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General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army, surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union Army, on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA.
Lee’s surrender brought about the end of America’s bloodiest and deadliest conflict.
However, fighting continued throughout the south until May 13th.
History records 6 battles were fought after Lee’s surrender.
Scholars have long debated the exact date of Christ death.
Let’s for the sake of argument use one that is widely accepted, April 3, A.D. 33.
This day brought to end the war as the final battle was fought and April 6, A.D. 33 was the terms of surrender were finalized.
Though the war has been won and terms of surrender signed.
Yet there remains a real conflict.
There is a war that rages.
We know victory exist but often fail in enforcing the terms of our enemies surrender.
THE CONFLICT IS REAL.
We have moved from one conflict in
to a new conflict that found in
Paul also describes our conflict in terms of capture in
Paul speaks of this conflict constantly in his various writings to various churches.
In his letter to the Colossians he teaches
Paul and all of Scripture wants us to know that our struggle is real.
My aim this morning is to remind us of the reality that rages around us and the counter-intuitive response that has been provided.
Paul and all of Scripture wants us to know that our struggle is real.
Not only is it real but it rages.
Sin and Satan will not go quietly.
Though they are defeated their aim is loot and pillage as they await their day of sentencing.
THE CONFLICT RAGES.
This battle is intense.
It is fierce.
Paul taught the Ephesian's the battle's intensity by using the word wrestle.
This is guerrilla warfare.
Hand to hand combat.
It is bayonets and swords, not bombs and snipers.
This battle is intense and invisible.
Paul taught the Ephesian believers that this war is fought in the invisible realm called the heavenlies.
It is fought inside of us.
Romans 6 reminds us that sin no longer reigns in us but it remains.
This war has many battlefronts but only requires one counter-intuitive weapon.
THE COUNTER-INTUITIVE RESPONSE
Our weapon in this fight is Scripture.
It is described by Paul as a sword.
A sword can kill and cut.
Jesus described botanical language to describe Scripture.
In Matthew 13 he calls Scripture seed.
In John 15 he describes our relationship with him as vine and branches.
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