Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
We WRESTLE.
We all know what it means to wrestle with someone or something don't we?
I say someone or something because we can wrestle with problems that aren't physical in nature. We wrestle with ideas, we wrestle with decisions, we wrestle with a lot of things. If people can understand the concept of wrestling with an idea they surely should be able to understand the concept of fighting against things that are NOT flesh and blood.
It sounds strange, doesn't it?
I'm not asking anyone to believe in ghosts as in dead human spirit beings, but I am asking everyone to believe in spirit beings that were created to be spirit beings- angels.
And I'm not just asking everyone to believe in spirit angel beings, but I'm asking everyone to believe in spirit angel beings that are evil, as well as those that are not evil.
These beings can be around us at all times and because they are REAL they have influence upon us. It doesn't matter if you believe in them or not for them to be real, they're real even if you don't want them to be. You can say till you're blue in the face that spirit beings do not exist but that would be like saying the very air we breathe isn't real.
The evil spirit beings are real and they are NOT flesh and blood in any real form, though they might choose to appear as a human being. These beings are principalities, these beings are powers, these beings are rulers of darkness, these beings are wicked- and we wrestle with them.
Wouldn't it be something if we were all allowed to get a glimpse of a spirit being? It'd be awful frightening too. Some people do see them, some people search for them and some invite them into their lives. The problem with toying with the spirit world is that we cannot truly begin to comprehend the power behind that world.
The Bible tells us that evil spirits can POSSESS a human being.
The Bible tells us that evil spirits can live inside a human being.
This means that the evil spirit can live inside us who are flesh, blood, and spirit.
We truly have a spirit within us, our spirit being, and it's this part of us that we have in common with our Spiritual Father, our Spiritual Holy Spirit, and our Spiritual-Flesh-Blood Savior as well as the spirits that are angels- those who are God's angels and those who follow the fallen angel Lucifer.
We can comprehend the spirit world when we comprehend we are part spirit, can't we?
Spirit beings incased in flesh and blood- made by God this way. We are NEVER meant to become just spirit without flesh and blood, yet we ARE meant to become spirit with UNCORRUPTED flesh and blood.
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
We cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven in the degraded flesh and blood we've become since sin changed us and stripped from us the covering of our God's righteousness. When Eve and Adam sinned they were instantly notably naked in a way they'd never been before- they'd LOST the covering of the LIGHT of GOD's RIGHTEOUSNESS, it was instantaneously GONE!
What was left was a sinful, naked, vulnerable flesh, blood, and spirit being. Our very flesh began to degrade from that moment. We were corrupted in that moment, our flesh, our blood corrupted by sin. We were NO longer the beings that God first created, we were NO longer the beings we were MEANT to be!
And this corrupted FLESH, this corrupted BLOOD, our corrupted beings will NEVER inherit heaven.
We will be CHANGED- our flesh and blood will be changed just as our SAVIOR'S flesh and blood was changed when He was raised from the dead and ascended to His Father.
So, no, our corrupted flesh and blood will NOT inherit heaven, but our CHANGED flesh and blood WILL inherit the kingdom of heaven!
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1Co 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
We will NEVER become simply SPIRIT, never. To become simply a spirit being would make us like the angels and we are NOT going to become angel beings. Our SAVIOR took on our FLESH and BLOOD, not so He could turn us into angels, but to SAVE us as HUMAN BEINGS!
The Spirit world exists and I know I keep going on and on about it, but I have to, because WE ARE wrestling with evil spirits in the world whether we like it or not. You don't have to admit it, the evil spirits love it when we don't admit to their reality.
We wrestle against evil spirits and the ONLY way we can defeat them is through CHRIST, and CHRIST providing us with the WHOLE ARMOR of GOD.
Yes, it's true people go about without concerning themselves about Jesus all the time. And it's equally true that all those people are vulnerable to the evil spirits in the world. Does this mean that they are all demon possessed and lunatic? Not at all. The most deceptive evil spirits are those who appear to be good even though they are evil through and through.
We NEED the armor of God, the WHOLE armor of God or we will be unprotected and very vulnerable to the evil all around us.
More tomorrow all by the GRACE of our LORD JESUS CHRIST!
