Spiritual Warfare 101: What is the Invisible War?, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Demons, Satan, and the powers of darkness are real and at work. Do you know how to recognize and combat them? Chip begins "The Invisible War" with an overview of who the Enemy is and how they operate.

GENERAL Command (Eph. 6:10) “Allow yourself to be continually strengthened by the power already made available to you in your new position and relationship with Christ.” It is the power that raised Christ from the dead and now dwells in you.
SPECIFIC Command (Eph. 6:11) How? By continually and repeatedly putting on, at specific points in time, the spiritual protection God has provided for you... for the express purpose of holding on to your position in Christ as you are bombarded by Satanic strategies designed to destroy you and/or render you ineffective in Kingdom pursuits.
The REASON for Commands (Eph. 6:12) It’s because our real struggle is not against physical/material adversaries, but against a hierarchy of demonic forces doing battle in the spiritual realm.

Five basic truths about spiritual warfare:

There is an INVISIBLE world that is just as real as the visible world.
We are involved in an invisible WAR, a cosmic conflict that has eternal implications.
Our foe is FORMIDABLE and his goal is to destroy us and discredit the cause of Christ.
We must RESPECT our foe, but not FEAR him – become acutely aware of his “methods,” but not be preoccupied by them.
As believers in Christ, we do not fight “for” victory, we fight “FROM” victory. In Christ’s power we are invincible!

Summary:

Satan is a DEFEATED foe. -Jn 12:31
Jesus DESTROYED the work of the devil. -Col 2:14-15
We are VICTORS in Christ. -1 Cor 15:55-58
We have the POWER and resources to resist Satan and demonic attacks. -1 Jn 4:4
We must LEARN how to put on the “full armor of God” to experience in daily living the victory we already possess. -Eph 6:13-17

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0:00.0	Make no mistake, there is evil in the world. Mass shootings, the sex trade, children being abused.
0:10.2	Are we in fact in a spiritual battle? Is Satan, demons? Are those things that are real? Yes,
0:17.9	you need to learn how to protect yourself and win the battle.
0:22.2	Stay with me.
0:27.0	Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:30.6	The mission of this daily program is to intentionally disciple Christians through the insightful
0:35.0	Bible teaching of Chip Ingram.
0:37.2	Let me ask you, does the wickedness of our world panic you to your core?
0:41.3	Do you feel that evil is running rampant everywhere, not just on the nightly news, but at work, church, or even in your home?
0:49.0	Well, over the next several programs, Chip will dispel our fears and provide us with some helpful insights into this topic as he begins his series, The Invisible War.
0:59.0	Join us in Ephesians chapter 6 as Chip highlights the vital theology believers need to know about spiritual warfare.
1:06.0	So with that setup, grab your Bible and notes as Chip kicks off this series with his message,
1:11.6	What is the Invisible War?
1:14.6	If you want to open your Bibles to Ephesians, chapter 6, there is one key text, verses 10 through 20,
1:21.6	where the Apostle Paul is going to explain spiritual warfare.
1:24.6	Now what you need to understand, if you will mentally go with me
1:28.1	here, is chapters 1 through 3, he's telling them, this is who you are in Christ. You're a brand
1:34.3	new creature. You've been redeemed. You've been sealed with the spirit. You have an inheritance.
1:39.4	God has made this brand new thing called the Church of Jew and Gentile. And then chapter four says,
1:45.2	in light of all that God has done for you, I want you to walk in the manner worthy of your calling.
1:51.5	The word worthy, we got our English word axis. It's a picture of those balances. And it's saying
1:57.1	chapters one, two, and three is all that God has deposited in you. You are new in Christ, seated in the heavenly places, loved more than you can ever be loved,
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