Spiritual warfare is real. I'm going to share the most fearful frontal attack. With demons that I ever had. I don't mean to be dramatic, I'm not trying to say anything beyond what's occurred, but I've learned when I share this experience: people line up and tell me. Thank you, Chip.
That's happened to me. If you've ever had a scary encounter with demonic forces, God has some answers. Uh Welcome to this Edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are an international teaching and discipleship ministry dedicated to helping Christians worldwide live out their faith for the glory of God and the good of all.
Well, in this program, Chip continues our series, The Invisible War, based in Ephesians chapter 6. Today he'll talk about the reality of spiritual battles happening all around us right now. and shares a few vivid examples he's witnessed personally.
Now, his stories aren't meant to scare or intimidate you, but open your eyes to Satan's influence and remind you of the ultimate power and victory Jesus has over evil.
So if you're ready, go in your Bible to Ephesians chapter 6, verse 16 for Chip's talk, How to Do Battle with the Enemy and Win. I'm going to start off with two true stories. I'm not intending to be dramatic. But we have learned from Spiritual Warfare 101. That there is an invisible world, that we're in a battle, that we have a foe that's formidable.
We know that we respect him, that we're not afraid, and we fight. From victory, not for victory. And then we understand that part of being protected is God has given us armor and He's commanded us to. pick up this armor and put it on, and he's given us armor that will protect us in many ways. And he's going to protect us from condemnation.
He'll protect us from doubt. He's going to keep us from deception with just the normal walking with God, being a man or woman, renewing our mind, being in the body and community. But sometimes There's frontal attacks, and we'll talk about when. This was now many years ago. It was our first year in Santa Cruz, and Santa Cruz is a place, very new age, a lot of demonic activity.
It's 2 a.m. in the morning. I don't know whether I'm awake or I'm asleep. All I know is I can look over and see my wife in the bed. and I know I can't move any part of my body.
And I'm thinking I must have a rare disease because this is really, really weird because I can't move my hands. I can't move anything, but I can move my eyes and I can see my wife. And then I'm looking around the room as much as I can. And a sense of evil. You know, the night is dark, but if there's a darkness that can come over the dark, it did.
And then it was like a a 5,000 pound came on my chest and started pushing down and pushing down and pushing down and I couldn't get my breath and then it was like someone grabbed my windpipe and squeezing. And I don't know if you ever remember as a kid when someone when you were at a pool and they were dunking you and they held you under, And they held you under, and you were sure, I'm gonna, you can't get your breath, you can't get your breath. And that's what it felt like. And I literally remember in my mind, help Jesus, help Jesus, help, help, help. And I just thought.
How can you drowned or die in your bed and not be able to move your body? And then just at the last minute before I kind of passed out from not getting my breath, Yeah. And then I sat up in bed and I was literally soaking wet. And if you've ever seen me play basketball, I mean, when I play, I mean, I was drenched and the bed was drenched. And my wife was asleep over here.
And there's like evil in the room like never and the hairs on the back of my neck. And I'm wondering What is happening? And I'm terrified. And now just for context, I went to seminary. And I was discipled by the navigators.
I know some verses. You know, I'm scared to death and I don't know what to do. And so I think this is evil. And I had some interaction, but nothing like this. I mean, I think I'm inside of a Frank Peretti novel.
And And I don't know what to do. And then the thought comes to me. You need Do you need to command these? demons or do something to get them out of there. And then I had this second thought.
I'm sure it was my pride. I looked over and I thought to myself. If I start talking out loud in the middle of the night, And my wife wakes up and I'm speaking out loud in an empty room, she's gonna think I've gone over the edge. And so I battled and then I did something. Which I'll share with you a little bit later of what I did.
And why? No, it's important. Second story. Uh had a friend Who he would call himself a very nominal Christian, came to church now and then, a little bit more often than maybe Christmas and Easter. and was invited by a friend and said, hey, I think you'll kind of like church.
It might be a little bit different than you're used to. He came for a few weeks and then someone told him I played basketball and this guy was a die-hard, what we call gym rat. I mean, he loves the game. And so he comes up after like his third time at church. He goes, hey, how you doing?
I said, great. He goes, I hear you play ball. I said, yeah, I do. I love it. He goes, I do too.
I said, what do you want to play sometime? He said, yeah. I said, two o'clock my driveway today. He goes, really, what's your address? I gave it to him.
