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Temptation, Satan, spiritual warfare, and resisting sin
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I Know That My Redeemer Liveth
Job 19:25-27
… He has defeated Satan. On the very spot where Satan gained his power Christ has gained the victory. Earth, which was a scene of defeated goodness, whence mercy …
CHAPTERMeeting in the Unfinished Tabernacle
… There are some who defend the system ; I hold it to be fraught with more deadly evils than anything else that could be invented, even by Satan himself …
SERMON • SERMON 2759The Pleasures of Piety
Psalm 104:34
… and to avenge Himself upon His enemies! Think of all His triumphs when Satan shall be bound, death shall be crushed, Hell shall be conquered and He shall …
SERMON • SERMON 3332The Dumb Become Singers
Isaiah 35:6
… Many of the Lord's anointed were once the very castaways of Satan, the sweepings of society, the refuse of the earth— those whom no man cared for …
SERMON • SERMON 2347The Lord's Famous Titles
Psalm 146:7-9
… Then Satan's chain was lengthened that he might have greater power over the bodies of men, that his Master might subdue him and that Christ Jesus the …
SERMON • SERMON 2329The Lamb Of God In Scripture
John 1:35
… But Satan, himself, said, "You have done small service, for man has a conscience, and his conscience teaches him better. He knows that there is a God. He …
SERMON • SERMON 2281Our Lord in the Valley of Humiliation
Philippians 2:8
… Ah, dear Friends, this was not the deepest humiliation of the Lord Jesus! He allowed Satan to tempt Him. I have often wondered how His pure and holy …
SERMON • SERMON 349The Wailing of Risca
Jeremiah 4:20
… Oh! let us not procrastinate, for taken in Satan’s great net of procrastination we may wait, and wait, and wait, till time is gone and the great …
SERMON • SERMON 201The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
Acts 10:44
… When Satan howls we may rest assured he is afraid his kingdom is in danger. Now this great work in America has been manifestly caused by the outpouring …
SERMON • SERMON 3180Christ the Creator
Colossians 1:16
… And then, after the Millennium, and Satan has been again loosed for a little season, he shall be "cast into the Lake of Fire and brimstone, where the …
SERMON • SERMON 3537A Definite Challenge for Definite Prayer
Mark 10:51
… Should not this encourage those of you who are seeking Him? Whatever Satan may suggest to the contrary, take this passage of God's Word for cheer! He …
SERMON • SERMON 3183Cheer for Despondency
Proverbs 27:1
… Do not give up praying! It is a common device of Satan to say to the seeking soul, "The Lord will never hear you. You are one of …
SERMON • SERMON 2681Covenant Blessings
Psalm 111:5
… But since it says, "sinners," Satan himself cannot beat you out of that. God has taught you what the term, "sinner," means and Satan cannot unteach you that …
SERMON • SERMON 362None But Jesus—Second Part
John 3:18
… The child of God may be so assaulted by Satan, that he may be well nigh given up to despair, and yet he is not condemned. The devils …
SERMON • SERMON 3250The Growth of Faith
2 Thessalonians 1:3
… Even Hell itself feels the influence of your faith! Satan trembles when he knows that your faith is firm and strong. But if it is tottering and trembling …
SERMON • SERMON 164The Loved Ones Chastened
Revelation 3:19
… There never yet was an angel that had pride in his heart, but he lost his wings, and fell into Gehenna, as Satan and those fallen angels did …
SERMON • SERMON 850Soul-winning
Proverbs 11:30
… We cannot save souls in their theatrical way and do not want to do so, for we know that with such jugglery as that, Satan will hold the …
SERMON • SERMON 773David's Holy Wonder at The Lord's Great Goodness
Psalm 31:19
… malice of his foes! Or, when the Master said to Peter, "Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat: but I …
SERMON • SERMON 382The Last Census
Psalm 87:6
… The last census shall be taken to show to Satan his entire defeat. They are all there, fiend of Hell; they are all there! What did you say …
COMMENTARYPsalm 114
Psalm 114
