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- The Three Battle Grounds,
- Self
- The World System
- The Heavenly Realms
Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.
I. How to win the Spiritual War over Self
A. View God’s Mercy
B. Crucify Self
The mercy of God is exhibited in sending His perfect sinless son to die on the cross for a perfectly sinful humanity. It's important that we view our own sacrifices in the light of His sacrifice.
Crucify Self
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
The image is represented by Barabbas. We are Barabbas, the sinful, getting pardoned so a sinless Messiah could die in our place.
Followers of Christ
Christianity 101 – Flies in the face of the false gospel that teaches God is more concerned about your comfort than your character. More concerned about you being blessed than your obedience to Him. More interested in your bank account than your son-ship.
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
1. Self consists of 3 parts
a. Body
b. Soul (Mind, Will, Emotions)
c. Spirit
The Body
Matthew 26:41
"Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."
The Soul
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
The Spirit of Mankind
Lost Men don’t have a living spirit within them.
1 Corinthians 2:10b,11
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Dead to Sin
Romans 6:11
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
The Battle for the Mind
2 Corinthians 10:4,5
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
The Battle for the Will
Romans 6:16
Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
The Battle in the Emotions
John 14:27 – Troubled Heart
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
John 14:1 – Troubles
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God ; trust also in me.
2 Corinthians 1:3,4 – All Troubles
3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
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