December 20, 2017 Show with C. Matthew McMahon on “The Christian’s Combat Against the Devil”

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The Christian's Combat Against the Devil

The theme of today's show is the Christians combat Against the devil. I just had to throw in some wishbone hash today and salute to my brother Andrew who is in a nursing home suffering still from the results of a stroke and He turned me on when I was a teenager to wishbone ash and that has always been one of my favorite songs from the 70s warrior and I thought it applied for today's theme the Christians combat against the devil and We are going to be discussing that today with dr. C. Matthew McMahon of a Puritans mind.

And he is a lover of the Puritans Obviously hence the name of his ministry and this particular theme is also the title of a book by Christopher Love a 17th century Puritan that if you don't know who he is already.

Today is the day you're going to be getting a wonderful introduction to him. And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to iron sharpens iron radio. Dr. C. Matthew McMahon.

My pleasure to be here Chris. Looking forward to discussing this very important topic.

Amen, and if anybody wants to join us on the air, by the way on this topic, our email address is Chris Arnzen at gmail .com ch r is a r n z e n at gmail .com and please give us as always your first name your city and state and your country of residence if you live outside the USA and Only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter and obviously a Subject like this could easily lend itself to somebody having a personal and private question in regard to their own combat with the devil of something going on in their lives that needs urgent prayer as Perhaps they feel like they are about to surrender To the devil in some area of temptation in their lives, but dr. McMahon Before we go into the subject of the Christians combat against the devil.

For those of our listeners who are perhaps joining the iron sharpens iron Audience after you have already been on the program and they are unfamiliar with you and a Puritan's mind Why don't you tell our listeners about a Puritan's mind?

Well, my desire to take some of the Puritans and Make them more except in this newfangled area called the internet and that just wasn't anything online at the time and so My favorites happen to be at that time reading some things like Jeremiah Burroughs and William Ames and Christopher Love and Francis Turretin and so I thought well I'm going to take little portions of these and We'll see if we can get some other Christians to have a Puritan's mind just like they did and so I started posting that and those then in turn a giant snowball and Puritan after Puritan and then books and then articles and all sorts of things and it's grown into this gigantic monstrous site that houses Dozens and dozens and dozens of Puritans.

We actually just put out Richard a list tree and his bio we're working on some of his works right now and so APM ultimately Turned into Puritan publications where we decided boy not only is there good stuff out there that we should know about but with the recent trend of sort of toning down Publishing more of them that we find to be important.

So we we've hit about 200 works as it stands right now. At Puritan publications .com and we do ebooks we do hardback books. We do paperback books and we actually ever did which was 11 12 years ago. They were all hardback with the last a real year Lord willing books out there into more hands but our Desire is not only to take and that we hadn't done that make it a lot easier for people to read because it wasn't that I just wanted to be able to in the mom.

I'll tell you what, you know new Jeremiah Burroughs, but with God and His language can be to sight we've put out quite our desire is that from the way that God requires them to do so? And so who are you going to turn to you're going to turn to some of the best egg our desire of life and.

We already have a listener question that I thought I would take right away because it kind of sets the stage For our discussion even before we get into specifically discussing Christopher Love or his book on The Christians combat against the devil.

We have a first-time listener or at least a first-time questioner and her name reminds me of Thumbelina. But I believe it may be pronounced and sorry if I'm mispronouncing this Thambalani. Thambalani from Cape Town, South Africa and she asks.

And I'm sorry, I'm assuming this is a woman, but I don't know that for a fact either. Sounds like a woman's name. My question when did the Puritan movement start and who is the leading figure in the Puritanism movement?

To the second part of that question is God. The answer amen. Yeah, it's definitely God. The answer to the first question. Really when you talk about the Puritans you're talking about just about a hundred year span.

Where we go you have notable Assembly that are part of the 40s for them where they spend of years putting together. Not only a confession meant the directory for put together. Just time. Finger down and then that one find out who there is another.

