Today on Daily Hope with Pastor Rick Warren, we continue in our riveting journey through the series, The Invisible War.

In it, we'll explore the unseen world of good and evil and see how it impacts our day-to-day existence.

Join us for eye-opening biblical insights into the spiritual dimensions that influence our

lives in ways we never imagined.

Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part two of a message called Winning the Battle

Inside Me.

The fourth thing that happens, when I don't know how to fight the battle, then I keep losing,

and along comes, number four, self-condemnation.

I know some of you've gotten really good at this.

You're a pro at putting yourself down.

You're a pro at condemning yourself.

And because you keep stumbling in the same area over and over and over, I still lose my temper. I still say them being things. I still have those thoughts. I still do. And you start going, I'm no good. I'm worthless. I'm junk. Why should I call myself a Christian? God must hate me. God's mad at me. Blah, blah, blah, blah, and all those other things.

And you start condemning yourself.

That's the inevitable sign that you're in this spiritual battle.

Verse 18, Paul says, I know I'm rotten inside as far as my old, sinful nature is concerned.

Now, who told him that?

He's telling himself that. He's putting

himself down. He's condemning himself. And that is a mark of when you have habitual areas that you

keep falling in over and over. I want to keep. How many resolutions have you made that you didn't

keep? A lot. And then you start putting yourself down and just do the self-condemnation.

That leads to number five, frustration.

And this is a mark of a Christian trying to live on their own power,

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