There is a war going on. ( Ephesians 6 v 10 - 17 )

Yes there is a war going on,well that's nothing new,but it is not a war using military might,it is not even against flesh and blood.It is a spiritual warfare between, well it is what the scripture has to say.I will use Moffatt translation,'For we have to struggle,not with flesh and blood but with the angelic Rulers,the angelic Authorities, the potentates of the dark present, the spirit- forces of evil in the heavenly sphere. '    There is in this world an invisible enemy, who rarely shows his face.Rutherford  writes,'The Father of lies(Satan) works his deadliest havoc by,'' shamming dead'' and writing his own obituary in  unctuous terms'.In other words he wants people to believe he doesn't exist.But as Christians we must take him very seriously, we are not to become paranoid,but we must not ignore the fact that he exists.He is a mighty foe,and we have to contend with him ,it is E.K.Simpson who writes the following,'The Christian soldier must not dream of entering on this spiritual warfare at his own charges or with his own equipment. Let him cry  with David, ''It is God that girdeth me with strength; He teaches my hands to war''.The apostle Paul writes ,'Be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might'. (Ephesians 6 v10)

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