And these wicked spirits are against the Masterpiece of God. Those who are in Christ and lay hold in the power of His Spirit of the great and ever blessed truths revealed in this epistle, who know the hope of His calling, who rejoice in God and the Glory to come, who walk worthy of the calling, come face to face with these powers of darkness. They hate us as they hate Christ. The wiles of the devil, not his power, we are exhorted to stand against. His wiles are all aimed at getting us away from the