He goes, I mean, it is our tradition. I mean, I have three grown boys, a couple key friends. We go three on three, and it's almost to the death, in a good spirit of Christian love, of course. But uh But I mean, it's so great and it's intense. And we would go for a couple hours and Dave shows up.
And I mean, Dave's a player. And we just bonded. We had a great time, had fun. And so, you know, after you play and you're sweaty and you talk a little bit, and then little by little, Dave started becoming regularly. And then somehow Dave thought, you know, I'm a Christian, but I've never read the Bible.
And he starts doing that. And pretty soon his life starts to change. And fast forward about two, two and a half years. Everybody didn't show up, so Dave and I played like, you know, 5,000 games of one-on-one. And then we're exhausted and he goes, hey, can I talk to you?
and were sitting in the driveway both in a pool of sweat, And I said, Man, something happened weird the other night. I said, what do you mean? He goes, you know, um... You know, if we put the kids to bed and we put on this really, really old movie and, you know, it's a chick flick and my wife really loved it. And then, you know how it is, you know, they want to watch one of those kind of movies and they fall asleep.
And so, you know, I had my arm around her and she fell asleep. And I had one of those moments that I just looked down at her and I see our life has changed. My life has changed. Our Mary's has changed. And I looked down and I thought, I love her so much.
And then this thought came to my mind. She's going to die. It might be today, it might be tomorrow. She's gonna die. And he goes, I mean, it was weird.
I mean, but my emotions, he goes, man, this was so weird. It was not like just a thought. It was like a doctor handed me, she has terminal cancer and has 48 hours to live. It was that real. And then my next thought was, how could a good God let that happen to my wife?
And then my next thought was, how could you trust a God like that that would do that to my wife? And then I realized, I mean. He goes. Has anything like that ever happened to you? I said, yeah.
He said, So what's going on? I said, Dave, that's called spiritual warfare. He goes, well, what do you do? That's what we're going to talk about.
Okay, what do you do? What do you do when some very unusual things happen. First of all, you need to understand there's four facts you need to know. And this is the baseline. Fact number one, God has objectively defeated Satan and his agenda.
He has delivered us from sin's penalty, power, and ultimately, will deliver us from sin's presence. In the interim, we're involved in a guerrilla warfare with demonic forces. Fact number one. Fact number two, as believers we have been transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light with all the rights, privileges, and position. of being a child.
of God and what that entails. Fact number three: the spiritual battle that we fight involves our responsibility. On our part to put on the spiritual protection God has provided for us. We can and we will resist the enemy's attempts to Deceive, accuse, and cast out. When we stand firm by number one, being honest with God, ourselves and others as a prerequisite to spiritual battle.
And we learned what? It's the belt of truth. Number two, responding to the truth that God shows us about His will for our lives or living righteously. The breastplate of righteousness. And number three, a clear understanding and a readily sharing of the gospel the message of grace.
Our feet shod with the gospel.
Now get this, and please, fact number four is very important. the great majority of spiritual warfare never need go beyond the regular practice. of living out your position in Christ by faith. Our practice of Paul's metaphor of the spiritual armor protects us from Satan's ongoing attempts to break our fellowship with Jesus, and as a result, greatly minimizes any impact. by the enemy.
And now.
However, there are times When we must move beyond standing firm, and here's the key word: engage the enemy. In actual Combat. There are times that are very predictable when it will go from you have a great defense. You're not being deceived. You're walking with God.
And there's some times when frontal attack is likely to happen. Five examples. Number one, when you're taking significant steps of faith for spiritual growth. Dave went from a nominal Christian who intellectually believed in Jesus, who came to a saving faith, who begin to get into God's word. found out he had the gift of evangelism, found he began, he actually started a businessmen's group in our community that people would come from.
And because of his role and brothers in the community, they had a big role at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. Pretty soon God is using his life. Then his marriage began to change. Then I remember him telling me one day, you know what? You know, I went to church, and when you were a kid, you put a quarter in.
When you got to be like in junior high, you put a dollar in. And then, you know, when you're an adult, you gave $5. And if you had a really good sermon, you maybe gave $20. Because I've been in the Bible now. He goes, I'm tithing.
Because I've got a good job. And he just looked at me like, man.
Sometimes I look at the number that I write down, I go, dude, are you kidding me? I'm giving that money away. And then he says, and I've never been happier. And it's just lightened me up and I see what it does. And God keeps giving me more.
