Invisible War - Spiritual Warfare 301: How to Do Battle with the Enemy and Win, Part 2

Have you ever been praying and had a wicked, I mean a terrible thought just scream right through the middle of your mind? Or have you ever been driving your car and had an unexplained impulse to do something crazy or evil? What's the source of those wild, out of control thoughts? Well today on Living on the Edge we're going to discover where they come from, how to combat them, and what to do when they enter your mind.

You're not going to want to miss it. Stay with me. Thanks for joining us for this Edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. Living on the Edge is an international discipleship ministry featuring the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. I'm Dave Cruey, and today Chip continues his series, The Invisible War.

We've been talking about spiritual warfare, what it is, and how to prepare for it. And just before we get to today's talk, let me encourage you to try using Chip's message notes while you listen. Chip's using a lot of scripture references in this one, and his notes will help you as you listen.

They're a quick download at livingontheedge.org under the broadcasts tab. App listeners just tap fill in notes. Well if you have your Bible handy, open it now to Ephesians chapter six, and let's join Chip as he explains the second tactic for how to use the shield of faith. We had a clock going to a dark place that I just couldn't figure out what was going on. Doubts about my message, doubts about me, doubts about the worthiness of it, and fighting, and struggling, and fighting, and struggling, and we had an old, old man with white hair in his late 80s, godly, godly man, and he would pray every Saturday night with me, and before I could figure out what was going on, I would go back with him, and we'd pray together, and just like there would be an opening, and great, and finally I realized, wait a second. God has promised my word goes forth, and it won't return to me void. Numbers 23, 19 says, God is not a man that he should lie, neither the son of man that he should repent. Has he spoken, and will he not do it, or has he said it, and will he not bring it to pass?

And so pretty soon I started, that wall would come, and I would just out loud say, wait a second. I'm going to teach your word, enemies, whoever you are, whatever you're trying to do, God is not a man, and then I would just quote scripture. It's a dart, it would just be like, put up the shield, put up the shield, third, trusting in God's program and timing. You ever have a decision, you're afraid about the future, doubts about, don't do that, that'll never work out, don't leave family, don't relocate, don't take that new job, and yet God's leading. You know the plans that I have for you, Jeremiah 29, 11, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a hope and a future. Times when you feel like, you know what, I just can't stay in this marriage, I can't be this unhappy and this unfulfilled any longer.

Whisper, you know you're not getting any younger, he'll never change, or she'll never change. When those become into your mind, then you need to go to God's promise, 1 Corinthians 10, 13, about temptation. No temptation or trial has come into my life except as common to man, but with the temptation, God will provide a way of escape that I might be able to endure it.

That's a lie, I'm not going to believe that. Here's what you've got to get, this is spiritual warfare. You know that thought that creeps in like that, you know that thought where you're just barely tempted and you start down the path, you stop and you address that with scripture. That's spiritual warfare, those thoughts, those temptations, that second look, that third look, that person that treats you and then you find yourself knowing there's going to be a meeting and maybe you dress up a little bit nicer.

I've had guys tell me, I started looking forward to going to work and which meetings about who's going to be in the room and I kind of have a connection and things were kind of bad at home. You're in the battle, that's where it's at. And you don't try hard to get out of it, you have to stop, claim God's word. At a level of great embarrassment but possibly maybe a lot of help, I did not grow up as a believer and everything I learned about dating, sex, relationships was not from the Bible.

And I went to a school where there's four girls for every guy and I would joke ugly guys could get dates. And I was a brand new Christian and I was committed to being sexually pure, which was very unpopular now. And the sexual revolution had happened and man, I mean, a girl would come out of the guy's bathroom, everyone was sleeping around and I'm like, God, are you kidding? But I thought, you know, I hate hypocrites and these are the kind of people and I'm struggling so my behavior was pure and my mind was in the ditch. And I remember literally coming to a point where, God, I don't think I can ever win this battle of lust and I just, I guess I'm going to have to quit the Christian life and that didn't work. Because the verses kept coming to my mind and God says, you can resign from me but I never resign from you so get back up and let's... And I accidentally, and this was a revolution in my life, my roommate was a heavyweight wrestler and we both kind of came to the Lord at the same time and I was on the basketball team. We had this sort of good kind of competition but he was very big and very strong and I was even smaller than I am now and I came to him and I said, hey, you know what, I'm trying to get up in the morning.