… Let every man examine himself by this pattern, whether he be truly the servant of Jesus his Saviour, or the vassal of Satan the destroyer. If any man …
SERMON • SERMON 182Particular Redemption
John 6:44
… him to walk to the house of God as to the house of Satan. If coming to Christ includes the utterance of a prayer, man has no physical …
SERMON • SERMON 1132The Seed Upon Stony Ground
Mark 4:5
… with their eyes shut, caring nothing whether it was God's Truth or Satan's lie. Anything like spiritual mastication of the doctrine they did not attempt. They …
SERMON • SERMON 1034The Only Atoning Priest
Hebrews 10:11-14
… Sin and Satan within us, and all Christ's enemies without us, including death itself, are vainly raging against the Christ of God, for every day they are …
SERMON • SERMON 3152The Lower Courts
1 John 3:20
… like to trust to yourself, after all, if you dared to do so!" Satan can generally beat us in an argument and when our own conscience also condemns …
SERMON • SERMON 3532Christ's Great Mission
Matthew 20:28
… But every man who has not accepted Christ remains an unredeemed man, under the curse and subject to the Divine Wrath—under the slavery of Satan and awaiting …
SERMON • SERMON 2036The Whole-Heartedness of God in Blessing His People
Jeremiah 32:41
… Some of you are now being used in His service who were once the tools of Satan. Remember what you were once. Do not forget the dunghills whereon …
SERMON • SERMON 2970God's Jewels
Maalachi 3:17
… the book as a church member, but from the casket of the church, Satan stole you. Ah, but you did not belong to him and he cannot keep …
SERMON • SERMON 3121The Necessity of Regeneration
John 3:7
… I am sure that the preaching of the necessity of regeneration is one of the most effectual ways to injure Satan's cause, for nothing else will avail …
SERMON • SERMON 2726Fourfold Satisfaction
Jeremiah 31:14
… Often did Satan tempt me to give up seeking rest, for I had sought so long in vain. I had attended the ordinances of God's House, and …
SERMON • SERMON 925Individual Sin Laid On Jesus
Isaiah 53:6
… Neither Satan, nor the more searching eye of God could find any evil in Him. He was under no obligation to the Law except as He put Himself …
SERMON • SERMON 3221'Yet There Is Room'
Luke 14:22
… He has adopted an innumerable multitude of those who once were children of wrath and servants of Satan! He has selected some of the vilest of the sons …
SERMON • SERMON 750A Triumphal Entrance
Psalm 24:9
… the "spirit that works in the children of disobedience"—he is deceived by Satan and made a willing slave to that tyrant of evil. What you need, Sinner …
SERMON • SERMON 3226Figs and Olives
James 3:12
… same time is to attempt a compromise that God abhors and which even Satan is not mean enough to approve! Even his disciples laugh to scorn those inconsistent …
SERMON • SERMON 2736The Great Miracle Worker
John 11:47
… the power of the prince of the air and, being led captive by Satan, he is oftentimes made to do the very worst of deeds. I am led …
SERMON • SERMON 2557A Vexed Soul Comforted
Job 27:2
… It is only some one little thing—not the devil, only a messenger of Satan, one of his errand boys, one of the small fry of trouble. You …
SERMON • SERMON 779God's Foreknowledge of Man's Sin
Isaiah 48:8
… If there should be a thought more devilish than Satan's vilest deed. If there should be known to us some cursed imagination so diabolical that we dare …
COMMENTARYPsalm 146
Psalm 146
… But then, 'tis further manifest, that those that were under any sore disease or lameness, etc., are said to be "bound by Satan" (Lu 13:16), and be …
SERMON • SERMON 2625The Dumb Singing
Isaiah 35:5
… When Satan tempts him to repine, he will put his finger to his lips and say, "Hush, murmuring heart! Be still!" "Why does a living man complain, a …
SERMON • SERMON 94To-morrow
Proverbs 27:1
… be so much easier to repent to-morrow; whereas, it is one of Satan’s lies, for it will only be the more difficult. He boasts of to …
SERMON • SERMON 207Sovereign Grace and Man’s Responsibility
Romans 10:20-21
… could see no one quality which was not perverted to the service of Satan. Ask them whether they think they were chosen of God because of their courage …