In this sermon, the speaker shares a personal story about his time as a soldier and the violent actions he took. He reflects on the consequences of his actions and the guilt he feels, suggesting that it may be a great sin. The speaker emphasizes the importance of being honest with God and relying on the power of the cross, the authority of the Lord, and the word of the Lord as weapons against temptation. He also references Bible verses to highlight the transformation that can occur through God's mercy and love, and shares a story about a man who struggles with mental health issues every March.

And this is week number seven. This is week number seven, and for the past six weeks we have been looking at this great subject of demonology, which is simply the doctrine of the devil and his angel. I had a phone call from London yesterday and right in the heart of London, in the biggest, largest Baptist church in London, they would like me to go and give the last six messages that I have given, like me to give them six days. They were so kind to put no dates on it. I can go when I'm free and I may take six days out of my holidays, or maybe seven, or maybe eight, or maybe nine, and go to London with these messages. Now, as we have been looking at this demonology, we looked one night at Lucifer, the leader of this great, mighty, multitudinous demon army that he leads. And we noticed that close behind him there was a great army called Principalities, which simply means demon princes. And these demon princes came against the governments and the parliaments, came against the political realm, and they tried to deceive the nations. And I'm sure there's been a great lot of Satan activity in this land of ours, where men have been deceived and where the political realm has been really upset. Then we looked on another evening at another army following close behind Principalities called Demon Powers. And we saw them coming not so much against the political but against the physical. You remember the woman that was bound for eighteen years. When Jesus swinged her, he said, Ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound these eighteen years, be freed? And then we looked one week at this great demon army coming not so much against the physical but against the mental. You know, I think a great many people suffer even today from this. The old devil oppresses them. You remember that Jesus went about doing good, healing all that were oppressed of the devil. And he does come to vex the minds of men and women. The Canaanitish woman said, My daughter lies at home grievously vexed. And I saw more than one or two in my lifetime oppressed and distracted and grievously vexed by Demon Powers. And then we looked at these Demon Powers coming against spiritual men and women, and I mean spiritual men and women. And they came with the wiles of the devil, and they came with the fiery dots of the wicked one. They came with the snare of the devil. They came with the roar of the lion. And we looked up this demon army coming against spiritual men and women. Last week we watched these demon armies coming against the eternal Son of God. And we looked at a lot of questions. We looked up why they came. Because when Christ was born into this world, he was manifested to destroy the works of the devil, and the whole armies of Satan came against. We looked up when they came. When he was a baby, they tried to destroy him. When he was asleep in the Hindu part of the ship. When he was rejoicing at the great truths that Peter had learned from his father. When he was on God's blood-stained Calvary. Principalities and powers gathered round him. And we learned last week that he spoiled principalities and powers, and made a show of them openly, and triumphed over them in the cross. But we're going to sort of take a breath in the battle this evening. You see, I've been bringing this mighty demon army before you, and you have watched and learned of these demon princes. And these diabolical demon powers. I want to let the believers here know the way to overcome them this evening. Because as we watch this warfare that we're in, whether we like it or not, I want this to be a sort of spiritual military academy, where every believer will learn how to fight, and how to overcome. So that's what we're about this evening. We want to know how to overcome these principalities and powers, these rulers of the darkness of this world. And that's what we're about this evening. I want you to turn with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 9, please. 1 Corinthians, and we're at the 9th chapter. And Paul asks a question in verse 7. 1 Corinthians chapter 9, verse 7. And Paul asks this question, Who goes of warfare any time at his own charges? Well, you know that there is no one goes of warfare at any time at his own charge. When you see your soldier laddies on the streets, well, all the equipment they have, their machine guns, and their saracens, and everything that we could name about them this evening, it's all supplied, you know. You don't join the army and buy your rifle, you know. You don't go any time of warfare at your own charge. And this is a tremendous point when you think about the warfare that we're in, and the mighty forces we meet. Remember, God sends not one of us of warfare at our own charges. He has supplied the weapons, and it's up to us to get to know how to handle them so that we will overcome. Have a look at 2 Corinthians chapter 10. 2 Corinthians, and we're at the 10th chapter. 2 Corinthians chapter 10, verse 4. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. This is something that we must get into our hearts. Verse 3 said, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. And for all the students here, the word flesh in that verse is in two senses. Sometimes when we use this word flesh, we talk about our bodies. We talk about God being manifest in the flesh, in a body. And although we walk in the body, we do not war after the flesh. And we're not talking about body, no. We're talking about the old nature. Sometimes the old nature inside is called flesh, rightfully so. Sometimes the body is called flesh. Well, although we walk in the body, we don't war after the old nature. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. You see, we're in a mighty warfare, and we're moving continually, 24 hours every day, against a mighty foe. But make no mistake at all about it. God has supplied us with mighty weapons. They're not carnal ones. They're mighty, and they're mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds. My, Satan has set up some strongholds in this world. The casting down of imaginations. And if you look at the word imaginations and look at your margin in the marginal reference, it's the word reasonings. Because as I move in this mighty warfare, I come against the reasonings of men. And I need to cast them down at times, because it's just simple human reasoning. And the word of God can defeat it every time. And so I want you to get the hold of this, that God has given us mighty weapons, and we will need to know how to use them. Now, I believe this with all my heart and soul, that the greatest weapon the Christian has, the most mighty weapon of all our mighty weapons, the mightiest one, is the cross of Calvary. And I think you know we get away from the cross at times. And the Lord Jesus intended that we would never get away from the cross. You know He instituted the Lord's Supper. And each Sunday morning, at least the early church did on the first day of the week, they gathered together to break bread. And the book says as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, and it doesn't say how seldom, because I think that's how some of them look at once every six months, but it didn't say seldom. Happened to say as often. And the early church lays down the principle that it was on the first day of the week. And you know, I think this is how the week should begin. We should begin because of these emblems to get close to the cross. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's back. Because I think that this is probably our mightiest weapon. You see, in my experiences in life, I have met men and women, old and young, learned and illiterate, of all classes and creeds and colors. And you know, even though they have been gloriously saved, yet the old devil comes along and he brings something to bear upon them and he oppresses them. He distracts them. He wrecks them. He brings an old thing that was committed maybe twenty, thirty, forty years ago. I don't know if I ever told the class this. Maybe I did sometime many years ago. A professor from Greens called me once and said to me, Willie, I want you to go and see my father. And I knew the professor and I knew his father. His father was an old army major. But he was gloriously saved and belonged to the people known as Brethren. And I said, what's wrong? He said, you know, it goes off his head every month of March as it comes. We have taken them to every psychiatrist in the land. We have taken them even to Harlech Creek. We have taken them to America. And he says, we can do nothing with them. He said, Willie, I believe that you could get something of them. So away I went and found them in a big house in Bangor, sitting up in the lovely sitting room there in a big chair. And he had been to many of my meetings and he knew me and he said, Willie, it's nice of you to come today. He said, what brought you this way? I said, your son phoned me and he told, tells me that you go off your head now and again, normally putting your cards on the table. Why should I fiddle around with it? I don't know the way to fiddle around. We can back a little bit of that, you know. I said, it's cool major, isn't it? He said, it is. I said, what goes wrong? He said, you're all right for 11 months in the year. What's wrong? He said, I never told anybody this, but I will tell you. He said, I was captured by Hitler just almost at the end of the war. I was taken to a prison camp in Germany. He said, when I looked around the camp, Hitler was on his last legs, as it were. He had only small boys guarding the camp. They were 13 and 14 years of age, dressed up as soldiers. He said, I knew I could manage this crowd quite easily. I was an old soldier. And one day down in the kitchen, I stole a butcher's knife, a long butcher's knife. And when the little fella came in that night to bring me my tea at last, or it was something like tea, he said, I just rammed the knife through him into the corner. And I pulled into the corridor, and I went down slowly, and the other fellow was just coming around the corner. He was on guard, and I rammed it through him. And I killed four of them. And then I let all the prisoners out. And then he started to cry. He said, they were only kids. He said, they should never have done it. The war would have been over in a day or two. It was on the 22nd of March. I said to him, Edger, do you think this was a great sin? Great sin, he said. He nearly jumped out of the chair. Willie, this was murder and murder and murder. I said, I thought you were a believer. He said, I am a believer. I said, do you believe that Christ was wounded for your transgressions? He said, of course I