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Spiritual wickedness in high places
You have learned that spiritual warfare is not with flesh and blood. You studied about the forces of evil and how they are organized. This chapter focuses on a specific division of Satan's evil forces, "spiritual wickedness in high places." The Apostle Paul warns of these forces
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Transference of spirits
You will learn one of the most powerful and influential strategies used by Satan. Recognition of this strategy will answer many questions you have had in the past as you witnessed negative changes in your family, friends, and church fellowship...perhaps even in yourself. The strategy of which we speak is called "transference of spirits."
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Battle over Strategic Territory
Identify Satan's strategies against the physical body. • Summarize spiritual counter strategies for victory in the physical body. • Explain Satan's strategies of using human personalities to war against believers. • Summarize counter strategies for victory over human personalities which war against believers. • Identify Satan's strategies against the family. • Summarize spiritual counter strategies for victory in the family. • Identify Satan's strategies in the financial and material realm. • Summarize spiritual counter strategies for victory in the financial and material realm.
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Battle over the Walls
The Sheep Gate represents the work of the cross in your life, the foundation of spiritual construction: 3:1; John 10:11 The Fish Gate represents Christian witness: 3:3; Matthew 4:19 The Old Gate represents the old nature changing to the new: 3:6; Romans 6:1-23 The Valley Gate speaks of suffering and testing: 3:13; II Corinthians 1:3-5 The Dung Gate represents the works of the flesh which must be eliminated: 3:14; Galatians 5:16-21 The Fountain Gate represents the work of the Holy Spirit: 3:15; John 7:37-39 The Water Gate represents the Word of God: 3:26; John 4:10-14 The Horse Gate represents the believer's warfare: 3:28; Ephesians 6:10-17 The Eastern Gate speaks of the believer's hope in the return of Jesus: 3:29; Ezekiel 43:1-2 The Miphkad Gate speaks of self-examination and the judgment seat of Jesus: 3:31; I Corinthians 3:9-15; II Corinthians 5:10
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The Battle with the Tongue
Through the tongue the whole body can be defiled. The tongue can never be tamed by man. Only when you yield your tongue to God can control be maintained over it. But even then, it will never be tamed. You can never relax your guard over the tongue believing you have totally conquered it.
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The Battle of the Mind
When Paul warned the Corinthians not to be ignorant of the Devil's "wiles," the Greek word for wiles means "schemes" and is from the same word used for "mind." In other words, Satan's primary assaults occur in our thought life. The mind is the main battlefield in spiritual warfare. Every attack of Satan involves the human mind.
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Entering the Combat Zone
You have answered the call to arms and been inducted in God's army. You have studied about enemy strategy and territory. You learned about God's battle plan and been armed with defensive and offensive weapons. With this lesson, you actually enter the combat zone and begin to fight! This chapter is the first in a series which focus on Satan's strategies and Scriptural counterstrategies for overcoming his deceptive tactics. "Strategies" are the science of forming and carrying out military operations. They are the methods or plans which lead to victory.
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Parallels of Spiritual Warfare
The early Church viewed their spiritual experience in terms of warfare. Protection is described as the "armor of God." The Word of God is compared to a "sword." Satan's attacks are fiery darts and faith is the "good fight." Believers are told to "war a good warfare." Why did God choose the example of natural warfare to describe what is happening in the spirit world between the forces of good and evil? The answer is found in a basic Biblical principle: Natural principles of spiritual truth. God uses natural principles to explain what is happening in the spirit world. We can understand what we see in the natural world. When parallels are drawn between something in the natural world and the spiritual world, then we can understand the spiritual because of the natural. Jesus used this principle often.
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Spiritual Warfare - Offensive Weapons
To "war a good warfare" it is evident that you must take offensive action: This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare. (I Timothy 1:18) Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and has professed a good profession before many witnesses. (I Timothy 6:12) You are to fight this battle intelligently with purpose: I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. (I Corinthians 9:26) Knowing your offensive weapons can give you the ability to fight with purpose instead of uncertainty.
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Defensive weapons in spiritual warfare
The Word of God Delegated power and authority Prayer Fasting Keys of the kingdom The name of Jesus
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