如何抵擋魔鬼？

馬太福音 4:10 耶穌說：「撒但，退去吧！因為經上記著說：當拜主－你的上帝，單要事奉他。」

抵擋魔鬼的軍裝

有兩種軍裝是魔鬼害怕的，也可以殺死牠：

一、不斷地聆聽上帝的話語，由其帶領，受其安慰，被其堅固；

二、當試探和爭鬥來臨的時候，讓我們的心在上帝的話語裡昇華，並呼求上帝的幫助。

如果這軍裝常在，那麼靈魂與上帝之間永遠的對話就不會中斷：或是上帝向我們說話，我們安靜聆聽上帝；或是上帝聽我們對祂說話，即：禱告祈求我們的需要。不論哪種方法，魔鬼都不能忍受。牠不能抵擋這些。所以，基督徒們必須裝備這兩樣軍裝。這樣他們的心就會持久地歸向上帝，持守祂的話語，並以不斷地以歎息禱告上帝：“我們在天上的父……”

戰鬥不會結束

試探和災禍都在教導基督徒要堅持不懈。他們常被魔鬼、世界、和肉體（“邪惡三位一體”）壓迫，使得他們必需昂揚起頭來，警惕不眠不休的仇敵的襲擊。——馬丁路德（WA47:758）《1539年的講道》

禱告：全能上帝啊，我知道在我們的世界裡，魔鬼是恐怖的現實。求給我力量戰勝邪惡，還要為公義和憐憫做工。奉主耶穌基督的名。阿們。

How To Defeat the Devil?

Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “ ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’ ”

There is a twofold armor with which the devil is slain and which he fears:

(1) to listen unceasingly to the Word of God, to instruct oneself in it, and to be comforted and strengthened by it;

(2) then, when temptation and struggle come upon us, to lift up our hearts to that same Word and cry to God, invoking him for help.

Thus one of the two things is always present, continuing as an eternal conversation between God and the soul. Either God speaks to us and we are still, listening to God, or he listen to us as we speak to him, praying for what we need.

Whatever way it may be, the devil cannot endure it, and he cannot hold his own against it. Therefore Christians must be armed with both, so that their hearts may be everlastingly turned toward God, keeping his Word and with unceasing sighs eternally praying, “Our Father …” This perseverance Christians will be taught by temptation and calamity with which they are constantly oppressed by the devil, the world, and the flesh, so that they must ever keep their heads up, watching for the assault of the enemy who neither sleeps for a moment nor takes his ease.

(WA 47:758) from sermon from the year 1539