An El Paso pastor accused of sexual abuse of a child says that the allegations are the work of the devil.

Jean Jacob Jeudy (El paso County Sheriff's Office)

Jean Jacob Jeudy, 48, was arrested Thursday at the Walk By Faith International Missionary Church, which operates out of a strip mall near the city's airport, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. Jeudy was booked into the El Paso County jail on one count of sexual assault of a child and two counts of indecency with a child by sexual contact.

After posting $30,000 bond the same day, Jeudy spoke to the El Paso Times.

"I got arrested [after] somebody accused me of something that I really don't know what about that happened in 2011," Jeudy said, adding that the allegations were lies and that he had a lawyer working to clear his name.

Jeudy went on to tell the newspaper that the accusations were being made through the devil.

"The devil is a deceiver. The devil comes to steal and destroy," he said, referencing John 10:10. "For the devil to accomplish that, he uses tactics like this. This is one of the tactics that the devil is using to bring attention to the devil instead of attention to God."

In a number of posts on his personal Facebook page and the church's page, Jeudy wrote that there was no time for "demonic distractions" and urged his congregants to stay focused on their Christian work.

"The more you are attacked by the devil, the closer they push you towards God," he wrote in one post, which was met with a chorus of amens and likes.