do. I said, you know, you don't, Major. Sorry to disagree with you. You believe that Christ was wounded for all your transgressions, but this one. You don't even think that this one was dealt with at the cross. That won't come up with me. And then I punched at home, because you need to rip at this thing in, you know. I said, I'll tell you this, Major. If that wasn't dealt with at the cross, you are damned. Because this Christ didn't deal with all my sins past and present and forever. At the cross, I'm finished. If they left one out, I'm damned. He got the hold of it, because the old fellow just woke up. In fact, to be fair to him, he slipped off the couch and got on his knees. He says, my God, Jesus bore that scarlet son of mine on the cross of God. And he looked round at me and said, well, what a failure. And the old devil comes with this guilt complex at times. And how many people can't sleep at night, and can't kiss anybody, and they think about the past. What a damn. I'll tell you the weapon that will settle. Blast them with the cross, till you see what it'll do to them. You need to keep near the cross. Old Hemrida said, Jesus, keep me near the cross. Yes, I think that this is possibly the greatest weapon. You know, we've got to stand at this cross every day by faith. Ah, take a moment tomorrow somewhere, and calm down a bit, and close your eyes, and look up a battered, bruised, bleeding, naked form of the Son of God on the tree, bearing your sins, all of them, in his own body. Oh, what a weapon this is. Old devil sometimes tries to come to me, you know. I've got terrible sins right there. Sins that I wouldn't like you to know this evening. If they were written on the wall, I would get out. You know what the devil did in the dreams of Martin Luther? Put all his sins on the wall. As I hear the accuser roar of sins that I have done, I know them all, and thousands more. But the thing is, Jehovah findeth none. You see, Martin Luther lifted a pen, as it were, in the dream, and wrote across it, the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanseth us from all sin. And the wall was white as snow. That's a weapon you'll need to use. He'll come to you, you know. We've all done wee things, and big things, and ugly things, and black things, and scarlet things. Oh, we are sinned, sinned, sinned, sinned. But the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. It's a mighty weapon. But I want you to get the hold of this. Let's go over to Ephesians, and we're at the first chapter, and Paul is praying for these Ephesians. He's praying that they might know certain things. He's praying in verse 19, that they may know what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us who are beneath. According to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised them from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places. I'll get this into your minds. Far above, oh, I have it written in red here, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. That's where he is tonight, at God's right hand in the heavenly places, far above all these demon princes, and all this demon power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named. And then he begins the second chapter with these two words, and you, talking about you now. I shall preach some more through words some morning, and you, and you have he questioned you, nor if you're born again tonight, he hath questioned you, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Here some of us remember the time when we were just deep-dyed sinners. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, we were in his hands, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation in time's past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature born like that, the children of wrath, even as others. But the God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us, I want you to get this word, together, quickened us together with Christ, and hath raised us up together, and hath made us sit together where he's in my tender heavenly places. Fireball! Oh, it thrills me to my soul, because that's where I am. Seated with him, together, as torsos can be, with our unity, they will never be broken. He's in the place of authority tonight. You know, he says to his disciples, all power in heaven and on earth belongs to me. He's fireball. You know, we don't only need to stand by faith each day at the cross, but we need to rise by faith each day, and sit down where God hath seated us. Oh, we need to get this into our minds, you know, because we're not fighting from a backyard, you know, we're fighting from the throne of God. I tell you, this is tremendous, you know. You see, the old devil, he comes against us, not only with oppression, but he comes against us with these fiery darts of the wicked. He comes against us with these demon missiles that we talked about last week. He comes against us, and makes that day to be an evil day for us, as it were. Oh, let's not forget this, that we can rise by faith any evil day that comes, and sit with him on the throne, and overcome these powers. I say, somehow you can easily get it by faith, standing at the cross, and bombing thickly when he comes to you about your sins. Oh, well, you'll need to learn to go to heaven by faith, and sit down on the throne. We're seated together with him in heavenly places. You know, we're in the place of authority, and it's time we exercised a bit of it against the devil. You know, you would think that we were being defeated. We're not on the retreat, you know, we're on the advance. And Jesus said this, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail. We