MASTER AND OVERCOME MOCKERY PART 1 LUKE 23:35-39 Over time one of the devices of the devil against the saints is mockery and God does not want us to be ignorant of the enemy's devices, 2Corinthians 2:11. He uses mockery to weaken the strength and faith of saints in God. Mockery has three major objectives: 1). To provoke us to anger, Proverbs 29:8 says, " Scorners set a city aflame, but wise men turn away anger. That is the intention of the devil to provoke you and get you angry. Read also Nehemiah 4:5. 2) To cause us to slack our hands in the assignment that we are doing by weakening our strength, Nehemiah 2:19. 3) To make us look foolish to ourselves, Nehemiah 4:1-4 Walking through scriptures we see it scattered all over both in the new and old testament. Ishmael mocked Isaac, Genesis 21:9. That is the son born by the flesh mocking the son born by promise, flesh mocking the spirit, Galatians 4:29. When the exile returned to build the wall of Jerusalem, the devil throu...