Ephesians chapter 6.
Again this evening, just to commence.
Ephesians chapter 6.
And this is our fifth night on this
great subject of demonology.
And I think we've got quite a lot
to go.
It's time to recapture what we've been through
here.
And on the first night we looked at
Lucifer, the leader of this demon, diabolical army
that comes against us in all shapes and
forms.
And we had a great night looking at
this Lucifer, the leader.
And then on the second night we read
this verse together, where we are now, verse
12.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities.
And we just took the word principalities.
And we found it was a Greek word,
argi, and it's translated more times by the
word prince than by the word principalities.
We found out that these were demon princes.
You remember that the Pharisees insulted Christ by
saying that he cast out demons by the
prince of the demons, Beelzebub.
And we went through the book to find
these demon princes.
And we found that their job in this
great mighty warfare that's going on in this
world, that their job was to come against
parliaments and governments.
They were more in the politics of the
thing than anything else.
And I said that the demon prince that's
over this province of ours, he must have
got a satanic meddler or two before now.
And then we went on on the third
night, and we went on into the next
word, against principalities, against powers.
These are demon powers, and they are distinct
and different from principalities.
For Lucifer is the leader, and these demon
princes have a job to do with the
governments, and they're doing a tremendous job.
But these powers, they come against the physical
frame.
And we saw how they could bind a
woman.
She was stooped and bound, her bones were
locked for eighteen years.
And Jesus said, this daughter of Abraham whom
Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years he
released her.
And we took a night on how the
demons come against the physical frame.
And last week we took a night on
how the demons come against the mental realm,
against the mind and the minds of men.
And we found out that Christ went about
doing good and healing all that were oppressed
of the devil.
And this demon oppression is something that's very
rampant these days.
We found that a woman came to Christ
and said, my daughter is grisly thus.
It's a tremendous word, isn't it?
Has to do with the mind.
And this mental oppression and this mental destruction
and vexation, we found out last week that
the demons were at work.
Then a man came with his son and
said, my son is lunatic.
Oh yes, we went into all this now.
So we have seen this army spread out
on the battlefield.
And how trained, and how they march and
march.
And how they seem to do what they're
told to do.
And the princes go into the political realm.
And the powers into the physical and into
the mental.
And tonight we're going to see these same
demon powers come against the spiritual.
And I talk about spiritual, I'm talking about
believers who are walking in fellowship with Christ.
You know, we must always make a differentiation
among believers.
Because Paul writing to the church at Corinth,
and there is no doubt at all that
they were saved.
Because in the 15th chapter he says, the
gospel that I preached unto you by which
you were saved.
And you remember him saying in that 6th
chapter, know ye not that your body is
the temple of the Holy Ghost.
But amid this differentiation he said in the
3rd chapter, I could not speak unto you
as unto spiritual, ye are yet carnal.
And we've got to make the difference whether
you like it or not.
That there are carnal Baptists and spiritual Baptists.
And I don't give two hoots whether you
like it or not.
Doesn't worry me at all.
And if you're one of the carnal ones,
then I'm not talking to you this evening.
I'm talking to the spiritual one.
And I want to outline the battle for
you this evening.
How demons come against the spiritual sons and
daughters of the Almighty God.
Now we're going to look at this battle
that they wage against us, this warfare, in
its broadest and in its most general sense
this evening.
Because we'll have to come to one of
two particulars that we will need to get
down to magnify.
So you know what we're doing.
We're watching these demon powers coming against the
spiritual sons and daughters of the Almighty.
And we're looking at it just in a
general sense this evening.
That's what we're about to do.
You know I want you to know this.
That in every dispensation, and remember there are
dispensations.
I was some of these fellows who would
have the church in the Garden of Eden.
And I would wonder where the elders and
deacons were and all the rest of it.
A fellow said to me, remember this, the
church was right down from the beginning.
Well I said, friend, if it was, it
was a long time without a head.
Well not until Jesus died and went back
to heaven did he become the head of
the church.
And a great character came to our house
to argue with me about this sort of
thing once.
And I just asked him one question.
I said, when God set gifts in the
church, he set first apostles.
Now if the church began way back there,
how did the apostles get first?
Closed up all his books and put them
in the bag and away he went.
And I said, you should drop them on
the river as you go along, friend.
