Howard C. Wilkinson - "On Casting out Satan" (November 30, 1969)

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	(choir music and singing)	0:07
	(choir music and singing continues)	0:57
	(choir music continues)	1:32
-	The scripture lesson for the day	2:17
	is taken from the gospel according to Saint Matthew,	2:19
	chapter 12, verse 22 through 28.	2:24
	Let us hear the word of God.	2:31
	Then a blind and dumb demoniac was brought to him,	2:40
	and he healed him	2:46
	so that the dumb man spoke and saw.	2:48
	And all the people were amazed and said,	2:54
	"Can this be the son of David?"	2:57
	But when the Pharisees heard it, they said,	3:01
	"It is only by Beelzebub, the prince of demons,	3:05
	"that this man cast out demons."	3:11
	Knowing your thoughts, he said to them,	3:16
	every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste,	3:20
	and no city or house divided against itself stand.	3:26
	And if Satan cast out Satan,	3:33
	he is divided against himself.	3:37
	How then will his kingdom stand?	3:41
	And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub,	3:45
	by whom do your sons cast them out?	3:50
	Therefore they shall be your judges.	3:56
	But if it is by the spirit of God that I cast out demons,	4:01
	then the kingdom of God has come upon you.	4:08
	Here ends the reading of the lesson for the day.	4:14
	(choir music)	4:22
	(choir music continues)	4:58
	The Lord be with you.	5:16
	Let us pray.	5:20
	Let us offer unto God our unison prayer of thanksgiving.	5:24
	Oh Lord, our God,	5:33
	the author and giver of all good things,	5:36
	we thank thee for all thy mercies.	5:40
	And for thy loving care over all thy creatures.	5:43
	We bless thee for the gift of life,	5:48
	for thy protection round about us,	5:53
	for thy guiding hand upon us,	5:56
	and for the tokens of thy love within us.	5:59
	We thank thee for friendship and duty,	6:04
	for good hopes and precious memories.	6:08
	For the joys that cheer us and trials that teach us	6:12
	to put our trust in thee.	6:17
	Most of all we thank thee for the saving knowledge	6:21
	of thy son, our savior.	6:25
	For the living presence of thy spirit.	6:28
	For thy church, the body of Christ.	6:32
	For the ministry of word and sacrament,	6:36
	and all the means of grace.	6:40
	And all these things, oh Father,	6:44
	make us wise unto a right use of thy benefits,	6:47
	that we may render an acceptable thanksgiving unto thee	6:53
	all the days of our life.	6:58
	For Jesus Christ, amen.	7:01
	May we continue in an attitude of prayer as	7:19
	we offer our intersessions and our partitions	7:22
	for others and for ourselves.	7:28
	Oh mighty God who is committed to thy people,	7:33
	the ministry of intersession,	7:36
	hear us, we ask as we pray for others needs and our own.	7:39
	And grant that our hearts may be so filled with peace	7:45
	and with courage that we may be fit instruments	7:49
	of thy will for our neighbor's need,	7:54
	and for our own lives' amendments.	7:58
	Let us pray for the whole church of God	8:05
	throughout all the world.	8:08
	Oh Lord of the church, unite thy church we ask.	8:14
	Point her to the issues, raise her eyes,	8:22
	amaze her heart,	8:28
	stir her imagination,	8:32
	raise her temper,	8:35
	call her into the crisis.	8:38
	Show her the headlines, we ask, oh God.	8:42
	Send her into danger,	8:47
	make her children glad,	8:50
	make her youth zealous.	8:53
	Make her men brave, make her women free.	8:57
	Make her ministers martyrs,	9:04
	make her bishops servants.	9:08
	Make her risk her life, oh Lord,	9:12
	as Christ laid down his own life freely	9:16
	for thy people.	9:21
	May we offer unto God our partitions	9:27
	for those human needs gathered in this sanctuary	9:30
	and in all parts of God's world.	9:35
	Oh Lord, remember and help us in our special needs, we ask,	9:43
	as thou remembered the old man Noah	9:51
	and the ark so long ago.	9:55
	And the young man Jesus on the cross.	9:58
	Remember us all in the lonely places of our lives,	10:05
	for life is but memory.	10:12
	Where traffic is gone, where crowds have left,	10:16
	where travelers are disperse, where seats are empty,	10:23
	and where rooms are vacant.	10:29
	Remember us oh Lord in our loneliness where laughter	10:34
	is but an echo.	10:38
	Where bouquets are dried, where pictures are framed	10:41
	and where events are passed.	10:47
	Remember us, oh God our Father,	10:52
	for we still travel as nomads.	10:56
	We too have our memorial stones and our memory lanes	11:01
