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Series: Our Fight: Spiritual Warfare
Zach Terry
Ephesians 6
INTRODUCTION: You can learn a lot about a persons worldview by the metaphors they employ. How would you finish this sentence, ''Life is a _________''?
Life is a dance, Life is a gift, Life is a journey, Life is a box of chocolates
Well the human author of today's text, the Apostle Paul, had one metaphor he used over and over - Paul would say, ''Life is a battle''.
When Paul came to the end of his life, he said in
- 2 Timothy 4:7, ''I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.''
- And in I Timothy 6:12, he tells Timothy, ''Fight the good fight of faith; lay hold on eternal life to which you were called.''
- Concerning his ministry, he said, ''Though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ'' (2 Corinthians 10:3-5).
Paul believed that you are in a war.
You say, Pastor I thought the battle was won on the cross? In a very real sense it was - but Satan has not yet conceited defeat. It is as if you and I live between D-Day and V.E. Day. That is when the battle of the bulge was fought. The enemy gets the most fierce when he is cornered.
- He starts breaking out the roadside bombs
- Engages in Guerilla Warfare
- He uses human shields
- And the rules of war go out the window.
John says it well in Revelation 12:12 (NASB95)?12 ''For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.''
So battle after battle rages.
- God has a plan for your life, and so does Satan.
- God has a plan for your children, and so does Satan.
- God has a plan for your marriage, a ...
Series: Our Fight: Spiritual Warfare
Zach Terry
Ephesians 6
INTRODUCTION: You can learn a lot about a persons worldview by the metaphors they employ. How would you finish this sentence, ''Life is a _________''?
Life is a dance, Life is a gift, Life is a journey, Life is a box of chocolates
Well the human author of today's text, the Apostle Paul, had one metaphor he used over and over - Paul would say, ''Life is a battle''.
When Paul came to the end of his life, he said in
- 2 Timothy 4:7, ''I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.''
- And in I Timothy 6:12, he tells Timothy, ''Fight the good fight of faith; lay hold on eternal life to which you were called.''
- Concerning his ministry, he said, ''Though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every proud obstacle to the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ'' (2 Corinthians 10:3-5).
Paul believed that you are in a war.
You say, Pastor I thought the battle was won on the cross? In a very real sense it was - but Satan has not yet conceited defeat. It is as if you and I live between D-Day and V.E. Day. That is when the battle of the bulge was fought. The enemy gets the most fierce when he is cornered.
- He starts breaking out the roadside bombs
- Engages in Guerilla Warfare
- He uses human shields
- And the rules of war go out the window.
John says it well in Revelation 12:12 (NASB95)?12 ''For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.''
So battle after battle rages.
- God has a plan for your life, and so does Satan.
- God has a plan for your children, and so does Satan.
- God has a plan for your marriage, a ...
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