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Today, my message that I want to share with you, and I titled it,

The Battle Behind the Battle. The battle behind the battle.

All of us have battles that we're facing in this life. All of us have things that we are trying to

overcome, but there are some battles that we face that are more spiritual

than you think they are. Some battles that you and I face are more spiritual than the credit

that you and I give to them. And it's one of Satan's greatest strategies to convince you

that your problem is not spiritual. It's one of his greatest strategies to convince you that he

is not involved in the things that you're silently struggling with.

Satan wants you to just think that, oh, this is just the struggle, the burden that you have to bear.

This is just the thing that you have to fight on your own.

And he would love it for you to never consider the option that he's the one behind the scenes pulling strings.

Some of us we come from different religious backgrounds that maybe your understanding of what spiritual warfare is has been maybe an inch deep and a mile wide.

You understand that as Christians we're fighting a spiritual battle,

but your understanding of what that spiritual battle looks like is honestly kind of, it's foggy. You don't really understand what that means.

That word spiritual warfare as a Christian to you just sounds like a really great slogan.

It doesn't actually have depth for you. And I want to speak to those of us here today,

that maybe there's a struggle that you've been facing, you've been trying to fight on your own, and I want to propose to you that your problem is more

spiritual than you think. Ephesians 612 says this, for not fighting against flesh and blood

enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world,

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