Ephesians 12

In a column on Crosswalk, Second Baptist Church pastor Ed Young also reminded Christians that they are constantly under spiritual attack from Satan. He said people are in a battle for their heart and soul because the devil is always aiming to kill the spiritual life of every Christian.

Silencing the enemy is a very fitting title for this book. It is fitting because the author, Robert Gay, explains how God suppresses the devices of the adversary through the praise and worship of His people. Although the term “spiritual warfare” is not found in scripture, Paul expounds on the concept throughout the New Testament. He encourages the saints to “Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil”. This scripture informs us that we are in a battle, a battle that has been raging since the beginning of time. It is not a battle that one can see with the naked eye. Nor is it a battle that is fought with natural weapons. It is a battle that is fought in the spirit world. Our methods of

The book of Ephesians is one of Paul’s many New Testament letters, or epistles, to the Christian church still in its infancy. At the time of its writing, Paul is in Rome, imprisoned for championing the purposes of Christ and growing the church. We see numerous occurrences where Paul, being a man of little concern for the status quo, is either imprisoned or fleeing capture by Jewish or Roman officials for usurping the latter (Acts 19: 23-41). The date of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is dated 60-61A.D., depending on differing research. While this is certainly one of his epistles known as the “prison letters”, Ephesians was penned prior to Paul’s first roman

Ephesians 6:12 says, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

Throughout human history, our ancestors lived out the Christian faith in their generation. As a result, the faith passed down into their children’s generations, continuously reaching today’s generation. Then, our society changed from a primitive society to a modern society. With the invention of technology, it creates a new direction towards spreading the Gospel. While our ancestors spoke and wrote Gospel in church, my generation use technology to share the Gospel on social media and Bible apps. With the different styles of preaching the Gospel, how can we unite our generations to pursuit God’s purpose?

[cosmic war images] are larger than life. They evoke great battles of the legendary past, and they relate to metaphysical conflicts between good and evil. Notions of cosmic war are intimately personal but can also be translated to the social plane. Ultimately, though, they transcend human experience. What makes religious violence particularly savage and relentless is that its perpetrators have placed such religious images of divine struggle—cosmic war—in the service of worldly political battles. For this reason, acts of religious terror serve not only as tactics in a political strategy but also as evocations of a much larger spiritual confrontation.

beings that are lying to him and the real world. In the Bible, it says, "that evil demons exist in the world

Many of us fine ourselves in a state of being "battle weary."  I know I have.  It begins with a good thing and a God thing to refute our enemies. Because of fear, lack of knowledge and misapplication of spiritual warfare strategies, we take on the war ourselves with an over zealous and presumptuous approach towards demonic spirits.  What has happened is learned about all these spiritual warfare strategies, but we engaged in it without being prepared in our hearts.  We claimed our righteousness of God in Christ. We hurled the blood of Jesus in the devils face without first applying the blood of Jesus to our own hearts and lives through confession and repentance.

Perceptibly, in view of the sexual promiscuity of the time, it became the only alternative to usher in a new way of thinking about people’s sexual beings. More than any other religious leader, Jesus Christ consistently forewarns how ‘spiritually real’ the evil of Satan/devils were and verbally addresses the issue. The authors of the Gospels intertwine Jesus’ attacks toward Satan’s spiritual presence that is magnified in His teachings. On the other hand, within most other religions, such as the Jewish Old Testament, the ‘surface position’ of Satan is significantly lacking; besides the Book of Job, the name of ‘Satan’ occurs in just a few other books. In addition, note the word ‘devils’ comes forth in only four other verses; seemingly having a direct connection with “goat devils” about whoring, sacrificing, and murdering children. On the contrary, in the King James Version of the Bible; in the New Testament, Satan occurs 37 times and devil(s) are occurs 112

“He said there's going to be a demon, principalities and powers, that are going to war against you on a level that you've never seen before and I'm watching it every day,” said Pastor Scott.

In order to overcome the enemies of evil, Paul calls believers of Ephesus to draw strength from Christ and put on a “spiritual armor” to defend themselves. God’s arsenal is described with specificity and is a virtual image of a Christian Soldier “prepared” for battle. I will show through this study what the intended meaning may have been for Ephesus and how to apply the passage to modern society.

Furthermore, this word in the Greek pronounces "dol ee o' o (δολιόω) which means to be deceitful, be crafty, be knavish." Paul informs that brethren, it's not those that you can see, nor touch it's higher. He says its principalities, powers that we are wrestling. The word principalities come from a Greek word meaning "beginning, origin, (νείκεος ἀ)." The texts are trailer to teach us that the devil is the source of all that is deceitful, crafty and knavishness. In verse 12 he is referring to as "ruler of darkness" this is the spiritual enemies that the brethren has to encounter. The believer's enemies are always amassing to do spiritual combat.

confusion among the enemy; in which Joshua sung and used trumpets to destroy the great city of Jericho; another example of faith winning over evil includes David fighting Goliath with a slingshot. All such examples taught us lessons that there is no way we can win over evil without the help of God.

Whereas, in the rest of the chapter 6 he takes the opportunity to introduce to them what the believers are facing. Paul tells them to put on the whole armour of God. The word armour in the Greek is pronounced "pan-op-lee'-ah (πανοπλία) which mean the complete armour (includes shield, sword, lance, helmet, greaves, and breastplate)." This armour is so needed that they may be able to stand against what Paul call in verse 11 the "wiles of the devil." (Ephesians 6:11) The word "wiles" is only used one time in the Bible, and that is in the

Believers have been unified in salvation by grace and are called to live like Christ.