Old Dog V
Spiritual Warfare 101
Bob Neumann, 11/20/2004
For the last few hours I should have been watching some really anticipated college football games. Instead I stayed in my place and waited. All I “got” was that the “SO CALLED SAINTS” have no real knowledge of “WARFARE IN HIS SPIRIT”. TWO things should jump out at whoever reads this…. “SO CALLED SAINTS”…. “WARFARE IN HIS SPIRIT”.
Let’s take the first one… “SO CALLED SAINTS” which means that there are people out there who think they are SAINTS…those who have separated from the world and “are of THE LORD”…. but are not. These are obviously the GOATS who will cry out “BUT LORD, LORD” and will be told by THE KING… “I NEVER KNEW YOU”.
The second is obviously an overflow of #1. People who are in warfare but not in THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT. Which means the battles “they choose” is not THE LORDS… and what empowers them is not HOLY.
With all the experts out there writing books and giving seminars, and all the peoples who have gotten into “it”…. why is the church in such a mess… why are so many “Saints” messed up and struggling all the time.
Now what I was given concerning this was just an old song…. real old….
Psalm 18
1 I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
SPIRITUAL WARFARE 101 is simple… it starts with I WILL LOVE THEE, O LORD. Awesome ain’t it. And it only gets better… they acknowledge that THE LORD ONLY is MY STRENGTH. So peoples out there who are perpetual victims are those who still want to do things there own way. Why did THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT just give me the term “perpetual victims”? It is because GOD’S PEOPLE are supposed to be OVERCOMERS. Obviously they never got to verse
2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
If you are not looking to THE LORD in all these images you become vulnerable. If you do not live each and every day in verse 2, you will not find verse
3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
Now David had his troubles and they are shared with us in the next verses
4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
David only had three areas of trouble…. DEATH, UNGODLY MEN, and HELL. They would be sufficient to make anyone realize that he David, THE LORD’S ANOINTED needed GOD. So we have verse
6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
The only ONE who could SAVE was DAVID’S GOD. So you have to ask… the “so called saints”… who or what is “their god”? Who or what do the worship?
I do not even want to touch this, but I have to. THE LAMB OF GOD taught us a person cannot SERVE TWO MASTERS. THE SAINTS cannot be double minded, in anything. Granted we are all “works in progress”, but the times and seasons have changed and so do HIS SERVANTS. Because they wait upon HIM and HIM ALONE.
This is just the first lesson…
Selah
Old Dog
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