Sermon: One Little Word

 If you try to go toe-to-toe, with the devil, you will lose. You will go down. You’re not smart enough or strong enough. Now that doesn’t mean we don’t fight! We absolutely do. When the devil assaults you and attacks you and tempts you with all manner of sin, to get you to doubt God’s love for you, or hate someone, or take what is not yours or what has not been given to you, or lie or take advantage of someone, or believe the word of the world over the Word of God, or not bother to pray or read or hear the Scriptures, or give in to your urges and desires, or get annoyed with God for interfering with your life and what you want and what you think right, or any one of a thousand other ways the devil seduces you to think sin is good - fight! 

Be part of the resistance. Yes! But fight not with your own strength, but with the Word of God and prayer. And when you go down - and you will go down! - know that the Valiant One is on your side; the Valiant One did not go down; the Valiant One wins for you and wins you. For you are that one word the devil hates above all others. That word he cut out of his vocabulary and dictionary. That word he forbids be spoken in his presence. You are forgiven.

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