Now I'm terrified and that is not the intent.

Remember that God is greater than this enemy.

God is greater than these demons. God is greater than these authorities, powers, and forces of evil.

And that's the whole point of the Gospel is that Jesus defeated sin, death, and the devil to bring us the hope of salvation.

Hi friends and welcome back to Verity Podcast Felicia Masonheimer here your

host and the founder of every woman a theologian we're in the middle of our

beginner-believer series and this series is talking through some basics of Christian life and living as well as basics of

salvation and the gospel and walking out this faith that we believe.

And so today we're going to be talking about spiritual warfare. What is it? What does the

Bible say about it? And how do we practice spiritual warfare from a place of

authority and confidence, not from a place of fear.

Now depending on how you grew up, whether you grew up in the church, whether you grew up outside

of the church, you might have some familiarity with this concept or none at all.

Some churches tend to overemphasize spiritual warfare where everything is

spiritual warfare. The enemy is always trying to reach you to do something

and you're a little bit afraid of the conversation. In other churches, we might never hear about

spiritual warfare at all. We don't even think

that there is a spiritual reality to the world outside of the basics of

salvation. And so we tend to blame anything that goes wrong in our life or anything that is difficult or are hard on just the basic structure of our world, the brokenness of our world.

And maybe we take a more humanistic, pragmatic look

at what those things are, ignoring the spiritual realities

that are at play.

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