Spiritual Warfare (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 21 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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There’s an unseen spiritual war continually being waged against us. In any battle, it’s crucial to know your enemy and his tactics. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg teaches us to recognize the subtle schemes the Evil One uses to attack and undermine our faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. There is an unseen spiritual battle continually being waged against us, and in any battle, it's crucial to know who the enemy is and understand his tactics. |
| 0:36.1 | So today on Truth for Life weekend, we'll learn about the subtle schemes the evil one |
| 0:40.9 | employs to undermine our faith. |
| 0:44.0 | Alistair Begg is teaching from Ephesians chapter 6, verses 10 through 12. |
| 0:53.2 | Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers and authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places or heavenly realms. |
| 1:08.9 | The people in Ephesus were in little doubt that there was a devil. Acts |
| 1:14.5 | Chapter 19. And verse 11, God was doing extraordinary miracles through Paul so that even |
| 1:22.9 | handkerchiefs and aprons that had touched him were taken to the sick and their illnesses were cured |
| 1:28.2 | and the evil spirits left them. And some of the Jews who were intrigued by all of these |
| 1:34.0 | goings on were told in verse 13 went around driving out evil spirits. At least they went around |
| 1:41.8 | trying to. And they tried to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus |
| 1:45.8 | over those who were demon-possessed. And they would say, in the name of Jesus whom Paul |
| 1:52.2 | preaches, I command you to come out. Seven sons of Siva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. |
| 2:03.7 | One day the evil spirit answered them, Jesus, I know, and I know about Paul, but who are you guys? So the evil spirit |
| 2:13.6 | called their bluff, then the man who had the evil spirit jumped on them, overpowered them all, |
| 2:20.5 | and gave them such a beating that they ran out of the house naked and bleeding. |
| 2:26.5 | So they didn't need anybody to convince them about the reality of demonic activity, |
| 2:31.5 | the reality of spiritual warfare, the existence of cosmic and satanic |
| 2:36.2 | involvement in spiritual wickedness. The very fact that the seven guys go out with all their |
| 2:41.5 | clothes torn off and bashed up and beaten up and bleeding, everybody said, you hear what happened |
| 2:46.9 | to the seven sons of Siva. Now, nobody would have difficulty talking about spiritual |
| 2:50.9 | warfare to these people, because they understood it clearly. So much so that verse 17 says, |
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