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

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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

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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.

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.

Try your other a headset again because When your voice raises a little

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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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Lake City, they require a 12 -minute break between our two hours.

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which is the title of a book by 17th century Puritan Christopher Love and that is a book that has been

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Dr. C Matthew McMahon and If you could begin where you left off about Christ's

own personal Attacks by Satan how he responded to them and then we will move on to

our listeners question.

Which I will read read after you finish your thought

came against him for 40 days altogether and The Lord utilizes

scripture manner.

He's not He's tempted in every way that we

were but we are not God.

I'd be.

All of

that kind of stuff is a no Jude even records

as a general epistle and says even the archangel Michael Who is disputing with the devil about the body of Moses

did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him.

But that's a lord of beauty.

That's the Lord's job The Lord is the one who does that

and the closer that

we are to ideas that revolve.

Oh, yeah.

That's John in Chandler, Arizona.

Once again.

Who says 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?

Let's talk about the sweetest gem because the first part of his question is exactly what we're going to talk about

Momentarily, but the sweetest part of his work.

Here's his work is not that long.

It's it's it's a book that's less than a hundred pages.

It's like 80 pages or so but the meat that he gives you the gem that he

gives you is that you must have a Strategy

you have to have a strategy or combat with no one

Goes in out having a plan.

It's not I'm a Christian.

Jesus will be with me.

That's not as a plan.

That's your

entrance into

the kingdom

of God to

be able to put them into

Slaughtered by the devil by in some way or another

and there

we allow.

So you

have to

have a strategy

that by the end of the book you go, but

I have it My just how do I put those into practice?

What am I going to do specifically for me to do that?

And That's the gem of the book he does have

and that you

must you

in that way

and

Right arguments that

you at least have to

think the war is just

the war is just We

can proceed with boldness being soldiers and furnished with what it is that we have because the war

is just our cause.

Is just our war is lawful is justice

proclaimed by his herald.

Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and the power of his might so we go into battle and that way

Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Well, how do you resist the devil?

Does that mean that you pause in the middle of your prayers and you start talking to him?

It's not prayer anymore when you do that.

No, that's not what resisting the devil is.

James tells you submit yourselves to God resist the devil and he will free from you and Peter tells us to be

sober vigilant because Your adversary the devil what

we have to resist That fact in the faith.

So in thinking about that we have to be thinking that Satan is

laboring to destroy us and he's tempting us and he's a liar

and He was a liar from the beginning as the Lord says and we have to undertake the fight in the

most Profitable manner that we can so that we can fight with a strategy

Against the entire kingdom of darkness that comes against us.

So we do that because we want to honor God.

That's one of his reasons that he gives we want to honor the Lord.

We want to undertake this combat.

We don't want to be coward.

And so he gets into what then is

this combat the spiritual war Itself well, it's against

the great malice of the devil against the church and He

wants us to consider Who he calls the grand enemy the devil

and if we consider him in the right way Then we find that he is very malicious against

us so his malice to mankind is endless and

All of those who love and favor God are going to be

in an endless battle with him until they die and go to heaven and so the malice of Satan

is deadly in that way and he's not satisfied just to take away a few of our good and

He's not satisfied just to take away our good name.

He's not satisfied with just afflicting us a little bit with sickness he's not satisfied by

Pushing down our defenses chipping away our defenses nothing Satisfies the

devil but the destruction of the souls and the body in hell place where he knows he's

going He wants everybody else.

He that's why scripture and a

man's lair and That's why the Lord Jesus said Year of your father the devil and the lust

of your father you will do He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in truth because there is no truth in him when he

speaks Eli he's because of his own for he's a lot a liar and the father of it by the way.

I don't know if you're doing anything different brother, but you sound perfect the last five or so

minutes.

There's no over modulation or anything.

So let's try to keep whatever it is.

I'm gonna write there.

I'm gonna throw in one more listener question because we have so many of them.