Every night I said I'm going to get up and read the Bible and every morning I hit the snooze, you know, and I can't do it, I can't do it. He goes, do you really want help? I said, well, yeah, Bob, would you help me? He goes, I'll help you but you really want help? Absolutely, you really want up?

Absolutely. So the very next morning the alarm goes off and I hit the snooze and Bob says, you're going to get up? I said, no, maybe tomorrow. Anybody have this problem?

Maybe tomorrow I'll do it. This guy rips off my sheet, grabs me by the ankle and lifts me up like this, upside down. We had those communal bathrooms, knocks open the door, turns on the shower and he swings me. I mean, this is a true story and I'm yelling, what are you doing?

But the guy's a heavyweight wrestler. I mean, you know, I mean, I couldn't do anything and so I'm dripping wet and he puts me down on the bed. And he goes, now, you want to be a man of God or not or just shut up at night?

Well, shock you, I got up. And the competition went on and so Bob was going to go, they had these training programs with the ministry and you would go for a summer but before you could go you had to memorize these 60 verses and I've always been very competitive. And so Bob was memorizing like one or two verses a week to get ready for this summer program and I wasn't going to go to any programs but he left the room and he had these little cards, it was called the topical memory system, just little cards with verses which I thought paying back then five dollars for cards that you can write yourself seems stupid. So when he left I took three by five cards and I cut them as close as I could and I copied down all of his verses and I didn't tell him and I hid them.

And then I decided that I was going to show him how lame wrestlers were, especially of how he treated me in the shower. And so I memorized a verse a day. And I reviewed them and because I knew you were supposed to say the verse, then you say the title, you know, like God's word, you know, 2 Timothy 3.16, you quoted God's word, 2 Timothy 3.16. So I knew if you don't do it, that's the way you're supposed to do it. So I did a verse every day and then I had this amazing blessing of a psychology class that was perhaps the most boring class ever given unto mankind.

And so, and the tests were always the same, they were right out of the book, you didn't even have to go to class. And so I would put my book up and sit in the back row and I reviewed verses the whole time. And then I remember, you know, I jogged the baseball practice, you know, and it was just like, hey, 60 days, I'm just going to say, hey, Bob, how are you coming on your verses?

You know, I've been looking those over myself, you know, and I'm going to nail 60, just killing. Well, verse, I can still remember day 21. And, you know, I've now perfectly memorized, and some of them were more than one verse, but they were on God's word, purity, prayer, just all the basics of the Christian life. And I came around a corner in front of the library, and a co-ed that was very, very attractive and very godly. And I sort of had a little crush on her. And I'm just going to be real vulnerable here. As a man, when you lust for women, you can feel very guilty.

And when you lust for a godly woman, you feel overly guilty. And I just, it was my mind. My mind was just, it was all those years of all that trash that I was putting in my mind. And so it came around the corner and we had this conversation. And then she left, and I left. I didn't lust at all. I mean, my eyes were at her eyes.

And then I started to go to one cafeteria where all the basketball guys, we would sit because it was a girls' dorm in their four floors, and they would all walk by, 7.5, 6, 9. I mean, it was terrible. I'm just, okay, sorry guys. No, forget guys. You've all done this. Sorry, ladies. I mean, and I started, and then I realized, wait a second.

I don't want to go to that cafeteria. That's where my problem is. And I went to the other one. And then day 22 was another verse. I didn't know the power of God's word. And then this verse that I quoted, I found myself, no one taught me this, but like I'd come around a corner, and this was a day where girls weren't wearing much. And my eyes, I thought, okay, first look's not my fault.

After that, I've got to own it. And then the second look of the, okay, and literally out loud, sometimes, I'm not exaggerating, 40 times in a day, I might find myself go, okay, love not the world, and the things in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father's not him. And all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the lust of the right of life, is not from the Father. And all that is in the world is passing away, but then it does the will of God who bites forever. You know, and you go around another corner, oh, here we go, love not the world. And I didn't know it. I was doing spiritual warfare.

You know what happened? I got a clean mind. I'm not going to tell you it's perfect. I'm telling you, and then I understood, that's true of fear. That's true of insecurity. That's true of afraid to take a step.

