Flesh 4

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Another Sermon for the Starving Bible Believing Christians All Over the World Wide Web
2006 - Touchet Baptist Church, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike Paulson - 2006
Expounding the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26 - with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II Timothy 2:15

Rightly Dividing
The Flesh
Part IV

What is the War?

Before we even consider what the war is, I must ask you...

1. Do you believe that there IS a war going on?
2. Do you believe it is OK to have this war going on?

Tolerance is killing truth!
    Tolerance is just another word for ecumenicalism!
    Mixing with the enemy is what tolerance is!
    Some things we can't avoid - but for those things we can, we MUST!
    (key words - from such turn away, have no company with, avoid, withdraw thyself, etc.
    The poison of the enemy has rubbed off onto us AND our children - and unless we are in that Book, we won't recognize it!

Do you see a war?
Are you aware of a war?
Do you know much about the war?
Do you even care about the war?

The war about...
    Christianity? - Within / about / because of... (radical Christianity is as dangerous as radical Islam... - Rosie O'Donnel... haha, but people do listen to her...)
    Truth
    The Book - KJB 1611
    RD
    Christians
    Your Church
    Individual members in your church
    Family - design
    Family - yours
    Family - individual members
    You!
        In you
        with you
        around you
        towards you
        because of you

Do you know who the enemy is?
Do you think it is yourself, parents, children, schools, their friends, workplace, debt, etc.???

Do you know of the devices on the attack?
Are you on the watch?

Do you even care?
Do you believe you are too old?
Do you believe you are too young?
Do you find yourself too busy to care, let alone even do anything about anything?
Do you find yourself not knowing what to do about it?
Do you believe you are losing?
Do you find yourself considering giving up?
Have you given up?

Do you really think it is only about you?
Ephesians 6:13-18 - none of the armour is yours. It is all His!
The final victory is His - Revelation 19
Vengeance is even His! Romans 12:19 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Yes, there IS a war being waged! And we are in the thick of it, like it or not!
(It isn't the big one - Revelation 16:14 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty 19:19 - And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. but is a smaller war to keep folks in the devil's army!)

Paul address some folks as fellowsoldiers!
Philippians 2:25 - ...Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier,...
Philemon 1:2 - ...Archippus our fellowsoldier ...

Tells us endure hardness as a good soldier!
II Timothy 2:3 - Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Tells us to not run uncertainly...
I Corinthians 9:26,27 - I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

When he finished, Paul said he fought a good fight!
II Timothy 4:7 - I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

What is the Fight?
    with your pastor?
    with your parents?
    with your spouse?
    with your children?
    with your school - home or otherwise, even?
    with your grandparents - relatives?

It is the Fight of FAITH
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life,
whereunto thou art also called,
and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
I Timothy 6:12

It is a good fight!
I Timothy 1:18,19b - This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; Holding faith, and a good conscience;
(unless you give up or join forces with the enemy!)

Why must we think we need to SEE to believe?
Galatians 3:1-3 - O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Are we afraid of living by faith?
(It isn't blind faith at all - not if you have, read & study the KJB!)
Are you still afraid of Paul? KJB Only?
Our church testimony?
Do you think RD won't work for your children?
Do you think you have to prepare your kids for the world IN CASE faith and doing right according to RD 1611 won't work?

Are you preparing your kids or even just yourself to fail or to have faith?

Seed of Abraham!
No wonder they hate us - they hate true Christianity, the KJB, rightly dividing, etc.
Galatians 3:4-14

Christianity changed the world - it civilized the world! It is still ENVY!

Japheth was the one to be blessed by God - through Shem - the Jews! Genesis 9:27; Genesis 12:2,3; Romans 11:28, etc.

Our flesh still has rest these days!
But folks, come on, American Christian... we really have not arrived at II Corinthians 7:5 - - although some may think so... (aches and pains, etc.)

Unless we get entangled in the affairs of this life... II Timothy 2:4 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

These are mere distractions from the world:
ISM'S
    Terrorism
    Islamofascism
    Fundamentalism
    Communism
    Socialism
    Philisophicalism
    Materialism
    Phenomenalism
    Pessimism
    Optimism
    Fatalism
    Pragmatism
    Egotism
    Agnosticism
    Theism
    Naturalism
    Pantheism
    Paganism
    Deism
    Capitalism
    Rationalism
    Skepticism
    Humanism
    Modernism
    Existentialism
    Pentecostalism
    Catholicism
    Lutheranism
    Methodism
    Christianism
    Profane&vainbabblingism
    Technoism
    Scienceism
    Smileism
    Perfectionism
    Stupidism
    Unisexism
    Bi-polarism
    Conspiracism
    Constitutionalism
    Piratism
    Blameothersism
    Securityism
    Globalism
    Talkradioism
    Visualimageryism
    Enoughmoneyism
    Musicism (Bedtime Beats - sleep therapy!)
    Feelygoodism
    Scholarshipism
    Happinessism
    Comfortablism
    Sameism
    Selfism
    Baptistism
    Ruckmanism
    Gospelism
    PBI'ism
    Chocolatism (Sweetsism)
    Dietism
    Eatism
    Talkism
    Protectionism
    GlobalWarmingism
    Anti-Onlyism (to them, onlyism is bigoted and narrow-minded - if they only knew the truth about God's love and Paul's ways!!)
    Skinnyism
    Megachurchism
    Warrenism (America's pastor - no more Billy G)

What brings on the enemy to your life?

The Right Side? He fights you - Doing or attempting to do what we should! II Corinthians 4:10,11 - Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. (And that is the risen Jesus that we are to live... see Paul's epistles.)
The Wrong Side? He helps you - Doing what we want! (Then the Rightly Divided KJB becomes your own personal enemy!)

You see, it is your choice, because the war is...
Your Mind

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
II Corinthians 10:3-6

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Ephesians 6:12

Romans 8:1-13
Romans 7:14-22

But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God;
but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 7:23-25

We all fight the same war...
...just make sure you are fighting the correct battle...
with the correct & only working weapon...
...the sword of the Spirit - the KJB1611!