are going through, you know. We're all hemmed in, we're all hemmed in, and the gates of hell will not prevail. There's a day not far distant when we'll trample the devil under our feet. Sometimes I think you shouldn't swim at all. You're quick to might, you're getting off the mark quick to might, aren't you? If the wetter you would be, the better it would be, wouldn't it, when he's under your feet? You've got that. That's very good. Let's go to the book of James. James chapter four. All the big fellows are smiling now, I can see that. James chapter four. And James was a great practical old warrior, and in verse seven he said this, Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. I don't think that if you're living a sort of calm life that this will work out. I think that you need to have your affections set on things above, not on things on the earth. I think you need to be risen by faith and seated on the throne, and then you can resist the devil. And I'll tell you this, he'll be afraid of you. I don't think the believers are thoughtless enough. You think we need to lie in the corner and be scared of the devil? Is it true, or is it not, that he'll flee from you, taking a leaf out of him, if you're in the right place? Won't you ever let that old cunning serpent get it over on you that, sir, he can master you. He can't win this war if you know how to use the weapon. And you need to stand by faith at the cost. And you need to sit by faith on the throne. You remember this? Let's go back to Matthew's gospel, chapter 4, and we mustn't take too much out of this, because we have done this before when the Lord was in the wilderness, and he's being tempted of the devil. Verse 3, just to save time, And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made red. I believe, you know, that right there we have one of the proofs of Christ's deity. I believe that while he said, If thou be the Son of God, that he knew quite well that Christ was the Son of God. I don't think if I were in the wilderness and I was unhungered for forty days or forty nights, I don't think he would ever come and say to me, Command these stones to be made red. He knows right well I can't do it. But it happens to be he knew that Christ could, or he knew who he was. He knew perfectly well. But you know, the Lord answered him just like this, verse 4. But he answered and said, It is written. He just got a phrase out of the Word of God, you know. You know, the devil will come to not only oppress our minds and we'll need to, by faith, stand at the cross. And the devil will come to throw fiery darts or these demon missiles at us to make our day an evil day. And we'll have to be in the place of authority where we can resist him and his lethal. But you do know that he's come to tempt you. And he lays snares for some of you young ones. You're trying to find your way through this wilderness, are you? Lays snares for. And I tell you, my dear young friends, if you don't get to the Word of God and know what's written, he's going to get the better of you. Because we don't only need the cross and the throne. We need this book. You know, I was just thinking this very day of some of the great moments in life I've had. You know, I was saved as a trumpet crew. Then I became the foreman of Dixon's nursery and had 70 men under me and learned the trick or two there. And then a famous surgeon came round, a professor of surgery, a very clever man, decorated by the queen. He said to me, you'll come and work for me. I said, if the Lord says so, well. He said, well, if that's the kind of man you are, you just talk it out with the Lord and come and I'll give you a job and I'll give you three pounds more than Dixon's given you. And I don't know what he'd do. And three pounds in those days is like the thirty-four that those coal men's looking for now. So after playing it through, I decided that I should go to work with this professor. The Lord was guiding me very carefully. And these were the great days. He owned a big yacht, a tremendous thing. And I learned to drive it and knew everything about Strangford Rock. And, well, we had great days together. He loved fishing. And we would go right out there and let the anchor down and he would sit at the end of the boat and fish. And I would lie on the deck with my Bible and he would fish for hours and I would read for hours. Sometimes he'd come along the deck and say, you must be getting something wonderful out of that book. And I said, I'm getting more out of that book than you're getting out of the sea. But, you know, he owned hunting horses and little show ponies and he owned a mountain. And I used to go out to the mountain every morning and go and hunt the horses and bring hay and all the rest of it. Just at this time, you know, Frank Forbes, who was the secretary of the Baptist Union, he came down to the garden to see me one day and he said, you know, you've got to give up this work and you've got to come to us as an evangelist. And I said, you know, I'm having a jolly good time. I'm doing very well here and I'm getting paid and I can go preaching when I want to. And I don't think this is for me. And he came twice or three times. And then old Pastor Shields came and walked around the garden with me and said, you know, you've got to give this up. God has a place for you. And I wasn't just thinking like that. But then I began to pray. And one morning I was up at the mountain and I'd gone right around it and around it again. Then I sat down on a rock and I said, Lord, what do you say about all this? I'm as clear as anything I heard this word. I'm