| “Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.” “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you,” “for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand,” for our Lord on the cross “having spoiled principalities and powers … made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” We need to keep our eyes closely upon the Lord Jesus, “lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices,” remembering our Lord’s words to Peter, but so applicable to us, that “Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not.” |