	to which we turn with nostalgia, with loneliness,	11:05
	with gratefulness, and with reflection.	11:11
	Remember us, oh God who art always	11:19
	on the move toward the future,	11:22
	and lead us from our memories into thy hope.	11:26
	Oh Lord,	11:37
	we pray now for those who are caught	11:40
	in the structures of their lives	11:47
	and the structures of an inhuman world.	11:50
	Restore the ones, we pray, who are caught in the routine,	11:55
	in the structure, in the system.	12:02
	Release the ones, oh Father,	12:08
	suppressed by the advice of others,	12:11
	by the rules, the guidelines, the by-laws,	12:14
	the schedules, the time clocks and the dead lines.	12:19
	Refresh us all we ask, oh God,	12:26
	for we become exhausted by pressure.	12:31
	We are dazed by the loose ends of our lives.	12:36
	We are bewildered by the procedures,	12:41
	we are confused by the temptations,	12:45
	we are distraught by the deceptions and	12:49
	chained by the job.	12:52
	Oh God, who has power to give life where there is death,	12:56
	return the lost, refresh the weary,	13:02
	release the enslaved, restore the caught,	13:09
	and renew the bored.	13:16
	Come in this season of advent, oh Christ.	13:19
	Come and show us the people,	13:26
	and our hearts will be made glad.	13:30
	Come into our chaotic and warring world, we pray thee,	13:34
	as Christ came, with healing and with peace.	13:40
	Thou shall find us proud, our Father,	13:49
	for we have not yet learned what it means to be humble.	13:53
	Thou shall find us guarded and defensive,	14:00
	for we are weak within and full of fear.	14:05
	Thou shall find us irritable and not a little arrogant,	14:11
	oh God, for we are uncomfortably guilty	14:16
	and are not often willing to admit the frailty of our sins.	14:22
	While we dress and parade like	14:29
	little Herods and lordly pilots,	14:31
	we know we have a deeper, stronger need of thee.	14:36
	Come again in this season of Christmas,	14:44
	thou meekest of all kings,	14:49
	and save us from ourselves,	14:54
	so we may learn to live joyfully for others.	14:58
	In the name of Christ of Bethlehem,	15:05
	our light, our hope, and our peace,	15:10
	who taught us that we should pray together, saying,	15:17
	"Our Father which art in Heaven,	15:21
	"Hallowed by thy name.	15:25
	"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done	15:28
	"on Earth as it is in Heaven.	15:33
	"Give us this day our daily bread	15:36
	"and forgive us our trespasses,	15:40
	"as we forgive those who trespass against us.	15:43
	"And lead us not into temptation,	15:48
	"but deliver us from evil.	15:52
	"For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory.	15:56
	"Forever. Amen."	16:03
	One of the favorite preaching techniques of our Lord	16:42
	was the asking of a question which forced his hearers	16:50
	to focus their attention upon the impossibility	16:59
	of something they were attempting to do,	17:05
	or upon the error of their ways.	17:10
	He had the ability to ask questions	17:16
	in such fashion that his hearers were almost compelled	17:22
	to give themselves the correct answer.	17:29
	For example,	17:34
	Jesus questioned,	17:38
	"What shall it profit a man if he shall gain	17:41
	the whole world and lose his own soul?",	17:46
	demands the answer, "It shall profit him nothing."	17:52
	Again, his question,	18:00
	"Why call me, "Lord, Lord",	18:02
	"and do not the things that I say?",	18:06
	calls for the obvious answer,	18:13
	"Nothing is gained by calling Jesus Lord	18:16
	"under those circumstances."	18:20
	Now in similar fashion, Christ turned to his critics	18:25
	on the occasion referred to in the morning scripture lesson,	18:30
	and which is also described in Mark, the third chapter.	18:35
	He asked them a question which destroyed	18:41
	the entire basis of their criticism.	18:45
	They were doing their best to discredit	18:50
	his curing of an insane man	18:53
	by contending that he cast out demons by	18:59
	the power of Beelzebub, the alleged prince of demons.	19:03
	Jesus then taxed their minds with one of	19:11
	those devastating rhetorical questions.	19:14
	How can Satan cast out Satan?	19:22
	It will be profitable for us, also beloved,	19:31
	to ponder that question today.	19:36
	I doubt that now is the moment,	19:41
	and perhaps here is not even the place,	19:44
	for us to struggle with the question of whether Satan	19:49
	is a personal potentate	19:53
	who is the conniving source of unlimited mischief.	19:55
	And who is hiding somewhere in the cosmic basement,	20:01
