THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST Satan ensnares some believers because they fail to realize his power and to recognize his tactics. But others make the equally fatal mistake of overestimating his power and overemphasis his activities. He is mighty, but there is One infinitely mightier. He is powerful, but there is One who is…
But the devil goes still further and presses on in an attack upon the individual members of Christ’s Body who have entered into real oneness with their Lord. He sends forth his fiery darts to carry depression of spirit, delusion of mind, distraction of heart, deflection of will, and distress of body. The human…
Against the corporate Body of Christ, Satan is working in two very distinct and definite ways at the present time: through degeneration and through division. First, he is sowing tares among the wheat. He is placing his emissaries in the pulpit and pews for the sole purpose of leavening the whole. He is mixing…
In the Garden of Gethsemane, we see the devil making his final attack upon the God-man by trying to drive a wedge between the Father and the Son. To accomplish this, he aimed his fiery darts at our Lord’s spirit, soul, and body. All the hosts of hell were united in that spiritual battle…
“In Christ” in the heavenlies is the believer’s promised land. This is his God-given inheritance promised even before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4, 11). “In Christ” in the heavenlies, every spiritual blessing is his possession by right (Ephesians 1:3). Through his identification with Christ, the believer has already entered into the heavenlies…