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Theme: Authority over the Ungodly Thoughts Word for the Week is Spiritual Warfare: The struggle against the forces of evil, which is a constant feature of the life of faith. Scripture locates the origins of spiritual warfare in the rebellion of Satan and his angels against God and affirms the hope of…

Armor of God

Introduction The Prophet Joel (Old Testament) declared: 28 “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Have you ever had a dream that you felt came…

Introduction Today we are going to talk about spiritual warfare. The spiritual battles that each one of us faced every day - whether we realize it or not As Christians, it is essential that we become well-equipped in preparing for this battle. Remind them how to lose a battle The Field of Battle The…

The Christian life is “a land of hills and valleys”. In one day, a believer can move from a taste of heaven on the mountain top to the attacks of hell in the valley. For more than two years, the disciples had walked in the presence of Jesus, the Son of God. They had watched Him interact with people and…

Ephesians 6 Good morning church! It is great to be back with our church family, we love you guys, and were gone lone enough to miss you. I want to say thank you to the ladies that have been participating in praying for your husbands, and for each others husbands. Prayer is a such critical tool, a weapon…

When I hear the phrase “Water Warfare,” I am immediately transported to the sweltering summers of my childhood when we would break out our biggest, baddest Super Soakers and water pistols and wage water warfare on all the neighboring kids in our cul-de-sac and those around the block. There was never…

Our Scripture lesson this morning comes from… “When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations…

The word hospitality approximates the Greek word philoxenia, which means “love of the stranger.” Question: What does it mean to be a “Pro-Life” Christian? 27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained…

Apostolic defense In our passage before us this morning, Paul uses some harsh tones and one has to wonder is he angry, concerned or what is going on? Remember that the book has a primary focus of defending the apostleship of Paul and the other apostles. Paul had already written the “harsh” letter to…

Central Idea: This sermon, "Are You Being Tested?" calls Christians to recognize their spiritual battles as tests of faith and encourages vigilance, equipping oneself with the armor of God and enduring commitment to God's commands as strategies to triumph in this ongoing spiritual warfare. Introduction:…

Eph. 6:10-11 . Enlistment General Dwight Eisenhower once said (source unknown), “War is a terrible thing. But if you’re going to get into it, you’ve got to get into it all the way.” There are way to many Christians that live defeated lives because they are not seriously engaged in the warfare to which…

The Bible does not say much about spiritual warfare; the key to understanding Paul’s words about the armor of God is to see it in the context of the entire letter of Ephesians.

Introduction So far in chapter 7 we talked about the Law and salvation or the Law vs. justification; First we see that the believer, the follower of Christ, became dead to the law; Second we see how the law revealed our knowledge of sin; The law taught him about his sin and thus brought him an awareness…

Video: You Reign Faith Vision Christian Ministries i s a Christian church, based on the Word of God. We are a training ground for all things Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining us today , Video: Anointing fall on me Prayer We invite the Holy Spirit to join us this morning Faith Vision Family Please welcome…

Spiritual Warfare If I just ask a simple question without clarification, what answer would you give: “How many people here today have engaged in or been aware of spiritual warfare in their lives? If I clarified spiritual warfare with one example from my own life as regular and foreseeable opposition…

A young stockbroker didn’t like some of the shady moves his superiors were making. He had a feeling that the company was headed for the rocks. So he quietly put his résumé out and soon joined another company, at a slightly lower salary. It had been a lateral move, bringing no advantage of position or…

Dealing with sin and spiritual warfare

Intro: We come to the final message in the series, “My Life In The Church” . And in every message I have preached, we see Paul has prepared the church for the inevitable, “Spiritual Warfare” . Onward Christian Soldiers , Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865 [‌ 1 ] Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war,…

Intro - Is anybody fired up to be in church today? Give God some noise... Goal - Know… Believe and live the truth… So today we will learn some truth about spiritual warfare. “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence.…

This is WAR. Good morning saints.. It is good to be here with you this morning. We are going to be concluding our series in the book of Ephesians this morning. As we finish our studying here, it is important to remember that we haven’t covered everything that there is to cover in this book - it is critical…

Background & Introduction Background 2 Timothy was written by the apostle Paul. It was his last letter before his martyrdom, about ad 67. It was written to Timothy who Paul had placed in charge of the church at Ephesus. Timothy was a young companion of Paul, and this letter as well as 1 timothy was written…

THE EXEMPLARY SOLDIER 1 Chronicles 12:1-40 Scripture Reading: 1 Chronicles 12:32-40 This chapter that we have just read from is an amazing chapter, in it we see some great truths for soldiering and also some great truths for the Christian life. I want to challenge you with something – the Christian life…

The War in Heaven Good afternoon! I hope everyone is doing well. I know the game last night was not what most might have hoped for. They started off so well. What we need to always remember is that in the end God is in control of all things. I believe that that even includes who wins the world series.…