Is it people coming talking silly nonsense?
The fellow came after last week's meeting.
He's not here tonight, he's got such a
doing.
Well I'm glad he's not here because he
doesn't even listen.
He said to me, you know, you talk
about these spirit beings as if they were
real personalities.
I said, it's what I've been teaching for
weeks, friend, of the personalities, demon personalities.
He said, you know all this demon stuff
in this New Testament, it's only a psychological
idea in a mind.
I said, now how would you translate the
psychological idea from a mind into two thousand
things?
And you should see the blank look on
his face, you'd think he was a found
soul.
How would you translate a psychological idea into
two thousand things and let them run down
the street in the receipt?
Tell me, come and tell me.
My, some of the clever cloaks that's gone
about are the greatest dukes in this land.
They're so daft that I lose my patience
with them.
I think I'm a sort of a duke
myself but when I see some of these
boys I thank God I never went to
the school that they went to.
Now we're going to look at this in
its broadest due, this evening.
And you can't see, you know, at a
glance if you look at the notes that
the devil and demons were busy in every
dispensation.
You can see that Satan beguiled Eve.
Well you know that Eve lived in the
dispensation of innocence.
And when the devil came into the garden
she was innocent, make no mistakes about that.
And I want you to notice that Job
was in a different dispensation from Eve.
Job was even before the law.
Dr. Bullinger thinks that he might well have
been a son of Ithaca and there is
a son of Ithaca called Job, there is
no doubt about it.
But most certainly if you read right through
the book he was before the law.
He was the priest in his own house
anyway and offered up sacrifices for his own
children so I think that should teach you
something.
You know how the devil smote Job, don't
you?
Because David was in the dispensation of law,
there is no question there.
And the same old satanic enemy is on
the job.
And he provoked David.
We're going to take next Tuesday on how
the devil came against the Eternal One.
We've been looking at the devil and the
political and the demons and the physical and
the mental and tonight the spiritual and next
Tuesday God willing the Eternal One.
When he came, why he came, how he
came, from whom he came, all the rest
of it.
So we'll not touch that this evening, I
only put it in.
Because I put Judas in and I didn't
put Judas in because I think he was
spiritual.
I put Judas in for the very opposite.
You see, when the demons or the devil
comes against spiritual children of God he either
tries to beguile them or smite them as
God will allow him or provoke them or
tempt them or in the case of Paul,
hinder them.
But one thing is sure, he can never
possess them.
You see, with this body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost this evening and I'm
fully persuaded about that, that the Holy Ghost
is in me.
Then I know that he that is in
me is greater than he that is in
the world.
He may oppress me, I assure you I
know the battle so well that I don't
let him.
He may try to provoke me, he may
certainly hinder me, but he will never possess
me.
And I put that bit in just to
let you see the difference.
It wasn't that I ever thought Judas was
spiritual.
So I want you to get the hold
of this.
These are different dispensations.
Eve lived in the age of innocence, Job
lived in the age of human government, David
lived under the law.
The Lord Jesus, we will always talk about
the days of the flesh and there is
no doubt that Paul lived in this glorious
age of grace.
But I want you to learn something about
these attacks this evening.
Let's come to 2 Corinthians chapter 11 please.
