THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6:10-12 SPIRITUAL WARFARE

Mike teaches today. 07/03/21

THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS CHAPTER 6:10-12
SPIRITUAL WARFARE

VERSES: Job 1:12-22; Ezekiel 28:17; Isaiah 14:12,15; 1st Corinthians 10:13; Revelation 2:10,12:12

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VERSE 10 “Finally my brethren…”
The beginning chapters of this Letter to the Ephesians is about the ‘Mystery’ of the heavenly Kingdom and calling of Christ. The latter part being the Christian’s apprehension and application in the attaining of that Kingdom. The Mystery encompasses the revealed Truths of our war with satan in the conquest of those promised heavenly places. Which answers to Christ’s objective to come and destroy the works of the devil (1st John 3:8) and to give life, and life more abundantly. Satan is the pride-filled and fallen angelic spirit being (with his fallen hosts of spirits, along with human ‘vipers and tares’) standing maliciously between all Men and the Creator since the Garden, but preeminently focusing on Christ followers in the vital purpose of causing each and every Christian to be disinherited from the reward for overcoming the inward and outward forces of evil. This World’s Ruler’s objective is to steal, kill, and destroy, which is to say; to stop, deter, and wreck Christian empowering relationships with God. Paul is now presenting to us that war wherein Christ followers must partake. In these last days, satan’s tactics and powers of darkness are more vast than in the Garden, and even more vast than in Christ’s time. War is evil, but this war is called by Paul, ‘the good fight’. The good fight is to run the course by keeping the doctrines of Truth in Christ that we may take away the authority from satan and his hordes and inherit a portion of the Kingdom of Christ.

Jesus has taken the place of the first Adam; the ‘Body’ of Christ has taken the place of Eve, and her seed is at warring enmity with the Serpent. Satan is tempting with the same lies as in the Garden. God is testing ‘new Eve’ again. Will we be obedient to God or eat of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil? It is by this ancient ongoing hostility in warfare, set in motion by the mouth of God in response to the Serpent’s deceiving of Eve, that God is now trying and testing His Son’s Body/seed of called out ones. (Us taking the posture of both the Bride of the Second Adam, and also of the offspring/seed of Eve in typology.) We must resist the works of the devil as Christ did, with the Truth/Word of God, for throughout history, satan has stolen away the inheritance of millions of Christians through his cunningness. He has no knowledge whether his attacks will work or not in deterring us, but he persists as he is a raging lion ever-seeking to devour us.

“Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” (Not of our own might, but fully relied on His.) The Lord is satan’s great Antagonist in Heaven while His obedient followers are satan’s antagonists on Earth. This is why we draw the focus of him and his evil forces. It is now, in this Age of Grace and Mercy in Christ, unlike in the Age of Innocence in the Garden of Eden, that Eve (the Bride), having been brought out of banishment from the kingdom of darkness on this Earth by His Own Blood and into the Light of revelatory Truth, (who yet is in the World but not of the World, and unlike 1st Eve) is now resisting the lies of the Serpent in reverential subjection to her victorious Bridegroom. (1st John 3:8) And by listening and following attentively the Bridegroom’s direction and trusting in His strengthening power inwardly in the ongoing war, (Ephesians 3:16) she is lovingly obedient and awaiting His promised return to catch Her up to Him in His coming Kingdom.

VERSE 11 “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” Satan and his hosts are bent on the death and extinction of all mankind. It is then seen that God’s defense is on all Mankind in general to a great extent. In that if God was to let satan loose on mankind, not one would survive the hour, as it is God who mercifully restrains satan. To one degree or another, satan has certain God-validated authority in this realm due to Adam’s relinquishment, but yet that authority is limited, especially as it relates to mankind. He is restrained and only granted certain leeway, only that which would answer to God’s own Just and Holy purposes. (See Job 1:12-22 where Job lost all but maintained trust in God and for it received a double portion.) "God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” [1st Corinthians 10:13] This verse can also speak even as it relates to....

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