Abraham and meridian all in meridian, Idaho.

Says what our general safeguards we can have in our lives to prevent an

overemphasis or under -emphasis on the works and schemes of the devil, that's very interesting because

As you probably know the charismatics and Pentecostals may tend to over emphasize the

works and schemes of the devil and Unfortunately, we who are reformed in our camps we tend to

I believe I don't know if it's the case in your experience but I think that the devil is under -emphasized

in our own circles because we already are highlighting the depravity of man

and So many a thing so many things that men do don't even require the devil but

but the devil is still a real enemy that we should not take lightly or sweep

under the rug.

That's a great question and what we're going to talk

about right now.

What it is is to have a good understanding of the spiritual armor

that has so that we know.

What we need to know concerning the power and strengths of the devil as an enemy.

So that we can come against him in the right way.

So the Apostle Paul

the metal so to speak of the armor and He tells us first that we have to put the

armor of God on.

Which is spiritual.

That's an interesting thing and That the weapons that we have.

They can't be carnal because our enemy is a spiritual enemy.

So we wrestle power and it's not enough

that we put on one piece of armor and Like remember David was gonna

fight against Goliath and he he felt like he couldn't move in it.

Well, we can't be like young soldiers in that way and leave off some of our armor.

Just because it might seem to us a little heavy.

We need all of the armor on and we have to put on.

Can't just say all I need today is the helmet.

I don't need the breastplate or I'm just gonna put the girdle on and I'm gonna take my shield with me.

But I'm gonna throw away the sword and Paul says that we are to put on

the whole armor of God.

Like valiant soldiers who mean with

resolve.

So we are to arm ourselves in all points in complete armor.

Which will keep us not only from fleeing but will also keep our enemies from overcoming

us would be okay.

Listen, this is spiritual armor.

He's just using this as sort of an example.

I don't get up in the morning and actually put something on.

Physically, that's true.

Neither is Satan Physically sitting next to you in that particular manner or a

demon in that particular way when temptations come.

We're dealing with powers and principalities and things in high places.

And those things cannot possibly be resisted by our own strength and means it's not a physical battle so

on the whole armor of God so that we can resist and this is a very important phrase in the

evil day and The translation of the evil day if you look at that throughout scripture what love

does he talks about it?

It's the time of temptation.

The time of temptation is called the evil day partly because in it they can tempt us to evil and

partly because it's a time of troubles adversity and affliction.

And so Satan wants to sift us with temptation when the evil day is on us.

Psalm 41 one says the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.

That's the time of trouble.

It's also used that way in Ephesians 5 16.

Redeeming the time because the days are evil that is that they're full of troubles and afflictions and at the time of adversity.

So we need to really think about what are these parts of the armor?

This is where your questions are coming.

What is it that we use?

Well, the first thing that Paul talks about is in the girdle was a broad

studded belt.

That was used in wars in ancient times with it and

the armor with the belly the loins and the thigh

he's talking about people who Paul is talking about is by which

we understand the truth of the gospel the truth of religion the doctrine which we.

There are some interpreters that want to look at it at rightness of heart or the integrity of a

good conscience.

But I think we could take it actually in both senses because they complement one another.

So there is required the truth of and

the bit truly.

Then it's grounded on God's truth.

Which is the foundation on which every single duty that you will ever do as a Christian is to be built on.

Because if you don't know what God's truth is, you're never going to be able to please him.

So if they're not grounded on God's truth, then in some way or another love

explains that.

They're devised by man and if they're devised by man and they're not grounded on God's truth.

Then they just are simply human traditions and the Lord won't accept those things.

So it has to be a good you say well What what does that

actually mean?

What that actually means is that you got to know your Bible?

It was said of John Bunyan if you cut him.

Citizens in general were that way they

over in that particular manner, you know.

And it's not just that we profess the truth.

It's not just about like for example Memorizing a catechism or something like that.

