Charles Spurgeon, Spiritual Warfare in a Believer's Life,유혹과 시험을 항상 대비하라

 

Charles Spurgeon, Spiritual Warfare in a Believer's Life, Lynnwood, WA: Emerald Books, 1993, Complied and Edited by Robert Hall

 

Christ as defeating His enemies on the cross

the Savior in triumphal procession upon His cross (16)

 

Never be afraid when the evil one comes upon you. If he accuses you, reply to him: "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?" If he condemns you.. "Who is he that condemn? It is Christ that died, yea rather hast risen again." If he threatens to divide you from Christ's love, encounter him with confidence. " I am persuaded that neither things present nor things to come... shall be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." If he lets loose your sins upon you dash the hell-dogs aside with this: "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." If death should threaten you, shout in his very face: "O death! where is thy sting; O grave! where is thy victory." Hold up the cross before you. Let that your shield and buckler, rest assured that as your Master not only routed the foe but afterward took the spoil, it shall be so with you... The more numerous the attacks, the greater shall be your share of the spoil.... Be very courageous, remembering that you have to fight with a stingless dragon. He may hiss, but his teeth are broken and his poison fang extracted. You have to do battle with an enemy already scarred by your master's weapons.... The enemy may rush in upon you with hideous noise and terrible alarms, but there is no real cause for fear... Rejoice in the day of battle, for it is for you but the beginning of an eternity of triumph. (21-22)

 

 

Here must be the chief place of resort for every tempted soul! We must flee to Him "who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption" ... We shall never be so secure from the arrows of Satan as when we have our head lying on the Savior's bosom. (38)

 

.. This quarrel shall be not between the serpent and man but between God and the serpent (42)

 

... every time we are made useful in saving souls we repeat the bruising of the serpent's head. (52)

 

Notice the point of attack: it was our Lord's sonship. Satan knows that if he can make any of us doubt the Father's love, doubt our regeneration and adoption, he will have us very much in his power. How can I pray "Our Father which art in heaven" if I do not know Him to be my Father? If the dark suspicion crosses my mind that I am no child of His, I cannot say with the prodigal, "I will arise and go unto my father." Having a Father, I feel sure that He will pity my weaknesses, feel for my needs, forgive my wrongs, protect me in the hour of danger, and save me in the moment of peril. (90)

 

We never fully understand divine truth until we experience it. (85)

 

Holy Scripture is full of narratives of temptations. Expect, therefore, that your life will be as abundantly garnished with them as is a rose with thorns... In proportion as the Spirit sanctifies us-spirit, soul, and body- and makes us like the Master, we are conformed to Him, not only in the holiness and spiritually that sanctification produces but also in our experience of conflict, sorrow, agony, and triumph... Our crown is not to be won without wrestling and overcoming. (86)

 

The place of this temptation... It was a high place and a holy place, hence a double danger... (87)

 

The first effort of the devil was to sap the foundations of the Savior's strength with a doubt. (90)

 

Remember that God gives us liberty, not license, and while He gives protection, He will not allow presumption. (93)

 

Beware of provoking God to jealousy. (94)

 

... Jesus was tempted but Jesus never sinned... by the same grace, another may do so. Keep in mind that to be tempted is not to sin. (95-96)

 

Our place of safety is the bosom of the Savior. Perhaps we are tempted just now to drive us nearer to Him. (96)

 

 

The Roaring Lion... That wicked one is as sternly real this day as when Christ met him in deadly conflict in the wilderness of temptation. (100)

 

Only God can be omnipresent; hence, Satan can be in only on e place at one time. Yet, if you consider how much trouble he does, you will easily gather that he must have an awful degree of activity... How active he must be! We know that he is to be found in every place! Enter the most hallowed sanctuary, and you will find him there. Go to Wall Street, and you will lack no signs of his being present there. Retire into the quietude of the family circle, and you will soon detect in bickerings and jealousies that Satan has scattered handfuls of evil seed there. No less in the deep solitude of the hermit's cave might you find the tracks of his cloven foot. He is found in the clashing of swards, in the tyrant's heart, and even in the enmity that is excited in the breasts of those who are oppressed. Travel into the wilds where no Christian missionary ever trod, and you will find that Satan has penetrated the far interior and tutored the barbarian. Satan is the prince of the power of the air. Wherever the breath of life is inhaled, the poisonous atmosphere of temptation is a thing familiar. (101, 한글 번역)

 

Remember that as he is found in all places, so you have often found him wherever you go. You have sought to serve God in your daily business, but strong temptations, furious thoughts of evil, have followed you there. (101)

 

Satan is not in all sin; we sin of ourselves. (101)

 

Self-righteous... Satan know how to set his traps by tempting us to resumption. (102)

 

Satan has his providence as if to counterfeit the providence of God. (102)

 

Let us seriously remember that we have never met an upright man over whom Satan has not in some degree triumphed. (103)

 

.... he knows how to transform himself into an angel of light. (104)

 

Satan will be glad enough, no doubt, to see your faith weakened, but his aim is to destroy that faith so that you may not believe in God to the saving of your soul. (107)

 

Resist. Be more prayerful every time he is more active. He will soon give it up if he finds that his attacks drive you to Christ.... (108)

 

"stedfast in the faith" Seek to obtain a clear knowledge of the doctrines of the gospel, and then get a good grip of them. (108)

 

The conflict may be long, and you are safe. Keep near to cross, and you are safe. Throw your arms around the dying Savior. Let the droppings of His blood fall on your sins, and even if you cannot see Him, still believe in Him. Then let Satan roar, he cannot hurt; let him rage, his fury is vain; he may only show his teeth, for he certainly cannot bite. (109)

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