In that in that and sometimes people came over to New England and that's why we live in the United States of England. And The ones who came over to America in that hundred. Yeah, you were the first guest I've ever had.

Who?

Would not use the label Puritan towards that movement, which some historians label as the American Puritan movement.

Yes, they were the ones who were. And the term Puritan wasn't that originally a derogatory term that was hurled against.

These folks who eventually perhaps adopted it as a description of themselves.

Yes, actually. Yeah, I think if I'm not mistaken the term Calvinist is the same thing because if I'm not unless I'm wrong I.

Have this foggy memory of reading that in.

In.

For lack of a better term and I apologize for this but Puritan New England There was there was a time when you would be fined for calling someone a Calvinist even though If we were to look at their theology today, they would be accurately described as Calvinists.

So anyway, that's that's interesting how the language changes over years, but to thank you Them Balani, I hope you keep listening to iron trip and Zion radio and continue to spread the word about it in Cape Town, South Africa.

I usually never do this this is a very rare thing since you are overseas, but since this book by Christopher Love is a reasonably short book and Therefore light in weight. I am going to make sure that you get a copy of The book we are discussing today the Christians combat against the devil by Christopher Love.

I'm going to make sure that that is shipped out to you and those of you overseas who are listening This is a rare thing that I'm doing for them Balani since she's a first-time listener it'll were at least a first-time questioner and because of the fact that the book is a very very light book, so Thank you very much them Balani and continue to listen to our trip and Zion radio.

We hope to hear more questions from you in the future. So Christopher Love Many of my listeners may remember That the way that I closed my program every day That Jesus Christ is a far greater Savior than you are a sinner.

It's actually a paraphrase or a very close Quote to a Christopher Love quote. I first heard it From Don Kistler during a conference when a part of that conference involved Christopher Love and for some reason when he just simply by Quoting Christopher Love about Jesus Christ being a far greater Savior than we are sinners it uncorked a river of tears and My my eyes and I just couldn't stop bawling So I was soon as I began my own talk show.

I've I've concluded my show every day with that quote but tell us about this Fascinating figure. I know that you've addressed him in a more brief fashion in the past.

But tell us about Christopher Love. Love was a theologian he preached or Desired to preach and yet he went through a little bit of difficulty in obtaining his ordination at first. Some of that is not necessarily super important, but he was he was generally accustomed to preach for at least an hour whenever he got up to preach and he He was not a subscriptionist to any of Lodd's canons, which Caused him a great deal of difficulty because Bishop Lodd was going around making sure everybody was doing what the Church of England and such Wanted him to do and so he was expelled from his congregation that he was a short-time pastor of and he wound up becoming a chaplain to Mr. Warner a sheriff of Warner and his and that's where he met his wife Mary who was the daughter of Matthew Stone Who was formerly a merchant in London?

And then he became a little later a lecturer at St. Anne's in Aldergate, but then he got a little bit in trouble there because In his transfer. He was not ordained at the time and he declined being ordained Episcopal, so instead he went to Scott seeking ordination at the hands of the Presbytery there and Yet he was disappointed again because only that were ordained those people who settled among them.

So there were a number of very large offers that were given to him while he was in Scotland. Ultimately he at the outbreak of the Civil War. He began preaching as a lecturer to reside there for a time and after that Presbyterianism was at a turn and the turn not turn in terms of doctrine and such but a turn and the actual Charge his mother 49 and he was that there was there were read in critical point.

He was tried before the high court in June and He was condemned to be executed July 16th. He had a reprieve for a month and then again for another week. But he was finally executed on Tower Hill on August 23rd 1651 and he wasn't the only one other people were were arrested people like Thomas Watson.

But everybody else was released or whatever God's providence in that was love wasn't and in his work the vindication of Christopher love which we've published he outlines all the charges made against him at the trial.

He refutes all of those still they didn't let him go and as a result He was beheaded and Oliver Cromwell had something to do with that, correct? Well did have something to do with that. That was that was his sin against the Commonwealth.

