“Send angels to guard me while I sleep.” You can get up tomorrow morning, and whatever danger or responsibility you are facing, whatever you are afraid of, you can say, “O God of hosts, encamp around me, because I fear you.” If you fear God, you fear nothing and no-one else.
“Jesus is the name high over all in hell or earth or sky, angels and men before it fall, and devils fear and fly.”
Here are his five names: Satan; Abaddon (which is Apollyon in Greek and means destroyer); Beelzebub; Belial and Lucifer. Every one of them is a horrid name. There is nothing sweet about those names, either in their meaning or their sound. Here are some of the adjectives: subtle, wicked, unclean, evil, lying and, above all, proud. That is a horribl...
The devil is doing just that when he lures and entices us. That is the phrase in James 1 —he lures us, entices us out, and we just follow along.
I think it is the titles of the devil that worry me most. He is the prince of this world, the ruler of this world, and as Jesus called him, the god of this world—the only person Jesus ever called “god” apart from his own Father. He was teaching that the devil is the one that people really worship, though they do not know it. He is the one that they...
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