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Study Resources :: Text Commentaries :: F.E. Marsh :: Readings 301-350 (Peace - Service)

F.E. Marsh :: 309. Power of Darkness

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DARKNESS represents that which is evil, hence men love darkness, &c. There is the darkness of ignorance, the darkness of misery, and the darkness of sin.

  1. Subtle power. “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast” (Gen. 3:1).
  2. Blighting power. “Behold all that he hath is in thy power” (Job 1:12). “Satan smote Job with sore boils” (Job 2:7).
  3. Accusing power. “Doth Job fear God for nought?” (Job 1:9).
  4. Resisting power. “Satan standing at his right hand to resist him” (Zechariah 3:1).
  5. Constraining power. “Satan provoked David to number Israel” (1 Chron. 21:1).
  6. Opposing power. “Get thee behind Me, Satan” (Mark 8:33).
  7. Binding power. “Satan hath bound these eighteen years” (Luke 13:16).
  8. Sifting power. “Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat” (Luke 22:31).
  9. Robbing power. “Then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts” (Luke 8:12).
  10. Lying power. “Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?” (Acts 5:3).
  11. Hindering power. “We would have come….Satan hindered us” (1 Thess. 2:18).
  12. Persecuting power. “The messenger of Satan to buffet me” (2 Cor. 12:7).
  13. Destructive power. “Then entered Satan into Judas” (Luke 22:3).




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