Worship Service Write-up

Sermon: Spiritual Warfare

S E R M O N : S P I R I T U A L  W A R F A R E

By Pastor Nenglian Vualnam

Sunday, the 9th February, 2014.

 Bible Verses:  Ephesian 6:

10.  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
11.   Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
12.  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Tony Evans said, “You are not fighting for victory - you are fighting from victory. The victory is yours in Jesus Christ”

Spiritual Warfare can be compared with an interactive chess game. It is an endless life long process of acting or encountering one upon or with the other.  A Spiritual Warfare does not occur in physical, but in the Spiritual realm. Joyce Meyer said, “Our mind is the battlefield.”  Our enemies are spiritually weakened, the ruler of the dark and that is why we need to identify our enemy”. Not only Satan, but we also battle against principalities and powers, rulers of the darkness of this age, spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

When the enemy, ‘Satan’ sends deception our way, we must fight with the strength that God provides.   God has done everything through Jesus Christ, but we can’t enjoy it. This happens because we never claim it. God has delivered us from the bondage of sin through Jesus Christ.  We need to get alert while engaging in Spiritual Warfare.  In order to counter our enemy, we also need to be there in the battlefield, knowing the strategy and identify who our enemies are.

We need to equip with the armor of God. It is the armor that GOD supplies and that we must put on. It is not something that we have in ourselves. It is a divine strength in God that we can put on to protect us in the battles we are to face in life. We, all believers should stand strong in the Armor of God. As long as we are in physical, we are not in the spiritual realms.  The apostle Paul said, “I always live in spirit”.  Only seeing the physical structure of the organization will never give us satisfaction.  But, it is that, the deeper we go in the more we attain a spiritual satisfaction.

Therefore, when we arm ourselves in the Armor of God, we are strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.   With such strength, we are able to resist and stand firm against anything Satan might throw against us.  The apostle Paul says in Romans 8: 1.”There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit”. And that, it is through the deliverance of Christ Jesus we are engaging in Spiritual Warfare.

Ephesian, 1:3 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.

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