We WRESTLE.
We all know what it means to wrestle with someone or something don't we?
I say someone or something because we can wrestle with problems that aren't physical in nature. We wrestle with ideas, we wrestle with decisions, we wrestle with a lot of things. If people can understand the concept of wrestling with an idea they surely should be able to understand the concept of fighting against things that are NOT flesh and blood.
It sounds strange, doesn't it?
I'm not asking anyone to believe in ghosts as in dead human spirit beings, but I am asking everyone to believe in spirit beings that were created to be spirit beings- angels.
And I'm not just asking everyone to believe in spirit angel beings, but I'm asking everyone to believe in spirit angel beings that are evil, as well as those that are not evil.
These beings can be around us at all times and because they are REAL they have influence upon us. It doesn't matter if you believe in them or not for them to be real, they're real even if you don't want them to be. You can say till you're blue in the face that spirit beings do not exist but that would be like saying the very air we breathe isn't real.
The evil spirit beings are real and they are NOT flesh and blood in any real form, though they might choose to appear as a human being. These beings are principalities, these beings are powers, these beings are rulers of darkness, these beings are wicked- and we wrestle with them.
Wouldn't it be something if we were all allowed to get a glimpse of a spirit being? It'd be awful frightening too. Some people do see them, some people search for them and some invite them into their lives. The problem with toying with the spirit world is that we cannot truly begin to comprehend the power behind that world.
The Bible tells us that evil spirits can POSSESS a human being.
The Bible tells us that evil spirits can live inside a human being.
This means that the evil spirit can live inside us who are flesh, blood, and spirit.
We truly have a spirit within us, our spirit being, and it's this part of us that we have in common with our Spiritual Father, our Spiritual Holy Spirit, and our Spiritual-Flesh-Blood Savior as well as the spirits that are angels- those who are God's angels and those who follow the fallen angel Lucifer.
We can comprehend the spirit world when we comprehend we are part spirit, can't we?
Spirit beings incased in flesh and blood- made by God this way. We are NEVER meant to become just spirit without flesh and blood, yet we ARE meant to become spirit with UNCORRUPTED flesh and blood.
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
We cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven in the degraded flesh and blood we've become since sin changed us and stripped from us the covering of our God's righteousness. When Eve and Adam sinned they were instantly notably naked in a way they'd never been before- they'd LOST the covering of the LIGHT of GOD's RIGHTEOUSNESS, it was instantaneously GONE!
What was left was a sinful, naked, vulnerable flesh, blood, and spirit being. Our very flesh began to degrade from that moment. We were corrupted in that moment, our flesh, our blood corrupted by sin. We were NO longer the beings that God first created, we were NO longer the beings we were MEANT to be!
And this corrupted FLESH, this corrupted BLOOD, our corrupted beings will NEVER inherit heaven.
We will be CHANGED- our flesh and blood will be changed just as our SAVIOR'S flesh and blood was changed when He was raised from the dead and ascended to His Father.
So, no, our corrupted flesh and blood will NOT inherit heaven, but our CHANGED flesh and blood WILL inherit the kingdom of heaven!
1Co 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
1Co 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1Co 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
We will NEVER become simply SPIRIT, never. To become simply a spirit being would make us like the angels and we are NOT going to become angel beings. Our SAVIOR took on our FLESH and BLOOD, not so He could turn us into angels, but to SAVE us as HUMAN BEINGS!
The Spirit world exists and I know I keep going on and on about it, but I have to, because WE ARE wrestling with evil spirits in the world whether we like it or not. You don't have to admit it, the evil spirits love it when we don't admit to their reality.
We wrestle against evil spirits and the ONLY way we can defeat them is through CHRIST, and CHRIST providing us with the WHOLE ARMOR of GOD.
Yes, it's true people go about without concerning themselves about Jesus all the time. And it's equally true that all those people are vulnerable to the evil spirits in the world. Does this mean that they are all demon possessed and lunatic? Not at all. The most deceptive evil spirits are those who appear to be good even though they are evil through and through.
We NEED the armor of God, the WHOLE armor of God or we will be unprotected and very vulnerable to the evil all around us.
More tomorrow all by the GRACE of our LORD JESUS CHRIST!
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