	devising all the damnation possible	20:05
	for as many mortals as he can.	20:08
	Some Christians hold to one view on this,	20:13
	and some Christians hold to another.	20:16
	In passing, it is worth noting that many thousands	20:23
	of church members have a concept of Satan	20:28
	which is derived more from Thandi and Milton	20:33
	than from the Holy Bible.	20:37
	In his Paradise Lost, Milton pictured Satan as	20:42
	a crafty, prideful and stubborn tyrant	20:48
	who would rather rein in Hell than to serve in Heaven.	20:53
	However, even Christians who hold this personalistic view	21:01
	of Satan agree with other Christians that	21:06
	the only way in which mortals encounter Satan	21:10
	is through certain bad qualities of character	21:14
	in individual people,	21:20
	and certain inhuman practices in society.	21:23
	Very few normal individuals report that	21:29
	they are personally acquainted with	21:34
	such a personage as Milton described Satan to be.	21:37
	Even Martin Luther, who according to tradition,	21:43
	once hurled a bottle of ink at Satan,	21:46
	failed to leave us a detailed description of his physique.	21:49
	Apparently the nearest,	21:57
	anybody now residing in the Durham area,	22:01
	has come to having a visible confrontation	22:06
	with any person who lays claim to being the devil,	22:11
	as occurred when the spectators had filed	22:17
	into Wallace Wade Stadium to watch athletic contests.	22:20
	And they have seen the impish maneuvers	22:27
	of a Duke University student, dressed in blue,	22:29
	with an elongated appendage attached to	22:34
	the backside of his lap.	22:37
	Now this Satan has sometimes been cast out	22:41
	by the opposing cheerleaders,	22:45
	and occasionally by the Duke Dean's Office.	22:48
	However, although we do not expect in a given day's journey	22:55
	to meet a person who will introduce himself to us as Satan,	23:01
	it is very important that we not take	23:09
	the devil to be merely a funny joke.	23:12
	There was a time in the not too distant past	23:20
	when enlightened people assumed that mankind could dispense	23:23
	with the entire concept of Satan,	23:29
	whatever form it might take.	23:32
	But today, we find serious writers grappling	23:36
	with the reality of some kind of force	23:40
	or influence which they call Satan.	23:44
	Poets like W.H. Auden,	23:51
	novelists like Mann, Geed, and Dostoevsky	23:54
	accept the demonic as real.	23:59
	Now for the purposes of this sermon,	24:07
	let's define Satan as being all of the bad qualities	24:10
	of character which stand in the way of	24:15
	the full realization of the kingdom of God,	24:19
	as taught by our Lord and Savior.	24:23
	Now this would include hatred and lying	24:28
	and lust and pride, stealing, killing.	24:35
	The long list of anti-social and inhuman wicked ways	24:41
	of erring mankind.	24:50
	The problem which has plagued the human race	24:55
	from the very beginning,	24:59
	but more especially since the incarnation,	25:01
	is how, h-o-w,	25:08
	do we cast out these bad attitudes	25:12
	and practices and thus prepare our hearts	25:18
	and our society for the kingdom of God?	25:22
	How do we rid ourselves of hatred?	25:29
	Of lying. Lust.	25:35
	Pride. Stealing.	25:37
	Killing. Alcoholism.	25:43
	War. Communism. Poverty.	25:48
	Racial inequality. Illegitimate births.	25:55
	Broken marriage vows.	25:59
	How?	26:03
	How?	26:09
	The answer which our Lord gave is	26:13
	that Satan cannot be cast out by Satan.	26:16
	He must be driven out by the forces of righteousness,	26:23
	by the power of the kingdom of God.	26:28
	Our method of defeating the devil must be the method	26:33
	of the Holy Spirit.	26:37
	Satan is cast out by unselfishness, by love,	26:41
	by a dedicated imagination,	26:47
	by obedience to God,	26:50
	and by a determined faith.	26:54
	The truth, which it is essential for us to see	27:00
	in extremely sharp focus,	27:06
	is that however promising Satan's methodology may appear	27:12
	to be, Satan in fact cannot cast out Satan.	27:19
	Now consider an analogy.	27:28
	Suppose that you need to catch the 7:55 plane out of	27:32
	the Durham airport this evening going to New York.	27:38
	Suppose that you get in a car at 6:55,	27:43
	drive south on US highway number 15.	27:49
	Your mistake will not consist in taking	27:57
	an improper road to the airport.	28:02
	Your error will not be that you took and irreligious	28:07
	or an immoral or an unChristian road to the airport.	28:12
	Rather, you will miss your 7:55 plane to New York	28:20
