God the Father’s Love is the Reason and Center of Spiritual Warfare Part I
Satan came to destroy the work of God
He came to destroy God’s greatest love
Satan came to destroy mankind who God made in His own image
Satan has turned the image of God we were made like
Into sickness, suffering and death
But Jesus came to show us God the Father’s Love by preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. 24 News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them. Matthew 4:23-25
God the Father’s LOVE is the reason and center of spiritual warfare
God the Father’s Love is the Reason and Center of Spiritual Warfare Part I
Satan came to destroy the work of God.
He came to destroy God’s greatest love.
Satan came to destroy mankind
who God made in His own image.
Satan has turned the image of God
we were made like…
Into sickness, suffering and death.
If you are a parent…
What is the worst thing one
of your children has done?
For some parents they have seen the child
they brought into the world,
the son or daughter they held in their arms…
The extension and love of their life…
Do terrible things.
I have seen parents torn apart
as a judge sentenced their child to prison.
I know of a mother whose son was involves
in youth ministry and became a serial killer.
Talk about pain,
the broken heart of a parent is great.
I have heard parents
whose child became ill say…
“I wish I could take their affliction
in exchange for their child’s health.”
If you personally know
what I am talking about then…
You know the love for the little child
you brought into the world.
The child you looked at when born
to see who more does this child look like…
Mom or Dad?
The love you have for that child drives you to say…
“I would do anything for that child.”
With all your good intentions and influence
you know that there are other influences
effecting the judgment of your child.
With all the healthy and safety measures
you give your child…
There are harms beyond your control.
If you can identify with
the pain of a parent suffering
because your child is suffering than…
You can identify with God the Father.
Jesus calls God, the Father,
165 times in the Gospels.
1 Corinthians 8:6 says…
…for us there is but one God, the Father,
from whom all things came and for whom we live;
and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ,
through whom all things came and through whom we live.
“One God the Father”
“From whom all things came and for whom we live.”
God the Father created all things.
We live because…
He created Adam and Eve in His image.
God the Father understood the pain
of losing His children, Adam and Eve,
to the influence of the devil.
Adam and Eve could not have
had anything better than
what God the Father provided
in the Garden of Eden.
Yet, Adam and Eve wanted more
as they were influenced by the devil
that there was more.
The choice was made.
the same thing Satan choose…
To be their own god.
Love is a choice.
Commitments are made by love.
We choose by what we love more.
God the Father’s Love is the Reason and Center of Spiritual Warfare
He is in a spiritual warfare for you and I
Remember Jesus’s words to Peter
"Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers." Luke 22:31-32
We too are in a spiritual warfare
It is over where we will put our love
The pain of a parent weeping over their child weather it was the influence to do evil or over a sickness from the devil
Spiritual warfare is real and fought with love
Scripture Reading
1 John 3:7-9NKJV
7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
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