That's true of not having the courage to talk to someone. What I found was, God's word quoted, the moment you have an issue, trusting his character, trusting his promises, trusting his program. That was when we had major marriage issues. And no matter how hard we tried, it wasn't working.

And yes, we went to marriage counseling. But then it was, my God will supply all your needs according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. You need love to give her that you don't have. And love isn't a feeling.

Love is giving another person what they need the most when they deserve it the least at great personal cost. So that's what I'm going to give you for today. And there's been times where we took steps of faith and we thought, oh, we can't do this because we don't have any money, or the ministry doesn't have any money. My God will supply all your needs. I can do all things through Christ. You become a promise-centered Christian who's rooted in your life as a life of faith. Faith is not a feeling. Faith isn't, I feel good about this. Faith is believing in the character of God and the promises of God to the point that you act regardless of how you feel.

And when you do that, guess what it is? God is what? He's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. He rewards faith.

You will experience him. So often the fear is you take a step of faith. One side of a coin is called faith.

I'm going to trust you. The flip of the cord is called obedience. And you obey when you feel like it and when you don't and you quote scripture out loud as all the thoughts bombard you and you put up the shield of faith and you quench these darts. Secondly is the helmet of salvation. It says take the helmet of salvation. Literally the word is to receive the helmet of salvation. It's a tense that says you have to get this, allow it to be given to yourself, and I love the metaphor because it would be the last piece of equipment a Roman soldier would have. It was bronze and it was leather. It was the most protective and you actually wouldn't put it on yourself.

Your armor bearer would put it on you. And so he's saying here you need to receive the helmet of salvation. And the definition is an obvious allusion to our security that we've been saved and justified as believers safe from Satan's attacks, but the focus now is on the present deliverance from sin. The word deliverance or salvation, that's what it means. As you read the Psalms, every time he says he's delivered, he's not talking about justification.

He's talking about I got away from Saul one more time. God delivered me. The word salvation means deliverance. Our deliverance from sin is our salvation. We're justified by the grace of God. And so he's saying the helmet of salvation is the certainty of deliverance from sin and the protection of our minds in the battle.

It's not something you can do. It's something you receive, but it's something you must allow God to do in your mind. And this is where the battle is.

How does it happen? Renewing your mind. Remember we read this passage? We don't war according to the flesh, but the weapons of our warfare are not carnal or fleshly, right?

But powerful for what? Pulling down every speculation and everything raised up against the knowledge of God and we're taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. The helmet of salvation is where we renew our mind and take every thought captive. God's word protects us. When Jesus prayed and he was praying for us, but praying for the disciples, John 17, 17, sanctify them or set them apart by your truth.

Your word is truth. Colossians 3, set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth where Christ is. Romans 8, 5 to 8. The mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the spirit is life and peace, for the mind set on the flesh is hostile to God and it cannot please him, but the mind set on the spirit brings life.

Are you getting the idea? The mind, the mind, the mind. Romans 12, two. Don't be conformed to this world. Be transformed by the trying hard, going to church, being religious.

Oops, that's not what it says. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you might prove or test or experience what the will of God is, that which is good, acceptable, and perfect. The only way to take every thought captive is your mind has to be soaked in truth and in the scripture, and when it is, when things come, God can bring to your mind so that you can do battle, and that's what protects you. The deceit happens in your mind and in your heart.

The doubt is planted in your mind and in your heart. The helmet of salvation is the setting of your mind and the renewing of your mind. I don't get up and read the Bible in the morning or memorize verses, or for me, I find issues that I struggle with and I write what I call desire cards. So part of my giftedness is to see what's wrong.

It's a little bit of a, think of this in the right sense, not telling the future, but a prophetic gift to see kind of what's wrong and what God might want and say, hey, let's do that. Let's be God's people. Let's be God's people. Let's be Christians who live like Christians, where you kind of have to analyze what's not very Christian. That's the light side of it.

The dark side of that in my personality, when I walk into a situation or I meet people in my inner thinking, I see what's wrong with everything, and I'm okay there. Now I go critical. Now, when I was younger, I would say it. It was bad.

Now I just think it, bad. So how do I overcome? I mean, okay, you need to understand, your greatest strength will always be your greatest weakness. You need to understand the most gifted, brightest, lightest part of how God wants to use you has a dark side.

