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From the Pastor:
When one looks around the world today, there are battlegrounds everywhere. From the conflicts in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, to the ethnic and religious battles in Africa, and the drug wars on our southern border with Mexico. Sadly, nothing has changed in this regard throughout human history. And the Bible says we won't see an end to this until the Lord returns.
But there is another battleground in our world today that has been around since the Fall in the Garden of Eden. This conflict is between God and His people, and Satan and his evil followers. The Christian life is a battle, as Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12. "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."
Robert Louis Stevenson once said: "You know the Caledonian Railway Station in Edinburgh? One cold, east windy morning, I met Satan there." We don't really know what happened to Stevenson here, but we can identify with his experience; we have all felt the onslaught of that evil influence which trys hard to make us sin.
Thankfully, because the Christian life is warfare, the devil an enemy; Christ provides well-tested armor to protect our vulnerability to sin and assures us of victory. Because of the importance of this topic, I will begin a new sermon series on "Spiritual Warfare and the Armor of God" on Sunday, May 16. We will be taking a close look at what the apostle Paul writes in Ephesians 6:10-20.
So let's get ready to arm ourselves to more powerfully face the attacks of the evil one each and every day of our Christian lives.
Ready to rumble,
Pastor Mauri
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