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SATAN'S TACTIC TO BEGIN WITH, AND HE
STILL USES THE SAME THING, AND STILL SUCCESSFUL WITH IT: A REASONING.
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Now, notice. Satan tried to get in there to spy out, to
see what--how he could get a hold of that human race, and he took one of the
most famous tactics that... Well, it showed that he had to be a
supernatural power to think of it. And he used this the first time and was successful, and he's
done it ever since, and still successful to a certain estate. He used reasoning
against faith.
Satan
come to Eve and begin to reason against the Word of God, the great Armor that
God had fortified His people with. He begin to use reasoning.
Now, "It's only reasonable that God would not destroy you. Surely you will
not die." But remember, friends,
that's Satan's tactic to begin with, and he still uses the same thing, and
still successful with it: a reasoning.
*IT TAKES THE WORD TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY.
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…But you see, if whatever it
taken to begin with, and whatever God give them to begin with, that's what it
ever remains. And tactics of reasoning is what
Satan used, and that's what he ever uses: reasoning.
We know our enemy, because any enemy... (Now,
Brethren, I have let away from doctrine, you see, around here, but I've got to
say this.) Any enemy that reasons against... Or any person, any church,
any organization, any individual that reasons against one punctuation of God's
Word is your enemy. It takes the Word to defeat the
enemy.
*WHEN JESUS OF NAZARETH WAS HERE ON EARTH HE NEVER USED HIS POWER; YET HE
WAS GOD MANIFESTED IN FLESH. HE STAYED WITH THE ORIGINAL ARTILLERY.
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When Jesus of Nazareth was here on earth He never used
His power; yet He was God manifested in flesh. He never used His power when
Satan come against Him. He said, "It's written." What did... He had
to do that, because Eve broke down on that. And what Eve lost, Christ regained.
Where Eve let
down, Christ fortified again. "It is written: man shall not live by bread
alone. It is written, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." It is
written, it is written. What
is it? He stayed with the original artillery. But
Eve let down. She begin to listening to reason.
And
there's people today who can almost reason you right down and prove to you that
the thing is wrong. Satan was very successful with Eve. What does reasoning do?
It makes it appealing. "Well, now, if I want to be religious..."
*GOD THROWS EVERY RED LIGHT HE CAN ACROSS IT, AND THE PEOPLE FIGHTS RIGHT
ON BEYOND IT.
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Please don't get me
wrong now. A man comes to a place he wants to be--wants religion. He wants to
be saved; he doesn't want to go to hell. No
human being wants to go to that place. It wasn't made for the human being; it
was made for the devil and his angels; wasn't made for human beings.
Now. But
the human being sends hisself in there. God throws
every red light He can across it, and the people fights right on beyond it. You
have...
Before you can come--become an unbeliever, you have to
bypass faith in God's Word first before you can become an unbeliever. You have
to run the red light of God.
HOW THAT SATAN MADE IT SO APPEALING.
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Notice, these
people, how that Satan made it so
appealing. And sin is appealing. I know I haven't got too long on this
text, but I'd like just to take my time for a few minutes. Let's stop on that
just for a moment. We could be here in the morning on the same subject, but
let's just watch.
Sin in the last days, Peter tells us, that he will go
about like a roaring lion. It's getting worse. Now, I want to ask you something. I'm
not condemning; I'm just making a statement. Some of you older men, or let's
take any of us, and go back to a picture of some woman fifty or sixty years ago
that was a beauty queen in her day. Pearl White, Scott Jackson... She was supposed to be America's most
beautiful woman. If you'd see her picture hanging on a wall, you'd think it was
an antique. What is it? It's women have become more beautiful. Satan is dressing them in that way, fixing them in that way.
See, that becomes that way because it's become more appealing. It's a...
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I--I'd better
bypass that, 'cause I promised I wasn't going to get into them things again.
See? But how it is, that was his first
tool. He's bringing it right back again in the last days. Sisters, don't get
mixed up in that stuff. Stay away from it.