Everything that we do in the simplicity of our worship before him in our daily lives in our devotions.

Everything has to be done in truth.

So no matter the profession might be

Before men when we profess that we're a Christian or this that or the other if it's not in

truth does not mind that He does not care what

2414 love quote now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in

Sincerity and in truth and he says if we perform this in serving God in

this way It will be acceptable in his sight.

But if we don't it won't so the first thing is that everything that we do has to be done

in truth.

Here's the second thing which is the second part of the arm.

It's the breastplate of a righteousness love says we're to understand it

as a good conscience true sanctification a godly

life according to the example of our grand captain Christ Jesus and

he had the helmet of salvation on his head so to speak and Only then will

so we have to be armed in a godly and innocent life.

Righteousness love

explains.

He's like

even if

other

of God

in the inner man.

Even when the flesh in the seven what I want to do I

do not do and that which I hate but it's not a mortal blow.

John tells

us in 1st

John

3 9 they who are born of God meaning that they don't habitually do this

it's not an allowability to them and He says the

Apostle John says in 1st John 3 and verse 6 and verse 8 They who are in Christ sin

not and that whosoever sinneth is of the devil.

So not that not that God's children are ever exempted from all sin.

Because they don't end with a full consent and swing of their will and when they do fall

their hearts are Defended with the breastplate of Christ's righteousness that holy

desire and endeavor to serve God.

Let me just think about David my oh my how do you go from David in the cave who cut off a

little piece of Saul's robe and his heart?

Thanks for doing that because this was the Lord's anointed to David on the rooftop.

He's looking at Bathsheba decide hmm, not only do I want her but I'm gonna kill her husband to get her.

Wow, how do you go from one to the other?

Right?

In fact, we have to go to our final break right now and.

I'm gonna read another listener question right now and you get to answer it when we return.

And we have pastor Jerry Schumann.

I don't typically give people's full names.

But since he is a pastor I like to Give plugs to pastors who listen to the

show and submit questions.

Pastor Jerry Schumann of Ludlow Baptist Church in Ludlow, Vermont.

He says it has become ubiquitous in many Christian circles for spiritual warfare to consist of

rebuking and binding the devil Rather than wielding the sword of the Spirit the Word of

God.

What is dangerous with this modern approach to spiritual warfare and what does Scriptures admonitions for

wielding the sword of the Spirit reveal about the sufficiency of God's Word.

Excellent question.

And we're gonna have you answer that when we return from our final break.

And if anybody else wants to join us on the air You better do so now or forever hold your peace because we're running out of time.

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Said it has become ubiquitous in many Christian circles for spiritual warfare to consist of rebuking

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Which is dangerous with the or what is dangerous with this modern approach to spiritual warfare?

And what does scriptures admonitions for wielding the sword of the Spirit reveal about the sufficiency of

God's Word?

It was taught to have the

power to

it's

all

monster.

It's everything to do with reproving another brother who sinned more or if your brother sins against you go and tell him it's fault.

Between you and him alone.

It's actually but when you get up to the point where he's talking about binding and

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and not just any relationship

talking about, you know.

Whoever is deserving of death shall be put

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the testimony to put

in the church.

They're not talking about fighting the devil.

There's nothing in the

Bible

anything like that.

What Paul does is he

what we're talking about here the spiritual armor of the Christian.

So that's one thing we need to have

closer that we are to truth.

No heretical doctrine.

We talked about righteousness and That's our breastplate.

And then we talked about.

He had asked about the sword of

the preparation of the gospel of peace came with the knowledge

of the gospel of people.

That's how we're reconciled to God.

And so if we're armed

with

it and we'll have the final

victory over all you do that.

You know the

gospel if they're

ready to those people

that are endued

with the knowledge of the gospel.

Have to always be ready to make profession of it.

Even in the midst of any kind of affliction or the

idea is that if we lay that particular part of the armor aside

Travels a tribulation in that

way and can you can you imagine soldier?

