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Weapons of Warfare - Your Unseen War
May 28, 2025 · 45 min
Join us for a series on how to equip yourself with spiritual armor to confront and overcome the unseen battles in life.
Series Weapons of Warfare May 28, 2025 · 45 min · Weapons of Warfare
Join us for a series on how to equip yourself with spiritual armor to confront and overcome the unseen battles in life. ...more Show the full description Show less Join us for a series on how to equip yourself with spiritual armor to confront and overcome the unseen battles in life.
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Understanding Spiritual Warfare 0:18 Over the next 6 weeks, I'm gonna be teaching you what the Bible teaches us about spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare. I'll never forget when I was a0:29 young Christian, I was dealing with this situation, and I kept going round and round over and over in a wise man who was older in the faith. He came to me and said, Steve, here's the problem. The0:41 problem is you've got a problem, but there's actual a spiritual challenge, a spiritual battle attached to that. And here's what he said. He says, you can't use natural0:53 means to defeat spiritual challenges. In other words, you've gotta use spiritual weapons to defeat spiritual enemies. I wanna talk to1:05 you about how to defeat spiritual enemies. It's interesting when you begin to think about scripture. A lot of times people think, wait a minute. I thought Christianity's just loving Jesus. Absolutely. You come into1:16 faith through trusting in Christ as your lord and savior. But I'm gonna help you. The Bible talks a lot about spiritual warfare. Now, James chapter 4 verse 7 says it this way. Watch this.1:28 Everybody say, submit to God. We've got that part. Right? We submit to God. We have a relationship with Christ. That's called communion with God. James chapter 4 verse1:40 7 also says, resist the devil. Everybody say resist? Woah. I didn't know Christianity had to do with resisting. Yeah. We have communion with God, but we also have confrontation with the devil.1:52 Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. You know, it's interesting as I've been walking with Jesus all these years. I I I didn't realize this as first as a young Christian. I just thought, my gosh,2:04 give your heart to Jesus, love Christ, read the word. But the problem is the more I read the word and the more I experience my walk with God, I realized that we actually have an enemy that's trying to hurt us. A2:16 spiritual enemy. A lot of people don't realize that. They come to Christ. They love God, they've gotten forgiven of their sins, but they don't understand what's going on. The challenge in your marriage, with your2:28 kids, in culture, on your job, could it be that there's, what, just another world behind that's influencing that? The bible would say yes. The2:39 scripture equips us how to prevail against the works of darkness. This series, over the next 6 weeks, I'm gonna teach you how to push back the darkness. Everybody say push back. You don't have to take it in your2:51 mind, in your home, in your family. You can push back the darkness. Now I know this is gonna be a heavy series. It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be informative, inspirational, but I just thought just kinda lighten it up onThe Reality of Spiritual Battles 3:02 the front end a little bit. I'm gonna tell you a story. This couple were getting on a budget, sort of like, man, we're not gonna spend any money. We're gonna get real tight with our with our resources. And so the wife3:12 said, well, I'm gonna go shopping. He goes, what are you going to shop with? She goes, well, I'm gonna go looking. Yeah. Right. Anyway, so she went looking. And she went looking, and sure3:24 enough, she she she saw this dress and the and the mannequin was wearing I gotta I gotta try that dress on. And and and and the next thing you know, she purchased the dress. She gets home. The husband's like, honey, I3:35 thought we made a deal. We're on a budget. We're not buying anything. Didn't the preacher tell you? Like like, you heard the preacher last weekend. You you you heard what happens when you're tempted,3:47 what you're supposed to do. She goes, you know what? I was tempted. And and and I told the devil, because he was telling me to buy that dress. And I told Satan to get behind me. And when he got behind me, he says, the3:56 dress looks good from back here too. I know we can laugh about that and have fun and4:08 but the reality is