2Co 2:10 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
2Co 2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Perhaps one of the most significant things
to any who are Not Ignorant of his (Satan’s) devices is that there
never has been a specially spiritual movement of God in the earth,
calculated to serve Him in a particularly useful way, but what Satan’s ANIMOSITY thereto has been Manifested along the line of Division, Schism, Discord, Separation, and a Breaking Down Of Fellowship.
And how
often has the Real Sting and Stigma been modified by a feigning love
unbroken and preserved, when the divided parties should have no
association with each other in the things of God.
Love, let us again say
emphatically, is incumbent upon the Lord’s people toward “all men,”
whether of the “household” or otherwise (Gal. 6:10), but fellowship is
something more. It is the most spiritual things which suffer the
greatest shocks in this matter, and again we say this carries its own
satanic significance.
The methods of the enemy are numberless, the “wiles” unfathomable by human wit.
A Suggestion of Suspicion, IF it finds
lodgment, is enough to completely paralyze the work of God and spiritual
progress. Have a doubt and you are done.
There never was a time when Positive Spiritual Work was more jeopardized by suspicion than now.
It
would seem that hell is largely employed in issuing forth smoke, clouds,
vapors, mists of suspicion, question, reservation, in order to INFECT with uncertainty, mystification, prejudice, fear, discrediting,
distrust, aloofness.
It is in the “heavenlies” that this is most
registered; that is, the higher ranges of spiritual things. It is an atmosphere,
and it is everywhere. You sense it wherever you go. In some places it
is stifling – there is no clear breath of the Spirit, and a word of Life
is almost choked back. Of course, this is no new thing, although now so
intensified. The New Testament is full of it.
The Lord Jesus met it – Not in Spiritual people, ONLY in Religious people. John met it. Paul met
it in every direction. It was made to circle round his person, his
methods, his character, and his message.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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