It has a shadow, and the enemy knows that. And so he'll push you, push you, push you, and take you to a place that's really bad. And so I have a card, because I want to renew my mind, and everything doesn't amount to a verse, so I have a card, and I read it quite often. It says, I long to see people the way God sees them. I long to view them not through their external looks, appearance, status, wealth, or position, but through their need and relationship with God or not.

And then I have a verse from 1 Samuel, God sees not as man sees. Man looks on the outward appearance, God looks on the heart. And so I sit in a business class seat with a very powerful person who's a CEO of some big thing, and my immediate reaction can either be intimidated, or to compare, or I'm sitting on a bus with a guy that's tattooed up here, tattooed up here. He's got a nose ring here. He's got something pierced here, something pierced here, and I play a game all the time. I look at that guy, and I can think, you know, a lot of people could think this guy's a really out there guy, and you know what? He might be one of those undercover Christians who's all tatted up to reach people that no one else can reach. And you think I'm messing with you. You know why?

Because I've met those guys. I'll never forget, I was preaching and wrapping a message up, and there was this guy on the front row, and he started coming, and he had sort of, it was almost like a dress, and he had the whole Rastafarian hair, and had sort of the beanie type thing that went to the side, and weird dude. And then he had a flute, and when we did worship, he would do this, you know, like on the front row. And you know, it's Santa Cruz, so you know, it's like, yeah, you know, whatever. And so I get done preaching, and when I get done preaching, I would always come down the front, and just talk to people, and hear what's going on in their life, and he starts coming toward me, and I'm thinking, we didn't have security back then, but if we did, I would go, security, security, and he comes to me, and we later called him Dan Dan, the hippie man, and Dan came up to me, oh, pastor, and he got about three feet away, and I could smell him, and then he got closer, and he wrapped his arms around me, and said, oh, it's so good to meet you. I've walked across America. I've been listening to your messages. It's so good to be here.

I would like to stay for a few months. Let me tell you about my calling. I live on the streets, and let me tell you why. This is what happened, and this is how Jesus changed my life. And Dan, help me remember, you cannot judge a book by its cover. Okay, so, do you understand now?

The moment, the moment I start to judge, then I have another verse that says, do not judge, lest you be judged, lest you be judged, for in the same way that you judge, your father will judge you. Do you understand? It's just truth. Deception needs to get truth. Doubts need to get stability. All the kind of things where he's coming at you when you're tempted, you need to pull back. This is who God is. These are his promises. This is what I'm going to do with my life. And it's engaging the enemy.

I need to move on. Practically, prayer, worship music, scripture teaching, scripture memory are always, I think, that we can renew our mind. In 1 Thessalonians, Paul calls the helmet the helmet of hope, and it's this picture of deliverance that all the promises of God are yes in Christ Jesus.

Application, you ready? Christians who are not filling their minds with scripture are like warriors going to battle without a helmet. When we lose hope, we're defeated.

Not just individually, but as a group. And so now it says take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. You know, you see in the movie sometimes they have the really long swords or they have the small sword. This is about a two-foot sword, the word he uses, and this is for hand-to-hand combat. The sword of the spirit is the word of God, and most often in scripture we get the word logos, like in the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and the word, right?

Logos, logos, this is rhema. This is the spoken word of God. Words given to us by the spirit of God to do close hand-to-hand combat with the lies and the deceptions of the enemy. The truth of God's word quoted and applied to specific lies or deception of the enemy will allow you to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Jesus modeled this use of the sword of the spirit in Matthew 4, 1 to 11.

How can a young man keep his way cured? By guarding it according to your word. Your word I've hid in my heart, that it might not sin against thee. Let your light be a light into my path, a lamp into my feet and a light into my path.

The sword of the spirit is both an offense and a defensive weapon. And so you're probably thinking, so are you going to tell us what happened that night? Yes. I'm now sitting up in bed. My wife is asleep. I'm drenched with sweat. I'm terrified. And I'm glad for that bricklayer who discipled me. I'm glad for scriptures I memorized and I had to overcome.

It doesn't really matter what my wife thinks. I'm not sure what's happening here. And this happened multiple, multiple times. In fact, later on in our journey in Santa Cruz, there were times where actually I would wake up and I would have this experience and I could hear something happening in every single one of the bedrooms with all my children. And other occasions we had visual manifestations of demonic activity. So all this stuff is real.

