Spiritual Warfare: Choosing Christ Over Worldly Distractions

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In our journey through life, we often find ourselves at a buffet of worldly distractions, offered by Satan, that can lead us away from our relationship with Jesus Christ. These distractions, though seemingly fulfilling, leave us spiritually empty and can lead to eternal death. Jesus, however, offers us the bread of life, promising eternal life to those who partake in Him spiritually. [00:13:28]

Obedience should always be on time right when our parents, when we're outside playing and our mom tells us to come in, come into the house to help maybe make supper or help set the table or something. Do you think we can do it, do you think we can keep playing for 10 minutes longer? [00:18:06]

Obedience should always be with a cheerful heart so sometimes you may not want to go out and take the trash out, you know that's not always fun, especially in the cold weather. I remember sometimes I had to take the ash out from our cool stove at night and that was kind of cold and not fun to do. [00:19:54]

Our obedience should always be 100 right, not half-hearted, like so say your mom or dad wants you to clean your bedroom, so you want to Quick get it done so you can go play. So what do you do, sweep the dirt onto the bed so you can quick play? No, you don't do that, do it 100 clean up the room right way. [00:20:32]

The whole idea of truly understanding yourself and understanding your enemy, you know I'll tell you something about understanding yourself, God cannot change the person that you're pretending to be. Only with absolute honesty before God and knowing truly where you stand before God do you truly know yourself. [00:28:43]

Deception is an ancient art, an invaluable and invaluable when throwing people off your track. Misinformation and decoys can consume your opponent. He says the false mirror during preparation for the invasion of Normandy in World War II the Allies developed a significant number of deceptive plans. [00:30:46]

Destroy from within is as a strategy of the enemy the inner the inner front strategy infiltrate your opponent's Camp once there you don't need you do not need to attack or show your intentions slowly take over from within. Now that to me is like the scariest one and that's where I brought in the Trojan Horse. [00:35:30]

For though we walk in the flesh we do not war according to the flesh, very clear we don't go into secular Warfare, for the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal, but what are they they are Mighty in God for the pulling Downs of strongholds the casting down arguments and every High thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. [00:45:35]

Jesus said and and he talks about our relationship to the world I have given them Thy word and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, as I also am not of the world I pray not that thou should take them out of the world but that thou should keep them from Evil. [00:47:40]

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were pleading through us we implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God. Have any of you ever been in a Embassy American Embassy in a foreign country anybody, anybody American Embassy in a foreign country it's a really interesting thing. [00:49:04]

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what Fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness and what communion has light with darkness and what Accord has Christ with Belial and what part has a Believer with an unbeliever and what agreement has the temple of God with Idols for you are the Temple of the Living God. [00:51:57]

So I say if your iPhone Affinity pluck it out and we have to know what's real in our life and what's what our genuine uh things are so I'm gonna give you a hickory examples all right I'll give you how how media and the different things can attract when I first got here to Lancaster County. [00:58:16]

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