316: Luther - Letters of Spiritual Counsel to the Anxious and Despondent
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The Pre-Modern View of Spiritual Attacks
Luther says, it is necessary for all of us who are Christians to have the devil as an adversary and an enemy. He perceives them existentially like this is going to destroy Germany. If he cannot break a person with his first attack, he tries by persevering to wear him out and weaken him until the person falls and confesses himself beaten. This goes back to what you said. It's not just the physical attack. It's the mental attack and the emotional attack. Yeah, your whole person. And if the devil can't beat you down, he will beat your children down, for example. So excellent Jerome, you ought to rejoice in this temptation of the devil because
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