The Battle - Defeating The Enemy Of Your Soul Part 13

Chapter Eight-Our Invincible Armor.

1. John Pollock, The Man Who Shook the World (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1973), 238-39.

2. Pat Robertson, Church Growth (Spring 1996), 16. This is the magazine of Church Growth International, Seoul, Korea.

3. Ibid., 17.

4. William Barclay, The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians, The Daily Study Bible (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), 182-83.

5. Hal Lindsey, Combat Faith (New York: Bantam Books, 1986), 184.

6. Ibid., 183.

7. David Wilkerson, "Perfect Righteousness," Times Square Church Pulpit Series, 19 August 1996 (Lindale, TX: World Challenge).

8. Lindsey, Combat Faith, 185.

9. Adapted from Scott Fontenot, Mountain Movers Magazine (October 1996), 10-11.

10. Barclay, The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians, 183.

11. Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1992), 540.

12. Ibid., 185.

13. Ibid., 40.

14. This experience happened to Wayde I. Goodall.

15. Dwight L. Moody, Notes from My Bible (Chicago: Fleming H. Revell, 1895), 170.

Chapter Nine-The a.r.s.enal of Prayer.

1. Sue Burr, "Crushed in a Crowd," Mountain Movers Magazine (February 1994), 16-17.

2. Adapted from ibid.

3. J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership (Chicago: Moody Press, 1989), 111-12.

4. Quoted in ibid.

5. George Sweeting, Great Quotes and Ill.u.s.trations (Dallas: Word Books, 1985), 206.

6. Ibid., 206.

7. D. M. Mclntyre, The Prayer Life of Our Lord (London: Morgan and Scott, n.d.), 30-31.

8. "Crows from Heaven," Mountain Movers Magazine (May 1996), 16-17. Adapted and used by permission.

9. Sanders, Spiritual Leadership, 111.

10. John Phillips, Exploring the Book of Daniel (Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Brothers, 1990), 166.

11. E. M. Bounds, Prayer and'Praying Men (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921): quoted in Sanders, Spiritual Leadership, 112, footnote.

12. Sanders, Spiritual Leadership, 205.

13. Ibid., 109.

14. Ralph Turnbull, The Best of Dwight L. Moody (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991), 36.

15. David Wilkerson, Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately?, Times Square Church Pulpit Series, 17 June 1996.

16. Ibid.

17. Division of Foreign Missions, Moving Mountains (Springfield, MO: Gospel Publishing House, n.d.), 19.

18. From a transcript of a taped interview with Frank Peretti by Jow-ell Kilpatrick, news editor, Pentecostal Evangel, for an article published 17 November 1996.

19. Adapted from Billy Graham, Storm Warning (Dallas: Word, 1992), 144-46. Used by permission.

20. This is the experience of Thomas E. Trask.

21. Adapted from Donald Stamps, "Power over Satan and Demons," Full Life Study Bible (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992), 1487.

22. Thomas E. Trask and Wayde I. Goodall, Back to the Word (Springfield, MO: Gospel Publishing House, 1996), 98-99.

Chapter Ten-Satan's Present-day Strategies.

1. Wayde I. Goodall tells this story.

2. Quoted in Kay Arthur, Lord, Is It Warfare? Teach Me to Stand (Portland, OR: Multnomah Press, 1977), 31.

3. H. B. London, The Pastor's Weekly Briefing from Focus on the Family, 25 October 1996.

4. Marguerite Shuster, Poiver, Pathology, Paradox: The Dynamics of Good and Evil (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987), 135fn.

5. Ibid., 135.

6. Quoted in Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966), 321.

7. The Barna Report, January-February 1996.

8. In the book The Future of the American Family (Moody Press, 1993) the Barna Research Group provided data showing two important truths related to divorce. First, contrary to the media's myth about marriage, it is not true that half of all marriages end in divorce. That figure has been used by journalists for years, based on dividing the total number of divorces granted in a year divided by the number of marriages performed in that year. With about two and a half million marriages annually and about one and a quarter million divorces each year, the mathematics produce a statistic of roughly 50 percent. A more accurate way of determining what proportion of marriages dissolves is to figure out how many adults who have been married have also been through a divorce. On this basis, we found that about one out of every four marriages ends in divorce.

9. G. H. Pember, Earth's Earliest Ages, 13th ed. (London: Alfred Holness, n.d.), 382-83.

10. Donald E. Wildmon, "It Is Time to End the Religious Bigotry," American Family a.s.sociation Journal (July 1995), 21.

11. The Jerry Springer Show, 8 May 1995: quoted in D. James Kennedy, The Gates of h.e.l.l Shall Not Prevail (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996), 89.

