SPIRITUAL WARFARE

              

                                                                          PART 1

 

FIRST AND FOREMOST- DO YOU KNOW JUST WHO YOU ARE WARRING AGAINST?

  

SO WHO IS OUR ENEMY?

 

 

TRAGICALLY, SO MANY HAVE NO IDEA WHO THEIR ENEMY IS!  CONSIDER THIS....IT HAS BEEN DECLARED THAT THERE ARE THREE ENEMIES. HOWEVER, THERE IS A 4TH:

 

                                                                *  SATAN

                                                             

                                                                *  THE WORLD

                                                            

                                                                *  THE FLESH AND THE........

 

                                                                *   THE church - NOTICE THE LOWER CASE

 LETTERS...THIS IS MAN'S CHURCH. NOT GOD'S CHURCH!  THERE IS MARKED

 DIFFERENCE....MORE ON THIS LATER.

 

                                                                *  SATAN

 

THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE BLOGS, WILL REMEMBER THE BLOG DEALING WITH SATAN, THE TEMPTER WHICH LISTS JUST WHO IS HE AND WHAT HE HAS TO OFFER....  THAT WAS THE INTRODUCTION TO THIS BLOG.

 

IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES: "YOU ARE EITHER OF GOD YOUR FATHER, OR OF THE DEVIL WHO IS YOUR FATHER." (JOHN 8:42-47 AND LUKE 11:23) 

 

DO YOU KNOW WHO YOUR FATHER IS? HAVE YOU HEARD THE LORD JESUS KNOCKING AT THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART AS IT IS WRITTEN IN REVELATION 3: 20 "BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK.  IF ANYONE HEARS MY VOICE AND OPENS THE DOOR, 'I WILL COME IN AND DINE WITH HIM, AND HE WITH ME."  ALSO IN JOHN 3:3, JESUS SAYS TO NICODEMUS CONCERNING BECOMING A CHILD OF THE LIVING GOD AND INHERITING THE KINGDOM OF GOD: "MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS ONE IS BORN AGAIN (FROM ABOVE) HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD".  NICODEMUS, ONE OF THE PHARISEES, QUESTIONS HIM FURTHER, SINCE THIS HAS NOT BEEN REVEALED TO HIM AND AGAIN JESUS RESPONDS: "MOST ASSURDEDLY, I SAY TO YOU, UNLESS ONE IS BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER THE KINDOM OF GOD, AND VERSE 6: "THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH, AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT, IS SPIRIT."

 

THUS, WE ARE AT WAR, AND AGAIN CONCERNING WHO THE ENEMY IS, IT IS WRITTEN: "FOR WE DO NOT WRESTLE AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES , AGAINST POWERS, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS AGE, AGAINST SPIRITUAL HOSTS OF WICKNESS IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES."

 

                                          

                                       

SO OFTEN CHRISTIANS FORGET THAT MAN IS NOT THE ENEMY, BUT SATAN AND HIS COHORTS...THUS WE ENTER INTO SPIRITUAL WARFARE AND NOT AGAINST MAN...FOR IT IS SATAN AND HIS MINIONS THAT WE MUST FIGHT...CONSIDER WHAT IS WRITTEN IN MATTHEW 11:12: "AND FROM THE DAYS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST UNTIL NOW THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN SUFFERS VIOLENCE AND THE VIOLENT TAKE IT (THE FOUL SPIRIT WORLD) BY FORCE."

IT IS HERE WHERE MANY WOULD DECLARE: "OF COURSE WE ARE

FIGHTING AGAINST MAN..JUST LOOK AT THE WARS OVER THE CENTURIES...AND WHO IS INVOLVED IN THE  FIGHTING....TO THE EYE, MAN AGAINST MAN!  THE RESPONSE TO SUCH A DECLARATION IS: "AND WHO TRULY IS THE INSTIGATOR OF THESE WARS....SATAN AND HIS FORCES MAN!" THIS IS NOT GOD'S BEST FOR THE MAN HE CREATED INITIALLY, THEN COMES SATAN BANISHED FROM HEAVEN AND SENT TO EARTH "SEEKING WHOM HE CAN KILL AND DESTROY!."

 DO NOT DISPAIR AND DECLARE "WOE IS ME!"  GOD ALMIGHTY HAS EMPOWERED HIS SPIRIT FILLED SAINTS WITH STRATEGIES FOR RESISTING AND DEFEATING SATAN....REMEMBER, "YOU ARE OF GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM (SPIRIT OF THE ANTICHRIST), BECAUSE HE WHO IS IN YOU IS GREATER THAN HE WHO IS IN THE WORLD." ( 1 JOHN 4:4)

STAND BY FOR PART 2 IN THE DAYS TO COME..."PRAYING YOU HAVE EYES TO SEE, EARS TO HEAR, AND A HEART TO RECEIVE" WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS SPEAKING TO YOU THROUGH THESE BLOGS.....