And then tell it. He starts to talk about his life. And this guy is, I mean, fast forward, I'll let you in. It was about five years later he came on our staff. I mean, his life was having such an impact, he couldn't squeeze it all in in his day job.
And at this particular window, Guess what? The enemy was trying to take him out. Because he was taking aggressive steps in spiritual growth, he was making a real difference. And when that happens, Fear? and some other things come at him, and we'll talk about how he responded.
Second, when we're invading enemy territory. I remember we would do major outreaches, especially in Santa Cruz, because such a... A pagan town, and it was in the day when musicals were really popular. We had a very gifted church in that area. We might do eight or nine of these, and you know, thousands of people would come, and hundreds of people would come to Christ.
I literally remember at times having like three or four appliances break down in one day right before that happens, and my car breaks down. I mean, you just can't do all that. We have just. Crazy stuff. In one of them, a lady's hair caught on fire, for real.
I mean, it was crazy stuff that was more than just coincidental. The third time is when you're exposing him for who he really is. We as a staff knew we were going to teach on this. We started a few weeks ago and we really upped our prayer and intercession knowing this is going to happen. Fourth is when we repent or make a clean break with the world or a long-held sin pattern or unholy relationship.
Now, we were involved in a lot of celebrate recovery ministries when someone's coming off of cocaine or a sex addiction or alcohol, or often I would have a couple, and they'd come and love and grow, and then they'd come up and say, you know, we're living together, and God's shown us this really is not his plan. And so we're going to move apart for a season and get some counseling and we're going to get married. And the moment they did that, I mean, everything that could go wrong. I've talked to countless men involved in either porn or affairs. and when they break off the relationship.
Just the battle. The enemy doesn't give up his own easily.
So, I don't say this in any way to make anyone fearful. It's just you need. You just need to put your chin strap on. You just need to realize when you take certain steps, there's going to be opposition. And then finally, when God is preparing us individually or corporately, for a great work for his glory.
You know, if you read Nehemiah, and as Nehemiah begins to rebuild the wall, And a revival is going to take place, and Ezra is going to come in, and God's going to turn all of history around with this business guy. And chapters 1, 2, and 3 are pretty exciting, but chapters 4, 5, and 6 are about opposition. And he gets general opposition, then he gets personal opposition, then there's an assassination on him. Jesus is ready to launch his ministry. He's ready to be the savior of the world and begin his formal teaching ministry.
And what happens? He's led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness, and he's tempted by the enemy, right?
So I had a professor, Norman Geisler. And we built a relationship with him. And I had one friend that he majored in that. And we would try and get him to sort of let us come over for dinner. And we'd ask him questions and stuff.
And I remember in the hallway one day, was talking about, hey, how's it going? You know, this, this, this, this. He goes, I'm really getting a lot of opposition in a lot of areas right now. And then he kind of leaned back and said, I kind of take it as a compliment. You know, I think the invisible world knows a lot more than the visible world.
And I figure that if I'm getting this kind of attention right now, must be some good stuff ready to happen. And I thought, what a great perspective.
So, those are times when we can expect. The question is: once you're wearing your spiritual armor, yet find yourself bombarded by spiritual opposition, how do you engage the enemy and win? battle.
Well We know that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but it's against the rulers, the powers, the world forces, the spiritual darkness, right? Yeah. Therefore Stand firm in the Lord. Right? Put on the full armor of God.
And having what? Girded your loins with truth? Having put on the breastplate of righteousness, And having had your feet shod with the gospel. In addition, verse 16, to all taking up the shield of faith, which you will be able to extinguish are the flaming missiles of the evil one. and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
So how you engage that is I would like to talk about these three. Armor pieces that we have that will teach us how to engage in spiritual battle and win. Taking up the shield of faith. I alluded to this when I was addressing the breastplate of righteousness. And so these are these like two and a half foot shields from about here down to here.
They were made of iron. Then they would have leather on the outside, linen inside, and a gap like this. Seneca was an ancient writer, and he wrote of one warrior who came in and had actually 200 arrows in his shield. And the Roman armies, they would hook them together and they just kept moving forward. And so Paul gives us this metaphor, and the faith here is the absolute confidence in God, His promises, His power, and His program for our lives.
Although rooted in the objective reality of the gospel and our new standing with God, justification, in other words, saving faith, this faith refers to our present faith. and the Lord Jesus Christ for victory over sin and a host of demonic activity. That's a quote from Kenneth Wiest. Its purpose is to quench the fiery missiles of the evil one. Which kind of raises the question, what exactly is a fiery missile or a dart?