12. "Network Programs Continue to Denigrate Christian Faith, Diminish Traditional Family, Promote s.e.xual Perversions," American Family a.s.sociation Journal (February 1993), 5: quoted in Kennedy, The Gates of h.e.l.l Shall Not Prevail, 77.

13. Kennedy The Gates of h.e.l.l Shall Not Prevail, 87.

14. S. Robert Lichter, Linda S. Lichter, and Stanley Rothman, Prime Time: How TV Portrays American Culture (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1994), 422: quoted in Kennedy, The Gates of h.e.l.l Shall Not Prevail, 87.

15. Mark Wingfield, "America Headed for Anarchy or Revival," a.s.sociated Baptist Press, 28 February 1996.

16. Ibid.

17. Larry Poland, newsletter of Mastermedia International Inc., 20 September 1990.

18. H. B. London, The Pastor's Weekly Briefing (25 October 1996).

19. The internet, with its p.o.r.nographic possibilities, is a disturbing issue. Donn Rich Hughes, communications director of Enough Is Enough, an anti-p.o.r.nography lobby based in Fairfax, Virginia, said, "The internet has become a central means for distributing p.o.r.nography worldwide. Unfortunately, the worst and most deviant form of p.o.r.nography has invaded our houses, offices, and schools via personal computer" (Springfield [MO] News-Leader, 5 June 1996, 1A).

20. Roseanne Arnold, HBO Comedy Hour, 20 June 1992: quoted in Kennedy, The Gates of h.e.l.l Shall Not Prevail, 88.

21. Bob Greene, "TV and Movies Teach Violence," American Family a.s.sociation Journal (September 1993), 5.

22. Quote by Jim Talley Single Parent Magazine (1996).

23. Wingfield, "America Headed for Anarchy or Revival."

24. Ralph Reed, Politically Incorrect: The Emerging Faith Factor in American Politics (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1994), 5.

25. Quoted in David Bryant, The Hope at Hand: National and World Revival for the Twenty-first Century (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1995), 27.

26. Kennedy, The Gates of h.e.l.l Shall Not Prevail, 7-8.

27. David Barrett, "The Growth of the Gospel!" Mission Frontiers 16 (July-August 1994), 5.

28. Ibid.

29. Trask and Goodall, Back to the Word, 82.

30. C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (reprint, New York: Macmil-lan, 1988), 12.

31. Reed, Politically Incorrect, 10: quoted in Kennedy, The Gates of h.e.l.l Shall Not Prevail, 232.

32. Wayde I. Goodall tells this story.

33. Trask and Goodall, Back to the Word, 10-11.

34. D. A. Carson, "Five Gospels, No Christ," Christianity Today (25 April 1994), 30.

35. Bob Moorehead, Words Aptly Spoken (Kirkland, WA: Overlake Christian Press, 1995), 99. Dr. Bob Moorehead. Used by permission.

Chapter Eleven-The Rise of the Antichrist.

1. G. M. Gilbet, Nuremberg Diary (New York: New American Library, 1947), 25.

2. Trevor Ravenscroft, The Spear of Destiny (New York: Bantam, 1974): quoted in John Phillips, Exploring the Future: A Comprehensive Guide to Bible Prophecy (Neptune, NJ: Loizeaux Brothers, 1992), 228.

3. Ibid.

4. Phillips, Exploring the Future, 228.

5. George Sweeting, Great Quotes and Ill.u.s.trations (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1985), 17-18.

6. Billy Graham, Answers to Life's Problems (Dallas: Word Books, 1988), 301-2.

7. Sweeting, Great Quotes and Ill.u.s.trations, 17.

8. Hal Lindsey, There's a New World Coming (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1984), 172.

9. John Hagee, Beginning of the End (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996), 143.

10. The rapture is a future event described in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17; Matthew 24:36-41; and in other pa.s.sages of Scripture. At that time Jesus Christ will appear in the clouds and take all true Christians comprising the church from the earth to be with Him in heaven, leaving the rest of the world to endure without them during the period called the tribulation. Jesus' second coming, which will be recognized by all people, will occur after this time.

11. Hagee, Beginning of the End, 122.

12. Ibid., 120: quoting Reader's Digest, n.d.

13. Newsweek, 2 March 1992: quoted in Billy Graham, Storm Warning (Dallas: Word Books, 1992), 272.

14. William Blackstone wrote, "Antiochus was doubtless a type of Antichrist. And in his opposition to the worship of G.o.d, in his sacrifice of the hated swine in the temple and his merciless treatment of the Jews, he has given us a miniature picture of what the final Antichrist will do." Antiochus died long before Paul and John wrote of the future Antichrist (William Blackstone, Jesus Is Coming [reprint, Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1989], 110).