Be Still, and Know That I Am God - A Memorial Day Sermon
Type of Event: Worship Service: Children & Adult
Date Recorded: May 30, 2010
Location: Ivyland New Church, PA
Topics: Charity / Life of Use / Service, Memorial Day / Veteran's Day, Angels
2 Samuel 1:19-26; Psalm 46; John 15:7-17; Arcana Coelestia 1664
O mountains of Gilboa,
Let there be no dew, nor let there be rain upon you,
Nor fields of offerings.
For the shield of the mighty is cast away there!
How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle!
Jonathan was slain in your high places.
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan..."
(2 Samuel 1:19-26)
Wars in the Word mean in the internal sense nothing other than spiritual conflicts, which are temptations. Wars waged by men can have no place whatever in the internal parts of the Word, for such things as wars are not the spiritual and celestial things which alone constitute the Word.
It is a constant truth that Jehovah alone, that is, the Lord, fights and overcomes the devil present with a person when he is involved in the conflicts brought by temptations, even though to that person this does not appear to be so. For evil spirits have no power at all to exert the slightest influence on man unless they are permitted to do so, and angels cannot act to avert anything at all unless enabled to do so by the Lord.
(Heavenly Secrets #1664)
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