Spiritual Warfare 101: What is the Invisible War?, Part 2

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Can a Christian be possessed? Can Satan read your mind or control your thoughts? Chip shares that victory over Satan requires knowing who he is, how he works, and what weapons he uses against you.

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	When you think of Satan, what comes to your mind?
0:04.8	Is it a myth?
0:05.8	Is it a man in a little red suit?
0:07.6	Is it some bizarre, weird, forceful power?
0:11.5	Who is Satan?
0:13.2	What is he like?
0:14.6	What does he do?
0:15.8	And what power does he have?
0:17.5	If you don't know the answer to that question, you better stick around.
0:20.7	God wants you to know that answer so you question, you better stick around. God wants
0:21.4	you to know that answer so you can deal with him effectively. Stay with me.
0:24.6	Thanks for listening to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are an international
0:32.2	teaching and discipleship ministry that encourages and equips Christians to live like Christians.
0:38.4	Today we're continuing our series, The Invisible War.
0:41.5	Chip picks up where he left off last time by unpacking the basics of spiritual warfare.
0:46.2	Who is Satan?
0:47.5	How does he operate?
0:48.8	And what's really happening in this unseen battle around us?
0:52.7	He's also going to highlight the specific tools we'll need to fight
0:55.6	back against our enemy. So if you have a Bible, go again to Ephesians chapter 6, for the remainder
1:00.9	of Chip's talk, what is the invisible war? Not only is there an invisible world, not only
1:08.3	are we in an invisible battle and cosmic conflict, but our foe is formidable and his goal
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