Let me suggest it's the schemes. The temptations the lies, the deceptions, and the attacks. Aimed at us, God's people, get this down, to get us to shift our trust to something or someone other than God. The goal, just the goal is don't trust God. It's impossible to please him apart from faith.
The number one agenda of God in your life is this, will you trust me? Were you believing when Jesus was asked, what is the work of God, John chapter 6, he said, This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent. There's only one time the disciples are ever reproved by Jesus that we have in the New Testament. Oh, you of little. He wants us to believe.
He's demonstrated his power. He's given us his promises. In fact, here's a question that in any situation, okay, you jot this down, it's not in your notes. Maybe it's a challenge in your marriage. Maybe it's a challenge in your business.
A challenge with one of your grown kids. Maybe it's a physical situation. Ask this question. What does it look like to trust God in this situation? Lord, I don't know what to do.
What does it look like to trust you? That changes the equation. Because here's what I know is God's will. No matter what I'm going through, an all-knowing, all-powerful, good, and sovereign God. wants me to trust him.
That I may have a role in it, I may not. But we tend to jump to how do I fix this or how do I take control of it? or how do I manage it?
Some examples of fiery darts are blasphemous thoughts, my friend. Mm-mm. A demonic spirit creates overwhelming fear that he went in under 30 seconds from thankful for this beautiful wife and his new life to wondering if he could trust a God who was good or not. And it came completely out of the blue, and I mean, it shook him up. He was as fearful.
As I was that night. Other things that can happen, hateful thoughts. Doubts. a burning desire to sin. Questioning others' motives, unexplained waves of discouragement or depression.
often rooted in either questioning God's identity or your new identity. Big ball! You're listening to Living on the Edge. Before we continue today's program, let me quickly ask you: are you concerned about the lies and temptations bombarding your kids each and every day?
Well, join us after the message to hear about a valuable small group resource that will help you, as a parent, equip your children with the truth and the biblical armor they need to stand victorious. Keep listening after this message to learn more. But for now, here again is Chip to continue our series, The Invisible War. I shared this what happened to me. I mean every Saturday afternoon for months and months and months until I recognized what was happening.
The classic example, and let me encourage you in this whole area of spiritual warfare: study Genesis chapter 3. and study Matthew chapter 4. The game plan hasn't changed. Did God really say? There's always a doubt in his word.
Notice he doesn't come as Satan, he comes disguised.
So he comes disguised, almost always offering you a good thing to solve a problem in your life. But he's offering a shortcut or it's a good thing in a bad way. or at a bad time, or in a way that God has said this is not the way to do it. And then after that. If you take A piece of the fruit, whatever the fruit happens to be that he's shown you and you know is wrong, then he will.
Blow over you with the condemnation for what you've done, and then Convince you that you're unworthy of any of God's mercy and any of God's grace, and it's a downward spiral. As you would study Matthew chapter 4, you'll find that Jesus is tempted in three specific areas. And if you study Genesis carefully, you'll find that they're tempted in three specific areas. And those three areas are found in 1 John. I want you all to open your Bibles to 1 John all the way at the end.
1 John chapter 2. And in 1 John chapter 2, He will identify the three areas of temptation that faced our first parents. The three areas of temptation that Jesus faced. And the three areas of temptation that you and I will always face. These are like three verses that would be of great profit to memorize.
Verse 15 of 1 John chapter 2. Do not love the world. or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, The love of the Father is not in him.
Okay, well what's the world? Is this the physical world? No. This is... The world as in the culture, the society, and the values.
And who's the prince and the power and the governor of this world? Satan. And so he creates culture and society and norms and values. to seduce. Here's his goal.
He's a seducer. He wants to seduce you. from your love of Jesus. and get you to love you. Yourself.
And he tells you the way that you can have all that you want. Remember what? What, Eve? This will make you like God. And we don't want to admit this, but when we want to control our world and our outcomes, we want to be little gods.
And so notice what he says: Well, what is the world? For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father. but it's from the world. And then the next verse is like. perspective.
And the world is passing away and also its lusts. But the one who does the will of God abides for ever. And by the way here, this word for lust, lust of the eyes, It's not necessarily a negative word. Literally, it's the word desire. In this passage and others, there's a little prefix they put to it.
It means an intensified desire. And so three things. Jesus comes. And the enemy says, first questioning his identity: if you are the Son of God, he knew who he was. But let's prove it.