	because you will have chosen to drive on a highway	28:26
	which does not go	28:32
	to the airport.	28:36
	A great many people mistakenly assume Jesus meant	28:46
	to tell us something like this.	28:49
	Now, now, you naughty people must quit casting	28:52
	out Satan with Satan.	28:57
	The heavenly Father is very touchy on this point.	29:00
	And it is extremely embarrassing to him every time	29:05
	one of his followers casts out Satan with Satan,	29:10
	because that seems to imply that Satan	29:13
	is one of God's helpers.	29:16
	But my friends, this was not the point	29:21
	of Christ's teaching at all.	29:25
	Instead he was informing us that just as highway number 15	29:30
	simply does not go to the airport,	29:35
	so the use of Satanic methods to achieve righteous goals	29:40
	is a mistake for the sufficient reason	29:45
	that such methods do not, in fact, achieve righteous goals.	29:48
	Now let us consider some of the ways in which	29:59
	we have been tempted to employ Satanic methods	30:03
	to cast out Satanic evils.	30:08
	Many could be chosen from history,	30:14
	and the current scene also offers many examples of this.	30:18
	We'll look at a few from the past and	30:25
	a few from the present.	30:27
	Now since we are not responsible for what happened long ago,	30:30
	it's more comfortable to think about the errors of the past.	30:37
	So let's take our first example from	30:42
	the late Medieval period.	30:45
	You can relax on this one.	30:48
	Among the many legends which were being told in	30:52
	the British Isles at that time was the tale	30:58
	of a dashing figure known as Robin Hood.	31:02
	We do not certainly know whether such a character	31:09
	as Robin Hood actually lived.	31:14
	Perhaps there was at least some kernel	31:18
	of historical truth upon which the legend was built,	31:21
	and from which it grew.	31:25
	The story, whether fact or fiction,	31:29
	was about a man who loved the poor,	31:32
	and who was sorry the poor had too little money,	31:36
	too little food, too little clothing.	31:41
	He wanted them to have a sufficient amount	31:45
	of these necessities,	31:48
	so he decided to get them by the only means he knew	31:50
	at the time would accomplish that objective.	31:54
	Namely, to steal from the rich	31:59
	and give to the poor.	32:05
	By dent of his inspired skill,	32:09
	he took the access of the wealthy from them,	32:15
	and alleviated the poverty of the poor.	32:20
	Although we don't know whether	32:26
	any person named Robin Hood actually lived,	32:28
	we do know that the circulation of	32:32
	this quaint legend made a contribution,	32:34
	not so much to the feeding of the poor,	32:39
	as to teaching the poor to steal.	32:44
	Poverty and starvation are indeed evil realities,	32:52
	which mankind needs to cast out.	32:57
	But Robin Hood must learn that stealing also is evil,	33:01
	and that one wrong cannot cast out another.	33:08
	You see, the tantalizing assumption which makes it	33:15
	so tempting for Christians to continue trying	33:20
	to cast out Satan with Satan,	33:24
	is the illusion that we can control Satan	33:28
	if we can only keep him in the employ of the righteous.	33:35
	Satan becomes sanctified when he's hired out to Christians,	33:42
	so we like to think.	33:49
	We seem to feel that a wolf in sheep's clothing	33:53
	becomes a sheep.	33:57
	It is not so.	34:01
	A wolf, in whatever clothing, is still a wolf.	34:05
	Satan in the hire of Christians is still Satan.	34:14
	And according to Christ, Satan cannot cast out Satan.	34:19
	We sometimes are deceived by the short term success	34:28
	of Satan into thinking that he can be useful in our cause.	34:33
	But often a short term success can be a long term defeat.	34:40
	I recall in high school, two of my female schoolmates	34:46
	were competing for the affection of a boy.	34:51
	One day they argued over him until they began	34:56
	to shout at each other.	34:59
	They had to pull each other's hair and at last	35:01
	to claw each other's skin. To hit, kick.	35:04
	One was stronger, soon subdued the other.	35:09
	She won the fight, but lost the boy.	35:16
	Because he said he'd rather have a sweetheart who	35:23
	was less able to claw and fight than one who was more able.	35:28
	Well this is one dimension of the protracted debate	35:37
	about the Vietnam war, which has been almost ignored	35:44
	by Americans who have been discussing it now	35:49
	for these many years.	35:53
	Yet I feel it's an aspect of the war	35:58