2 Corinthians and we're at the 11th chapter.
2 Corinthians chapter 11 verse 1 Paul
writes in to these things, it says Would
the God ye could bear with me a
little in my folly and indeed bear with
me for I am jealous over you with
godly jealousy for I have espoused you to
one husband that I may present you as
a chaste virgin to Christ but I fear,
this is one of the fears of Paul
and it's a great message when you get
them all together but I fear let by
any means of the serpent beguiled Eve through
his subtlety so your minds should be corrupted
from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Now let me state quite clearly just now
for the sake of any of the young
folks who may be brought up under modernistic
evil cause the modernists don't believe Genesis chapter
3 one of them said to me it's
just mythology I can assure you with Paul
it was theology he believed it let me
say to you that he is writing under
the inspiration of a spirit for the Holy
Ghost believed all about Genesis 3 let me
tell you a greater authority than all these
the Lord Jesus believed this as he quotes
from Genesis chapter 2 and on into Genesis
3 and 4 now let's get the hold
of this, this is no myth, this actually
happened now look at the wording carefully as
the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety the
word beguiled is a tremendous word you know
if you want the true meaning of it,
it's right behind it he says I fear
let by any means of the serpent beguiled
Eve through his subtlety so your mind should
be corrupted that's what he was doing he
was corrupting the mind wasn't he that's what
beguiling is all about you know this is
most interesting for me because there is another
translation which says lest your imagination should be
corrupted and there is another translation which says
lest your understanding should be corrupted and there
is another translation which says lest your thoughts
should be corrupted and I'm teaching the lads
and lasses out at the school and I've
drawn out on the board for them their
minds is quite a task have you looked
at some of them from where I stand
yeah their minds you know you've got faculties
in here at least you have something of
the faculty there is a thing in here
called imagination architects use imagination as how they
make their money there is a thing in
here called memory good preachers have to have
a memory no use in this job if
you haven't a memory there is a faculty
in here called your understanding that's how you
know to and to's form that's how you
get the what and the why and the
where and the when now the devil will
come against you to corrupt your imagination to
corrupt your understanding to corrupt your thoughts that's
why I say we're having a general view
because we'll have to take time to talk
one night we'll have tons won't we so
we'll see what's going on in some of
their heads they'll have a whole night on
that and I'll straighten this nonsense up on
this book and you
bring your bible and sit tight and see
we're at the bible now not imagination not
imagination that's corrupted by the devil they're going
to be down with their nose in the
book to see what's going on this is
one of the ways that the devil attacks
the spiritual children of God he beguiles them,
he corrupts their mind we don't need to
go back and look at Job we have
been through that when we were looking at
the physical and we know that if God
allows either demons or devils you know they
can come and they can hurt you remember
as one touch Satan covered Job from the
soles of the foot to the crown of
the head with sore bones but this can
only be done when God allows you see
if Satan could touch any one of our
bodies this evening without God allowing him then
I'm afraid we'll be a mess if you
look at the demons coming out of the
demoniac of Gadara before they came they said
don't cast us into the deep let us
enter into the swine I'll tell you the
next words and he gave them in and
they couldn't go into a pit without the
authority of the Lord Jesus you'd wonder if
a Mormon had never found out that he
was the Lord let me say to you
he did but we'll take it bit by
bit Jacob just having a broad look at
it this evening let's go way over to
1st Chronicles 21 to see this provocation that
came to pass 1st Chronicles and we're at
21 1st Book of Chronicles chapter 21 1st
and 2nd Samuel 1st and 2nd Kings 1st
and 2nd Chronicles and we're at 1st Chronicles
21 now I want you to watch the
wording very carefully verse 1 and Satan stood
up against Israel I want you to see
who he really was buttering with it was
this elect nation and Satan stood up against
Israel now here's how he got about the
job and provoked David to number Israel you
see when Satan wants to stand up against
an assembly he just needs one man or
one woman and if he can get the
hold of them he can bring damage to
the whole assembly that's why the rulers of
an assembly have to deal with open sin
cause a little leaven would just leaven the
whole lot and all that Satan needs is
a naked in the cave and he'll stop
the march of the army won't he now
he provoked David that's a very interesting word
sometimes it's translated this Hebrew word that's here
