Spiritual Warfare, pt. 1 Reading City Church

We're continuing our series about the supernatural themes and ideas of the Bible and what it tells us about God. This week we start to examine the idea of spiritual warfare and what God actually asks us to do.

Having a personal doctrine of spiritual warfare in which we feel we must battle Satan is a dangerous game to play. It can often end up putting people exactly where Satan wants them - which is focused on the darkness, or themselves, more than God and others. Ideas about spiritual warfare can seduce us with a list of the right actions and words that are needed to successfully push back darkness and in so doing, it elevates man and method above the work of Christ.

Putting on the reality of who we are in Jesus Christ is what eliminates the darkness. Owning this identity prevents lies from taking root in our mind.