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Are We Participants or Spectators? Lesson 5: Michael Lewis November 5, 2006 |
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ARE WE SPECTATORS OR PARTICIPANTS
Lesson Five: “How to Fight Spiritual Battles”
By
Michael L. Lewis
Dalton Gardens Church of Christ
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Consider the Weapons we Deploy:
FIRST, We fight with the T R U T H of God.
Eph. 6:11, 14, 17; Heb. 4:12; 2 Tim 3:16; Ps 119:11; Matt 13:37
SECOND, We fight with an A U T H E N T I C life.
2 Cor. 4:2; Matt. 23
THIRD, We fight with a L O V E for people.
Eph. 4:15; 2 Cor. 10:3, 4; 2 Tim. 1:7
Consider the Strongholds we can Demolish:
• Human Suffering
• Self-Centeredness
• Spiritual Dishonesty