we really do have authority. Authority to speak to the demonic world to say, take your hands off God's property. How many are grateful that we have power in the name of Jesus? In the name of4:20 not our own strength, but in the name of Jesus. There is another world that you live in. I know that there's a lot of new people at our church. I think we've already baptized several hundred people, all of our locations.4:32 There's there's so many new people. And I and I'm very cognizant. I'm aware each week there are there are people that are checking out Christianity. There are new believers, young people in their faith, not just4:42 chronologically young, but I'm talking about just people maybe 50, 60 who've come to faith in Christ. You're young in your faith, but there's also people that have been walking with Jesus for a long time. So I'm very4:51 aware of my audience. I'm very aware there's different people at different levels. And so for those of you that are hearing this series, maybe you came because you thought, man, Pastor Steve's gonna be talking about4:59 spiritual warfare. I didn't I don't even know what that is. I didn't even know the Bible talks about, like, there's a warfare? Like, there's a battle that we're in? The Bible teaches us very clearly that we5:11 live actually in 2 realms, a natural realm. Everybody say natural. And I mean that like we go to work, we raise kids, we we we we have jobs, we we're that's it. We we wake up in a5:23 natural realm. But the bible also teaches that there's another realm. And many Christians are not aware. Many people are not aware that there's another realm. Paul says it this way. In5:34 second Corinthians chapter 10 verse 3, here's what Paul said. He says, for though we live in the world we live in the world. Right? We we still live in this natural world. We do not wage5:46 war as the world does. The weapons everybody say weapons. What is Paul talking about? Like, we have weapons? Like, there's like spiritual it's in5:58 the bible. And Paul says, the weapons that we fight with so there's weapons. There's a fight. He says, the weapons that we fight with, they're not weapons of the world. On6:10 the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. What is a stronghold? It's a demonic stronghold in the mind of a person where you have6:22 embraced lies and now you feel those lies, and now you're acting on those lies. Stronghold. I'm gonna teach you during this series how to tear down strongholds in the mind, demonic strongholds.6:34 Paul says, listen, that there's weapons, that there's a warfare, and we gotta learn how to fight. We don't fight against flesh and blood. We're gonna see that in a moment. But we gotta learn how to fight.6:45 Again, Christianity, loving Christ, worshiping God, loving Jesus, that's called communion. Everyone say communion. That's connecting with God, but there's also a confrontational6:58 element in your walk with God, where you confront the works of darkness, where you push back, where you say, devil, take your hands off my property, take your hands off my family, take your hands off my mind, in7:09 the name of Jesus. Pastor, how do we practically battle? The Apostle Paul goes on in the book of Ephesians. And this is again, this is kind of an intro message. I'm gonna be talking about spiritual7:21 warfare for 6 weeks. I'm gonna be teaching all the messages. Why? Because I wanna equip you. Many people are living oppressed by the enemy. They don't realize what's going They think it's just a natural problem. Now7:31 there are natural things, but I'm telling you, more often than not, there's spiritual entities behind the scenes that are putting pressure. They're manipulating scenarios and pushing people. Paul said it this way,7:43 Ephesians chapter 6 verse 10. Here's what he said. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord. Notice what he said. Be strong in God, not strong in your own strength. Well, I'm in Enneagram 8. The7:55 devil doesn't care. He doesn't care if you're a DI, a disc, you're strong type a. He doesn't care. That's natural. You're not strong in your personality, your intellectual prowess.8:07 It's not about how smart you are. Paul said, be strong in the Lord. Everybody say, in the Lord. You you don't have power over the devil in your own strength. It's Christ in you. It's the spirit8:19 of God in the name of Jesus. Jesus has power over the devil. Be strong in the Lord and the power of his might. Watch this. Put on the whole armor of God. Everybody say,8:31 armor of God. I'm gonna mention at the end of my message the armor of God, 5 defensive pieces, 1 offensive piece. I'm gonna be referring to the arm of God throughout this whole series8:43 over these 6 weeks. We we are we are to be clothed with the armor of God. I'm gonna share that at the end of the message and go through these pieces quickly. But Paul says, put on8:54 the whole armor of God. It's a choice. You've gotta do that as a Christian. How many Christians are walking around ill equipped? They're not equipped. They they don't have on the armor of God. What is the armor of God?9:04 We're gonna teach you on that. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to watch us Stand. Everyone say stand. That you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. You9:16 and I have an enemy. He's not like this mythical figure out there. It's not like this fairy tale. There's a real devil. By the way, week 3, I'm gonna talk about where the devil came from. The devil is not the creator.9:28 The devil is part of the creation. He's a fallen angel. Isaiah talks about it. Ezekiel talks about it. I'm gonna talk about the the origin, where the devil came from. He was actually a worship leader in heaven.9:41 And he tried to rebel and take authority over God, and God cast him and a third of the angels that were in heaven were cast down to the earth. That's called demon spirits there. I'm gonna teach that week 3.9:53 Here's this truth. The truth is and the facts are is that we have a real enemy. The devil hates you. He wants to kill, steal and destroy from you. But Paul says, we can stand. Everyone say10:04 stand. We can stand against the wiles. The word wiles is an interesting word. Here's what it means. Schemes, plans, and strategies. You and I10:16 can stand in faith against, boom. We can stand and resist the schemes, the plans, and the strategies of the enemy. So the enemy is an10:28 opponent and he has a plan. And by the way, by the way, his plans or his playbook, they're not that big. And by the way, he's been running the same place for thousands of years. We can10:40 look in scripture, we can look throughout history, and we can find out and discover the plans of the enemy. And the moment you discover the plan, it's like, okay, wait a minute. Oh, I see that coming. Oh, that's a10:50 disappointment in a relationship. Stop it right there. Oh 0, wait. No, no. This is a plan in the enemy. Oh, there's unforgiveness in the heart. Wait a minute. Don't let it oh my gosh. There's bitterness. You're falling11:00 to the plans of the enemy. He's been running the same plans for thousands of years. Same plays. I, I played football at John Curtis, which is the greatest football11:12 school in the whole world. And I feel sorry for all of you guys that didn't have the opportunity to do that. I really do. I'm sorry. Just you didn't have the chance. And so and so I play I I I started playing11:24 football in John Curtis in the fourth grade. I was 9. And they've run the same offense, the same defense for years. Years ago, actually about 6, 7,11:36 8 years ago, my my my boys, went to Saint Paul's. And and, so when my my older son was a senior and my younger son was a junior, they played John11:48 Curtis in a playoff game. And so I was equipped. I knew exactly what they were gonna do. Now they just do it better. They just they just they just just rock them, suck, and they just11:59 bam, 3 yards, bam, 4 yards, bam. And then they allow you to sleep, and then they have a big it's it's it's it's a very proficient but a very small playbook. So my older son, Conrad,12:11 he was playing defensive back. I played defensive back. I know the plays. They've been playing the same plays for 50 years. It's the same plays. And so my son's a quarterback. I said, son, here's12:23 what's gonna happen. So it's the quarter final game. He's the senior. I said, let me tell you exactly what's gonna happen. The quarterback's gonna run an off guard play. It's gonna be called a 2 13. It's gonna should be12:35 a dive. It's just they're gonna run it over and over and over. Now they're watching you because you're the weak side cornerback. So what they're gonna do is you're over here. They're gonna watch you, and they're gonna12:45 low you to sleep, and you're gonna start ooching because all the plays are going that way. You're gonna start ooching. And so the head so the offensive coordinator is on the head set up in the stand. Here's what he's12:55 gonna do. He's gonna see your ooching. And so the wide receiver is gonna come and he's just gonna kinda slow down a little bit. He's gonna try to block you. And you're gonna think, my