PREACHING:
AWESOME TASK; SPIRITUAL WARFARE; PASTORS: SATAN’S OPPOSITION

I have never given more time and more pain and more prayer to any other series of sermons in my ministry.

Because of their importance, I have literally felt Satan attemptg to thwart the purpose of God. I have felt I was in raw contact with hell.

There are so many in the Church who are spiritually blind that I tell God that I want to be able to see—I want to be a lower-case “seer.” I want to penetrate and understand and have discernment concerning the whole plan of God. I want to appraise the situation and see it as God sees it—to know the role of God in this day of religious confusion.

Now, that doesn’t make a man easy to live with. It doesn’t make him popular and it doesn’t create any problem for police taking care of the crowd.

This course has forced me frequently to follow the trail of opposition and temptation straight to the foe! But I would rather have it this way than to have to admit—as some will have to admit—to having spent a lifetime preaching the Word of God and yet never having met the devil once in open combat!…

But, I will tell you something—it is a delightful thing when you know that you are close enough to the adversary that you can hear him roar! Too many Christians never get into “lion country” at all!

Daniel 10:12–13; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 2 Corinthians 12:7; 2 Timothy 4:17; 1 Peter 5:8–9

I Talk Back to the Devil, 1, 2.