	in which no honest and thoughtful American should ignore.	36:01
	Let me put it this way.	36:08
	The reason which the American government gives	36:12
	for its long standing military involvement	36:15
	in an undeclared war in Vietnam	36:23
	is that we must oppose communism,	36:26
	and communism is in Vietnam.	36:30
	I do not believe that any intelligent Christian	36:36
	will disagree that Marxian communism should be opposed.	36:42
	The vices of atheistic and materialistic communism	36:51
	are so numerous and so vexing	36:55
	as to justify our putting the label of Satan on it.	37:00
	And I believe it is the duty of every Christian	37:11
	to bear witness against the lies, the hate,	37:15
	and the materialism of communism.	37:20
	And to work and pray for the conversion of those	37:25
	who are held in the grip of its system of error.	37:30
	But it is the highest form of true Christian patriotism	37:39
	to ask the question whether our present military operation	37:47
	is having the affect of casting out	37:54
	the Satan of communism from southeast Asia.	37:58
	Many intelligent, well-informed, freedom loving,	38:05
	patriotic Christians have reported from Vietnam	38:11
	that it is not doing so.	38:16
	The Board of Directors of	38:22
	the American Friends Service Committee,	38:23
	appointed a working party of experts,	38:27
	some of whom are internationally famous	38:32
	in their fields of competence,	38:34
	to prepare a proposal for solving the plight	38:38
	of the tortured land of Vietnam.	38:43
	After much investigation and consultation, in 1966,	38:48
	they published their proposal in a book entitled	38:56
	Peace in Vietnam,	39:00
	which contained a serious of very concrete suggestions	39:03
	that the working party believed were realistic	39:08
	and would be successful.	39:13
	If you've not already done so,	39:16
	I commend to you the reading of this little book.	39:18
	But it is the opening paragraph of the volume	39:24
	which has particular relevance to our topic at this moment.	39:28
	It describes an event which took place	39:34
	in the city of Hua, South Vietnam,	39:38
	on a summer day in 1965, four years ago.	39:44
	It happened in a small square which was known	39:49
	as a rendezvous for American GIs and Vietnamese girls.	39:53
	Two military policeman were on duty to keep order.	40:02
	One of them has supplied himself with some candy	40:08
	for the children who crowded around the Americans.	40:11
	As soon as the children discovered that he had it,	40:16
	they pressed and clamored about him,	40:20
	whereupon he scattered it into the air.	40:23
	And as it fell to the cobblestones,	40:28
	the children descended upon it like a swarm of locusts.	40:31
	At this moment, a young south Vietnamese man,	40:38
	a school teacher, happened to come by.	40:45
	Seeing the school children,	40:51
	he spoke to them in a demanding voice,	40:53
	requiring them to give the candy back to the MP.	40:58
	Then facing the GIs, he spoke in measured English	41:04
	with a tone of suppressed anger.	41:09
	"You Americans don't understand", he said.	41:14
	"You are making beggars of our children,	41:20
	"prostitutes of our women,	41:26
	"and communists of our men."	41:31
	It is not unpatriotic to ask if	41:39
	that young south Vietnamese school teacher spoke the truth.	41:42
	Is our present posture over there manufacturing communists	41:52
	as rapidly as it is killing them?	41:57
	If not, how can we explain the admitted fact	42:03
	that after years of effort and the expenditure	42:08
	of between $100 and $200 billions of dollars,	42:12
	the loss of 40,000 American lives,	42:17
	the south Vietnamese countryside is today largely under	42:21
	the sway of the enemy.	42:27
	Can napalm, defoliation, scorched Earth,	42:34
	killing of civilians, and widespread adultery	42:41
	cast out Satan?	42:46
	Can it?	42:51
	Has it done so?	42:54
	Before taking highway number 15,	43:00
	perhaps we better find out if it goes to the airport.	43:03
	Before continuing our present policy in Vietnam,	43:10
	perhaps we had better find out if it is weakening	43:13
	or strengthening communism in southeast Asia.	43:18
	Now having said that it is both Christian and patriotic	43:26
	to question whether our undeclared war in Vietnam	43:30
	is being effective in casting out Satan,	43:34
	I wish to make it perfectly clear that	43:39
	this does not imply that those who sincerely believe	43:43
	we should continue our military involvement there	43:47
	are either unChristian or unpatriotic.	43:53
	I personally know many dedicated Christians	43:57