sometimes it's translated by the word enticed you
know he just didn't do it all in
one hour he came and enticed and enticed
and enticed until he provoked sometimes this word
that's here is translated by the word stirred
he stirred his mind you see it's quite
a different thing from beguiling isn't it oh
yes it's quite different it's only time to
give you a broad glance tonight of how
the enemy attacks this is a sort of
spiritual academy you're in now so that you
know exactly what will happen on the battle
front sometimes he corrupts the mind if you
don't want you need it to be girded
with truth sometimes he entices and stirs and
wounds because this word is translated moved more
times than it's translated provoked of course you
can get this in a glance that provoked
and enticed and stirred and moved all the
same thing anyway this is what he did
sometimes he comes like this we're not going
to deal with Christ tonight and I only
put Judas in there when we come to
see him tempting Christ next week and I
say this that when he came against Christ
he came against body and soul and spirit
you see he came very subtly and said
you're hungry you've been fasting for forty days
and forty nights for man these stones have
been made bread it's coming against the body
Jesus answered man shall not live by bread
alone thought he saw that wasn't going to
work so he picks him up onto the
pinnacle of the temple and he begins to
quote scripture he said in the ninety first
psalm it says he will give us angels
charge concerning me if you don't die the
angels will keep you from crashing and what
a sensation it will be for the people
down in the courts if you jump from
the pinnacle of the temple and you're not
hurt boy you'll cause quite a stir and
there are always folk prepared to jump many
a time he's taken me to the pinnacle
of the temple but I'm not so soft
as to jump I know who I am
just a wee fellow that God saved I'm
not jumping I'm not here to make scenes
or sensations either here to teach the book
that David Patterson said to me years ago
he was a great friend of mine he
says all you're set for is preaching the
word and preaching the gospel I wouldn't try
anything else he was right you know great
when good men speak it does you a
bit of harm if you sit and listen
so he provoked you know you'll find out
at the last temptationing he said to Christ
look at all the kingdoms of the world
and the power and the glory of them
all these kingdoms and power and glory I'll
give to you if you fall down and
worship me he was at his spirit now
I'll tell you he never won an inch
with Christ at any time I'll tell you
that when he took Judas over he took
him over body and soul and spirit and
there's another man coming and some of the
folks think that he's Judas coming back again
maybe he's here in this planet now you
know I set the boys and girls at
the school a task last week without controversy
great is the mystery of godliness and what's
the mystery of godliness?
it was this God was manifest in the
flesh you see it's something that would never
have dawned on us if God hadn't revealed
it to us that God would come down
into this very planet and walk on this
very earth manifest in flesh and this book
also talks about the mystery of iniquity because
the devil's going to take a man over
completely while Christ was God incarnate the antichrist
will be the devil incarnate and he'll be
some character let me tell you some character
let's have a look at Paul being hindered
just for a moment it's 1st Thessalonians and
it's chapter 2 1st Thessalonians and it's the
second chapter 1st Thessalonians
chapter 2 and verse 17 but
we brethren being taken from you for a
short time in presence not in heart endeavored
the more abundantly to see your face with
great desire wherefore we would have come unto
you even I Paul once and again but
Satan hindered us you know that's a tremendous
confession for Paul to make Satan hindered us
I wonder do you know all about Paul's
missionary journeys or do you know a sketch
of them you remember that he stood in
Asia Minor at a place called Truaz and
he's looking right across the Aegean Sea I
remember when we flew over this Aegean Sea
and the pilot very graciously brought the plane
away down low so that some of us
could see the Isle of Patmos pointed it
out and I had other thoughts I could
almost see this little narrow sea that Paul
crossed yes he got a Macedonian call and
he came from Asia Minor across the Aegean
Sea came to Macedonia and he most assuredly
gathered that God was directing him and you
know the first night he landed in the
Philippines I've often wondered you know at Paul
putting his arm around Silas just a young
fellow and saying now I'm sure God's taking
us, we're going to Macedonia but you know
the first night they arrived there they're in
a minimal prison with their feet fastened with
stocks I think Paul was sitting here with
his feet fastened with stocks his hands chained
to the wall and off of it in
the dark was silence I don't think they
could see each other you know if it
hadn't been some of us if Silas hadn't
been some of us we would have shouted
at Paul saying now you're a late boy
