"Satan's assaults have ever been directed against those who
advance the work of God.
Though often baffled, he renews his attacks with fresh vigor, using means hitherto untried.
But it is his secret working through the "friends" of God's work that is most to be feared.
Open opposition may be fierce and cruel, but it is fraught with far less peril to God's cause than is the secret enmity of those who, while professing to serve God, are at heart the servants of Satan.
Every device that the prince of darkness can suggest will be employed to induce God's servants to form a confederacy with the agents of Satan. But, like Nehemiah, they should reply, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down." (Nehemiah 6:3).
"They that forsake the law praise the wicked." Proverbs 28:4. When those
---who are uniting with the world
---plead for union with those who have ever been the opposers of the cause of truth,
*we should shun them as decidedly as did Nehemiah."
E.G.W.
Though often baffled, he renews his attacks with fresh vigor, using means hitherto untried.
But it is his secret working through the "friends" of God's work that is most to be feared.
Open opposition may be fierce and cruel, but it is fraught with far less peril to God's cause than is the secret enmity of those who, while professing to serve God, are at heart the servants of Satan.
Every device that the prince of darkness can suggest will be employed to induce God's servants to form a confederacy with the agents of Satan. But, like Nehemiah, they should reply, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down." (Nehemiah 6:3).
"They that forsake the law praise the wicked." Proverbs 28:4. When those
---who are uniting with the world
---plead for union with those who have ever been the opposers of the cause of truth,
*we should shun them as decidedly as did Nehemiah."
E.G.W.