Ancient Hostilities - not so Ancient!
<aside> 🔥 ‘Awake sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you… Therefore, be careful how you walk… because the days are evil… understanding what the will of the Lord is.’ Eph 5
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<aside> 🔥 ‘This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy…’ (James 3: 15-17)
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<aside> 🔥 ‘But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat… and drink…; … eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly…’ (1 Cor 11:28)
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<aside> 🔥 ‘My sheep hear my voice…’ (John 10: 1 ff)
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Essay on James Four Verse One to Four by PL (Feb 2023).pdf
The answer is in the house!
Quotes from Jesse Penn-Lewis’ “War on Saints”
<aside> 🔥 “Truth of every kind makes free, while lies bind up in bonds. Ignorance also binds up, because it gives ground to Satan. Man’s ignorance is a primary and essential condition for deception.”
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<aside> 🔥 “The devil’s great purpose, and for which he fights, is to keep the world in ignorance of himself, his ways, and his colleagues, and the Church is taking sides with him when siding ignorance about him.”
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<aside> 🔥 “It is possible for a man through ignorance to stand against God and to attack the very truth of God, and also defend the devil, and oppose God, unless he has knowledge.”
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Christianity is merely “one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.” - C.S. Lewis
<aside> 🔥 “It was so when the Son of God came forth from the wilderness conflict with the prince of darkness, and found the hidden demons in many lives aroused to malignant activity, so that from all parts of Palestine crowds of victims came to the Man, before whom the possessing spirits trembled in impotent rage. He (both) bound the ‘strong man,’ whilst on the other hand taught the truth about God… to destroy the lies which the devil had placed in their minds (2 Cor 4:4) about His Father and himself.”
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Not so from the beginning - but something has gone terribly wrong in the world since then.
<aside> 🔥 “The aftermath of the Revival in Wales, which was a true work of God, revealed number of ‘honest souls’ swept off their feet by evil supernatural powers, which they were not able to discern from the true working of God. And later still than the Welsh Revival, there have been other ‘movements’, with large numbers of earnest servants of God swept into deception, through the wiles of deceiving spirits counterfeiting the workings of God; all ‘honest souls’ deceived by the subtle foe, and certain to be led on into still deeper deception, notwithstanding their honesty and earnestness, if they are not awakened to ‘return to soberness’ and recovery out of the snare of the devil into which they have fallen (2 Tim 2:26)”
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We should want only what belongs to us, and no more.