*AND THE POWER IS THE WORD MADE MANIFEST.
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It's appealing. Now, he makes it again... He makes it
educational, intellectual. Did not the Holy Ghost tell us in II Timothy, 3rd
chapter, that in the last days it would become an intellectual group in the
church? "Heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,
truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, and despisers of those that are
good?"
You say,
"Them's communists."
Oh, no. Them's
so-called Christians (See?), having a form of godliness but denying the power
thereof. And
the power is the Word made manifest. Said, "The Gospel come to us not through word
only, but through power and demonstrations of the Spirit." I'm speaking of the army of God now: fortified.
***HE MAKES THE WORD THAT HE'S ALREADY SAID MORE POSITIVE (WHEW!), AND
TAKING HIS SAME WORD, AND JUST MAKING IT MORE POSITIVE.
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But Satan makes
it appealing. Certainly. It's appealing. Sin's appealing. But the enemy keeps
finding a better bait. He will strip her off a little more, and do this, and do
that. And don't worry, he will never make her completely naked. She'd be
horrible then. See, he knows just what to do. But Satan keeps bringing sin in.
And that was the original sin. That's the way he's going out: with the same
thing as the kingdom come in, the warfare.
Now, watch. But
God doesn't have to do anything more to His, make it any more appealing. The only thing He
has to do is just raise up a standard of His own Word against the enemy. When the--the Bible said, "When
the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God raises a standard against
it." What
does He do? He
makes the Word that He's already said more positive (whew!), and taking His
same Word, and just making It more positive.
*YOU STAY THERE TILL GOD EQUIPS YOU WITH
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And so now, God, knowing at this last days there will
come intellectual giants, there will come everything intellectual, all kinds of
the enemy with reasoning powers to try to prove to the church that the days of
miracles is past and all this. God packed in the baptism of the Holy Ghost with what? Speaking with
tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecies, gifts, and all kinds of things. They may seem
hard in training, but, brother, on the battle front,
every one of them's got to be used. God equips His soldiers exactly what it
takes to use. Amen.
Oh, they might say, "Just learn
psychology." That won't work. No, sir. That's as thin as broth made out of
the shadow of a chicken that starved to death. So that's no good. We have to have power of the Holy Ghost
coming upon a man, with all the nine spiritual gifts dwelling in him.
Oh, you say,
"I just don't like to get out. I don't like to pray all night. I don't
like..." Well, then you're going to get killed out on the battle front.
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You stay there till God equips you with
the baptism of the Spirit. Then everything you've got need of in this world or the world to come,
lives right in you. The all
wise God knowed how to equip His army. He equipped it with the baptism
of the Holy Ghost. That's exactly what He sent for these last days.
*THE WORD OF GOD MADE MANIFEST IN HUMAN
FLESH, YOUR FLESH, MY FLESH, TO SEE THE WORKS OF GOD.
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Now,
have we... Have you enough faith to touch Him? If you could touch Him, then
I'll yield myself to Him, and let Him use me and use you to bring faith to the
rest of the audience. That's a challenge, isn't it? You believe it? Do you
believe it? Would you--would it strengthen your faith to see the Elohim, not
you, not me, but Him? What is it? The Word. What
is it? The protection, the armament, the armor of God,
the Word of God made manifest in human flesh, your flesh, my flesh, to see the
works of God. Amen. I believe it.
*PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD WHEN YOU
GO TO FIGHT AGAINST THE ENEMY, LIKE OUR LORD DID
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27 ….. God's
Masterpiece has stood the test. How did He do it? By the Word. "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but
by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'"
Oh, Christian friend, put on the whole
armor of God. Don't stand back with some little idea of some creed, or
something that you're standing by. Put on the whole
armor of God when you go to fight against the enemy, like our Lord did. He
showed that how the weakest of Christian can defeat Satan just with the Word.
He had powers, He could have smote Satan any way He wanted to, but He didn't
use it. He just took the Word and defeated him with it.
"It's written. It's written." Everywhere, "It's
written." So He defeated Satan by the Word of God.
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