For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. (2 Corinthians 10:3-4)
Let me start off by saying that Paul says we do not employ the weapons of the flesh. Right now someone is asking the questions: “What are those weapons? What does the world use to try to solve the problems it recognizes in society?” You know what it uses: intimidation, manipulation, pressure groups, compromises, psychological pressure, physical force, or threats. Demonstrations that ultimately result in raised voices, clenched fists, and outbreaks of conflict. These are the weapons of the world. So it is understandable why those who are governed by the flesh would seek to employ fleshly weapons to get things done. But the universal testimony of history is these do not work.
We have other weapons family; they are mighty, they are powerful, and they accomplish something. They will “demolish strongholds” of evil, Paul says. But there are no answers in this passage to the question, “What are these weapons?” The apostle has referred to them in various places in his letters.
The first weapon available to us family, is truth. Because we read and believe in God’s word, we are given an insight into life and reality that others do not have. We know what is behind the forces at work in our society today, and we ought to know how to go about overcoming them. That is what truth is all about. Truth is realism.
The wonderful thing about the Word of God is that when you understand the world as the Bible sees it, you are looking at life the way it really is. That is why it is so important that we understand the Scriptures we refresh our minds with all the time, because we are constantly bombarded with illusion and error every day, and it is easy to drift back into thinking the way everybody around us thinks, Amen Somebody!
Love is also a powerful weapon family, and in Scripture, the Word of God links truth with love. When you begin to treat people with courtesy instead of anger, when you accept them as people with feelings like yours and understand that they too are struggling with difficulties and see things out of focus as you often do, when you begin to treat them as people in trouble who need help -- that is what love is -- then you change the whole picture, I’m talking right?
Along with truth and love in Scripture is faith. Faith is the recognition that God is present in history. He has not left us alone to stumble on our own way, Halleluiah! The Lord Jesus sits in control of all the nations of earth. Faith believes that and expects Him to do something. When you get a chance family, read (Hebrews 11) and you will find out that we have the great record of the plain, ordinary men and women like you and me who found, by faith, that they could stop the mouths of lions, open the doors of prisons, and change the course of history, Amen Somebody!
Another powerful weapon for us, proceeding from faith, is prayer. The power of prayer is held before us throughout Scripture. We are constantly exhorted to expose the situations in which we find ourselves to the prayers of believing people, both individually and corporately, praying that God would move in and change things. Again and again the record testifies that Christians who pray have drastically altered events. So I say to you in closing; we must use the weapons that God has given us in every area of our lives’! It is like the American Express Card; Don’t Leave Home Without Them! Amen, Amen, and Amen. God Bless You All, Have A Great Godly Day in the Lord.
Love is also a powerful weapon family, and in Scripture, the Word of God links truth with love. When you begin to treat people with courtesy instead of anger, when you accept them as people with feelings like yours and understand that they too are struggling with difficulties and see things out of focus as you often do, when you begin to treat them as people in trouble who need help -- that is what love is -- then you change the whole picture, I’m talking right?
Along with truth and love in Scripture is faith. Faith is the recognition that God is present in history. He has not left us alone to stumble on our own way, Halleluiah! The Lord Jesus sits in control of all the nations of earth. Faith believes that and expects Him to do something. When you get a chance family, read (Hebrews 11) and you will find out that we have the great record of the plain, ordinary men and women like you and me who found, by faith, that they could stop the mouths of lions, open the doors of prisons, and change the course of history, Amen Somebody!
Another powerful weapon for us, proceeding from faith, is prayer. The power of prayer is held before us throughout Scripture. We are constantly exhorted to expose the situations in which we find ourselves to the prayers of believing people, both individually and corporately, praying that God would move in and change things. Again and again the record testifies that Christians who pray have drastically altered events. So I say to you in closing; we must use the weapons that God has given us in every area of our lives’! It is like the American Express Card; Don’t Leave Home Without Them! Amen, Amen, and Amen. God Bless You All, Have A Great Godly Day in the Lord.
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