Spiritual Warfare

I have just experienced the most exhilarating thing. A few days ago I
send a link to a friend that contained an article headed 'Death, Dying
and Sin, and Resurrection'. The article proved from the scriptures
that death is not a state of consciousness, but rather a state of
complete oblivion for all mankind, whether believer or not.

(Here is the link in case you are interested: http://
www.fromthescriptures.com/death_dying/death_s1.html)

Today, this friend of mine, who lives in Spain and is of Romanian
background, came online and told me that she had read the article
finding it rather confusing, which is natural because the truths
about what death and sin really is are seldom taught among many
believers nowadays.

I then suggested to her that we could talk about these truths via
skype. We did. But it remained at less then a short conversation.
Suddenly, she had to break it all off because some visitor had
arrived. I thought, at that point, great, now that we want to talk
about the deeper truths of God, Satan is throwing in some nice
distractions, nicely placed.

Oh well, I went on, God, if this is how You want things, go ahead, I
won't resent your doings!

But, surprisingly, she did come back, after a short while, thank God,
and we got the opportunity to talk. Of course, we didn't go into the
topic of Death and Resurrection right on the spot, for she was rather
inclined to read up on it some more, going deeper into the scriptural
references of the text. But I could reassure her that death is a
state of oblivion (until resurrection) and that that is what scripture teaches!

Still, we had a good and long conversation about other scriptural
things, such as spiritual endowments (commonly called gifts), or the
role of man and woman in teaching, or false teachers (healers). It
was all pretty stimulating.