Converting with the stew as a result you were excluding is clear and necessary vindication of the principles and practices Of mr. Christopher love that's where he defends himself. But his executive he died his executors Edmund Calamey Simian ash Jeremiah Whitaker William Taylor and Alan gear published His work the grace the truth growth and different degrees fabulous book.

We published his book heaven's glory. We've published his book On scriptural rules to be observed in buying and selling Duties boy, what else he did the penitent pardon, which is a an excellent one. We did also a discourse of Christ's ascension and coming to judgment, which is fabulous about the return of Christ.

Also, one of his most famous works, which was hell's terror and Then warfare thinking about if anybody goes in they read Anything Jonathan Edwards had loves works or as many as he could muster one of which was his favorite along with Peter van Maastricht from beginning to end and That gives you every good thing because in the short time that that love 18 dying in 1651 He was for love that I sat down and went.

Oh, I really didn't like that book. That wasn't so good or it's just mediocre. It it's what your experience was in Not being able to contain yourself. When you read his stuff, I believe that all of his works are eminently helpful.

And he is definitely one of the top ones To read if one you can find his works. Which is one of the reasons why we're going through and trying to update what he has available out there. There's a couple that we can't even find and can't even get our our hands on which is a sad thing because I'm sure a couple of those would be quite good.

But unfortunately, they just don't seem to exist any limited by what we can access book on This this is our last book that we did this year and even though it's a short one short doesn't matter. It only matters that when you hit the end of the book You wish it was another 500 pages longer.

The Devil as a Real Spiritual Enemy

Well, I think another wise thing for us to do.

Is.

Since one of the central figures in our discussion is none other than the Prince of Darkness the devil I'd like to hear what your comments are about combat with the devil himself because There are differences of opinion on exactly Who the devil is.

Unfortunately we have people even coming from professedly reformed backgrounds equating this with nothing more than a struggle against the desires of one's own flesh they are they basically rule out or at least avoid discussing an actual entity a historic and biblical and true entity called the devil.

And in fact, there's even disagreement between some Scholars and theologians on whether or not Lucifer the fallen angel is the same Entity as Satan, but we don't have time to go into that. But who is the devil and what is Christopher Love talking about in reference to combating with him or it?

Moment about just from the very beginning in terms of the canon is closed. Jesus has ascended to heaven the early the Devil. And not talking about the devil. And not just supernatural not superstitious ideas about him.

And not just allegorical. Yes, exactly. Or allegorical so Tarleon said to be at war with the devil is to be at peace. With our own conscience. And that holds a lot of truth to it especially in the way that Christopher talks about this because.

That's true. But that only applies to the Christian. You know, why is that because to be to be dead set in the spiritual warfare? Required to win the day for a Christian is to be constantly combating against the flesh and the devil.

It is all the kingdom of darkness by the kingdom of God or at least it should be. And only true Christians are able to do that because they do that in the power of Christ's spirit. Only they because the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit.

Life is a bed of roses. No, that's not how it goes. You know, God is not a butler. He's not a cosmic bellhop. They think oh if I accept Jesus I'll have the good life. God will attend to me in whatever way that I need and life will be grand now.

It is true that the Christian walk is the good life. It is it is eternal life. But it's not a walk in the park. So it is a tumultuous. That no earthly seasoned soldier could ever imagine. People know people that has in Dutch.

Have you ever thought about what a real battlefield looks like? You know, there's some movies and such they give you a taste of that battlefield. The soldiers that come back from battle that are physically and emotionally traumatized they come back with PTSD and such.

Some are handicapped as a result. They are amputees as a result many are physically deformed as a result of battle. Many displayed the scars of battle their whole lives and and a lot of soldiers as we know die in battle.

But the Christians warfare is so much more than the physical because it contrasts Physical battle wounds with spiritual and eternal wounds. Now that's not to discount the amazing service of any of the armed forces that keep our country safe and burn moral evil and such.

But what it does do is it heightens the level of the spiritual battle to such a measure that it's far beyond the physical. And that's where we start talking about Being at war with the devil. So when Christians have peace with God.