And actually my wife is more sensitive than me and has had far more of these kind of issues even than me. And they happen very regularly, especially when there's five things when you're taking territory, et cetera. And so, scared to death, out loud, said, greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. And this is the victory that has overcome him. The blood of the lamb, the word of their testimony, and they love not their life even unto death. I command you now, evil and demonic spirits in my bedroom, in his authority, not mine, depart from my room and my house and go where Jesus sends you and do not return. Poof, gone. Now, just so you can be aware, as things got more intensified, and again, this is sort of the chip experience, not to be confused with scripture, but there were some times later when I would pray that, like, uh-oh, like, are bigger demons here? You know, like, I guess we'll go with that again.

You know, and I would pray for a season, and then they'd leave. And what I want to tell you is, you know those verses I gave you? All of my kids memorized those. And I literally heard my 10-year-old son do spiritual warfare and literally have this attitude. There was a time when we were all petrified and angry, and then there got to be a time where, what happened? Oh, had one of those satanic nightmares.

It was terrible. And, you know, you do what you're supposed to do, and they're trying to make us afraid, and you know what? In Christ, we're invincible, and yeah, it was really loud, but the gun is filled with blanks, and we're not going to let that address us.

I'm not going to live in fear. And you need to understand, that's true if you're a child of God. Now, notice in your notes there's something, summary to engage the enemy in spiritual warfare. The prerequisite is a healthy, spiritual life.

What I want you to know is that if you've left yourself open to things, it can be a lot more difficult. Second is understand your position in Christ. You need to understand, I'm a child of God. I've been sealed with the Spirit.

There's no doubts here. Third is discern when demonic influence may be the cause. You know, you can't run to every problem you have is somehow there's a demon behind every bush, but you discern, and it gets pretty easy over time. Fourth is claim God's promises out loud. And yes, you'll feel silly, but it's way better than being terrified. And finally, take our authority and position in Christ and command demonic forces to cease their activity and depart, and they will.

They will. I'm going to close with an illustration that is the most helpful for me. It was one of those opportunities that I had in Santa Cruz and because it's a picture that will help you because how do you take all this truth? So I'm walking, there's a main thorough way in Santa Cruz, and it's where there's street musicians, and it's wild, crazy, and there's a bunch of bars, but it's a really cool place to walk around, you know, and there's restaurants and other things. So it's one evening, and I'm walking down, and it's outside of a bar, and there's a couple really big guys in black t-shirts. They're bouncers.

They look really, really strong. I think they can, and they're messing with this one guy, and they don't seem to be handling him, and he's blah, blah, and so pretty soon there's a crowd, and I'm just like everyone else. I just join the crowd. I want to see what's going to happen. You know, like, ooh, you know what's going to happen? Those big guys, and hey, he's saying he's getting, you know, go ask for help, security, and you know, and so more and more people, and then someone called the police, and so it's getting more and more rambunctious, and you know, the onlookers are getting bigger and bigger, and I wonder what's going to happen here, and those big guys don't seem to be doing very good with this guy, and he's thrashing around. He's done on this, and then a police car pulls up, and I'm thinking, oh, what's going to happen? And the door opens, and okay, ladies, now this is an illustration in no way to diminish female police officers. This is an actual story, because I'm thinking these two big guys can't handle this, and the door opens, and I'm telling you, if she was four foot 11, maybe, police officer, a woman, and I'm thinking, oh my, this is going to be interesting. Well, and you know, it's one of those where the police car came, and you know, like two wheels are up on the curb, and there's this ruckus, and the crowd is growing, and I'm thinking, I wonder what's going to happen? And she walks up like this, sir, excuse me.

They all get detention, the two bouncers, and this guy's going crazy. She goes, sir, stand down, and he looks at her like this, and she puts her hand on the gun like this. Sir, I will say one more time, stand down. I don't know how drunk he was or what he was on, but he got very sober very quickly. And then she said, sir, I want you right now to turn around, and she walked over to him, and you know, just like on TV, right, you know?

Put his head down, get in the car. Wow. And you know the metaphor for me? You know what I realized? She had a badge on from the state of California and the authority of the Santa Cruz Police Department to handle that situation.

