THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE.

 

The Christian life is not a life of relaxation but one of active warfare. We have an enemy who is always scheming against us and planning our downfall. His purpose is to steal, kill, and destroy. John 10:10. He has managed to bring many of Gods soldiers down and that is why we must be vigilant and watchful.

The sad statement in 2Sam 1:27. “How have the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!”

The devil has many strategies and one He uses is sexual immorality.

Prov 6:26 states that For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for the precious life.

Prov 7:26. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

We see here that for some, the devil waits for their weak times, when they are wounded, and others when they are strong, because it's very easy when one is strong to be proud and also not be vigilant. 

Many mighty, have been brought down, this should be an awakening call to us to be more vigilant. Awake because the devil is seeking to hunt the precious lives.

The bible states in 1Cor 6:13b,15, 18-20 The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!

Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,

For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

To be able to fight well, we must first of all decide that our bodies belong to Jesus and that Jesus alone must be glorified.

You cannot overcome the devil when you are living in sin. 

If you don't fight, the devil will oppress you and you will not experience what the Lord has for you.

2Cor 10:4-For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

We see that it's not one weapon,but weapons. They are mighty THROUGH GOD, not through us, that means, we must have a right relationship with God before using them effectively.

We punish disobedience only when our obedience is complete.

Eph 6:13

For our warfare is not against human beings, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

What are these weapons that we fight these spiritual enemies?

We'll learn in the next study.

We don't have to be victims of the enemies plan. We can stand against all the schemes of the enemies and overcome them if we know our weapons and fight with them.

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