I hope you have already anticipated the one point where this breaks down. The Holy Spirit cannot bring to remembrance truths and promises if I have not stored them up in my mind to begin with through study, memorization, and meditation. If I haven’t treasured God’s Word in my heart, then every time Satan comes in, I am going to be absolutely vulnerable to him. This reality causes Christians who are weak in the Word to go down right and left. The Holy Spirit wants to help us, but we haven’t given Him the spiritual material to work with. Therefore, we become vulnerable and most often fall. Let’s look again at the temptation of Jesus in Luke 4. Satan first moved in with a temptation of the body. He knew Jesus was hungry. He then moved on to two additional temptations. What was the response of Christ? He said “It is written . . .” each time. His weapon was the Word. Three times Jesus said what the Spirit immediately activated—the Word. Our spirit through the Holy Spirit can bring to mind what we have laid up in our hearts. “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” However, when there is no word laid up in our hearts because of laziness, then we quench and grieve God’s Holy Spirit. Why? Because we haven’t taken up the armament needed in order to bring the protection in our life that God wants us to have.
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