	who believe the war should go on.	44:01
	What we have on our hands is an honest disagreement	44:06
	between two groups of good people.	44:09
	But what both groups must realize	44:16
	is that in making their proposals,	44:21
	either for continuation or cessation,	44:27
	in so doing they make common cause	44:32
	with the strangest of bedfellows.	44:35
	The Christian who believes the continuation	44:39
	of the war is a mistake is joined by	44:42
	a handful of radicals and a whole lot of communists.	44:47
	This fact has been trumpeted from the housetops for months.	44:53
	What is equally true, but has not been admitted,	45:01
	is that the Christian who advocates a continuation of	45:06
	the war is likewise joined by a host of strange bedfellows.	45:10
	He makes common cause with the ruthless capitalists,	45:18
	who is gorging his bank accounts with war profits,	45:23
	and who is feverishly pressuring the government	45:27
	to continue the war so he can get even richer.	45:30
	He's making common cause with the military officer	45:36
	who wants the war to continue until he gets his promotion.	45:39
	And he's making common cause with the	45:45
	contemptible chauvinist who wants America to rule the world.	45:47
	Now these are only a few of	45:55
	the many undesirable bedfellows he has.	45:57
	But I wish to insist that this Christian should not cease	46:02
	to advocate a continuation of the war	46:08
	merely because of his strange bedfellows.	46:13
	It is, however, time for him to stop criticizing	46:20
	his brother Christian who wants the war stopped,	46:24
	but who can't help having strange bedfellows either.	46:28
	Whatever course you or I may advocate concerning Vietnam,	46:36
	all who follow Christ must agree that evil	46:41
	is not the cure for evil.	46:45
	That Satan cannot cast out Satan,	46:49
	and we must continue to study what that means,	46:53
	in terms of every relationship of human existence.	46:58
	As long as we are uncertain,	47:05
	at this point we do not really know whether	47:07
	we are Christians or worshipers of Baal.	47:11
	A significant theological difference existed between	47:18
	the religion of the Baal cults in Palestine,	47:22
	and the religion of Jehovah.	47:26
	The profits of Jehovah taught that evil was evil,	47:29
	and could not be sanctified by hiring itself out	47:35
	to Jehovah's temple.	47:40
	The Baal religions taught the opposite.	47:43
	For them, prostitution, for example,	47:49
	could be a service to the Baal God	47:53
	if it were practiced in the temple,	47:57
	and a goodly portion of the proceeds	48:02
	were turned over to the temple treasury.	48:06
	Some of you Lamen may have wondered	48:10
	why the Old Testament profits	48:15
	had such a hard time keeping Israelite men away	48:17
	from the worship of Baal,	48:21
	and why the profits spoke so hotly against Baal worship.	48:24
	This is the reason.	48:29
	Baal people taught that religion could be served by evil,	48:33
	whereas the profits of Jehovah said it couldn't be.	48:38
	The Hebrew Christian scriptures have been clear	48:45
	on this point.	48:48
	That our God has revealed to us no way by which	48:51
	we can serve him or establish righteousness doing evil.	48:56
	Christ made it quite clear that the devil	49:04
	is not upended by the devil.	49:07
	It remains for us who call ourselves Christians	49:12
	to decide to use Christian means to achieve Christian goals.	49:17
	And to study prayerfully,	49:23
	to determine what are the Christian methods for us	49:28
	to use in our day to solve the problems of our time?	49:33
	Oh Lord, our God, we need thy presence.	49:44
	We must have thy wisdom.	49:51
	And so we pray for it.	49:56
	That we may be wise to know	49:59
	where thou wish have us to go.	50:05
	In Jesus name, amen.	50:10
	(choir music)	50:17
	(choir music continues)	51:05
	(choir music continues)	52:12
	(choir music continues)	53:38
	(light choir music)	54:01
	(light choir music continues)	56:10
	(light choir music and singing)	56:31
	(light choir music and singing continues)	57:40
	(light choir music and singing continues)	1:00:07
	(choir music and singing continues)	1:01:58
	(choir music and singing continues)	1:03:26

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Howard C. Wilkinson - "On Casting out Satan" (November 30, 1969)

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November 30, 1969

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Wilkinson, Howard C.

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