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If you were satan, and you saw a large part of your kingdom coming down, wouldn’t you resolve to call out all your forces and concentrate them on that particular group which was working to advance God’s kingdom? That’s what I believe he did about this time 400 years ago. A little band of Englishmen had so discovered what it meant to know Jesus Christ, and to walk with Him in this present world, that they were satan’s “greatest nightmare”. They weren’t wealthy or, for the most part, very well educated by the world’s standard. But God had given them pure hearts; hearts in which, by the cleansing of the blood of Christ, He himself had come to dwell. Christ had found a welcome will in those hearts; a will through which He could release His own will, and accomplish His purpose of getting out the message of what He’d done by His life, death, resurrection, ascension, and the outpouring of His Holy Spirit into men on this earth. Christ could feel at home among them because their agreement (or covenant as the Bible calls it) with God had caused them to enter an agreement with each other to:
“…walk together in all His ways, made known, or to be made known, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them.”
It was this covenant with God and one another that would Continue reading