Prove it. Turn these stones into bread. Use your supernatural power rather than trust in God. You take control. And it's been 40 days, and the text says he's hungry.
He has a Legitimate need for food. And the enemy says, well, then turn the stones and prove something, and you can meet your legitimate physical need of the flesh now, my way in my time. And what did Jesus say? It is written. Man should not live by Bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
The test? Lust of the flesh. Then he took him up to the top of the temple. And says, throw yourself off. And then, are you ready?
He quotes scripture. He quotes the Psalms and says, the angels will catch you. And here's the temptation, the lust of the eyes. You want to look good in front of people. People will know you're the Messiah, but you'll be hot stuff.
And then third? Look at all these kingdoms. You can have power, you can have fame, you can have glory, and guess what? There's no cross involved. All you have to do is bow down and worship me.
Be gone, Satan. And each time it is written, it is written, it is written.
Sometimes words like lust of the flesh. Lust of the eyes, the pride of life, they sound a bit biblical. Because they are. Uh can I give it to you in um Our nomenclature. Uh Lust of the flesh, sex.
Lust of the eyes. Status. Greed. Possessions. Is it wrong to have Appetite for food.
A desire for sex, a desire for significance, a desire for security? Absolutely not. It's how you go about getting it. and believing that that will satisfy you. God says sex inside marriage is one of the most precious gifts.
Food, we all need food. But there's one thing. To love food, it's another thing to live to eat. And so he says to us that these desires for the flesh I want to provide for you. These are legitimate needs, but let me provide for you in my way and in my time and in the right way.
Lust of the eyes is we see something and we all want to look good. I mean, I mean, we all, I mean, everyone. I'm guessing, looked in the mirror today. Psychologists tell us if we walk by a department store and there's glass, Every single person when you're walking by, what do you do? You look at yourself.
And usually.
Okay. In elevators, if you get into an elevator by yourself, there's a mirror in the elevator, what do you do? We are obsessed with how we come off. And it's so interesting because it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you're young.
It doesn't matter if you're in a gang. It always is funny to me because we're all human. You can be in a gang and to be cool, man, I got my bling, I got my stuff here, get after your own bad self, and I got my hat like this. Or if I'm a worship pastor, I get these skitty jeans and I got holes in my hand, I do it here. Or if I'm a member of the Atlanta Country Club, I have these loafers, but I don't wear socks.
And I have an insignia right here. Right, and if you're if you're I actually, I used to go to conferences and I'd say, okay. Let's name the pastor. Hush puppies from Wisconsin, probably a Mennonite, okay? You know?
You know, you got the guy hair combed over, khaki pants, blue shirt, one of the Bible church guys. You know, and you know. We all. We all dress and we have our groups, and we, there's nothing wrong. in wanting to look good.
But there is something very wrong when we believe that what we need to possess and how we come off. and that our bodies are who we are. and that what kind of house we have. and what we see and the desire. It's If and when I have that or if I earn that.
Yeah. And then the final one is this whole idea of control and power. The pride of life. I'm a somebody. Christ says, You're already a somebody by whom I made you.
You're already a somebody because you're worth the death of my son. And so, what I want you to know is that every temptation that will come your way or my way, and the darts will come, will be around these three things. It's classic methodology, he'll disguise it. He'll cast doubt on God and His Word. and your worthiness.
And then he will provide an immediate alternative rooted in the pride of lice, the lust of the flesh. and the lust of the eyes. And so the application here, when darts of doubt and deception must be immediately met with the shield of faith. your active present application of truth to your personal situation as soon as you recognize the dart. And now I hope you're thinking.
Okay. What's that look like? I mean, practically. I mean, how does this actually work? Let me give you three examples.
First, it's trusting in God's character. My friend has an overwhelming fear that God's going to kill his wife that he logically knows makes no sense. In that moment, he says to me, what do I do? I said, well, you've been reading the Bible quite a bit, yeah. Dave, do you know Psalm 84, 11?
Yeah. Okay, let's get it out. The Lord God, Lord Adonai Yahweh, is a son and a shield. Unlimited source. Unlimited protection.
The Lord God is a son and a shield. The Lord gives grace and glory. No good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly. The moment that thought comes in, it's a lie about God's character. On a card, I have written the goodness of God, Psalm 84:11, and I've memorized that card.
