WHEN SPIRITUAL ATTACK RESUMES

This Present Darkness Part 6October 12, 2016

Pastor Paul J. James

THIS WEEK’S MAIN

CHARACTERS

SANDY HOGAN• DAUGHTER OF MARSHALL AND

KATE

• STUDENT AT WHITMORE COLLEGE

• EMOTIONALLY FRAGILE, CLOSED

SPIRIT TOWARDS DAD

JULEEN

LANGSTRAT• PROFESSOR AT WHITMORE

COLLEGE

• PROMOTES INTERESTING COSMIC

BELIEFS

• SUSPICIOUS CONNECTION TO

LEADERS OF ASHTON

SHAWN ORMSBY• NEW FRIEND OF SANDY

• PEACEKEEPER BETWEEN

SANDY AND MARSHALL

• COLLEGE STUDENT AT

WHITMORE COLLEGE

MARY BUSCHE• HANK’S WIFE

• DEEPLY DISCERNING AND

SPUNKY

• FIERCELY LOYAL TO HER

HUSBAND

PASTOR HANK

BUSCHE• NEW PASTOR OF ASHTON

COMMUNITY CHURCH

• PRAYING MAN WITH DEEP SENSE

OF MISSION

• UNCOMPROMISING PREACHER

AND PASTOR

CARMEN FRASER• LONELY WOMAN SEEKING

COMFORT

• HIGHLY SENSUAL UNDER GUISE

OF INNOCENCE AND NEED

KATE HOGAN• MARSHALL’S WIFE

• TRULY UNDERSTANDS HER

HUSBAND

• PEACEKEEPER IN HOME

MARSHALL

HOGAN• OWNER/EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF

THE CLARION

• HUNGER FOR TRUTH AND IN

SEARCH OF GOD

• MORAL, IRRELIGIOUS

BERNICE

KREUGER• INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER FOR THE

CLARION

• MOTIVATED SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF

SISTER

• VERY CLOSE DAUGHTER

RELATIONSHIP WITH HOGAN

RON FORSYTHE• DRUG-ADDICTED

• DISORIENTED, CONFUSED

• DEMON-OPPRESSED AND

POSSESSED

• CHRISTIAN PARENTS

ELDON

STRACHAN• FORMER DEAN OF

WHITMORE COLLEGE

• MAN OF INTEGRITY

• INDEPENDENT THINKER

• RETIRING IN EXILE

“THE

MAIDSERVANT”

aka SUSAN

JACOBSON

• FORMER ROOMATE OF PAT KREUGER

• TAKEN CAPTIVE BY THE OCCULT AND A

MYSTERIOUS FIGURE

• SEEMS TO LACK COMMITMENT TO HER

SURROUNDINGS

KEVIN WEED• FORMER BOYFRIEND OF SUSAN

• BROKEN-HEARTED

• ALCOHOLIC BURNOUT

• SEEMS TO KNOW MORE THAN HE

CAN BEAR

SPIRITUAL ATTACK RESUMES

LIKE A FLOOD

Isaiah 59:19

SPIRITUAL ATTACK RESUMES BECAUSE

JESUS IS THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR!

Matthew 10:34-36

SPIRITUAL ATTACK IS THWARTED WHEN

THE SAINTS KNOW GOD’S WILL

Ephesians 4:27; 5:15-17

SPIRITUAL ATTACK IS THWARTED WHEN

IT IS ANTICIPATED

Ephesians 6:10-13

“The art of war teaches us to rely not on the

likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on

our own readiness to receive him; not on

the chance of his not attacking, but rather

on the fact that we have made our position

unassailable.” - Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

SPIRITUAL ATTACK IS THWARTED WHEN

IT IS ANTICIPATED

Ephesians 6:10-13