reading it to you now. Ye have compassed this mountain long enough. Turn you northward. He's sitting up in the mountain. I went down and brought my old brass compass from the ship up to the mountain, settled her down. And northward was Belfast. That's where the Baptist Union wanted me to go. So I was getting my directions now. And I had to give up the job. And it was a terrible thing to do. I meant to tell the boss every morning, but I couldn't get it out. And one day nearly at the end of the time when I should be going, he jumped into the car, put his arms around me and hugged me and began to tell me about an old lady who came in this morning. And I said, look, sir, don't, don't go on with this. Turn the engine off. I said, do you know that I've got to leave you? And I could see the big tears welling up in his eyes. And he said, you know, I've known this for a long time. I don't know how you didn't know. You shouldn't be here. And I say this to you, both of us sat in the car and cried for an hour, never went home, just cried. I didn't want to leave him. And the devil would have kept me there. Wouldn't do, you know, sure it wouldn't. And then I'd reached this old country through. And into Scotland and England. And I had a pile of letters like that for meetings that would have kept me gone for years. When Bloomfield Baptist Church asked me to go to be the pastor, they began to know now that you don't go to the world to look for help. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. I hope you don't go to ungodly friends for direction, for ungodly horoscopes. You want direction. You go to the book, you find this, it is written. And I sat down to argue with the Lord. Lord, thou know that evangelism and folk are getting saved and have tons of work. And the Lord said, lovest thou me more than these? Go and feed my mums, go and feed my sheep. I have been feeding the sheep ever since. And when I went to Bloomfield, there were about 40 of the congregation and in three years, well, they had a meeting like this, something like 700. And three men from this church, only one of them here now, Mr. Russell, Sam Turns and John McGill, three men, came into our room one night and said, we know that God's been blessing you here, but we've been on our knees at Logan. We think that God's calling you down there. I sort of smiled and said, well, if God is telling you about it, he'll tell me about it, won't he? I took it lightly, you know, but then when they went out, I began to get down before the Lord. One evening as I knelt, something said to me, read Acts 10, and here's what you'll find if you read Acts 10. Behold, three men seek me. Arise and go with them, doubting nothing, for I have sent them. You know how to handle the devil now. He tempts you, he confuses you, he laughs now for you. You'll need the word of God, and don't you move without it. No matter how long you make sure you can turn it up, you have come past this mountain long enough. Go and feed my lambs. Go and feed my sheep. Behold, three men seek me. Arise and go. Great Victoria Street Baptist Church gave me a unanimous call to go, bless them, and were good to me, came and said, look, we'll get another fellow to do all the visiting, and look after the young people, and you'll only have Sunday morning and Sunday evening and the Bible class. And they put me in a fix, and I got all the folks here to pray one night, and they knew about it. And as they prayed, there came a word into my mind, it's written on the wall in there, if you go and see it, painted up in big letters, epachal. I was sitting in the prayer meeting, and this thing, epachal. And I know so many botanical names of flowers. I know hundreds of them. And I know so many names of medicines. And I know a tremendous lot of Greek words. And to tell you the truth, I didn't know whether it was a flower or a medicine, or what it was. I was stuck. So I rose from the prayer meeting, went out through the door, and I said to Harry Edgar, who was sitting there, do you know what epachal is? And I'll dish up your head. Went on down the street and got an old Greek lexicon out and looked it up. And when I turned the word, it was a Greek word. And the Greek word means stay where you are. It got my direction. I had nothing against being victorious, because it would have been an honor to go. But if the Lord calls me to a barn with a dozen of people, then I shall be better there than anywhere else. Young man, I'm trying to help you. You're in the bottle, and the devil will tempt you, and he'll confuse you, and he'll ask for you, and then you'll take a ransom. You've got to get it right, haven't you? Yes. It'll have to be written. Make it in the book, do you see? And if you're honest with God, he'll be honest with you. You see, we need to by faith stand at the cross each day, and we need to by faith rise to the throne, and we need to by faith hear his words. Oh, these are our weapons. It's the death of the Lord, and the authority of the Lord, and the word of the Lord. Let's go to Ephesians chapter 6 just now. You know, he outlines the armor of the Lord here, and he said to them, verse 11, put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. Oh, and he said in verse 13, wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God. Verse 14, stand therefore, having your loins jetted out with truth, having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, but all taking the shield of faith. Verse 17, take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying always with all prayer. That's the spear that you hurl into the heavens. You know, I'm sure of this this