Welcome to Redemption Church in Plano Tx. My name is Chris Fluitt and I am glad to have fellowship with you today.

There is an unseen battle that affects us all. None of us can avoid it. It effects every part of our life.

Your mind is under attack and there are times you can’t even trust your own thoughts because of this unseen battle. You might think the problem is just a random synapse firing in your brain, but I am here to tell you about a spiritual war.

This battle effects every area…

Your marriage is affected. Divorce injures in your heart… you thought it was all caused by a being exposed to bad examples of parents. This brokenness goes beyond the natural and into the supernatural.

Our self-control problems may be more than learning to tell yourself “No.” It could be a war that you are unaware of.  Our problems with food, over-spending time & money, and even addictions may be a battlefield of an unseen realm.

Our physical body is affected. What you think is a physical pain may be an attack that originates in a spiritual realm.

Spiritual Warfare

This unseen battle is Spiritual Warfare

This battle is NOT first PHYSICAL… it is FIRST SPIRITUAL.

Before you saw the temptation in the physical, there was an invisible spirit at work, warring against you.

Before you thought the thought or said the word that would end up destroying your relationship, it was a spiritual issue.

Paul said it this way in Romans 7:21

“Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me… Another force (law) is at work within my members warring against my very mind.”  (paraphrase)

Let’s define this unseen battle.

Spiritual Warfare - A conflict in the unseen angelic realm that is affecting the physical, visible realm.

Another way to put it, something happening in heaven, that is affecting Earth.

We are talking about an invisible battle, between invisible beings, that effects your daily life.   

Ephesians 6:12(NIV) For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Whether we realize it or not, we are in a battle, fighting forces we CANNOT see, but their effect on us we CAN see. We can see the damage left behind. We can see the collateral damage.

The scripture says our struggle is not flesh and blood… Our struggle is not with people. People are not the source of the struggle.  People can be used in the battle, but they are not the source of this unseen war.

Our enemy in this war, satan, has deceived us to believe that people are the source of the struggle.

The person that you are fighting, is not the source of your struggle. You are in a battle, fighting the wrong person.

What happens through people has a spiritual source. This does not exonerate people for the evil they do, but instead it views the conflict in its true context.

Everything in the physical has a spiritual counterpart.

With our 5 senses we can experience the physical.

We can see the violent images of the Taliban in Afghanistan… But can we sense the spiritual counterpart that is the origin of that violence?We can hear the lies and the hurtful words… but can we sense the spiritual counterpart that formed the thought you hear?We can feel the physical abuse of hatred… but can we sense the spiritual counterpart beyond the physical?

Until we address the spiritual cause we can never repair the physical effect.

This series will help fix your problems in the physical by focusing on the unseen spiritual realm. Why not give this a try… You have been focusing on the physical and not seeing solutions. You have been throwing physical dollars at a problem, without realizing you needed a spiritual solution. You have been giving physical energy, with no result.  Let’s focus on the unseen battle.

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