Spiritual Warfare Pt. 5
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3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
Weapons that we use must correspond to the nature of the war. If the war was physical, then we could use physical weapons like 💣 bullets, etc.
12 For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against persons without bodies—the evil rulers of the unseen world, those mighty satanic beings and great evil princes of darkness who rule this world; and against huge numbers of wicked spirits in the spirit world.
Ephesians 6:12 for our wrestling match is not against persons with bodies, but against rulers with various areas and descending orders of authority; against the world dominators of this present darkness; against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies. (Derek Prince paraphrase)
Ephesians 6:12 for our wrestling match is not against persons with bodies, but against rulers with various areas and descending orders of authority; against the world dominators of this present darkness; against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies. (Derek Prince paraphrase)
satan is a fallen angel
Highly organized - maintained the same structure they had in heaven. Descending hierarchical structure of organization.
most people in satan's kingdom don't know where they are because is a kingdom of darkness.
satan's headquarters are in the heavenlies.
Hell is a place of confinement below the surface of the earth.
Satan is behind all the evils (John 10:10)
His base of operations is the heavenlies.
He works in the soulish realm
He’s a liar (John 8:44)
He’s defeated
Division
Political, religious, ethnic
It’s important because,
1. frame how you view world events
2. Inform how you pray.
There’s more than one heaven
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
1 I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
3 And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—
4 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.
10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
22 Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed him, so that the man spoke and saw.
23 And all the people were amazed, and said, “Can this be the Son of David?”
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”
25 Knowing their thoughts, he said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.
26 And if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand?
27 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
28 But if it is by the Spirit of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
satan has a kingdom
not divided
Highly organized
It stands
13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?”
14 And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
16 Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you
That thought did not come from you. God put that thought in your mind
31 And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.
32 And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
33 But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
Peter - thought that every thought that entered his mind was from himself