We know,

you

know

weak we are it defends and

protects us against all the temptations of the devil and The he that puts on faith.

What are we putting on?

We're putting on the Lord Jesus Christ in that way.

So it's a it's a property that's inseparable of faith.

You have to have faith to apply to us the Lord Jesus and all of its benefit.

So all of its merits all of its righteousness and the everlasting life in and of itself.

So we have to take up the shield of faith.

Romans 13 14 says but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to

fulfill the lusts thereof.

We have him we don't have we lack nothing that we need to defend ourselves

and.

I just want I just wanted to thank Pastor Jerry for the excellent question and I wanted to plug his website

Ludlow Baptist org that's L U D L O W Baptist org and that's Ludlow

Baptist Church in Ludlow, Vermont.

Thank you very much Pastor Jerry For excellent questions, and I don't know if you're finished your

your stream of thought there your thread.

But I have one more listener that I wanted to get to before we ran out of time.

Well, this is a listener that is formerly from the UK who has just Joined us here

in the States Kofi now in Medford, Oregon and.

Kofi.

Says what role does the church play in our spiritual warfare?

One of my great concerns about the modern view of spiritual warfare is how Individualistic

it is and your thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Excellent.

A question about the church's role in our spiritual warfare.

Yes, I think about Even if we were just

to go back and say, okay I've had this question asked to me in a different way concerning discipleship

and what did they do?

What did the church do in Christopher Love's time?

Educate the people of the church in this way to be able to to fight their warfare, but what did they do?

They would have Sunday services and They would pray together

and then the minister Would catego

in thinking about the church's role the church's role in Ephesians which

is where we are in chapter 6.

But just previous to this the role of the minister is to equip

the body to do the work of the ministry and In order to do that

They have to be taught so the role to teach

Christians all of these things.

This is one of the reasons why we publish books publish books in and of themselves is because we want to take things

That are helpful to individual Christians because if you have strong individual Christians in the

church Each one of them is going to act as a finger or an arm or a

forearm or an elbow or an eye.

Or foot they're all part of the body.

Imagine if everybody in your church had a succinct and precise

Strategy to combat the onslaught of temptation that comes against them.

How the mortification of sin would change in that particular congregation how sanctification

would change?

How worship then would change how?

Encouraging one another would change so

the role

of the

church talking about

that are

going on with and wise and master.

Not only as individuals as

an individual.

It's going to be impossible overall the church or

particular church everybody's doing their own Individual thing and they're not coming together as a body and they don't know one another.

Encouraging one another to be effective in your

community together.

It's going to be a bunch of individuals coming together on Sunday hearing a sermon they go home and you know Nothing

is half -side

down.

Are they doing that?

Are you doing that?

Is that what is happening?

But just say because I live in America right now We have a

billion churches all over the place might even have a billion church and

going back

to

that other question.

By the way Kofi we need your mailing address because you've also won a Free copy of the book that we

are discussing today the Christians combat against the devil by Christopher Love a publication

of Puritan publications, which is an arm of a Puritan's mind.

And I want to thank everybody who sent in questions.

You've all won a copy of this Book, so if you haven't given me your full mailing addresses yet Please send

them as soon as possible and I'll give you one more chance.

If you want to ask a question before we run out of time our email address is Chris Arnson at gmail .com.

Chris Arnson at gmail .com.

And Just dovetailing on what you were just talking about the church and its role in

combating the devil.

Accountability is a huge thing and discipline is a huge thing in that area

because Lone wolf or maverick Christians, which is not a biblical concept are

very susceptible To just being swallowed up by Satan.

I see it over and over and over again.

It almost happened to me I was put on a church discipline years ago For abuse of alcohol and

I would probably be dead if that didn't happen.

And I can even remember not only the elders putting me under discipline, but I can remember brethren in Christ

Who were friends and brethren and sisters in the congregation?

Telling me hey brother you are really going overboard with those cocktails and so on if you know.

