Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, October 21st.

Most people live their lives unaware of the conflict that rages all around them.

Today's podcast focuses on spiritual warfare

to help believers be more discerning.

When a nation is at war, the minds of the people

are focused on that war.

Captivates their minds, stirs their emotions, but threatens their security.

And when there is war, there is always a threat of the loss of life physically, broken

relationships, and of course disaster when it comes to material possessions.

But there's another war that I want to talk about. It is a war that

the Bible calls a spiritual war. It is one that every single one of us are involved in and the tragedy is that most people do not even have any idea they're even in a war.

They don't even realize there's an enemy, that there's anything going on except what they see.

Because you see their idea is seeing is believing,

but that is totally unscriptural.

Seeing is not necessarily believing.

Because there are some things that cannot be seen that are very, very,

very real and the spiritual warfare that all of us have to be involved in is a real war. And if you'll turn to 1st Peter, chapter 5, I want us to read

two verses in this short epistle. 1st Peter chapter 5, and then I want to refer to many other passages and I want to encourage you to keep your Bible open and a pencil and piece of paper because I want you to jot down some things that I think will be very helpful. There's one area of this whole

warfare that I want to emphasize primarily but I want to give you a little

background. First Peter chapter 5

verse 8 and 9 says, be of sober spirit, be on the alert, your

adversary the devil prowls about like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour.

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