✝ Daily Encouragement (11/20/24) "The Good Fight"
Published: Wed, 11/20/24
Updated: Wed, 11/20/24
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(Click refresh or reload for current message) Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Each
time we enter
the lobby of
Sunset Grocery
Outlet in
Lebanon we are
encouraged by
a Bible text!
"The Good Fight" Note:
This
week's daily
encouragement
messages (and
the last two
from last
week) are
developed from
a study I
prepared for
Crossroads
Adult Bible
Fellowship
last Sunday
based on
teaching from
2 Timothy
4:1-8. Message summary: There is an ongoing conflict in the spiritual realm that is unavoidable and we have no choice in whether or not we engage. By virtue of the fallen condition of mankind we are engaged. The “good fight” is the ancient conflict in the spiritual realm and goes back to the fall of Satan.
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I’ve never enjoyed fighting. Sports like boxing and wrestling do not interest me. I recall a period in Junior High School when the class bully put out the word that he wanted to fight me. Truth be told, I was terrified! At that time I was getting taller but was as skinny as a rail and had no desire to get in a fight with a tough bully!
It
was likely my
first
experience as
a child to
undergo real
personal
stress that
extended over
a period of
months, but
thankfully the
rumored fight
never
transpired.
(That was over
55 years ago
and I've
wondered how
his life
turned out. As
I recall he
was from a
rough family.)
To
this day I
would rather
avoid conflict
than face it
and am even
uncomfortable
reading books
or viewing
movies that
have major
conflict.
But there is an ongoing conflict in the spiritual realm that is unavoidable and we have no choice in whether or not we engage. By virtue of the fallen condition of mankind we are engaged. There is no neutrality in this conflict and in this “good fight” pacifism or non-resistance is not a virtue, but rather a surrender and an alliance with the forces of evil. Many
of us have
studied or
even memorized
a portion of
Scripture
referred to as
the “Armor of
God” in
Ephesians 6.
The apostle
Paul reminds
us that our
struggle is
not ultimately
physical in
nature but
spiritual. “For
we do not
wrestle
against flesh
and blood, but
against
principalities,
against
powers,
against the
rulers of the
darkness of
this age,
against
spiritual
hosts of
wickedness in
the heavenly
places”
(Ephesians
6:12). We
pray that you
will stand up
for God’s
truth and
righteousness
in the home,
the workplace,
the
marketplace
and in some
instances you
might even
have to take a
stand in your
own church. I
am convinced
the battle
will become
increasingly
more fierce
before
Christ’s
return. Let us
resolve in our
hearts to
remain
faithful to
our divine
call no matter
how great or
small the
conflict! Let
us fight the
good fight.
Be encouraged today, Hebrews 3:13 Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Today's Suggested Music and Supplemental Resources
"Battle
Belongs"
Listen
on YouTube
Phil
Wickham
This is a
newer song
with the same
theme we've
been singing
the last
several
years.
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