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. And oh some of you have

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 those 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 said, I'm, he's putting himself down, he's'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 and said of God's power.

You get frustrated.

And Paul says this in the next verse, verse 18, he says says you know met no matter which way I turn I can't make myself do right

I want to but I can't when I want to do good I don't and when I try not to do wrong I do it anyway.

Now if I'm doing what I don't want to do it's plain where the trouble is.

Sin has me in its evil grasp.

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