Sermons About Enemy
Pirate of the Carolinas
Edward Teach, known as “Blackbeard†the pirate, prowled the waters off the southeastern coast of the American colonies in the early 1700s. He was a menacing figure with long, dark hair twisted into pigtails and a beard that covered his face. Teach appeared surrounded in smoke from the slow burning hemp he wore under his hat. Wearing multiple pistols, knives and a cutlass, his frightening image often caused enemies to surrender at the sight of him.
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A Fresh Start - Part 2
"The Christian life is a life of war. It's not a playground for children, but a battleground for soldiers. The battle is relentless and ruthless. It finds us wherever we go. There is no escape. We cannot hide. There is no peace treaty to sign, no white flag to raise, no demilitarized zone. Every believer is enlisted and placed on the front lines." (Adrian Rogers)
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Behind Enemy Lines
"Incognito, under the cover of darkness, the king of kings stole into town; disguised as an infant..." - Philip Yancey. "It is John's Spirit-appointed task to supplement the work of Matthew and Luke so that the nativity can not be sentimentalized into coziness, nor domesticated into drabness, nor commercialized into worldliness....this is not the nativity story we grew up with, but it is the nativity story all the same. Jesus' birth excited more than wonder, it excites evil...." - Eugene Peterson. "Open war is upon you...whether you would risk it or not" - Aragon (Lord of the Rings)
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The Spiritual War
Every Christian is engaged in a spiritual warfare. Here we consider the enemy and his methods, as well as our source of strength, necessary activity, and promised victory.
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Discipleship and the Enemy
Just loving those who love back is easy. Jesus has a much more radical message: "Love your enemies." This is hard, and we need help, help from the one who first loved us, even when we were enemies of God.
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Returning Grace for Evil
We find it relatively easy to be kind and gracious to people who are kind and gracious to us. Jesus is unimpressed by that and said that anyone can do that. He calls us to a tremendously more difficult task: to love our enemies, the very people who have harmed us in the past or threaten to do so in the future. This is so difficult to do because we want justice for those that have hurt us and we want to strike out and weaken those who threaten us to prevent them from hurting us. The reason that Jesus calls us to love our enemies is because He loves His enemies, including you and me and our enemies, and He shows grace and mercy to us who oppose Him. The mission of God’s people in this age is to spread the Gospel of God’s Grace by word and deed throughout the whole earth, and since we have received such amazing undeserved love from God, we should show it towards our enemies as well, because Jesus cares about them like He cares about us.
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Exhibit Genuine Faithfulness
God earnestly longs for our friendship, but friendship with God comes with conditions - we must give up our own desires and motives and choose to be wholly devoted to God.
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Our Accuser
Our Accuser is a liar and a deceiver. He is a destroyer and a distracter. He will do everything he can to take our eyes off of Jesus. He is our tempter, many times we give him more footholds in our lives by the sin that we won't let go of. Our accuser has already been defeated. He has been defeated by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is only when we trust in Jesus our lord and savior that we will be able to stand up under the accusations and temptations of the enemy.
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Loving Your Neighbor Is Good Enough
Mythbusters is a six week series which debunks common misconceptions about living the Christian life by examining what Jesus taught during the Sermon on the Mount. The text for this series is Matthew 5-7. "Loving Your Neighbor Is Not Enough" is the third sermon in this series preached by Paul Wingfield, Lead Pastor at South Telegraph Christian Church.
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