The Lever
by John McCandlish Phillips We live in a nation where we are utterly free as Christians to spread the Gospel by every available means — with no limits whatever imposed upon us. In fact, the gov ernment in this nation protects and ensures the right of Christians to send forth the Gospel. Yet we see a waning influence of Biblical truths and Biblical stand ards in the United States. There are no limits imposed upon us, but we have imposed limits upon ourselves by a restricted and narrow vision of what it means to obey Jesus Christ's commands. Beyond that, we suffer from lim its imposed upon us by the active strategy of Satan, whose policy it is to work ruthlessly to prevent our Page 50
fullest carrying out of the great commission. Now if we can find out what that strategy is, we will be able to take steps to overcome it. The policy of Satan is the sup pression of God's Word and God's work to as nearly a total degree as possible. In nations where more than one billion people live tonight the pro mulgation of the Gospel is severe ly limited, or forbidden, by the governments in power. Whenever possible, our adversary uses the government as the instrument of his persecution of the Gospel, be cause that is the most efficient, the most nearly total, way. Since that is not yet possible in
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