Fight the Right Fight

 

It starts with you taking an inventory of you!

 

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves [the first requirement of any leader], and to all the [little] flock [maybe just your own family], over [in] the which the Holy Ghost [God] hath made you overseers, to feed [shepherd] the church of God [the lord], which he hath purchased with his own blood.

 

Ephesians 6:10,11  “Put on” is something that you have to do. The “right fight” takes putting on the whole armor of God; operating all 9 manifestations, in order to stand against the wiles, the systematic scheming devices of the evil one. We need to be aware that his schemes are both blatantly bold and incredibly sly. We need to realize who is behind the evil.

 

12 Our fight is against more than terrorists. We fight the cause behind the actions, our fight is against Satan and his evil network. He still is after the things and the people of God. One of His primary goals is stop the movement of the Word of God. He will use all the weapons and all the people that are at his disposal. We have to combat him spiritually.

 

13 Every day there is evil. It takes us putting on the whole armor of God to stand against it and for God.

 

II Corinthians 10:3-5 This fight is not a senses fight. Our spiritual weapons are mighty though, through God. You are in control. You have to bring every thought captive to the will of God. The power of God can only be released after you bring your mind into obedience to the things of God.

 

Ephesians 6:14-18

 

Verses 17 and 18 tell us what are mighty spiritual weapons are: the Word of God and prayer. Prayer in the spirit and with our understanding.

 

Hebrews 4:12 God’s Word is powerful! Don’t ever doubt it.

 

We need to believe what the written Word of God says about ourselves and about life: this life and eternal life. We need to pray fervently and watch, stand guard in prayer, for all of God’s people, His children, and for specific situations.

 

I Timothy 2:1-6 One God! Too many want to worship man as God.

 

Christ is still our message to the world. It is Christ who will bring the peace and comfort that is needed. Each one needs to win one for Christ.

 

We need to pray specifically for the clear headedness and wisdom that our leaders need so they can follow the right course, God’s course, which will lead to us leading a quiet and peaceable life.

There are many records in the Old Testament where God’s people were under attack from people who were working for the wicked one. However, when God’s people turned to Him, He delivered them. Many times they were told to just stay out of the way and watch what God would do on their behalf.

 

II Kings 19:32-37 God did all the work. There was no loss of life at all. Imagine how much money was saved on war supplies, government contracts, food and water, the clean up of the rubble, man hours that were saved from not having to leave the fields to go fight a war. Money that was not needed from the war effort, could now be utilized to magnify God and bless His people.

 

War demands and requires the best young men and women of a nation to be sacrificed on the altar of the lust, selfishness and greed of others.

 

God had preserved for us many great examples in the Old Testament of how He took care of His people when they listened to Him and served Him, not other gods.

 

When all of humanity had turned from the true God, Noah found grace in the sight of the Lord.

At the time of the tower of Babel, Nimrod was hunting down the Christ line trying to extinguish it. But God went to work and stopped him with a novel idea, confusing the languages.

 

Jerusalem was under siege and Hezekiah was on his death bed with no male heir. This would end the Christ line, but somehow God was able to prevail. The Egyptians were massacred at the Red Sea. God sent hornets and loud “mental” noises to confuse and defeat the people who represented Satan.

 

There are many, many records of God’s deliverance which He had recorded so we could learn and gather strength from seeing His mighty power at work.

 

II Chronicles 20:1-9 Look at the praise and reminder of what God had already done for His people.

 

Let’s look at the timeframe surrounding when God gave those promises. It was when Solomon had finished building the Temple. God appears to him, to accept the building as His home.

 

II Chronicles 7:12-22

 

II Chronicles 20:10-30

 

Our enemy, the enemy of our spiritual Father started war.

 

Revelation 12:7-9 The bottom line to the cause of war is the adversary. Death and the power of death are of the adversary, the Devil, Satan.

 

Hebrews 2:14 He was a murderer from the beginning.

 

John 8:44-47 We need to speak God’s Word to see who is on the true God’s side.

 

Genesis 4:8 This happened because spirit got involved. This is our enemy’s true nature, murder. He will do anything to hinder the purposes of God.

 

I John 3:8-12 Jesus Christ came to destroy the works of the devil. He is in us helping us, strengthening us as we do his work in his stead. God’s power is greater than the devil’s.

 

I John 4:4 The devil has made huge mistakes before, starting with thinking he could overthrow the true God.

 

Isaiah 14:12-20  [Read Moffat’s]

 

Another major mistake was when he wrongfully crucified Jesus Christ.

 

I Corinthians 2:8 The devil has had a history of making bad mistakes. It is up to the knowledgeable believers to show him that he made an incredibly colossal one again.

 

He is the one who is responsible for the death of God’s messengers. He has used his people for years to carry out his sinister plots against God and the people of God.

 

Matthew 23:29-39 We are blessed because we do come in the name of the true God.

 

II Corinthians 2:11 We are not ignorant, but we need to act. We do not want to ever give Satan any advantage. Last Tuesday showed us what can happen if we let our guard down.

 

14 God always causes us to triumph.

 

War stems from a man’s free will to choose to follow the true God or the adversary, God’s arch enemy. Adam and Eve chose the latter, and mankind has been in war since. We are not of this world, but as we pass through, we can make a difference. It is worth our effort.

 

Throughout the history of mankind, men and women have had to rise up at different times to take a stand for the true God. This is our time. If our country is to continue with the freedoms we have to safely worship God, it is up to us to do whatever God needs us to do to preserve these freedoms for our children if the Lord tarried.

 

I Corinthians 9:24-27 As long as Satan is around, there will be war.

 

James 4:1-4 Are you a friend of the world?

 

II Chronicles 16:9 There will be war at home as long as man serves other gods.

 

Judges 5:8a “war in the gates” means right at home, right where they live.

 

There is protection, there is safety, for every for every born-again believer in our administration, just as there was for Israel. If God could protect the children of Israel, this same God can take care of His children.

 

Psalm 91:1-16

 

Some believe that when dangers lurk in war, the believers die with the unbelievers. The Bible teaches otherwise.

 

Ecclesiastes 9:18 Whose wisdom? The wisdom of God. Wisdom is knowledge applied. So you have to know God and His Word, which when applied, is better than all war can be upon you or to you.

 

The war on earth ends for us at the time Christ returns.

 

I Thessalonians 4:16-17 We will continue the fight in our spiritual bodies. The spiritual war finally ends with the destruction of death.

 

I Corinthians 15:20-26

 

Once there is a destruction of death, which of course includes the one who has the power of death, all will be perfect.

 

Revelation 21:4 This is a time worth anticipating. So what do we do? Follow Ezra’s lead.

 

Ezra 7:8-10 Ezra prepared his heart to do what the good hand of the Lord wanted. What did he prepare his heart to do:

 

1. To seek the law of the Lord. [He sought God’s Word and Will.]

2. To do it [To act on it once he learned what to do.]

3. To teach in Israel statues [law, God’s Word] and judgments [consequences: good and bad]

 

II Timothy 1:7 Fear is cowardice. Don’t be a coward! God is counting on us now. We have the ministry of reconciliation. We have been chosen to be the part of the Body of Christ that is alive today to handle what God needs done on earth.

 

II Timothy 2:1-7; 4:1,2 Now is the time to preach the Gospel of deliverance to combat the fear the devil has brought to pass in our country.

 

3-8 Let us be among those who love his appearing.

 

Let’s take a stand. Let’s boldly speak God’s Word in the name of Jesus Christ. Let’s claim God’s protection and His blessings in our lives, for our families, our businesses, at our jobs, knowing that wherever we go and every step we take moves us closer to the culmination of war.