The Devil and the Church

The identification of Christ with men was as complete in extent as it was real in nature. The first chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews sets forth seven proofs of Divine Sonship, and the second chapter enumerates the following seven points of His identification with man: He descended to man’s level, took man’s nature, endured man’s temptation, died in man’s place, conquered the devil, man’s foe, achieved man’s victory, and secured man’s salvation.

—Samuel Chadwick.

HE devil is too wise, too large in mental
grasp, too lordly in ambition, to confine
his aims to the individual. He seeks to

direct the policy and sway the scepter of nations. In his largest freedom, and in his delirium of passion and success, “he goes out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth.” He is an adept in deception, an expert in all guileful arts. An archangel in execution, he often succeeds in seducing the nations most loyal to Christ, leading them into plans and principles which pervert and render baneful all Christly principles. The Church itself, the bride of Christ, when seduced from her purity, degenerates into a worldly ecclesiasticism.

The “gates of hell shall not prevail” against