evening, that all this armor, every part of it, it has to do with the assurance of the believer. Do with the assurance. You know, let's begin at the top. Let's begin with the helmet of salvation. You know, I think you need to be absolutely sure in your mind that yourself, if you're going to be any use in this fight, if this hat doesn't fit you properly, and it falls over your eyes, I'll tell you there's no use in this battle. And I've seen one or two believers with the hat down over their eyes, and they're not very sure where they're going. Man said to me the other day, Are you sure, you said? I said, of course I'm sure. He said, what makes you sure? The promise of the Lord. I said, you know, the Lord promised me that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. I just believe, even if I couldn't take you back to the moment that I called, but I can, but even if I couldn't, even if I couldn't take you back to the year I called, I'm sure from the very depths of my heart, I have called on the name of the Lord, and what more He promised, whosoever shall call shall be saved. And the helmet fits me all right. And it won't move. Hang on. Yes, you know, I'm absolutely sure. And you know, my feet shod this evening with the preparation of the gospel of peace. My, we were singing that grand old hymn tonight, I'm on redemption ground. Oh, the ground beneath my feet's absolutely sure of the sea. I'm standing on redemption ground. And I'm justified by faith. I'm justified by faith without the deeds of the Lord. Don't talk to me about the Sabbath or the commandments either, just for a moment. I'm justified by faith without the deeds of the Lord. It's a pretty solid ground I'm on. Yes, and being justified by faith, I have peace with God, you know. You see, I'm not only on redemption ground, and on the solid ground of justification by faith alone, I'm standing tonight. My standing is complete in Christ. Complete. I'm standing on something that's finished. Complete. Doesn't need the Baptist to help with us. My feet's on solid ground. Because if you're going to fight, you'll have to have your feet below you, won't you? When I used to go to the boxing school, the old master used to say, you know, you put your left foot out and put your right one behind and get your balance now. You're no use if you're off balance. You see, I'm sure of my ground. I'm sure of my salvation. You know, I want you to get this bit, your loins gathered with truth. Oh, let me help you young ones now. Somehow it's swinging round tonight that it's help for the young ones. Now, here's something I want you to get the hold of. Young fellow said to me the other day, you know, you seem to know this book from Genesis to Revelation. That is perfectly true. I can close my eyes at any time. I do it at night. And I can go through everything that's in the first chapter of Genesis, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, right through to the fifth case. And I know how many chapters there are too. And I can do the same with Exodus, and Leviticus, and Numbers. And I can come right through the book like that. And I can quote you yards out of it too. It seems you know it's all right for you frightened. You've got your loins jaded on with truth. But what about me? I'm only starting. It's a very fair question, isn't it? Well, I'll tell you this, son, just to get the hold of it. Don't let the things, don't let the things you don't understand, don't let the things you don't understand obsess the things you can't misunderstand. You get that? Because that's tremendous to me. Don't let the things you don't understand, and there may be a million of them, don't let the things you don't understand upset the things you can't misunderstand. You know, no matter how young you are in the first, I think you understand that the Son of God loved you and gave himself for you. You can't misunderstand that, can you? It's like what John said, a wayfaring man, no fool. Why a child can get saved from a child that has known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make me wise unto salvation. And don't keep the kids back. We can get saved, you know. It's all planned out like that. Yes, well, that's simple, isn't it? The Son of God loved me and gave himself for me. And this is just as simple. I know this, you know, that the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me, the moment that I came to him, he promised, I will in no wise cast out. And I like that rephrase, in no wise. You know, no matter what happens, no matter how you blunder, no matter how you lose your temper from me, no matter how you back it up, no matter what comes to take place, in no wise. Does he really mean it? You can't misunderstand it. You don't need the 11 plus for this. I'm sure about this. I'm sure he loved me, gave himself for me. I'm sure the day that I came to him, he took me in and he promised this. I'm sure of this, you know, that not only did he love me and die for me, not only did he take me in, but I'm sure of this. He said, he said, I will never leave you. He's sure of that, isn't he? I'm sure he cares for me. He says, trust all your care for me, for I care for you. I know that. Look, no matter who you are tonight, there's a thousand things about the millennial and all the rest of it, and a whole lot of problems and questions, and you don't know. Well, don't let the things that you don't understand upset the things you can't miss understand. Because if you get a few of these things wrong, you can fight, you know. Oh, yes. God puts you on the battlefield, you know, right away. You only need a few bits of truth around