{"id":1086,"date":"2011-12-03T11:25:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T17:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:10","slug":"the-battle-for-the-souls-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for the Souls of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ecclesiastes 8:8, John 19:17-18, and Jude 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The Battle for Man&#8217;s Will:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Man must have a choice.<br \/>\n2. God set obedience as the test.<br \/>\n3. Satan approached man by selfish desires.<br \/>\n4. Man&#8217;s soul was in the balance.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>II: The Battle of Babel and the Flood:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Man moved by Satan attempted the impossible.<br \/>\n2. God confused their tongues.<br \/>\n3. God called the whole universe to battle in the flood.<br \/>\n4. Satan fought hard for the life and soul of Moses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: There is no discharge in this battle.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Satan will never give up.<br \/>\n2. He is behind every device that will separate men from God.<br \/>\n3. Satan is behind every battle that rages for the souls of men.<br \/>\n4. Every wicked piece of literature, billboard, paper, conversation, or act.<br \/>\n5. Satan will use every conceivable means to prevent the Church from saving souls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: The Battle of All Battles:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Before the Christ came.<br \/>\n2. At birth and through life.<br \/>\n3. The garden of Gethsemene.<br \/>\n4. On the cross of Calvary.<br \/>\n5. At the sealed grave.<br \/>\n6. Now against every foreward move of the Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecclesiastes 8:8, John 19:17-18, and Jude 9 I: The Battle for Man&#8217;s Will: 1. Man must have a choice. 2. God set obedience as the test. 3. Satan approached man by selfish desires. 4. Man&#8217;s soul was in the balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}