Quiet Talks by Samuel Dickey: Gordon, Samuel Dickey - Quiet Talks About the Tempter: 018. The Human Battlefield

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Quiet Talks by Samuel Dickey: Gordon, Samuel Dickey - Quiet Talks About the Tempter: 018. The Human Battlefield



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The Human Battlefield

Then the second one in this trinity is the man himself. He is the real scene of the conflict. I said the earth is the battlefield and that is true. It is true because man is on the earth. It is our presence here that makes it the battlefield. This earth is ours as well as our present home. We were given mastery over all its riches and forces. It is our presence here that makes the fight. We men are really the battle-ground. The tempter works upon us, and he works through us. He must work through us. It is his only way. Only as Satan gets control of men can he carry out his ambitions for the earth.

Every man is a battlefield, a spirit battlefield. Every man is being besieged. If the evil one be in control,—and it is startling, to the point of being painful, in how many of us he is in control, even where we are quite unconscious that it is he, for he is very adroit in keeping out of sight; if he be in control, then the Lord Jesus is laying siege, lovingly, tactfully, persistently trying to win His way in.

And wherever the Lord Jesus has been given mastery, the enemy is, by every artful device known to deceit, trying with malicious cunning and persistence to get in at some corner or crevice. But—but the man within is the deciding factor. The man settles who shall come in and rule his life. Every man's heart is his castle. There he is sovereign, and none can come in without his consent.

There is only one knob to the door of a man's heart. That is on the inside. The tempter cannot get in unless the man within turns that knob and lets him in. And, be it remembered with greatest reverence, that our gracious God won't come in except by the man's free consent. Man is the battlefield. He decides which way the battle should go. No man can be whipped without his own consent. And every man may have victory, sweet and full, if he wants it. Man is the second of this trinity of action, the middle one. The thick of the action swings around him.