Spiritual Warfare
God the Father’s Love is the Reason and Center of Spiritual Warfare Part II
God the Father loves you
and is seeking you.
He looks in the darkest places
to show His love for you.
This is why…
We love because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19
Christ's love has moved me to such extremes.
His love has the first and last word in everything we do.
2 Corinthians 5:14 MSG
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… all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them.
God the Father’s Love is the Reason and Center of Spiritual Warfare Part II
Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil.
The devil’s work is deceiving us…
Getting our eyes off God
the Father and unto ourselves.
This is why we have spiritual warfare.
God the Father is fighting for us
who are created in His image.
He is fighting for our love.
God the Father is seeking to save the lost.
Because of God the Father’s great love
He sent His Son Jesus into the world to save it.
God the Father is merciful when…
He judges our rebellion and sin.
It is…
The goodness of God that leads us to repentance.
The battle is about a choice.
Will we return to our rightful Father, God?
Or…
Will we be influenced by the devil
to serve our lustful desires?
Jesus came to set the captives free.
He came and delivered people
from the works of the devil.
He healed the sick and said…
“Go and sin no more”
He opened the eyes of the blind
so a person might have sight in both
the natural world and spiritual.
Death came through one man Adam to all.
The devil comes to rob, destroy and kill…
BUT Jesus came to give life in abundance.
The devil came to destroy the works of God.
The last enemy in this spiritual warfare is…
Death
1 Corinthians 15:21-27…
21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him. 24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. 25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
27 For he "has put everything under his feet."
The spiritual war is for your soul.
God the Father loves you
and is seeking you.
He looks in the darkest places
to show His love for you.
This is why…
We love because He first loved us.
1 John 4:19
Christ's love has moved me to such extremes.
His love has the first and last word in everything we do.
2 Corinthians 5:14 MSG
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.
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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