Resist The Devil (10 of 10)
Series: Faith at the Margins
Will McGee
1 Peter 5:8-11
INTRODUCTION
When I was in my early-teens, I was a fanatical about pro wrestling. I wore nWo Wolfpack shirts to school, practiced power-bombs on my little brother. Stole my mom's lipstick to paint my face like the Ultimate Warrior. I loved it!!
And in the last few years, there have been a number of documentaries on the lives of these pro wrestlers. I always stream these things, because I love the nostalgia of it all...Takes me back to my childhood...
- Just a few weeks ago, ESPN aired a 2-hour 30/30 special on the life of the Nature Boy Ric Flair.
- His story, just like Jake the Snake Roberts... Just like Razor Ramon's.... And many others... Is a story of two lives... Two fights...
- One life, is the one everyone sees... Where they wrestle their rivals in the ring.
- The other life is more private... Much sadder... where they wrestle the demons in their own life.
For Ric Flair, he became his character... ''The stylin-profiling, limosine-riding, jet-flying, kiss stealing, wheelin-dealin' son of a gun.''
- He broke the hearts of four wives... Lost the respect of four kids... Still battles substance addiction...
- For Jake the Snake - alcohol and drugs left him bankrupt... Caused him to make a public embarrassment of himself...
- Same story for Razor Ramon - The toll that the drugs took on his body... Make him look and feel much older than his 59 years of age.
These stories are so sad... because we see one thing... On the television screen... Them Wrestling for championship belts...
- But off the screen... They are wrestling for their very lives... In a battle where the stakes are much higher.
In our text today, Peter says that in our spiritual lives... We fight battles... Some of which are visible... Others of which are invisible.
- Theologians, over the centuries, have called this spiritual warfare.
The Apostle Paul reminded us... Ephes ...
Series: Faith at the Margins
Will McGee
1 Peter 5:8-11
INTRODUCTION
When I was in my early-teens, I was a fanatical about pro wrestling. I wore nWo Wolfpack shirts to school, practiced power-bombs on my little brother. Stole my mom's lipstick to paint my face like the Ultimate Warrior. I loved it!!
And in the last few years, there have been a number of documentaries on the lives of these pro wrestlers. I always stream these things, because I love the nostalgia of it all...Takes me back to my childhood...
- Just a few weeks ago, ESPN aired a 2-hour 30/30 special on the life of the Nature Boy Ric Flair.
- His story, just like Jake the Snake Roberts... Just like Razor Ramon's.... And many others... Is a story of two lives... Two fights...
- One life, is the one everyone sees... Where they wrestle their rivals in the ring.
- The other life is more private... Much sadder... where they wrestle the demons in their own life.
For Ric Flair, he became his character... ''The stylin-profiling, limosine-riding, jet-flying, kiss stealing, wheelin-dealin' son of a gun.''
- He broke the hearts of four wives... Lost the respect of four kids... Still battles substance addiction...
- For Jake the Snake - alcohol and drugs left him bankrupt... Caused him to make a public embarrassment of himself...
- Same story for Razor Ramon - The toll that the drugs took on his body... Make him look and feel much older than his 59 years of age.
These stories are so sad... because we see one thing... On the television screen... Them Wrestling for championship belts...
- But off the screen... They are wrestling for their very lives... In a battle where the stakes are much higher.
In our text today, Peter says that in our spiritual lives... We fight battles... Some of which are visible... Others of which are invisible.
- Theologians, over the centuries, have called this spiritual warfare.
The Apostle Paul reminded us... Ephes ...
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