弗六11　要穿戴神全副的军装，使你们能以站住，抵挡魔鬼的诡计。

　　13　所以要拿起神全副的军装，使你们在邪恶的日子能以抵挡，并且作成了一切，还能站立得住。
　　神在造人的时候，就说出了祂的需要是什么。神给我们看见祂的需要就是有人能够掌权，能够管理祂手下的造物。管理不是一件小事，乃是一件大事。……这就是神的工作，这就是神所要得着的。
　　人如果没有从撒但的手下把地收回来，那就还没有达到神创造人的目的。……救人是为着解决人的需要，而对付撒但是为着满足神的需要（圣洁没有瑕疵，一三页）。

　　Eph. 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.

　　13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

　　When God created man, He spoke of what He needed. He revealed His need to have man rule and reign over all His creation and proclaim His triumph. Ruling for God is not a small thing; it is a great matter....This is God's work, and this is what God desires to obtain.

　　If man has not restored the earth from the hand of Satan, he has not yet achieved God's purpose in creating him....Saving souls solves man's need, but dealing with Satan satisfies God's need. (CWWN, vol. 34, "The Glorious Church," p. 11)

　　弟兄姊妹们，〔对付撒但〕是需要代价的！……传福音需要代价，但是，对付撒但是更需要代价的。
　　这并不是一篇道理，这是需要实行的，代价是非常大的。如果神要人去推翻撒但所有的工作和权柄，我们就非得完全地、绝对地顺服主不可。我们作别的工作，为自己留下地位，关系还小；但是，对付鬼魔的工作，是一点没有法子为自己留下地位的。我们能留下自己读圣经，留下自己传福音，留下自己帮助召会，留下自己帮助弟兄；但是，对付撒但，就不能留下自己。你要留下自己，你就推他不动。愿意神开我们的眼睛，使我们看见，神的目的是要我们绝对地为着祂。三心二意的人没有法子对付撒但。愿神对我们的心说话（圣洁没有瑕疵，一三至一四页）。
　　以弗所六章十至二十节启示，召会这新人需要与神的仇敌争战。……战士不是召会的身分，而是召会作为新人的一方面。新人有义务与神的仇敌争战。创世记一章指明了这点，那里告诉我们，神创造旧人时，托付人有祂的形像彰显祂，并有祂的管治权代表祂，以对付仇敌。……新造里的新人也有这双重责任，就是有神的形像彰显祂，并与神的仇敌争战。所以，召会作为新人乃是战士，与神的仇敌争战，因为新人现正完成神的定旨，彰显神并为着神的掌权，神的国，与神的仇敌争战。
　　在以弗所六章十二节保罗说，“我们并不是与血肉之人摔跤，乃是与那些执政的、掌权的、管辖这黑暗世界的、以及诸天界里那邪恶的属灵势力摔跤。”血肉之人，指人类。在血肉之人背后，乃是魔鬼那抵挡神定旨的邪恶势力。因此，我们的摔跤，我们的争战，必须不是抵挡人，乃是抵挡诸天界里那邪恶的属灵势力。那些执政的、掌权的和管辖这黑暗世界的，乃是背叛的天使；他们跟从撒但一同背叛、抵挡神，现今在诸天界里管辖世上的列国。这黑暗的世界，指今天完全在魔鬼借着他邪恶天使的黑暗管辖之下的世界。管辖这黑暗世界的，乃是撒但所设立以管辖列国的君王。由于撒但这黑暗权势的作工，地和其上的天空就成了“这黑暗的世界”。诸天界里那邪恶的属灵势力，指空中撒但和他邪恶的属灵势力。召会与撒但之间的争战，就是我们这些爱主且在祂召会中的人，与诸天界里的邪恶权势之间的争战。我们必须与这些属灵的势力争战（新约总论第七册，三一七至三一八页）。
　　参读：圣洁没有瑕疵，第一篇；国度，第七篇。

　　Brothers and sisters, [dealing with Satan] requires us to pay a price....Preaching the gospel demands that we pay a price, but a much greater price must be paid to deal with Satan.

　　This is not a matter of a message or a teaching. This requires our practice, and the price is extremely great. If we are to be men whom God will use to overthrow all of Satan's work and authority, we must obey the Lord completely and absolutely!...We may hold on to something of ourselves in our study of the Scriptures, in preaching the gospel, in helping the church or the brothers, but when we are dealing with Satan, self must be utterly abandoned. Satan will never be moved by us if self is preserved. May God open our eyes to see that His purpose demands that we be wholly and absolutely for Him. A double-minded person can never deal with Satan. May God speak this word to our hearts. (CWWN, vol. 34, "The Glorious Church," pp. 11-12)

　　Ephesians 6:10-20 reveals that the church, which is the new man, needs to fight against the enemy of God....The warrior is not a status of the church but an aspect of the church as the new man. The new man has the obligation of fighting against God's enemy. This is indicated in Genesis 1, where we are told that when God created the old man, He commissioned him to bear His image for His expression and to have His dominion for His representation to deal with the enemy....The new man in the new creation also has the twofold obligation of bearing God's image to express Him and of fighting against God's enemy. Therefore, the church as the new man is a warrior fighting against God's enemy, for the new man is now fulfilling God's purpose to express God and to fight against God's enemy for God's dominion, God's kingdom.

　　In Ephesians 6:12 Paul says, "Our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies." Blood and flesh refers to human beings. Behind men of blood and flesh are the evil forces of the devil, fighting against God's purpose. Hence, our wrestling, our fighting, must not be against men but against the evil spiritual forces in the heavenlies. The principalities, the authorities, and the world-rulers of this darkness are the rebellious angels who followed Satan in his rebellion against God and who now rule in the heavenlies over the nations of the world. This darkness refers to today's world, which is fully under the dark ruling of the devil through his evil angels. The world-rulers of this darkness are the princes Satan has set up to rule the various nations. Because of the working of Satan, who is the authority of darkness, the earth and its atmosphere have become "this darkness." The spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies are Satan and his spiritual forces of evil in the air. The warfare between the church and Satan is a battle between us who love the Lord and who are in His church and the evil powers in the heavenlies. We must fight against these spiritual forces. (The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 2321-2322)

　　Further Reading: CWWN, vol. 34, "The Glorious Church," ch. 1; CWWL, 1972, vol. 2, "The Kingdom," ch. 7