What are some of the most subtle pitfalls
and attacks from the devil
that you can warn others about?
Kevin: Well, of course, the devil's crafty.
I think one of the pitfalls
is taking Christians to an extreme.
They go from one extreme to another
all the time.
As Lloyd-Jones said,
it doesn't matter what extreme you're on,
the devil's always at the end of it.
People think a church is too big,
so they go another extreme of:
well, we're going to meet in a house.
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The other pitfall of the devil
is "only-isms."
What I mean is it has to do
with getting out of balance.
It's when they make minor things
major things.
Being a Christian or the essential thing
is you've got to be home schooling,
or you've got to be doing street evangelism,
or it can be so many things,
but it's not centered upon Christ.
So I think definitely
taking people to extremes;
getting people out of balance
is the big problem.
Question: And personally, yourself,
when you were saved -
we're all fighting to be balanced -
are there times you felt like you got off balance?
And what happened to make you see
you were getting off balance?
Kevin: One thing that the Lord's always shown me
and has been faithful when I have got off balance,
normally by seeing people who are
obviously Christians; godly men
who have a different opinion from me
and they're not off balance like me.
And you start to realize, hang on a minute,
there's maybe something wrong with me here.
We've got to have that humility.
I think of the examples
when Jesus was exhausted by the well
in John's Gospel there,
and of course, His disciples went to get Him
something to eat.
And He's talking to that woman there
and it led to her salvation and many others.
But when His disciples came back,
it says they couldn't understand
why He was talking to a woman,
let alone a Samaritan woman.
But it also says they dared not question Him.
You see, their conscience was going off,
saying He shouldn't be doing that!
Why is He doing that?
But I think they'd learned enough
about holiness to say,
well, this guy's maybe a little more holy than me.
I better keep my mouth quiet here.
And that has really helped me
when I'm with other brothers
more mature over the years,
and to realize maybe they know a bit
more about holiness than me.
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