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The
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Theme:
Spiritual Warfare
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topic of today's newsletter is Spiritual Wafare. We are in the midst of Halloween activities in the United
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you and your church have decided to do about the celebration of Halloween, the
holiday is certainly a reminder of the real
spiritual
warfare that we face as believers. We
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1. Top
5 Sermons On Spiritual Warfare
2. Top
5 Illustrations On Spiritual Warfare
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1. Top
5 Sermons On Spiritual Warfare
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POWER
OVER SATAN by Melvin Newland: Ephesians
6:12-12
One of
the great conflicts of life is the conflict over authority. "Who is in
charge? Who controls what is going on?" This conflict
occurs
in the home between parents & children. It occurs between students &
teachers at school, & between children on the
playground.
And usually it is the biggest who wins.
The
same kind of struggle oftentimes takes place in marriage, too. Two people get
married & when conflicts occur, the question
arises,
"Who, if anybody, is really in control?" Years ago, "The Honeymooners" was one of my favorite TV
programs. I enjoyed
watching
Jackie Gleason & Audrey Meadows
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SOMETHING'S
GOT A HOLD OF MY LIFE by Paul Berkley:
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
In 1863
the Emancipation Proclamation was proclaimed in America. The word spread from
Capitol Hill down into the valleys of
Virginia,
and the Carolinas, and evens into the plantations of Georgia, Mississippi, and
Alabama. The headlines read, 'Slavery
Legally
Abolished!' However, the greater majority of slaves, in the South, went right
on living as though there had been no
emancipation.
They went on living like they had never been set free. In fact, when one
Alabama slave was asked what he thought of
the
Great Emancipator, whose proclamation had gone into effect, he replied "I
don't know nothing about Abraham Lincoln except they
say he
set us free. And, I don't know nothing
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SPIRITUAL
WARFARE by Eddie Snipes: Ephesians
6:10-18
Most of
us have heard of spiritual warfare, but what does this mean and how does it
apply to our daily lives as Christians? Often
times
the issue of spiritual warfare gets convoluted by sensationalism, superstition
and now by the new wave of 'Jerry Springer'
style
spiritual programming carried on many religious cable TV stations today. These
only serve to misguide believers and drive the
world
away from the true message of the gospel. Does satan hold such great power that
he can distribute to his followers and use to
oppresses
the Christians? My goal today is to take a no-nonsense approach to examining
what the scriptures say about spiritual
warfare
and how we should equip ourselves to stand in the heat of battle.
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SPIRITUAL
WARFARE- STAND YOUR GROUND by Chris Talton:
Ephesians 6:10-13
One of
the teachers at my wife's school died on Friday. Her husband, Mr. Packard spoke
at the funeral and talked about the source
of his
strength. His strength was not found in his wife. (Psalm 46) I spent a lot of
time in the hospital this week. They took all
the
life-support off of Jim Morris on Wed. Then on Thursday, a new life came into
the world - Nicholas Scott Elliott. Life changes.
Anything
and everything about your life could change at a moment's notice. The only way
that you can be safe is to base your source
of
strength on something
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LAND OF
THE GIANTS by Tim George: 2 Corinthians
10:3-5
"For
though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons
of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in
God for
pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that
exalts itself against the knowledge of God,
bringing
every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ." (2 Corinthians
10:3-5)
In the
late 1960's there was a TV show called Land of the Giants. Seven people from
earth found their spaceship caught in a warp of
some
kind and ended up on a planet where everything was twelve times larger than on
earth. Each week they battled giant cats,
children,
and soldiers. It was a little strange but raised an interesting question.
What
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2. Top
5 Illustrations On Spiritual Warfare
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RESISTING
THE DEVIL
D. W.
Whittle tells of a man who came to Charles Finney and said: "I don't
believe in the existence of a devil." "Don't you?" said
the old
man. "Well, you resist him for a while, and you will believe in it."
Contributed
by: Evie Megginson
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BELIEVING
IN THE DEVIL
The New
York Times reported a study about the diminishing belief in the devil among
Americans. Two-thirds of Americans do not
believe
in the devil as a living entity. In a randomly selected survey of over 1,000
Americans, pollsters asked whether they agreed
that
Satan is "not a living being, but a symbol of evil." Sixty-two
percent agreed with the statement. That means nearly 149
million
Americans believe that Satan has no influence but that Satan is just a symbol
of evil. We should know and understand that
Satan
is real and evil is real and that this is our number 1 enemy as believers in
Jesus Christ.
Contributed
by: Christopher Roberts
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FALLING
OUT OF BED
A
little boy constantly fell out of bed. No matter what his parents did, the boy
couldn't sleep without rolling out of bed. An
uncle
came to visit and in the middle of the night the usual thump and cry was heard.
In the morning the uncle teased the boy and
asked
him why he fell out so often. The little fellow thought for a moment and then
said, "I don't know, unless its because I stay
too
close to the place where I get in."
Contributed
by: Bruce Howell
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WHAT WE
OUGHT TO DO
Peter
Marshall said "We are too Christian really to enjoy sinning, and too fond
of sinning really to enjoy Christianity. Most of us
know
perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do
it."
Contributed
by: Denn Guptill
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HOW TO CATCH
A MONKEY
Native
hunters in the jungles of Africa have a clever way of trapping monkeys. They slice a coconut in two, hollow it out,
and in
one
half of the shell cut a hole just big enough for a monkey's hand to pass
through. Then they place an orange in the other
coconut
half before fastening together the two halves of the coconut shell. Finally,
they secure the coconut to a tree with a rope,
retreat
into the jungle, and wait. Sooner or
later, an unsuspecting monkey swings by, smells the delicious orange, and
discovers
its
location inside the coconut. The monkey then slips his hand through the small
hole, grasp the orange, and tries to pull it
through
the hole. Of course, the orange won't come out; it's too big for the hole. To
no avail the persistent monkey continues to
pull
and pull, never realizing the danger he is in.
While
the monkey struggles with the orange, the hunters simply stroll in and capture
the monkey by throwing a net over him. As long
as the
monkey keeps his fist wrapped around the orange, the monkey is trapped. It's too bad-the poor monkey could save its
own
life if
it would let go of the orange. It rarely occurs to a monkey, however, that it
can't have both the orange and its freedom.
That
delicious orange becomes a deadly trap.
The
world sets traps for you that are not unlike the monkey trap. You hear
constantly that if you just have enough money, enough
stuff,
enough power, enough prestige-then you'll be happy. Under that illusion people
spend their whole lives thinking you must
have it
all.
The
call of Christianity is unlike that of the world.
Contributed
by: Doug Sanders
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