The New Life

The New lyife.
because we know that Thou wilt bruise him under
our feet. Amen.
1. What comfort does the knowledge of the existence of Satan
give us?
We know then that sin is derived from a foreign power which
has thrust itself into our nature, and does not naturally belong
to us. We know besides that he has been entirely vanquished
by the Lord Jesus, and thus has no power over us so long as we
abide trustfully in Christ.
2. The whole of this world, with all that is in it, is under the
domination of Satan : therefore there is nothing, even what appears
good and fair, that may not be dangerous for us. In all
things, even in what is lawful and right, we must be led and
sanctified by the Spirit, if we would continue liberated from the
power of Satan.
3. Satan is an evil spirit : only by the good Spirit, the Spirit of
God, can we offer resistance to him. He works in the invisible :
in order to combat him, we have, by prayer, to enter into the
invisible. He is a mighty prince : only in the name of One who
is mightier and in fellowship with Him can we overcome.
4. What a glorious work is labor for souls, for the lost, for
drunkards, for heathen; a conflict to rescue them from the
might of Satan. (Acts xx\n. 18.)
5. In the Revelation the victory over Satan is ascribed to the
blood of the Lamb. (Rev. xii. 11.) Christians have also testified
that there is no power in temptation, because Satan readily
retreats when one appeals to the blood, by which one knows
that sin has been entirely expiated, and we are thus also wholly
freed from his power.
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