This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef. We pray that it will encourage you in your

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When a husband and wife get into a fight or an argument, and that argument develops into a full-blown war,

the natural inclination is that we begin to view each other as the enemy.

But is that really true?

Who is the real enemy?

How was that enemy able to use one or both partners into that war?

When two believers disagree and that disagreement degenerates into a war of words

and then a public is divided into two camps, two factions perceive each other as enemies.

Can really two blood-bought, redeemed believers, be enemies?

Who is the real enemy?

And how does that real enemy manage to enter into the heart of one or both or many of those individuals?

When a Christian who knows that sexual impurity is dishonoring to God and is dishonoring to the body and dishonoring to the mind and dishonoring to the soul,

but then they keep falling or she keep falling in it again and again.

And eventually they began to rationalize them and blame the circumstances and blame everybody

else around.

What is happening here?

What is that person doing to allow the enemy into their life and cause them to be defeated all the time.

Or take an active, vibrant church that seeks the lost, equip the saints.

And then one or two individuals come into the church and they said, we don't like that idea.

We need to move in a different direction.

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