.
We are born wanting to be a part of a family and community; how are we to do that? In our flesh Satan says we can have sex before marriage so women give sex to feel love and men say they love to get sex, but that doesn’t scratch the itch of security for the woman, and purpose for the man. Since Satan is willing to lie, deceive, offer illusion and entrapment followed by accusations as he breaks laws to make laws against us, enticing our heart’s desires from his tools for fools.
Let’s give NKJV verses to show how God’s word is the first thing Satan must eliminate, then family, culture, financial, health and striving to be our best self – loving as he lowers the bar to where we are through atheism, authoritarianism, communism or fascism.
Today we’re naming how Satan works subtly (stealing without a mark) and systemically (attacking Word, family, culture, truth, and purity). Below I’ve gathered NKJV complete verses that directly address each of your points, with a one-line application after each passage so you can see how the scripture connects to the idea.
1) Satan’s first target: God’s Word — he twists it, silences it, or gets us to ignore it
Matthew 4:1–4 (summary in one verse quoted by Jesus):
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4, NKJV)
Application: Jesus used Scripture against temptation — Satan’s first move is to remove or distort the Word so we lose our defense.
2 Corinthians 11:3–4 (NKJV)
“But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!”
Application: Satan corrupts minds with counterfeit gospels or twisted doctrine — once truth is replaced, everything follows.
John 8:44 (NKJV)
“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.”
Application: Lies are Satan’s nature; removing truth is his goal.
2) He attacks family and culture once the Word is weakened
Psalm 11:3 (NKJV)
“If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?”
Application: Family and cultural stability are foundations — when they’re undermined, society unravels.
Ephesians 5:22–33 (NKJV) — (passage on marriage)
“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord… Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her…” (condensed)
Application: God’s design for family (headship, sacrificial love) shields against the counterfeit promises of fleeting pleasure and false security.
He also say’s submit one to another.
Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)
“Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.”
Application: Family discipleship counters cultural drift — first the Word, then the home.
3) The wide road looks easy — it’s a shortcut that leads to ruin
Matthew 7:13–14 (NKJV)
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Application: Shortcuts promise ease but end in destruction — true life requires the narrow, disciplined way.
Satan gives pleasure leading to pain, but God offers the difficult path leading to life’s salvation.
Proverbs 14:12 (NKJV)
“There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.”
Application: Our self-justifying logic can look convincing but be deadly.
4) Sex before marriage, counterfeit intimacy, and the broken promises of sin
1 Corinthians 6:18–20 (NKJV)
“Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body… For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.”
Application: Sexual sin promises love/security but wounds the soul and dishonors God’s design.
Hebrews 13:4 (NKJV)
“Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.”
Application: God’s pattern for intimacy protects purpose, security, and covenant love.
Sooo ladies don’t try to give sex to get counterfeit love or men offer counterfeit love to get sex.
5) Satan’s method: deception, entrapment, accusation, law-twisting
2 Corinthians 11:14–15 (NKJV)
“And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness…”
Application: He hides as light and truth — easy to be fooled if we aren’t rooted in Scripture.
1 Peter 5:8–9 (NKJV)
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith…”
Application: He prowls for openings — vigilance and faithfulness are our defense.
Revelation 12:9 (NKJV)
“So the great dragon was cast out… that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world.”
Application: His influence is global and deceptive — cultural systems like national identity can be infiltrated by lies.
6) When truth is removed, ideologies and systems can enslave (scriptural note on turning from God)
Romans 1:18–25 (NKJV) (condensed)
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness… They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator… For this reason God gave them up to vile passions…”
Application: When people reject the Creator, cultures exchange truth for systems that enslave and lower moral standards.
Hebrews 3:12–14 (NKJV)
“Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief… For we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end.”
Application: Unbelief spreads — the cure is steadfast confidence in Christ and His Word.
7) Practical spiritual armor and remedy
Ephesians 6:10–18 (NKJV) (condensed)
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord… Put on the whole armor of God… take up the shield of faith… and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.”
Application: The Word is our offensive weapon; faith, prayer, righteousness, and readiness are the rest.
John 17:17 (NKJV)
“Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.”
Application: Truth sanctifies—restore the Word, restore the people.
Short summary — Scripture’s diagnosis and cure
• Diagnosis: Satan’s strategy is deception (John 8:44), subtle corruption of truth (2 Cor. 11), assault on foundational relationships (Ps. 11:3), and enticing shortcuts (Matt. 7:13–14; Prov. 14:12).
• Cure: Hide God’s Word (Psalm 119:11), live the narrow way (Matt. 7:13–14), flee sexual immorality (1 Cor. 6:18), strengthen family discipleship (Prov. 22:6; Eph. 5), and put on the armor of God while preaching the truth (Eph. 6; 2 Tim. 3:16–17).
That’s a powerful testimony of 75 years of wisdom. What you’re sharing really echoes Scripture’s warnings about money, debt, and misplaced treasure. Here are NKJV verses that connect directly to your points:
Wealth Can Be Inflated Away,lessons from 75 years.
• Proverbs 23:5 – “Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.”
Never depend on riches to keep up forever save and invest wisely buy commodities like gold and productive land when it’s out of favor and stocks and bonds when they are out of favor. When Gold starts rising silver and mining stocks wil follow. When stocks start rising small caps normally lead and technology comes before the correction.
Good businesses are your best investment if it’s your calling to run one. Remember millionaires improve what is billionaires innovate a whole new way to fulfill the needs. However I am but a steward of Gods money so like the man with 10 talents invest wisely and tithe.
• 1 Timothy 6:7 – “For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.”
Borrowing and Spending Recklessly
• Proverbs 22:7 – “The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.”
• Romans 13:8 – “Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
Only invest in Gods calling for without borrowing as interest will kill you on the downturns. Never invest with a gambler they will loose all you have if you let them.
Not Conforming to This World
• Romans 12:2 – “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
Laying Up Treasures in Heaven
• Matthew 6:19–21 – “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Living to Please Christ, Not Impress Others
• Galatians 1:10 – “For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.”
• Colossians 3:23–24 – “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.”
These are some of my lessons that cost me pain and about 2 million dollars to learn so you can ignore me and learn them first hand which is painful. However you can learn them from someone who loves you and wants only the best for you.
Blessings on your life’s journey brother bill/dad and grandpa
About the Author
Mychal Massie
Mychal S. Massie is an ordained minister who spent 13 years in full-time Christian Ministry. Today he serves as founder and Chairman of the Racial Policy Center (RPC), a think tank he officially founded in September 2015. RPC advocates for a colorblind society. He was founder and president of the non-profit “In His Name Ministries.” He is the former National Chairman of a conservative Capitol Hill think tank; and a former member of the think tank National Center for Public Policy Research. Read entire bio here
