Spiritual warfare is real. I'm going to share the most fearful, frontal attack with demons

that I ever had. I don't mean to be dramatic. I'm not trying to say anything beyond what's

occurred, but I've learned when I share this experience. People line up and tell me,

thank you Chip, that's happened to me. If you've ever had a scary encounter with demonic

forces, God has answers.

Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are a discipleship driven

ministry on a mission to encourage Christians everywhere to live like Christians. And

we're in the middle of our series, The Invisible War, based in Ephesians chapter 6. And

Day Chip vividly describes the real-life battles against the forces of darkness, and shares

a few he's been involved in personally. And these stories aren't meant to scare or intimidate

you, but to open your eyes to Satan's influence and the ultimate power and victory we have in Christ

over evil. Well, if you have a Bible going out to Ephesians chapter 6, verse 16, for Chip's

talk, how to do battle with the enemy and win? I'm going to start off with two true stories.

I'm not intending to be dramatic, but we have learned from spiritual warfare 101 that there is an invisible

world that we're in a battle, that we have a foe that's formidable. We know that we respect

them, that we're not afraid, and we fight from victory, not for victory. And then we understand

that part of being protected is God has given us armor, and he's commanded us to pick up

this armor and put it on, and he's given us armor that will protect us in many ways. And he's

going to protect us from condemnation, he'll protect us from doubt. He's going to keep us from

deception with just the normal walking with God, being a man or a woman renewing our mind, being in the body

and community. But sometimes there's frontal attacks and we'll talk about win. This was now many

years ago, it was our first year in Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz is a place very new age, a lot of

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