The Worldly War

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

The worldly War

When we live in this world, we must not try to evade the challenges. We must not try to run away from life.

It is basically unchristian to run away from the problems of life, to seek a shelter where we can live out our years without encountering the difficulties around us.

Jesus lived life up to the handle and associated with those distressed with grievous problems, emotionally, physically, and in every other way.

This is our role as a Christian. We must not adopt a head-in-the-sand attitude. 

We live in the world but the weapons of our warfare are not worldly."

We do not face life the same way. We fight in another dimension, and yet our fighting is not weak; it is powerful. It wins, it succeeds, it is mighty. 

One of the chief rules of warfare is, know your enemy. You can never be successful as a soldier if you do not know something of the tactics of the enemy.

This is true in military conflict and it is true in spiritual warfare as well. The second rule of warfare is, know your weapons. Know what you have to meet the enemy with, and know how to use them.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood" (Ephesians 6:12 KJV), he says, but we wrestle against these who are working through the minds and thinking of men. How else can you explain the evil that keeps cropping up in human society

 

It is not enough we engage in preaching, or teaching the truth, or handing someone a New Testament, or a Bible or a tract. That is not what the Scripture means when it speaks of proclaiming the gospel. 

Remember how Paul exemplified this when he went to the city of Corinth, where the people were living lives of immorality, shame, sordidness, and pagan barrenness, by arguments, and reasonings.

Paul told them, When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.  (1 Corinthians 2:1-2). That is, I did not come to debate with you. I did not come with the wisdom of this world.

I did not come to cancel out your arguments with a counter-argument. I did non come to debate philosophy. I came to declare to you that in Jesus Christ there is relief, release, and deliverance from the pride of the human heart; pride is slain by the cross.

When you accept what this cross means, and what this One who died for you has done, and you kneel at his feet, there is released in your life a power that cancels out your pride.

When you bring this to the community, and God begins to work with you on a different scale. That is the power of the gospel. That is the power of the Christian. That is the message that will, alone, help society.

It is the only way out, there is no another. It is not merely one of certain alternatives by which the world can work out its problems.

It is the only way out. When you begin to believe that, you will find a compassion awakening in your heart that has never been there before for your neighbors, your friends, and others who struggle on in the painful problems of life.

You have the solution in your hands, the story of this One who can break the shackles of men, who can set them free.

We must understand how great is this program that God has put in our hands.

When you start working with compassion, There is great power released which will transform society.

Prayer:

Our Father, we do thank you for the glory of the gospel.  Grant to us then, Lord, that we may give thanks from full hearts for what you have done for us, and increase our longing to impart it to others. We pray In Jesus  name, Amen.