“那鬼喊叫，使孩子大大的抽了一阵疯，就出来了。”（马可福音九章26节）
恶者从来不肯放弃他的地盘，除非先有一阵激烈的战争。我们得到属灵的产业，并不是在宴乐中得到的，乃是在战场上得到的。这是属灵的秘密。我们身体的各部，要恢复属灵的自由，必须要有宝血的代价。亚玻伦（启示录九十一节）不是能用情谊，礼貌，要求，请出来的；他在里面高视阔步；所以我们必须用属灵的武力，宝血和眼泪，驱逐他，他才会出去。这一点我们必须记得，否则我们生活中会有许多误解。我们重生，并不是重生在王宫中，乃是重生在旷野；那里我们吃的奶，就是四周的风波和战争。“我们进入神的国，必须经历许多艰难。。”（使徒行传十四章二十二节）。——乔怀德
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him (Mark 9:26).
Evil never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It is so in the secret realm of the soul. Every faculty which wins its spiritual freedom does so at the price of blood. Apollyon is not put to flight by a courteous request; he straddles across the full breadth of the way, and our progress has to be registered in blood and tears. This we must remember or we shall add to all the other burdens of life the gall of misinterpretation. We are not "born again" into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."
--Dr. J. H. Jowett
Faith of our Fathers! living still,
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword:
O how our hearts beat high with joy
Whene'er we hear that glorious word.
Faith of our Fathers! Holy Faith!
We will be true to Thee till death!
Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,
Were still in heart and conscience free;
How sweet would be their children's fate,
If they, like them, could die for Thee!
恶者从来不肯放弃他的地盘，除非先有一阵激烈的战争。我们得到属灵的产业，并不是在宴乐中得到的，乃是在战场上得到的。这是属灵的秘密。我们身体的各部，要恢复属灵的自由，必须要有宝血的代价。亚玻伦（启示录九十一节）不是能用情谊，礼貌，要求，请出来的；他在里面高视阔步；所以我们必须用属灵的武力，宝血和眼泪，驱逐他，他才会出去。这一点我们必须记得，否则我们生活中会有许多误解。我们重生，并不是重生在王宫中，乃是重生在旷野；那里我们吃的奶，就是四周的风波和战争。“我们进入神的国，必须经历许多艰难。。”（使徒行传十四章二十二节）。——乔怀德
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him (Mark 9:26).
Evil never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It is so in the secret realm of the soul. Every faculty which wins its spiritual freedom does so at the price of blood. Apollyon is not put to flight by a courteous request; he straddles across the full breadth of the way, and our progress has to be registered in blood and tears. This we must remember or we shall add to all the other burdens of life the gall of misinterpretation. We are not "born again" into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. "We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God."
--Dr. J. H. Jowett
Faith of our Fathers! living still,
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword:
O how our hearts beat high with joy
Whene'er we hear that glorious word.
Faith of our Fathers! Holy Faith!
We will be true to Thee till death!
Our fathers, chained in prisons dark,
Were still in heart and conscience free;
How sweet would be their children's fate,
If they, like them, could die for Thee!