It's on the condition that they will be at war with the devil and there's no getting around that. So when when soldiers, you know, for example when they sign up for the armed forces. They're well aware that they're going to go to battle somewhere, you know for the security of the country, but when Christians are converted must understand that they are going to encounter a Battle unlike anything that they've ever encountered in this world.

So if you enter into Christ's army, you have the devil's blitzkrieg as Doing that. You know, which is why Paul says in Ephesians 4 27 do not give place to the devil devil is against well He's taken the insane it's an insane position if it can't immutable all-powerful God of the universe a creator and in some kind of fantastical Mentor he thinks that it's going to occur the destruction of God's kingdom and people now.

The devil doesn't have even a fraction of a chance to do that. But that is for all intents and purposes for him utterly idiotic Satan being not only sinful before God he's a supernatural demonic sinner and you have to consider sin makes you stupid and Satan being the epitome of this and the analogy fails in comparison.

But imagine, you know Luther called the devil God's barking dog on a chain. So the devil is nothing more than a barking junkyard Bulldog chained up to his doghouse. Barking relentlessly, so to speak thinking that he can overpower.

If you want to use the analogy this way like an incoming nuclear missile as he spies its approach overhead thinks that his barking in some way is going to To do something in that way, you know, the devil in that particular way is death in his kingdom.

Here's the thing he does this with all the malice bound up that he has in his heart in his soul in his strength and his might and Considered in its essence. He's not just a barking dog and that's not the way Explanation of him, you know, he is out to deal unrighteously against God against Christ and his people and One of the things that he wants to do in doing all of this is to drag as Many people to hell as he possibly can.

The question is whether or not professing Christians are Ready for such an all-out spiritual war actually due to them if they allow it.

Yeah, in fact, that's a great that's a that's a perfect place for us to pick up when we return. We have to go to our first break and I know that I might be annoying to you brother. But let's try when we are going through the station break.

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Welcome back. This is Chris Orns and we're having difficulties with our ads today for some reason out of the blue and I apologize for that but we're going to move on and we are. Interviewing today our guest dr. C. Matthew McMahon and He is founder of a Puritan's mind.

And a Puritan's mind has also brought into print many Puritan works in modern English language. That is much more easy to read and one of them that we are highlighting today is the Christians combat against the devil.

By Christopher Love a 17th century Puritan and that is made possible today by Puritan publications .com and Christopher Love was quite a young man when he went home to be with the Lord in his 30s, correct?

Well, right pick up right where you left off before the break brother.

He showed me Joshua behind always looking for opportunity. He never gives up. He will never tire. He will constantly look for bad in time. And what does he want to do? He wants to put if he's so foolish to attack Jesus Christ or without either just that he knew trying to tend to destroy.

He can't help but when he leaves the crime, he does some type of malevolent to the Christian. He's going to make the most of every opportunity to hinder God's people in God's a lot of times. You have people that fall on two sides of the fence.

On one side the devil is under every rock. I have Jesus I'll be all young. Red dragon, so he's known as the wicked one. I mean, that's just a little Survey and in fact you what you're what you're saying reminds me of a horrific.

Spectacle I was witness to when Rodney Howard Brown was Performing and for lack of a better term, I would never call it preaching at a Charismatic Church on Long Island where I used to live and the general manager of the radio station Where I worked wanted me to accompany him to see Rodney Howard Brown and see and hear him with his own eyes and ears.

Because this was when he was first becoming world famous and he wanted to know if the rumors about his Bizarre behavior and teaching were accurate and So I accompanied him and Rodney Howard Brown did something very different than you hear From a lot of charismatics and Pentecostals.

He was actually mocking his fellow Charismatics and Pentecostals and he said a lot of you Pentecostals and charismatics are always praying demons out the room. They're always performing exorcisms in rooms and whatnot.

And he said when I was preaching at a church one time the elders of the church wanted to gather around me and pray the demons Out and I said to them you don't need to do that. I walk into a room and the demons scatter.