And then I have a definition on the back of the card of the goodness of God is that which aspect of my heavenly Father that longs and finds great happiness in his people, and he wants to give me the very best. When God revealed himself to Moses, Moses said, Show me your glory. Do you remember what he said? I'll let all my goodness pass before you. The Hebrew word for goodness there, the root of it is generosity.
The most generous, lavish, caring, loving, compassionate person in the whole universe is God. He's got your back and he's for you. But the moment that thought comes, oh, he's not good. If I stay sexually pure, I'll never get married. God's not good.
If I give my all and surrender to him, he'll send me to some foreign country where there's snakes and I hate snakes. And, you know, All those are rooted in a lie. And the moment your mind starts that way, you stop and you out loud say, The Lord. The Lord God. Is a son?
And a shield. He has an unlimited source of ability and abundance. He can protect me from anything. He gives grace. What's grace?
That's getting what you don't deserve. Giving, he gives glory, he wants to exalt, he wants to lift you up, he wants to help you. As you walk with him by faith, no good thing will he withhold. from those who walk uprightly.
So he prompts you to make a special gift to someone or to help someone out. And the first thought is, oh, if you do that, there won't be enough money left for you. And then you quote that out loud. God's a God of abundance. And as you quote that out loud, what you're doing is you're saying, I trust in God's character.
This is Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram, and you've been listening to part one of Chip's message, How to Do Battle with the Enemy and Wind, from our series, The Invisible War. Chip will be back shortly to share some helpful application for us to think about. Right now, there's a spiritual battle happening all around us. We can't see it, but it's an epic struggle for our hearts and minds.
So what are we as believers supposed to do?
Well, through this eight-part study, Chip shares some insights from Ephesians chapter 6 for how we're to think about, prepare for, and respond to spiritual warfare. Learn why we don't have to be afraid because of the armor God's given us to fight back and fight well. To learn more about this series, visit livingontheedge.org or the Chip Ingram app.
Well, Chip's still with me in studio. And Chip, we've received a ton of emails and messages recently from young people who've been motivated by your teaching or are using some of our resources, and I know just how encouraging that is to you.
Well, Dave, you're right. I'm always excited when high schoolers or college students, you know, they'll write me and they'll tell me that, you know, we got a group at college and we're listening to your messages or we've done this small group or, you know, I've got a couple questions or I read this book. And I get so excited because there are young men and women that are making a difference, people in their 20s, early 30s that love God, that are digging in. And if you're one of those people, here's what I want you to know. Yes, it's very challenging to be a godly young man or young woman in our current world, and you are in a battle.
And here's what I would encourage you to do. If you've never done the small group series, The Invisible War, What every believer needs to know about Satan, demons, and spiritual warfare. I want you to pause right now and think about who's a bunch of guys or a bunch of gals or maybe a college group or a Sunday school class or just some people that you hang out with. And you say, let's get together once a week and let's study what the Bible says about spiritual warfare. I want you to know you're being attacked probably like no other group, especially digitally and through social media.
And the temptations and the struggles are overwhelming. I want you to know there's victory, there's power, but you need to understand what the spiritual armor is all about and how you can live and overcome the very things that are coming at you. There's few things that are more important. than understanding where the battle is that you've already won. and how to put into practice the weapons that God has given you to win the battle each and every day.
To learn more about the Invisible War Small Group, go to livingontheedge.org. Join SHIP in this vital study and uncover the biblical weapons and armor we've been given to withstand Satan's attacks and stand victorious over him. Place your order for the Invisible War Small Group by visiting livingontheedge.org. Applisteners tap special offers. But with that, here again is Chip to share a few final words.
As you listen to today's program, What came to your mind? What darts are coming at your life? And let me ask you this question. Can you, like Jesus, reach into the passages of Scripture, quote that passage with authority, know you're standing, and put up the shield? If not, you're in big trouble.
I praise God that I've memorized some key passages. And some of you may feel overwhelmed and like, well, I'm glad Chip knows these verses and Jesus obviously did, but I don't know what to do. Go to the website. and download these notes for free. It's livingontheedge.org.
And I've given specific passages with the promises so you can pull up the shield of faith. God wants to help you, but you need to dig in and get a grasp of God's word in the areas where you need it the most. Good challenge to leave us with today, Chip. Thanks.
Well, be sure to join us next time as Chip continues his series, The Invisible War. Until then, I'm Dave Drummy, saying thanks for listening to this Edition of Living on the Edge. I'm not sure if I can do it.