you said you were in the will of
God we've had something to say about this
whole thing but you know they didn't say
anything they began to sing they prayed and
sang praises and I want you to notice
the way it's worded in your book Paul
at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang
praises had it said Paul prayed and sang
praises it would be a big thing you'd
expect them to sing anyway I think it's
bigger when the wee fellow sings Silas sang
he wasn't Paul at all or anything like
Paul he's just a wee fellow going along
he sang sang a lull and prayed in
fact this duet Dr. Irons had said this
the duet was so powerful that it pulled
the house down that's pretty good God isn't
it that's what they used to say at
the old opera house why he brought the
house down oh this house can burn in
no fashion yes well you know the old
magistrates that put Paul and Silas in they
couldn't get rid of them quick enough they
came round and said I love you you're
on your way you're ok thank you Paul
said not on your life God put us
out like that we're Romans you put us
in prison we didn't do anything spread the
life out of the magistrates so he did
and then you know he did go and
he went down to Thessalonica that's where he
went to and the meetings he had there
were powerful and then of course the unbelieving
Jews stirred up the people and he had
to move on to Berea and then he
had to move on to Athens and then
he had to move on to Cologne and
as you begin to see the events from
there on you know he so loved the
Thessalonians that they wanted to go back once
and again for they said Satan hindered us
and the wood and the drinkers Satan cut
the cross off that's what it is fells
and failed boats and all this somebody cuts
across you you see I think that the
devil was getting his principalities to work and
you'll find that the Jews Judaism which was
a mighty force you know and Romanism I
believe the principalities began to work so that
they hindered Paul I can tell you that
now that you can't do a thing about
it when they get going like that you
just have to go on with the job
where you are so that you can see
the demons working can't you you know they
they can corrupt your mind if you don't
watch if you don't get proof and if
you if you just open your mouth and
won't listen they'll most surely do it I've
had one or two tussles with boys who
think they know and when I set them
down to their places and put their nose
there you can almost see them stiffening up
they don't like it oh well you go
on devil will take your mind over you
don't like the truth so keep that in
your mind when the night comes when we
examine this this desk of tongues in case
you might be corrupt I think you can
see this that he can come against the
mental yet and the physical and the political
can come in and you can be hindered
now what I want to do more than
anything else tonight is to let you see
how he can come against us never mind
about Eve never mind about Job never mind
about Paul us talking about ordinary five-eighths
like us that's what we've got to consider
now in a broad view but we'll come
to particulars let's go to 2 Corinthians 2
please 2 Corinthians chapter 2 now I
think you know this and it will save
time in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 it was
brought to his notice a man had committed
a certain sin it was a terrible sin
and it was commonly reported it just wasn't
slander or anything like that you have to
be very careful with stories you know and
when people bring me stories they don't bring
me them now I'm too long here for
that game they just get into the court
and say oh they get in my car
and come round and see them and say
the same thing before them and we'll know
where we are I've never seen anybody go
yet all the fools that run about talking
and slandering they're not men at all, they're
monkeys they haven't got the guts of a
louse do you know what that means?
they second me talking they're not prepared to
stand up they won't allow you to go
to court and whisper in the back room
you know you've got to stand in the
witness box and swear it the sorts of
things that I listen to you're prepared to
go round and say it I'm prepared to
go with you but this thing was commonly
reported you know and Paul said that this
man had to be judged that he had
to be put away because the little leaven
would leaven the whole lot that's why there
are rulers in an assembly and that's why
sometimes they have to do things that are
very sad there's no joy you know in
taking a fellow aside not for me anyway
now he's thinking about them again in this
second letter and in this second chapter and
he said this he says in verse 6
just to save time sufficient to such a
man is this punishment which was inflicted of
many 2 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 6 so
that contrary wise you ought rather to forgive
him and comfort him and don't forget the
forgive bits and the comfort bits lest perhaps
such a one should be swallowed up with
over much sorrow this is always the danger
wherefore I beseech you that you confirm your
love toward him don't forget to forgive him
to comfort him to love him do you
get that?
