June 9, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
• Why should we care about spiritual warfare?
• The Spirit of God & the flesh is incompatible with each other.
• We first need to be transformed before we can help change the world.
• Next, to be a part of the Lord's mission needs us to partner with him to give hope to this world.
• The original design of God was to commune with mankind in our love for Him.
• To be a love story, the option to walk away also has to be there.
• Instead of communing with God, we chose to compete with God.
• The deception of hell was to offer us something that we already had.
• We will either lust for what we want or fear retribution from God.
• Once we are transformed, we no longer live in fear and lust, but instead, we live in love & mission for the Kingdom.
• Nothing makes sense with the Kingdom of God looking through fear & lust.
• We do not receive transformation through our will and grit, instead, it is by the surrender of our will & accept our own powerlessness.
• Even the 12 step programs for alcoholism or drug addiction begin with admitting you can't do this by ourselves & there is a God that will help us if we are willing to make a decision to turn away from the way we are going.
• We need God to transform us with His nature (Holy Spirit).
• If we confuse what we can do with what we can't do, we set ourselves up for failure.
• A stronghold is something in your mind keeping you from love & mission. A stronghold is usually a lie.
• What lie are we believing from hell that is causing us to lust & fear, and keeping us stuck? If it was a formative experience, it will cause us to believe that we are the problem. It is a lie because you are made in God's image and He doesn't make mistakes.