you, girded with truth, then you're ready for the battle. And you're sure, you know, but I'm sure I can manage him with these truths. Oh, I know he loved me. I know he took me in. I know he never leaves me. I know he cares for me. I know he'll come back for me. Are you sure it's ABC stuff, isn't it? Yes. You know, the breastplate, it's the breastplate of righteousness. You know, I'm sure of this too, that he who knew no sin was made sin for me, that I might be made the righteousness of God. Oh, what a breastplate the devil's afraid of this. Don't you see me called in the righteousness of God? Will God turn out anymore? That's his own righteousness. If that doesn't meet his requirements, he's finished too. It's the righteousness of God that I'm in. I'll tell you this, you know. You need this sword of the Spirit. We're back to this sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and it doesn't mean that. It means the saying of God. Oh, you need to be able to get the saying of God every time. When the old professor said to me, there's no Daniel. I said, do you know better than Jesus? He says, no, I don't. I said, well, Jesus said, when thou seest the abomination spoken of by Daniel the prophet, I'll have the saying, hit him on the head with it, crumpled him up a bit, because sometimes the devil comes through these old professors. Oh, you want to be sure, don't you? I'm sure that there's a way to where I am tonight. Oh, there's a sharp truth right to the throne of God, a new and living way, and the devil can't hold it. I can go from here to the throne, and there's no barriers. I can go right into heaven. Are you sure now? You know, friend, we need to by faith stand at the cross, and by faith rise to the throne, and by faith hear the commands of the master, and by faith we must be sure in the fury of the battle. You know, here are your weapons through the death of the Lord, through the authority of the Lord, through the word of the Lord, through the armor of the Lord, through the blood of the Lord. You remember the blood on the door, don't you? You know, let's go back to Exodus chapter 12. Yes, let's take a minute or two at this now. The boss is away anyway, so what's the use of it? You know, this is something I think that the young people don't get the hold of. God said, verse 12, I will pass through the land of Egypt. We're at Exodus chapter 12, and verse 12. But I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first born in the land. I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. Now, I think we read it like this. I used to do this when I was young. I thought you put the blood on the lentil on the two side posts of the door, and you went in and shut the door. And then God came through the land, and when he saw the blood, he passed by the door. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, it doesn't say he passed by. It says, I will pass over you. And in the Hebrew, it means, I will hover over you. Just put his wings over the door. Now, do you see how right I am? See verse 23. For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians. And when he seeth the blood upon the lentil on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, I'll hover over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. You know, he's covering the door, and the destroying angel's coming along, and the destroying angel can't get in. You know, when you're under the blood, why even in the tribulation period when the old devil's founding them, why they'll overcome him by the wood of their testimony and the blood of the Lamb. Do you remember Ahab with the red cord in the window? I'll tell you the destroyer couldn't get through the door, and I'll tell you the invading army, don't touch the home with the red cord in the window. Do you remember the ark, and the roof was pitched with pitch? It was covered, and the old word for pitch there is the word kaffir. It's the Hebrew word kaffir. It means atonement. It means covering. You know, the fury of the wrath of God couldn't touch those who were inside. They were covered. You can't get through the roof, and you can't get through the window, and you can't get through the door. Here are our weapons, spiritual weapons, the death of the Lord, and the authority of the Lord, and the word of the Lord, and the armor of the Lord, and the blood of the Lord. Each day may we by faith stand at the cross. May we by faith rise to the throne. May we by faith hear the commands of our commander. May we by faith be sure. May we by faith smile at the storm. For under the blood you can smile at the storm. Singing two verses, seven hundred and six. Good. Seven hundred and six. An old-fashioned glorious hymn this evening. Seven hundred and six. Now next Tuesday, going on with the battle, not so much in the political, or in the physical, or in the mental, or in the spiritual, or against the eternal. We're going to see the battle against the evangelical. You know, there are not only principalities we fight and powers, but the lures of the darkness of this world. The enemies of the cross. We're going to see the battle there reaching next Tuesday. Seven hundred and six onward Christian soldiers. First, second, and fourth verses. First, second, and fourth. Seven or six. We are more than through him that loved us. Help us to know about our weapons. Help us to be marksmen and able to handle all that thou hast given us. Lord, we're following on in the train of thy triumph. Bless every hand thou hast taught us in thy fear and with thy blessing. Take us to our homes in safety through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.