And she had a weapon that I don't care how wild he is, that.45 was much more formidable. I don't care how big, I don't care how strong, I don't care how drunk, I don't care how high, but I will tell you this, this will outweigh that. And if necessary, and what I want you to know is that somehow you think this is a bunch of weird stuff from missionaries or pastors or super spiritual people, and I want you to know if you're a child of God, you have the authority of the living God. All power in heaven and earth has been entrusted to you.

And you don't have a gun, you've got much more. You have the living word of God. Hebrews 4.12, for the word of God is living, active, powerful, piercing the division of soul and spirit, able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And when you turn this word loose, demonic forces must obey. You never have to be afraid.

God bless you. You've been listening to Chip's message, How to Do Battle with the Enemy and Win, from his series, The Invisible War, what every believer needs to know about Satan, demons, and spiritual warfare. There's a cosmic conflict exploding all around us. It's dangerous, destructive, evil, and while we see heartbreaking consequences in the here and now, it has sobering eternal consequences as well. Learning about The Invisible War allows you to engage the way Jesus did, with truth and grace. When we know the truth, we don't have to be afraid. When we speak with grace, we have power to persuade. This series is available in multiple formats. A book, small group video with study guide, CDs, and as always, the MP3s are free. However you like to study, we've got the perfect resource to fit your style. For all the details, visit us at livingontheedge.org Tap special offers on the app, or give us a call at 888-333-6003.

That's 888-333-6003. Well Chip, when we talk about spiritual warfare, so often people think of super scary things they've seen in the movies, or shocking graphic images they've seen from everything from the comics to tattoos. Could you describe spiritual warfare that maybe isn't as dramatic, but is still from Satan?

Absolutely, Dave. I believe much of spiritual warfare, the battle is in our minds. And so, out of the blue, you have an irrational fear. I've, at times, was convinced in my mind that one of my kids was going to be in a car wreck or something.

Or, I don't mean like clinical depression or emotional issues, but I've literally had a wonderful day and everything's going great, and right before I spoke, or was going to do evangelism or something, like a black curtain came down and I would just be totally depressed. And I recognized, oh, it's spiritual warfare, and I needed to know how to respond to that. Sometimes when people are praying, or thoughts of condemnation, you're a terrible person. All of those things are the enemy's means to get us to get down on ourself and not want to draw near to God. These cards allow people to recognize those things quickly, have a promise from God's word, and then know what to do in that moment to break through that spiritual warfare. And so I encourage people, get those cards, put them on your nightstand, I do about three or four a night, and review them in such a way that God will renew their mind and prepare them to put on the spiritual armor each and every day.

visit us online at livingontheedge.org or tap Special Offers on the app. Well, now here's Chip with his application. In today's program, I told a story of a 4-foot-11 police officer I believe is an excellent, excellent picture of who we are in Christ, where the real power is, and where our authority comes from. But here's my concern. My concern is that police officer went to the police academy. That police officer put on that uniform before that night and had a badge and was trained to use that weapon. And my concern in what you have heard in this brief time on the radio is that you're going to go out and start trying to use a weapon that you haven't been trained in, that you're going to say, I've got this authority, but you haven't done much research and you don't really know who you are in Christ. And so this is not something we play around with.

This is real. My recommendation is, and I get zero money from this, this is from my heart, order the DVD, find four or five or six people, and say, let's go to the spiritual police academy. Let's figure out who we are in Christ.

Let's get our uniform on. Let's understand this badge of authority that we have and let's learn to pull out the bullets, if you will, of Scripture the way Jesus did and know how to put up that shield of faith and wield the sword of the Spirit in a way that is accurate and true and based on what we really believe, not something we heard on the portion of radio program. I'm very concerned for God's people, and I want you to study it for yourself, dig in, and I think the most effective way to do that is in a small group. I encourage you, order the DVD. You can go to our website at livingontheedge.org or give us a call at 1-888-333-6003. I encourage you to do that today. Just before we close, I want to thank those of you who make this broadcast possible through your generous giving. Living on the Edge invests your gifts to purchase airtime, create programs, and provide resources to help Christians live like Christians. Now, if Living on the Edge has been a blessing to you, would you consider sending a gift today? You can donate online at livingontheedge.org, tap the donate button, or give us a call at 1-888-333-6003. That's 1-888-333-6003. And thanks in advance for your partnership with us. Well, I hope you'll join us again next time when Chip continues his series, The Invisible War. For now, this is Dave Druey saying thanks for listening to this Edition of Living on the Edge.