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Ephesians 6:13
…take up the full armor of God so that you may be able to stand your ground on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.”

Father God has made provisions for us to stand firm against the attacks of our external enemy—The Devil—who is at work in the World. We stand firm by “putting on” and living in the reality of our new identity in Christ. 

We are wounded by our struggles in the World. We are broken by the sin that still lives within us. But In Christ, we are being healed and made whole.

The Scriptures indicate that every human being is born spiritually dead, hostile to God and enslaved to the power of sin by nature. In the Rebellion and Fall of Adam, two terrible things happened to us: 1) We have each been declared guilty before God because of Adam’s sinful “vote” on our behalf, and 2) We have each inherited the corruption of sin that has marred our ability to think and act in a godly way. Understanding who we are “in Adam” is the first step in comprehending how Christ has set us free and empowered us to live an entirely new KIND of life.

We face two powerful spiritual enemies: 1) The Adversary who is at work in the world and 2) The Sin that still lives in our Flesh. We need to be AWARE and AWAKE to the reality of these ever present enemies.

1 John 5:19
We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of The Evil One.

We are living in a world that is engaged in a Great Spiritual War. There are only two sides in this Great War: those who are allied with the One True God as His beloved Children and those who are still enslaved by Satan—The Devil—in the Dominion of Darkness.  This week, we begin to explore how we engage in the spiritual struggles that take place around and within us.

We have been blessed with many gifts from Father God in Christ. On top of all the priceless gifts we have been given, The Holy Spirit has been given to us to lead us up and into the love of the One True God. His presence and empowerment will be the foundation on which we face our many spiritual struggles that we will begin to explore next week.

Today we turn to consider how the Spirit works in our lives. As we look at the reality of the work of the Spirit in our lives, we see many parallels to His work in the life of Christ. Although the Spirit works in a more magnified way in the life of Christ, many of the same things He did for or through Jesus, He also does for us.