We really need this accountability, don't we?

We definitely do we definitely do because tend to get

tender.

The pastoral ministry over the church is getting tender and their

focus is in.

We have to keep the people in the church.

We get a little you know, harsh a little too tough a little too disciplinary.

We're gonna on the church that's on the corner instead of coming to our church.

We got a big building.

You know, we got a building we've got to pay for million -dollar buildings not you know.

Money's gonna come in somehow.

So we don't want to be too is the exact opposite of what

Paul was was doing with the Ephesians because if the relational

down in the right way and then pastoral ministry in and of itself over the church is not

effective in the right way all of this stuff that even what we're talking about is never going to happen and

It's going to do.

Exactly what it's doing now, which is having no effect on the community no effect on the town.

No effect in the country or in the state, you know as that grows the devil loved it when it's that way.

Because his assault is to pull people as far away from Christ as they possibly

can.

So that they are not affected in any way in their community

or in their

family.

Talk about the helmet of salvation.

You didn't get to talk about the sword of the Spirit or even the heavenly Mindedness that we're supposed to have as

a result of entering into this battle with the right mindset.

Love spends another two chapters after even about what we're talking about here.

With motives for us to do battle in this way.

And you

don't need

to

know that

or the

hamlet of

salvation

in and of it my sin

again.

Forgive me and you go but on your way you have to have

to deal no

mortify.

All one

Christian is

walking through the valley of the shadow of death and he has the quagmire on one side and

Bunyan says

whether They

were demons is just

the devil and

you've got a lot of Christians out there.

You've got a lot of reformed Christians out there who are like God, you know, the devil doesn't whisper in your ear.

He doesn't do that stuff.

He only has enough power.

You know that you give him any power that he

has it's a bunch of

Devil is out to devour you and one of the best things that he could do.

You know.

We know that he's God's barking dog and we know that he can't do anything out of God

uses him and the Lord uses him to Do things with us now, here's another note.

This goes back to the pastor's quest the world today

concerning binding and loosing and all of everyone

is not Necessarily and I don't want people to get the wrong idea when I say this.

Everyone isn't isn't necessarily being visited by the devil every day.

Devil is an end of the

most herpes that

was

fighting

against

powers and

principalities and so

on.

So we also want to not have that movie mentality that we happen to be

so in commission.

There's a darkness

of

having this spiritual

war.

Rage on and us

having there which is

listen even in this war.

You have to be heavenly minded put your mind on things above what Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

That's where you put your mind.

You just remind there and you understand these different parts of the armor.

You'll have the beginnings of a good strategy against them.

Generally, when we talk Chris, you always ask me at the end you say what's like the sign

out one?

I'm

gonna plug

the book.

I'm

gonna

say

heavenly

mind.

Virtually as a

Christian hammer a

war the fact

that

hey, listen, you

got to

sit down.

You got to think through stuff because it's not just about saying I'm a Christian and everything's gonna be okay.

Having no stress.

Well Joe in Slovenia, I'm sorry, we don't have time to ask your question, but perhaps when we have

Dr. Matt man see Matthew McMahon back on the program.

You could resubmit this question.

I want to thank you so much brother for being on the program again, and I want to make sure our listeners have your

Websites they are a Puritans mind .com.

That's a Puritans mind .com and also Puritan publications .com.

Puritan publications .com and remember for those of you wanting to order the book

That we've been discussing today.

It's the Christians combat against the devil by Christopher Love and Everybody

who submitted a question today.

In fact, I will include you to Joe in Slovenia.

Since you did take the time to write it today.

I'm going to mail your daughter in Georgia whose address you've already given me.

I will mail her a copy of the Christian combat Christians combat against the devil.

Look forward to having you back a brother and I want to thank everybody who listened today, especially all those who

wrote in.

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And I want you all as Christopher Love once said I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus

Christ is a far greater Savior than you are a sinner.

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