Spiritual warfare...

Want to engage in spiritual warfare? consider this:

1. I do not fight like a man beating in the air.

Rather, I toughen my body with punches and make it my slave so that I will not be disqualified after I have spread the Good News to others. (I practice self discipline)

2. I have weapons - powerful weapons from God

With them I destroy people's intellectual defences,(place or means of protection)

that is, their :

arguments and all their intellectual arrogance that oppose the knowledge of God.

We take every thought captive so that it is obedient to Christ.

 

3. Fight the good fight of faith...

how?

- by holding on to faith (trust God even though you don't see)

- by holding on to a good conscience.

4. Fight the good fight of faith - take hold of eternal life...

when you have done all - STAND (and keep on praying).

Focus on God and the finished work of Christ.

 

2 Cor 10:3 1Cor 9:26 1 Tim 1:18 1 Tim 1:12 Eph 6:10

weapons: for punishing offending members (2Co_10:6; 1Co_4:21; 1Co_5:5, 1Co_5:13); boldness of speech, ecclesiastical discipline (2Co_10:8; 2Co_13:10), the power of the word, and of the sacraments, the various extraordinary gifts of the Spirit - taken from Jamieson, Fausset and Brown commentary.