gosh, they keep running that. And13:04 the moment they've got you ooch too far, here's what's gonna happen. Here's what's gonna happen. That that wide receiver is gonna come, and the next thing you know, he's gonna break out. Because what they're gonna do is13:15 they're gonna fake the same play over and over. They're gonna run they're gonna fake it 1 time, and the quarterback throwback. You you better stay you better13:26 stay put, because the play's coming. It's coming. Stay listen. Stand your ground. Stand your ground. I said, it's coming. Matter of fact, that week, I I I had John Curtis plays and I was13:38 playing them for my son. I said, it's coming. It's coming. The same play, it's coming. 1 night, my wife came in, it's probably 12 o'clock. She goes, he's gotta go to bed, Steve. Hey, he's got school the next day.13:49 Everybody say, it's coming. Guess what? It came. Let's watch what happened. Check this out. Here it is.14:01 Where's Conrad? Boom. Interception. Let me tell you something. I take credit for 9514:13 percent of that play. All he had to do was catch it. I was the 1 that told him to stay put.14:27 I talked to JT last night. I said, coach, I'm gonna say, I said, he's not the enemy, but he was for 3 hours. Listen to me. The devil's playbook is not that big. He's just been running the14:38 same place, and he's real good at it for a long time. Paul said, stand. Everybody say, stand. I'm gonna teach you over the next 6 weeks. We're gonna be looking atEquipping for Spiritual Warfare 14:50 the playbook of the enemy. The bible exposes the enemy's playbook. When offense comes, when hurt comes, all of these things. Listen to what the bible says. This is powerful. Verse 12.15:04 Paul says, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood. Your fight is not against your spouse. It's not against the government. It's not against your well, you know, after what time out? No. You may be15:15 in in in a conflict, but there are entities behind the scenes. Paul says, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against all principalities,15:28 powers, against the rulers. So we're in a fight. Don't misunderstand. We are in a fight. But who's it against? The rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual15:40 hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. I wanna say this, if you're in a battle right now, listen to me. If you're in a battle, there's another realm battling against you. There's another realm.15:52 Paul says, we wrestle not against flesh but so many times we listen, our eyes need to be opened up. Why is that pastor? Because you don't defeat spiritual enemies using natural16:04 means. Let me say that again all of our location. You don't defeat spiritual enemies using natural means. You defeat spiritual enemies using spiritual weapons. Paul talks16:16 about spiritual everybody say spiritual weapons. We gotta learn how to fight spiritually. Spiritually speaking. Alright. Let me give you 3 things. And again, this is an intro message I'm gonna be teaching for16:28 6 weeks. Number 1, 3 things I wanna just tee up for you guys. The first thing you you need to know is this. You are not alone in your battles. You're not alone in your as a Christian, you're never16:39 alone in battles. In fact, there's an interesting story in second Kings 6. I'm gonna read it just a moment. And by the way, this this narrative, these scriptures have been encouraging believers for16:51 generations. For thousands of years, they've read this narrative of scripture, this portion of scripture. And it gives a a complete contrast17:03 between the natural realm and the spiritual realm that's happening. This is the most powerful picture. Remember this, you're not alone. Do you know how17:15 encouraging just to know that somebody's with you. Well, let me just tell you. It's not only just somebody's with you, but the Bible is gonna be very clear. There's an angelic host that's around you. Somebody said,17:27 pastor, do you have a guardian angel? I don't know if you have a guardian angel, but I've got guardian angels, plural. The Bible says, the angels of the Lord surround those that fear the Lord, and he protects them.17:39 Pastor's out in the Bible. By the way, 1 of my messages, I think it's maybe week 4 or 5, I'm gonna be teaching about angels. What the Bible teach not my opinion. What does the Bible teach? What do we do with angels? Do17:50 we talk to angels? What is their job? What are they here for? We're gonna be talking about angels. That's in the Bible. Alright. Here's the story. Second Kings chapter 6 verse 