Episode 312: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 278

Episode Summary:

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. (Ephesians 6:11-13)

66 We… The Bible says that we don’t wrestle with toeholds, flesh and blood; but we wrestle against spiritual powers. Now, if you’d only realize it, as I said a while ago, we are risen with Him now. You’re not going to die. You’re already dead. See? But our Spirit is alive in Him. So we’re not wrestling against natural, scientific things; we’re wrestling against spiritual power.

You know, wrestlers, they practice on breaking toeholds and things. But you don’t break these toeholds. No. Could you imagine a wrestler come out now. My, with his fingernails polished, trunks on with all kinds of gold beads around it. Look like a pretty good wrestler, but that’s only intellectual. If he hasn’t got a hidden strength there, that when the enemy gets a toehold on him that he can pull him out of it (hallelujah), his intellectual beads around him and everything don’t make much difference. So all of our intellectual means nothing if there isn’t a hidden power of the Holy Spirit there (Hallelujah), to break the hold of the devil.

67 But we’re in a wrestling match. We’re wrestling not with fine-dressed intellectual psychology, but we’re wrestling with the power and the promise of God which can break any hold on any devil at any time. Jesus, our Lord, proved it when He was Emmanuel, God Himself made flesh among us. And when He met Satan, to show that Satan could be defeated by the Word, every time Satan would come to Him He said, “It’s written. It’s written.” Oh, how I would like to take time here on some note I got wrote here, on the things that He said—how many times that He broke Satan’s power with “It’s written.” (Oh, my.), showing that that fortified person behind the Word of God can scream out, “It’s written, turn him loose. Turn loose, Satan, for it is written,” if you’re staying behind the Word. “If ye abide in Me, and My Word’s in you, ask what you will.” That’s right. Can’t be wrong; that’s got to be right.

62-0607 – “Putting On The Whole Armor Of God”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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