Equipped for Battle: Embracing Holistic Spiritual Warfare

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In Ephesians 6:10-13, we are called to be strong in the Lord and to put on the whole armor of God to stand against the devil's schemes. This passage highlights the reality of spiritual warfare, emphasizing that our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against spiritual forces of evil. [00:00:11]

The devil has exercised these WS of his in a very general Way by producing states and conditions in the body of the church as it were big movements within the church such as heretical movements or definite examples of apostasy in certain sections of the Christian church. [00:01:37]

Take for instance a famous book like John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress that is rarely the theme of that book. He pictures there how men first of all is convicted of his sin and escapes from the city of Destruction and is in great trouble until his burden rolls away at the Cross of Christ. [00:04:00]

There has been a type of Holiness teaching the teaching on sanctification which rarely has left no room for this at all. It has had one point which it has gone on repeating claiming that that can solve all the problems and thus you see the whole of the Christian life has been reduced to Just Surrender and abiding in Christ. [00:08:09]

Watch and Pray lest ye fall into temptation says our Lord again he says that men should always pray and not f faint if you don't pray you will faint the Apostle Paul says pray without ceasing never stop praying always be prayed he says it's the only way in which you can keep going. [00:16:13]

Self-examination examine your own selves says the Apostle prove your own selves whether he be in the faith or not now he writes that you see to Believers but that's gone out of practice isn't it we don't believe in self-examination any longer we say you mustn't look at yourself look to the Lord. [00:17:54]

The devil has got certain Roots which he follows very regularly clever though he is he lacks originality in this respect and of course the roots are obvious and The Roots the three main roots roots are these first of all the mind that's the chief root because in many ways it's the most important one. [00:21:38]

The first is that he produces a lack of balance between these three aspects of our life and the other is that taking them individually he makes us give either too much or too little attention to each one of them now there it seems to me is the big principles which are the big principles. [00:26:01]

The devil pays particular attention to this aspect his desire is I say to produce an imbalance oh this question of balance is in many ways the most important of all in the Christian Life it's important in every realm of life even physically it's important the right amount of time and attention you give to your mind and to your body. [00:29:02]

God's way is to deal with a whole men and that's why Christianity differs from the Cults I was showing you that last Sunday the Cults never deal with a whole men they only deal with parts of us everything False only deals with a part the glory of this and the way in which you can test yourself as to whether you believe the true gospel or not is this. [00:42:21]

God's purpose that he shall have these new men made in the image of Christ having the balance that he had between the mind and the experience and the practice we are meant to be like him to conform to his image and if we don't if we lopsided or imbalanced or truncated Christians I say we are bringing God's work in Christ into disrepute. [00:43:48]

The Christian is a man who knows in whom he has believed he's able to give a reason for the hope that is in him he re Joes in the truth he rejoices in the Lord Jesus Christ with a joy unspeakable and full of glory and he is doing his utmost to be holy because God is Holy. [00:44:09]

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