it is so hard to drill that into
Christians at times they'd rather trample the fellow
down verse 9 for to this end also
did I write that I might know the
proof of you whether ye be obedient in
all things to whom ye forgive anything I
forgive also for if I forgave anything to
whom I forgave it for your sakes forgave
I it in the person of Christ lest
Satan should get an advantage of us for
we are not ignorant of his devices the
word devices is a very interesting one it's
the Greek word noema n-o-e-e
-m-a noema it's actually translated only once
by the word devices it's translated every other
time by the word mind we are not
ignorant of his mind we know the way
he works you know there are two great
subjects in the New Testament the mind of
Christ and the mind of Satan you need
to know his mind that's how good old
Montgomery outwitted the great German general he knew
Rommel's mind he knew what he would do
tomorrow and he was written on it and
if we are going to fight this fight
we'll need to know a little bit about
the enemy's mind won't we we'll not need
to be ignorant you know of his mind
this, it's translated somewhere by the word manoeuvre
I think it was Williams the old Quaker
translated we are not ignorant of his manoeuvres
nor just what he'll do you see the
devil can tempt anyone of us and entice
us and provoke us and stay us and
move us until we make a blunder and
if you're going to tell me you never
made one it's the biggest one of all
if God would mark iniquity in this house
now who would stand they don't know anybody
well the devil tempts and the fellow falls
and the church has to deal with it
if it's an open sin because of the
rest of the apples in the bar because
if you don't deal with it they'll all
go rotten isn't it you set yourself up
on a pinnacle that you're better than him
thought in the open has to be dealt
with but the same devil that tempts the
man can now get the church to a
place where it won't forgive no comfort no
love cause he wants to swallow this person
up with sorrow he got to know this
enemy that you're fighting one day he's fighting
on the other flank and the next day
he's on the other one we must not
be ignorant of his devices and when a
man repents in this godly sorrow and wants
to put things right the whole assembly tremblingly
you won't forget that in case I do
yes these are the devices let's go to
Ephesians chapter 6 that's where we began this
evening Ephesians 6 he's telling us how to
fight in this chapter of course and we'll
have a whole night on that it says
Ephesians 6 right down to chapter verse 16
above all and he means above all taking
the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be
able to quench all the fiery darts of
the wicked now the devices of Satan and
the fiery darts of the wicked are two
different things you see the devices of Satan
is just the mind of Satan but the
fiery darts are the missiles of Satan in
fact you know one of our great translators
has translated it like this wherewith ye shall
be able to quench all the flaming missiles
of the enemy and I would think that
we would know something about flaming missiles in
this land of ours we know how they
can use milk bottles and put petrol in
them and set them they come in through
the window you know they're flaming missiles and
then the petrol spreads all over the place
set the house on fire no time at
all old Williams who was a Quaker and
you hear me referring to him because he
translated the New Testament in a language that's
really wonderful and he translates this like this
he says wherewith ye shall be able to
quench all the fire-tipped arrows of the
enemy you know this game you've played Cowboys
and Indians before now well you know the
Indians said fire-tipped arrows now if a
flaming missile is going to come through your
window or if a fire-tipped arrow is
going to come into your home there must
be a hand to draw and there must
be a hand to pull the bow and
don't let it be yours because I think
that some of the Christians thought the devil
a lot on this don't you throw any
missiles don't you ever dare to
pull the bow for the devil won't you
do that now because he's looking for boys
like you that's when the demons come upon
some of the carnal Christians it's all they
ever do is throw missiles pull the bow
don't do it now you see up the
chapter a little bit verse 11 put on
the whole armor of God that you may
be able to stand against the wiles of
the devil and remember the fiery darts of
the wicked and the devices of Satan and
the wiles of the devil are all different
the wiles just means the cunning if you're
going to prevail against the cunning of the
enemy you need to have on the whole
armor of God we have so many nights
ahead of us and you see going to
have a night you know on how to
stand against the enemy I think some of
the Christians are afraid of the devil I
don't know why they can't understand us how
would you be afraid of the devil can
I do this I'll have to do it
properly one night when God made this vast
creation there is God and the greatest created
being he ever made was Lucifer he was
next so by God then the next one
is the archangel he's still the boss around
then there are seraphim and cherubims and angels
and men and animals and flowers it's a
long way you know from Lucifer to men
and when our Lord Jesus came to save
he was made more than the angels he
bypassed Lucifer and the archangel and he became
more he came down to take off his
coat in the arena where the devil was
shopping around and I will tell you on
Sunday night that he bruised the serpentine and
through that he destroyed him that had the
power of death and when God raised him
God set him at his own right hand
far above all quick now principalities and powers
and every name that was named and where
he is I am won't you think I'm
down here any longer seated with him in
the heavenly places and the power that belongs
to him belongs to me I'm not only
a knave of God you know I happen
to be a joint heir you know when