15.18:02 This is so powerful. The Bible says, and when the servant watch this. Let let me give you the context. Israel's at war against the king of Syria. Some would say, Arman. Alright? And this is18:14 really this is really powerful. So Israel's a battle against a foreign nation. And there's a servant who's in dialogue with a man of God named Elisha. Here's what happens. Second Kings18:26 chapter 6. And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army surrounding the city with horses and chariots. Now that is a real18:38 army, physically speaking, a real army. Their horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, alas, my master, what shall we do? He looks at it, he goes, my gosh, we're outnumbered.18:49 Like there's a real army. What do we do? So he said, do not fear. Everyone say do not fear. If we could only see in the spirit,19:02 we can. Do not fear for those who are with us or more than those who are with them. The servant was scared and looked out and all he saw was his enemy19:14 forces all around. And then Elisha Elisha said something. It's so profound. By the way, this is my prayer for you guys over the next 6 weeks. This first portion of his response, here it is.19:26 Matter of fact, I'm praying this for my life. This is my prayer for everybody at Church of the King over the next 6 weeks. Here it is. Here it is. Or those that are watching, wherever it is, around the world. Here it is.19:36 Verse 17. Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see. That he may see in the spirit. We are so19:48 locked into the natural realm. There's a spiritual realm. Open my eyes, God. He said, open his eyes. Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw what did he see? And behold,19:59 the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elijah. The Lord opened the servant's eyes and he saw God's angelic army. What he saw20:11 was in the spirit realm. Everybody say spirit realm. I know for some of you that are new in the faith, this is totally new. But it's in the Bible. Some of the defeat you're experiencing in life, you're20:23 defeated you're defeated. You don't understand. There's a spiritual entity behind that situation. You gotta know how to fight spiritually. And my prayer for you as your pastor is that your eyes would be open, that20:35 you'd see there's more for us than against us. The man saw the natural, but then Elijah said, let him see in the spirit. Let him see the angelic host of heaven surrounding us.20:48 The angelic host, the power of God. Lord, let us see. Lord, let us see if we could only see how often are we responding in the natural and in the flesh, because we don't see.21:01 If we saw differently, Lord let us see what's happening in the spirit realm. Get us give us a glimpse, oh God. Number 1, you are not alone in your battles. How many21:13 are grateful for that? Come on. How many are grateful for that? Number 2. The second thing I wanna say, this is all intro to my series. Number 2, your prayers are far more powerful than you21:25 realize. They're so much more powerful. I know there's times you feel like you pray. It's like, pastor, just to be honest, I I feel like I pray, man. I just feel like they don't even get past the ceiling. I feel like21:35 they just kind of go up. They kind of just bounce off and come down. You ever been there before? I've been there. Convince you that your prayers don't have power. It's not true.21:47 God heard your prayer the moment you pray. By the way, the devil heard your prayer. And he shakes when a man or woman of God knows the word and prays in faith. The Bible is filled with great men and women of God praying.21:59 Daniel praying big prayers. Paul, Peter, even the church in Jerusalem prayed for Peter's deliverance from jail. In Acts chapter 12, the whole jail is shaken. Power of God, why? God answers prayer. Some of you been22:10 praying for a loved 1. You've been praying for for a child. You've been praying for somebody who's a prodigal. And I'm God's hearing your prayers. Don't give up praying those prayers. Let me tell you, there are think22:21 what happens is we pray a prayer. We want something to happen immediately, microwave. Right? But I'm telling you, there's things happening in the spirit way before they happen in the natural realm. There's your prayers22:31 are so much more powerful than you realize. That's why we gotta pray those prayers. We pray in faith. We stand in faith. Remember, first the spirit everybody say, first the spirit. First the spiritual22:43 realm. Boom. Then it happens in the natural realm. By the