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If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does that you can look on with,

let me invite you to open with me to Colossians chapter 4.

I want to put a picture in your mind today.

I have in my hand a walkie-talkie from World War II.

So that's when walkie-talkies were invented. This mechanism, obviously technology has come a long way.

You're not putting, you're not putting this in your

pocket. But invented for the first time for troops on the ground to be able to communicate with their

commander general's headquarters. And it was revolutionary when it came to battle to be able to communicate

in that way. Now, I want to be super careful from the very beginning when using wartime imagery.

I in no way I want to communicate that we as Christians are supposed to be militant in a physical

way or even in terms of a culture war.

But the Bible clearly teaches that we are all engaged in our lives in spiritual battle.

And this applies whether you're a Christian or not.

There is an adversary, the devil, who is actively working to destroy your life.

And your family and your future.

The Bible teaches we have all turned from God in his ways to ourselves and our own ways.

The Bible calls that sin and describes all of us as held captive to sin

that leads to death.

And if we die in this state of captivity to sin apart from God,

we will experience eternal death and suffering.

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