So he was he was trying to identify himself as somebody who's so terrified the demons That they would flee from him and I actually believe that this was either a conscious or unconscious Effort on mr. Brown's part to have Christians or even just individuals because there was a massive Sea of people there that I'm sure many of them were lost For people to put their guards down For any kind of demonic activity that may rise up amongst them.

But anyway, I digress. I just thought that would be a relevant Incident that I had witnessed.

Yeah, I'm never user-friendly. Sorry, only demons talk that way. Jesus doesn't talk that way. The Apostles don't talk that way. Christians don't talk that way. That's the way demons talk. So, you know think through it in that particular way thinking about the the kingdom of darkness.

When we are enlisted in Christ's army, you know, and this is what Christopher Love is gonna show that there's no turning back. There's no running away. The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent to take it by force.

So you there has to be a measure of force for the kingdom of God and against the kingdom of darkness. And so, you know what love does is. He's basically saying it's not that are you up for the challenge kind of idea?

What he's saying is that if you're a Christian you're going to be violent for God in Spiritual warfare and the only way that you can do that is if you know the weapons of your warfare, which are not earthly but spiritual and Who it is that you're fighting against and why it is that you're doing that.

So his his main text is Ephesians 6 dealing with the armor of God and he covers, you know May I made exhortation overall? Arguments that engage the Christian in the battle the nature of what a spiritual war is.

Motives for Christians to wage war in The heavenly disposition that they ought to have to press them into that war. Right and Paul says in 2nd Corinthians 2 we cannot be ignorant of his devices so that means that Christians have to have a Strategy, you know walk into any church and make just any church that even if you feel it is the most Godly group of people walk into any church and say what is your Strategy in waging war in the spiritual war that the Christian is in Against the dominion of darkness and a lot of people are like I I'm just gonna I'm just gonna put on Jesus and Christopher love is like listen.

You're gonna get hammered if that's your attitude. Because every way that Paul sets up again Christopher love is expounding on Ephesians. So he's he's walking in the path of what the Apostle Paul is explaining in the book.

Showing that for the confirmation of our faith in the first first three chapters of the book he's Showing the mystery of salvation how it happens confirming our faith and then he sets down various duties that generally belong to all Christians and he particularly shows how men in various conditions Might be moved to repentance and newness of life in all of their various fear, but then he he expounds what it means to be an imitator of God and then the Lord's soldier and He warns the church about the enemy of God's kingdom and that in this Christians have to be willing to arm themselves and all point under the standard of Christ to be ready to encounter warfare and he explains that We we should never be ever surprised at what is happening when temptation comes against us when the devil comes against us and now I'm going to use that term as Love does very generally the devil comes against us.

It means more than Specifically just that we'll talk about that a bit. But we shouldn't be surprised because the reason is that the spiritual enemies of our salvation Armed themselves against us as soon as we have given our names to God so the moment that we make a profession of faith and We say okay.

We we are as a result of the being born again. We are giving ourselves wholly and completely to the practice of Christianity and to King Jesus. The devil's gonna come against us. So it's like no sooner had Abel offered up a sweet sacrifice smelling sweet before God.

But Satan stirs up Cain to become his butcher while Moses was counted to be reputed the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He enjoyed all prosperity. But as soon as he joined himself to God's people in the church Pharaoh seeks his life Persecuting the Church of God.

Satan didn't trouble him either outwardly or his body or inwardly in his mind. But no sooner was he truly converted to the faith and preached the gospel. Well, the demons come against them and they try to take away his life.

In fact pick up where you left off there.

And then I'm gonna read you also right now a question. From a listener and have you address that after we return from the break after you after you complete your thought on that with Jesus Christ. John in Chandler, Arizona said what did the Puritans describe as the weapons in the Christian warfare?

And what would you say is the sweetest gem from Christopher Love's work? And you can answer that after you finish your thought on Jesus Christ and the devil's assault upon him. When we return from our break, this is an elongated break.

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