way, you can't outrun somebody's prayers. I couldn't outrun my parents prayers. I'm telling you, they prayed in but how many know God hears our prayers? How many22:52 are great for that? God hears our prayers. James chapter 5 verse 16. The Bible says, the effective fervent prayer of a righteous man or woman of God avails much. Filled23:04 with power. God hears your prayer. There's there's a real battle going on. Your prayers are important. They're much more powerful than you realize. Let let me give you 3 ways that the enemy23:16 tries to hurt us. What does the devil do? Satan, what does he do? With all of his fallen angels, remember, there's 1 devil, but there's a host of principalities. There's like rankings. I'm gonna teach this,23:28 I think, on week 3. The rankings in the demonic world. Principalities, powers, spirits, demons, spirit. I'm gonna share what the bible teaches. Not my opinion, but what the Bible teaches about this. 3 ways the enemy23:40 tries to hurt us. Number 1, he tries to blind the minds of unbelievers. Second Corinthians, Paul writes in sec to the church at Corinth in second Corinthians 4 4.23:52 Satan, who is the god of this world, little g, not big g, little g. The god of this world system has blinded the minds of those who do not believe. He loves to blind the minds of unbelievers. What I24:04 mean by that? They come to church, they're like, maybe a friend invites them to church, and they come here come here Steve's talk. Right? And so I start talking about Christ and how to get saved. Next thing you know24:13 their mind starts getting distracted and wander. They're worrying about butter. Who cares about butter after church? Don't worry about butter. Some of y'all saying, I'm a believer and I'm thinking about butter. Quit24:22 thinking about butter. They get on Instagram and start scrolling on Instagram. I I remember I remember when I got saved, we bring our Bibles to church. I know a lot of people don't bring their Bibles. They're looking24:32 online, you know, following along. But don't start scrolling on Instagram. Let me tell you why, because the devil wants to distract you. He wants your mind to get all messed up thinking about all different things. What's24:40 gonna happen this week? What happened last week? Why? He wants to confuse and blind the mind, so that you don't receive the hope of Christ in the gospel. That's what he wants to do. By the way, that's why24:52 we need to pray. There is a battle over the life of every unsaved person. Number 1, he wants to blind the minds of the unbelievers. Number 2, he wants to steal25:04 God's word from you. Pastor, can the devil actually steal? Watch how this works. Tries to rob God's word. Maybe some of you, maybe as young believers, your peak, your curiosity, you're like, I didn't even know like25:14 there's like this fight, and there's like there's like darkness and light, and I have weapons, and and there's like a warfare. Man, it's all new, Pastor Steve. It's like, man, this is intense. And and so you start25:25 hearing, and and you hear a little bit of the word, and you don't write it down. You don't go over it again. You just kinda hear it. Wake up the next day. Boom. You got It's like you totally forgot it. You ever had that25:34 before? And it's like, I can't remember. It's like, what is that? Well, Matthew chapter 13 verse 19 says, when anyone hears, everyone say, hears. Oh. Here's the25:45 word of the kingdom and does not understand it. You don't write it down, you don't go over it. That's why, man, I every message, I'm on the edge of my seat, I'm writing things down, I'm going over them. I'm I'm25:57 throughout the week, I'll rewatch them. Because I want that word not just to go surface level, I wanted to get deep because I know the enemy wants to steal it. Here's what he says. He says, those that hear but they don't26:08 understand, they don't go over it, the wicked 1 comes and snatches away what was sown in the heart that he was received seed by the wayside. In other words, the enemy wants to come and snatch it away.26:20 Pastor, this is blows me away. So the enemy actually, like like he sets up, like he wants to the Bible is very clear. You hear it at 1 level, you better go over it to get it deeper in26:32 your heart. Number 3, the enemy not only wants to blind the minds of unbelievers and steal the word out of the heart at a shallow level of the of the heart. But26:44 he also wants to come set traps to ensnare you. He wants to ensnare you into a dangerous lifestyle of destructive sin. You get born again, you come out of the world.26:56 