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The preface explains the intense preparation, prayer, struggle, and discernment involved in preaching on perfection themes, emphasizing raw, open contact with the adversary. It frames Christian maturity as entering “lion country,” resisting temptations, and pressing into blessed victory rather than settling for spiritual mediocrity or becoming “run-of-the-mill” Christians.","and blessing-I have freelyreceived from Jesus Christ!”  \n100  \n# TALKBACKTO THEDEVIL\n\nI  \n# TALKBACK\n\nTO THEDEVIL  \nessays in spiritual perfection  \nA.W.TOZEREdited by  \nGerald B.Smith  \nAlso published in cloth binding asVolume Four of The Tozer Pulpit Series  \nchristian publicationS inc  \nCopyright c1972  \nCHRISTIAN PUBLICATIONS,INC.Harrisburg,Penna.17101  \nop   \nThe Mark of  \nVibrant Faith  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nISBN 0-87509-206-3  \nContents  \nChapter  \nPage  \nITalk Back to the Devil!…………………………………………………………9  \nChristianity—Fun and Games?………………………………………22  \nAlways Slamming on the Brakes!……………………………………33  \nYou Can't Be a Baby All Your Life!………………………………43  \nStopped Dead in Your Tracks?…………………………………………54  \nDenominations Can Backslide, Too!………………………………66  \nDark,Dark Night of the Soul!……………………………………………78  \nGod Heard Elijah Because Elijah Heard God!…………89  \nDon'tThrow Your Head Away一  \nYou'll Need It!………………………………………………………………………………100  \nForget That They Told You to Shut Up!……………………111  \nCaution:Self-Will Will Scratch Your Back!…………121  \nHow Long Can You Slight the Christ of God?…………132  \n# Preface\n\nIn his lifetime,Dr.A.W.Tozer was quick toadmit that he could take no delight in preachingon spiritual perfection themes,because of the realityof meeting Satan's opposition head-on.  \nWhen preaching the twelve sermons which arepublished here,Pastor Tozer told his Chicago congre-gation:  \n\"I have never given more time and more painand more prayer to any other series of sermonsin my ministry.  \n\"Because of their importance,I have literallyfelt Satan attempting to thwart the purpose of God.I have felt I was in raw contact with hell.  \n\"There are so many in the Church who are spirit-ually blind that I tell God that I want to be ableto see—I want to be a lower-case 'seer.'I wantto penetrate and understand and have discernment  \nconcerning the whole plan of God.I want to appraisethe situation and see it as God sees it—to knowthe role of God in this day of religious confusion.  \n\"Now,that doesn't make a man easy to live with.It doesn't make him popular and it doesn't createany problem for police taking care of the crowd.  \n\"This course has forced me frequently to followthe trail of opposition and temptation straight tothe foe!But I would rather have it this way thanto have to admit—as some will have to admit—tohaving spent a lifetime preaching the Word of Godand yet never having met the devil once in opencombat!  \n\"In my preparation,there have been strugglesand combat,moans and pains.I think this is theconflict of Jesus being re-lived in His people.Andsome of you have felt it,too.Some of you havecome out into a newer,more blessed and happierexperience in God,which is only beginning for you!  \n\"I have received mail concerning these sermons.The courageous ones signed.The cowards wrote with-out signing their names.Their suggestion seems tobe that I am a 'show-off to preach about perfec-tion,and that I am trying to get a reputation forbeing'saintly.'  \n\"But,I will tell you something—it is a delightfulthing when you know that you are close enoughto the adversary that you can hear him roar!Toomany Christians never get into 'lion country'at all!\"  \nMost of you who will now go on to read Dr.Tozer's straight-forward appeals for Christ-like liv-ing did not hear the sermons as they were preached.So,it is our hope—as it was Dr.Tozer's for hishearers—that you will resist the temptations to be-come a \"run-of-the-mill\"Christian and that you willpress on into blessed victory in\"lion country\"!","cbCaicJF6kygkbsj","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicJF6kygkbsj","pdf",5597012,1,148,"English","en",105,"# Preface\n# ITalk Back to the Devil!\n# Christianity—Fun and Games?\n# Always Slamming on the Brakes!\n# You Can't Be a Baby All Your Life!\n# Stopped Dead in Your Tracks?\n# Denominations Can Backslide, Too!\n# Dark,Dark Night of the Soul!\n# God Heard Elijah Because Elijah Heard God!\n# You'll Need It!\n# Forget That They Told You to Shut Up!\n# Caution:Self-Will Will Scratch Your Back!\n# How Long Can You Slight the Christ of God?","[{\"question\":\"What does the preface say about why Tozer preached on spiritual perfection?\",\"answer\":\"Tozer insists the theme cannot avoid Satan’s head-on opposition. 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