<TITLE>02. Par 7-10</TITLE>L-7 Lord Jesus, oh, the battle will be over someday, and there'll be no more sick to be prayed for, and there will be no more sinners to repent. But, Father, while this day is what it is, let us work while we have light to work in, for the hour cometh when no man can work. Now, for just a few moments, Lord, I'd feel bad if I didn't, I closed off this year without saying a few more words. Help me, Father, I pray, that I might say something that would plant courage in the heart of Thy people, that we could leave here tonight after taking the communion, and we realize that in the communion there is strength. Israel took the communion first down in Egypt, and walked forty years without their shoes wearing out or their clothes getting threadbare. And out of two million people, there wasn't a feeble one among them when they come out of the wilderness. Lord, let us remember that tonight as we approach this great hour. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen.

L-8 If I should speak the context that I had wrote down that I was going to start on this afternoon, why, we'd be here at five o'clock in the morning. [Brother Neville says, "That'll be all right."--Ed.] But I want to read just a Word from... Thank you. From Ephesians the 6th chapter, 12th verse, and just for a few moments now, for courage.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against... rulers of... darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

L-9 "Spiritual wickedness in high places..." And I'd like to draw from that a little ten or fifteen minutes context, or text, rather; I want to call it, "The Contest." "A contest" is "a test of strength." And we... Where we have a--the a--test strength... We used to have... The Indian used to put a fire, and they would put so many men on this end of the rope, and so many on this end, and the--the tug-of-war, the contest of strength, would pull the losing party across the fire. And now, we know there's many things, and we could base this upon for a few minutes, of--of contest, but I want to speak for these minutes quickly upon the greatest contest there is: that's between the church and Satan. That great strength of Satan... And we want to speak of the great strength of God in His church.

L-10 Now, this great contest has been going on for many years. It started in heaven, and Satan was kicked out into the earth, and then he become a enemy to God's people. And since then, he's used all of his strength and his strategy to try to pull God's people across the fires, or, into his fires.
And we know that Who has the most power: God does. And God, when He gave His people the best Thing that He could to combat Satan with, was His Word. Now, because the Word is God, and who's stronger than God? So the Word is God, and the Word becomes our Strength. God in the church, becomes its Strength to pull Satan to his own fires that he has made. And the tug goes on.


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