The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-24
The BAPTIST MEETING
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las; evening Rev. Neyins took for
his text shs eighth yar-ss of the NTH
chapter 1T first Peter. BE sober. he
devil. as roaring lion, waikcih
about. seeking whom he may de-
YOUR Rev. Nevins said ia part, as
folioww
The .irst thought | want To i'm
press upon you IS the personality Of
satan We don't recognize that satan
is q person just as the Holy Spirit is
a person Satan Is referred to In this
text by the proaoun. lie We notice
when Christ was led up into the Will
derness 10 be tempted OF the devil
that satan came to Christ as a per
son and all through the Bible there
is this conception of satan II we Will
get this thought of the personality OF
satan 1t will help us all through life.
1t will help us to resist his power. If
we recognize his personality Having
established this fact let us consider
how the devil works how he works
in all the ways of life. in all the ave
nues In which our paths lead us. The
work OF satan has been greatly mis-
understood. We. | suppose, know
much more OF the work OF the Holy
Spirit. There Is a reason for satan
being misunderstood. Ii is because
he is the great deceiver. He doesn' t
want us to know. The apostle tells
US we wrestle not against flesh and
blood. but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers OF
the darkness Of this world: against
spiritual wickedness in high places.
whole armor of God. There is need
to exhort us that We may be able TO
stand. Now satan does not come to
US in his true attitude. He wouldn t
come and say you mustn't go to
church He comes as the old deceiver
OF the human race and he doesn
hesitate to try us all Satan begins
his work in a protracted meeting
upon the christians. We might have
thought, when we became christians
we would have no more difficulty
with the devil, but he doesn't hesitate
to attract the christian. He didn't
hesitate to attack even the Son OF
God He doesn't hesitate to attack
anything. You remember the sons
OF men came before God and the
devil came with them. The devil at
tackled Job, Of whom God was proud
The moment you take your stanc
for Christ, the devil tries to destroy
your power and usefulness. How
does he go about thist When we be
gin to talk about special meetings
he comes and weakens our faith. HI
tells us you can't have meeting
| the people are hard-hearted an
stepped in sin Satan would destro
our faith in the power Of the gospe
to reach the hearts of men. Prett
soon we will find ourselves unde
| the juniper tree like Elijah. Ther
God taught Elijah that his powe
was in the still small voice and Go
| has ordained that wherever the gos
pei shall be preached, that me
and women shall tremble as the as
! pen leaves before the wind. Did sd
! tan come to you and say you can
have meeting?' If so your powe
has been lost to this meeting. Anoth
| or work of satan is that wheneve
he knows there is to be some specia
| meeting, he gets up some or his OWL
I have never seen meeting yet blu
what satan got up some counter al
/ traction. He don't say to you
would stay away from that meeting
/ but he says here is something, som
other place, come to That NOW W
have to watch satan in these ell
forts of his. There is another way Il
which satan works. He often bring
us into the house of God in tn
wrong spirit. We need to learn tn
lesson. Paul taught that where ever
one comes in the right spirit an IN
believer coming into that atmospher
could not be but convicted or III
sir. We sometimes think 1t all de
ponds upon an eloquent sermon o
some machinery. 1t does not, II W
come in the right spirit. The troubl
is. when we come to Gods house II
stead OF having one thought, W
have many thoughts on our nina
and thus the power Of the Holy SpirI
is destroyed by satan. This IS tn
work OF satan upon the christian
Let us now look at satan wor
upon the lost Satan has a new metf
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