# Preparing for war by John Murray

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- Published: 2006-05-17T05:13:57-05:00
- Author: tollelege

"You are preparing yourselves in pursuance of a divine call for the ministry of 
the Word without which the whole world perishes in sin, in misery and death. You
are training for the most militant service in that kingdom that is an everlasting
kingdom and in that dominion which shall not be destroyed. Militant service, indeed,
for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against 
powers, against the rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness
in high places. All of this lays upon you an exacting obligation."

–John Murray, _Collected Writings_, vol. 1, (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1989 rep.),
pp. 105-106.

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