Theme: Spiritual Warfare
His wind shaketh no corn.
He must fight the flesh. Even after conversion he carries within him a nature prone to evil, and a heart weak and unstable as water. That heart will never be free from imperfection in this world, and it is a miserable delusion to expect it.
Selfishness gives Satan a footing. It gives a coaling station for his fleet on the shore of your life.
Satan hath not only a general malice against the army of saints, but a spite against thee personally.
Cling therefore about thy God for strength; get him with thee, and then, though a worm, thou shalt deal with this serpent.
The Christian’s life is a continual wrestling with sin and Satan from thy spiritual birth to thy natural death.
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
This fire is the work of grace that is wrought in the heart; he that casts water upon it, to extinguish and put it out, is the devil.
The Enemy strives to make us languid in doing good by depression, but when he sees that we do not cease our efforts to work, and that those efforts become all the more earnest by reason of their being made in resistance to him, he leaves off troubling us.
Better a brief warfare and eternal rest, than false peace and everlasting torment.
The greatest hope that the devil hath is by keeping you blind-fold and ignorant of your state.
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
No duty can be performed without wrestling. The Christian needs his sword as much as his trowel.
Sin doth not only still abide in us, but is still acting, still labouring to bring forth the deeds of the flesh.
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
You are not yet out of the gunshot of the devil; let nothing that is on this side the other world get within you.
True Christianity is a fight.
The reason why so many Christians fail all through life is just this—they under-estimate the strength of the enemy.
They are well kept whom God keeps, but woe unto those who go forth into the world, or even dare to walk their own house unarmed.
Prayer is the preacher’s mightiest weapon.
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