Right? You get saved, starting to serve God, coming to church, get in the small group, next thing you know your buddies call you right before you right right before you get ready to go to church. They wanna go party.27:07 That happened to me. Right before I mean, I'm loving God. I'm in college and my, hey man Steve, what's up, bro? Don't think the devil doesn't27:19 now I'm not saying your friends are the devil, but he's manipulating your friends to be able to get you off course. Pastor, can the devil read my mind? Nope. But he can suggest thoughts and then he evaluates patterns and27:29 behaviors to see how well you've received them. So he wants to trap you. He sets traps. He's a trapper. My grandmother was27:41 a trapper. Like a literal trapper. My my grandmother I've told you all this story. She's a she's a Cajun lady and she was she's born in Cut Off and grew up in Golden Meadow and Cut Off.27:52 And before school By the way, South Louisiana, if you you can read about it, in the twenties and thirties and 40. My grandma, by the way, she predated Nutrius. She did. Let me tell you what she28:04 there was a big fur industry in South Louisiana in the twenties, thirties and forties, and she would trap before school. Minks and muskrats. That's what they would trap before nutrients. Minks and muskrats.28:17 And so she so my mom had a trap. My mom got a trap and my mom put it in our house. And it was on our wall. We had lots of things on our walls.28:29 We actually looked like Cracker Barrel. I mean, we had a that trap was so ferocious. It can break a broom. It broke 5. I'm telling you, it it's a my brother and I, we'd28:41 set that trap. It was a and and so the trap watch this. Look right here, all of our location. The enemy wants to trap you. He wants to literally trap you. Pastures out in the Bible, second Timothy chapter 2 verse28:53 26. And that they may come to their senses and escape the snare. Everyone say snare. That's the word for trap. The trap of the devil. Having been taken captive by him29:05 to do the devil's will, his will. Do you know that at the crib of every baby, God's got a plan for that baby and the devil also has a plan? And the enemy the enemy29:17 wants to wound that baby and curse that baby and hurt that baby. And but but God's trying to bless that baby. God God's got a plan for your life. But I would say, there's also listen. There's also an29:28 an antagonist that's got a plan for your life and wants to wound you. And he manipulates their wounds and hurts. He wants to trap you. Serving god, you're married,29:40 somebody, some old fling reaches out on Facebook. It's a trap. Don't go for it. It's a trap. Don't do it. It's a trap. You get hurt in a relationship, disappointment.29:53 It's a trap. Don't let it go to unforgiveness. Conrad, don't move. Stand your ground. I'm telling you, it's got it's got I know the play. Relationship, and30:05 I could just oh, this is a play. It's 2 80 throwback. I I know the play. You got disappoint guard your heart. If you don't guard your heart, you're gonna get unforgiveness. And then it's gonna go to bitterness. And now30:14 you got bitterness in your heart, and you're gonna alienate everybody. And the only people you're gonna relate to are other bitter people, and now you've isolated all the people that love God and have integrity, because30:24 now you're just with bitter group. That's who you are. It's not a big playbook. It's a trap. It's a30:35 trap. He wants to blind the mind of the unbeliever, steal the word,30:47 and he wants to trap you. Here's the good news. Through the Bible, the word of God, watch this, we can find out what the traps of the enemy are. How many are grateful for God's word? Come on.30:59 God has not left us unto ourselves. So here's what I wanna do in the remaining time. I got just a couple minutes and then we're gonna close. I'm gonna set up the framework for the next 6 weeks. Next week, I'm gonna talk31:10 about the Holy Spirit. Then I'm gonna talk about the origin of Satan, where he came from, principalities, powers. Then I'm gonna talk about angels. I'm gonna talk about a bunch of stuff for 6 weeks. But I'm gonna refer31:19 back to this over and over. How do we spiritually battle? Ephesians chapter 6 verse 13. It's called the armor of God. Everyone say armor of God. This is important. I'm just setting a framework.Show more In this video 0:00 Understanding Spiritual Warfare3:00 The Reality of Spiritual Battles14:44 Equipping for Spiritual Warfare31:20 The Power of Prayer and the Word
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