As a roaring lion
Rev. Michael DeVries exhorts Protestant Reformed believers to spiritual vigilance against Satan's attacks, drawing on 1 Peter 5:8-9 and Peter's own experience of spiritual warfare. The article emphasizes the necessity of steadfast faith and dependence on the Holy Spirit's protection as Christians navigate their pilgrimage through a hostile world.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in world. I Peter 5:8, 9 The apostle Peter would be used by God to equip us as pilgrims and strangers in the earth to fight the battle of faith. In the final admonition of his first epistle he sums up our pilgrim calling. He warns us concerning our great adversary,...
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