When we think about the doctrine of assurance, we don't necessarily always think about it being spiritual warfare, but it is at its core.

You believing that you are good with God is the most important part of your life.

And Satan wants to keep you on your heels, constantly questioning, am I dangling over the pits of hell?

Is God about to let me go?

Or maybe not so much your salvation, but God's disposition towards you.

And what we do is we often focus in on our sincerity or our obedience.

And this episode, it's to really show you and have a discussion

about how this is spiritual warfare and this is a spiritual issue. And you cannot use fleshly

means in order to fight it. It's an important conversation about re-enchanting our Bibles

and re-enchanting our faith when it comes to our standing before God.

Before we jump into it, as we do every week, let's take a moment and let's look to Christ and encourage our hearts to trust him more.

Assurance is not just comfort. It is contested ground. There are real enemies who want your faith weak and your

conscience unstable. Evil spirits do not need you to abandon Christianity. They only need you

to doubt whether Christ truly holds you. If they can keep you questioning your standing before God, they can keep you exhausted, inward,

and afraid.

Satan is called the accuser for a reason.

His work is not creative, it's repetitive.

He drags forgiven sins back into your mind.

He whispers that this failure proves you were never really

saved. He tells you that God is patient with others, but weary of you. And the moment you try to fight

that voice with your own obedience, you have already lost. You cannot fight spiritual warfare with flesh. You cannot defeat

accusations by promising to do better. You cannot silence the enemy by inspecting your performance.

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