the archangel I shouldn't do this but I
can't help it now when the archangel met
the devil you know at the raising of
the body of Moses the old devil kicked
up a row about this and the archangel
and he's some guy he dare not bring
a living accusation against him he knew that
he was above him at the time I
can't argue with him so he just prayed
he just said the Lord rebuked you and
we don't do that you know Peter says
who resists steadfast in the faith James says
resist the devil and he will free it
from you I don't know why we're so
scared if we would stand where Christ has
put us and fight from that standpoint you
can beat them every time I've never read
that I want you to get the hold
of this now let's get this done you
know about the rule of the Lamb let's
go to 1 Peter 5 just to get
this tidied out 1 Peter
chapter 5 verse 8 be sober, be vigilant
because your adversary the devil as a roaring
lion walketh about seeking whom he may drive
now I think you know that when you
go into this warfare you see I see
that I'm teaching young soldiers you know that
there are principalities you've got to wrestle with
and powers and we'll come to the rules
of the darkness when we tackle the evangelical
you know that you're going to meet all
these and you know that there's a difference
between the fiery darts of the wicked and
the wires of the devil and the devices
of Satan and the rule of the Lamb
that's quite a different thing you see when
you look at this verse it's a tremendous
one be sober, be vigilant because your adversary
you can see the hostility of the devil
here because your adversary the devil that's the
identity of the one that your adversary as
a roaring lion you know you can see
the bestiality that's in him walketh about you
can see the activity that's there and one
of these Amenanielists tried to tell me the
other day the devil's bound now I said
well I'll bother fleeing won't I has he
chained to the box I said not at
all the book that I read out of
son says that he's walking about that's good
enough you don't need any more arguing seeking
whom he may devour you see as we
go into battle we've got to know about
the devices of Satan and the roar of
the lion and the fiery darts of the
wicked and the wiles of the devil I'm
not taking time with the angel of light
tonight because when we come to the rules
of the darkness we'll get this angel of
light now wait a minute don't rush me
it's not ten yet so you're alright you
know I think that we must sum this
up like this as we go into battle
we must know something about the manoeuvres of
the devil we must know something about we
must know something of the multitude of ways
that he has to come against us must
know something about his methods and his missiles
and his men because these angels of light
that I didn't deal with they're false apostles
they're his men sometimes people don't know that
the devil has ministries I'll tell you we
think everything that God has he has tried
to have he has a book of his
own the book of Mormon belongs to the
devil that's not a bible the book that
Mary Edison Baker wrote for Christian science belongs
to the devil that's not the bible I'll
tell you he has a book or two
of his own I'll tell you what's more
he hasn't only a book and he hasn't
only ministries he has churches of his own
you're alright for a minute or two you
know it that's right so long as you
know it that's good enough for me that's
right let's go to Revelation chapter 3 Revelation
chapter 3 and the Lord is writing to
the church of Philadelphia here verse 8 he
says I know thy works they are all
set before thee an open door and no
man can shut it and thou hast a
little strength and hast kept my word and
hast not denied my name behold I will
make them of the synagogue of Satan did
you get that?
this particular synagogue that he was speaking about
it belongs to the devil and there are
churches that belong to the devil and in
America just now especially in California Dr. McGee
is preaching in the great big church of
the open door and a great character he
is and he says right and left of
me there are two temples and they're called
the temples of Satan they worship the devil
in there and they openly declare they do
so they think there's some places that the
devil has but it's not that name that's
on them at all now you've got a
broad view I'm looking at you as young
soldiers now you can see that this is
a mighty warfare there's Lucifer he's the leader
he was defeated at Calvary and his head
was crushed you know through death Jesus destroyed
him and there are principalities and powers and
they were beat at the cross for Jesus
triumphed over principalities and powers and made the
sure of them openly and spoiled them at
the cross now you're the soldiers of the
Lord we've got to wrestle against these princes
of darkness we've got to face these powers
that can come against the physical and the
mental and the spiritual and the evangelical and
the eternal we've got to see the maneuvers
of the enemy and the missiles for heaven's
sake don't handle them we've got to see
that the devil has made he is a
book of his own he is ministers of
his own he has churches of his own
next week we're going to look at him
coming against Christ the eternal one let's sing
a couple of verses of this old hymn
692 please 692 we've never sung
this before there's only three verses so we'll
sing it all trust on, trust on believer
though long the conflict be thou yet shalt
prove victorious thy God shall fight for thee
and this line should be sung like this
trust on, trust on believer put the word
believer in there though dark the night and
drear trust on, trust on believer put it
in again the morning dawn is near trust
on, trust on believer you've got to put
in to get it in to the tune
that I have 692 please part
us in my fear and with thy blessing
take us to our homes in safety bless
all who meet with us and keep thy
preserving and protecting hand around us for Christ's
sake Amen