Sermons About Enemy
When God Answers Our Enemies
When enemies rise up against you, take your matter before the Lord. When you become the target of someone else's wrath or bitterness, allow God to do the shooting. He will attend to the matter and execute perfect justice. In the process, others who are watching will see, flee, fear, declare His works and consider his doings, while fellow believers rejoice and are encouraged to put their trust in the Lord.
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Ready for Battle
Spiritual warfare is a reality for the believer in Christ. As baptized and redeemed people of God, we are "high profile targets" of the enemy, who is bent on our destruction. The weapons that we use are very different than those used in earthly conflict and warfare, but are very powerful: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, shoes of the Gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. In truth, the victory over against sin, death, and hell has already been won by Christ our Captain through his death and resurrection. It is is strength and power that will see us through.
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Nehemiah Sermon 005
Opposition Comes! The enemy's tactics were: 1. Ridicule 2. Intimidation 3. Discouragement
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Counterassaults on the Church Part 1: Destroy the Church By Force
One of the dangers in looking backwards (as we are in our study of the book of Acts) is that we tend to romanticize the past. We have a very selective, even idyllic view of things that happened and we forget the hard things. That is especially true with the church. Christians often think that everything was wonderful and easy in those early years. Yet as we carefully read the book of Acts, we find all kinds of challenges. But most of all, we find a counterassault against the church by the enemy of Christ. In Acts chapters 4-6, Satan is only named once, but he is behind a threefold assault on the existence and mission of the church. Today in the world we will look at his first counterassault—the assault of persecution. Unfortunately, this story is not “long ago and far away” because we are now living in the greatest age of persecution. So why did it happen? How did they respond? And how did they pray?
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The Battle for the World
This world is enemy occupied territory. We hear the enemy's message from everyone around us; teachers, politicians, media. Even Christians, who have been freed from satan's grip, are still under his influence. We are like soldiers who have been dropped behind enemy lines; we have three options: 1. go over to the other side, 2. hide our true identity and try hard not to be noticed, or 3. engage in the fight, confident in the weapons and armour of our Lord and King. How do we fight? With the Word of God. Paul's speech to the Atheneans is nearest to our situation. We need to speak in terms that our audience relates to, using language that they understand and illustrations that they recognise. Our aim is to save these people, to turn our enemies into our friends by changing their minds and therefore their values. Love these people with God's love (and will and strength), so that they in turn will fall in love with God through us.
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Risk of the Mission
Have you become accustomed to the brokenness in your life and the lives around you? Have you guarded your heart by keeping your distance? Have you protected yourself by having such meager expectations for God? Have you said things like, “If you don’t expect anything, you won’t be disappointed?†Can you see how hopeless and devastating it is to expect so little of such a large God. He is a big God. We need to come to Him with all our needs, especially big ones!
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