6:10-12 THE The Believer’ s Walk in Warfare (6:10-12) The Exhortation to Arms (6:10-12) Welcome to the Powerhouse explore it and let the Spirit of the house enlighten you. The Powerhouse is a place where the power of God is, this power gives the heat and electricity of the house and all of His household can come in here to be energized and empowered to the work and task before them, for the Owner of the house does not only give work to perform, He also gives the empowerment to do it. The Exhortation to Arms (6:10-12) V.10 a) Warrant - I. Because of the battle we stand in and the supernatural creatures we fight against, nothing but the strength, power and might of God Himself will do. II. The positional blessing of power and might 1:19 is here manifested through our battle with evil spirits. V.11 b) Weaponry - I. These strength, power and might is an armoury and any time we can put it on by faith in Christ. II. Its God’ s own armoury that we can put on. Is.11:5; 59:17; 2.Cor.6:7; 10:4; 1.Thes.5:8; Heb.4:12; Ex.12:11-12; Phil.4:7-9 III. “ May be able to stand” present tense. v.11 “ May be able to withstand in the evil day” future tense. v.13 “ Having done all to stand” past tense. v.13 IV. These wiles are the devils schemes and methods. John 10:10; 2.Cor.2:11; 11:3-4; 2.Thes.2:9-10; 1.Pet.5:8; Luke 22:31 V.12 c) Warfare - There are at least 3 ways of warring: 1. Prayer. It’ s not our battle against fallen angels but our prayers to God realises the warring angels of God. 2. Mind. The battle of our minds, this takes place within our minds. Sow a thought reap an action, sow an action reap a habit, sow a habit reap a lifestyle. All sinful action begins in our minds. 2.Cor.4:3-4; 10:4-5 3. Spiritual. I. The warfare of our spirit is a one to one wrestling with demonic spirits, it’ s a real battling of the spirit and it can take place in the body or out of the body. II. As we cast out demons we are also in one to one combat with them. Mark 1:23-26; Acts 16:16-18 Them that understand and lives in 6:12 cannot live in 4:31 The Christian life is not a playground but a battleground. We are soldiers in a battle. 2.Tim.2:3-4 The workings of evil spirits 2:2 1. Principalities - They are perhaps different levels of evil spirits who has rank of authority, but they are in submission to the rulers. 2. Powers - They are perhaps evil spirits that enforces and empowers the plan of Satan on earth. 3. Rulers - They are the generals and world rulers of Satan’ s world system. 4. Spiritual wickedness - They are perhaps the evil spirits that tempt and causes rebellion Jesus overcame these principalities, powers, rulers and wickedness. Luke 11:18-22; Col.2:10, 15 Therefore they are not able to separate us from God. Rom.8:38-39