How Will You War? With Faith and Love! July 9, 2017 – Cottonwood
I. Know the Nature of the Struggle: Who & What of Your Enemy.
Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual {forces} of wickedness in the heavenly {places.}
1 Peter 5:8 Be of sober {spirit,} be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
Satan – The Accuser: Revelation 12:10
• Accuses Job – Job 1:1-12 and Job 2:1-10
• Accuses Joshua the High Priest! Zechariah 3:1-5
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II. Know Who You Are and What You Have! Ephesians 6:14-17
1. Gird Your Loins: The Core Strength of Your Body!
With Truth: Jesus, God’s Word and Godly Doctrine
2. Put on The Breastplate of Righteousness
Righteousness: The State of Life as it Once Was The condition that is acceptable to God.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation!
Declared Righteous By Faith! Romans 3:10-23
The Bad news: None Righteous, not One, destined to an eternity separated from the Love and Presence of God! Accused and Condemned!
Romans 3:10 There is None righteous, not even one;
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
The Sinner and the Publican! Luke 18:10-14
The Good News: Jesus came to Make You Righteous by Faith! Romans 24-28
• Abraham and Positional Righteousness: As We Believe!
Romans 4:1-3 – Justified, Made Righteous By Faith!
God’s Promises to Abraham: Genesis 12:1-4; 12:7; 13:14-18
4th Visitation: Genesis 15:1-6 – God Promises: Then He Believes in the Lord and God Reckoned (Declared) It to Abraham as Righteousness!
• Abraham and Practical, Living and Vibrant Righteousness: As We Love! James 2:17-23
Genesis 22:1-18 – Abraham Declared and Made Righteous!
I am the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! Old things are passed away. New Things Have Come and are always coming. I have received the life of God. He who knew no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God. I choose to walk by faith, I choose to walk in Love! Therefore, through faith, I will be patient, kind, forgiving, loving, compassionate, Gracious, Gentle. I will not be provoked to anger, nor will I take into an account a wrong suffered. Jesus has dealt with my past. Therefore I stand firm against the schemes of the enemy and will not walk under His word, His Lies or His Accusations. I am indeed the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus!
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