We Wres­tle not Against Flesh and Blood

When some­one accuses you, is it the flesh attack­ing you or a spirit work­ing through the chris­t­ian or non-christian?

Eph­esians 6:10–17Eph­esians 6:10–17
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² 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. flesh…: Gr. blood and flesh spir­i­tual…: or, wicked spir­its high: or, heav­enly ¹³ Where­fore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to with­stand in the evil day, and hav­ing done all, to stand. hav­ing…: or, hav­ing over­come all ¹⁴ Stand there­fore, hav­ing your loins girt about with truth, and hav­ing on the breast­plate of right­eous­ness; ¹⁵ And your feet shod with the prepa­ra­tion of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ Above all, tak­ing the shield of faith, where­with ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. ¹⁷ And take the hel­met of sal­va­tion, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:  

WP-Bible plu­gin “10 Finally, brethren, be strength­ened in the Lord, and in the might of his power. 11 Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil. 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against prin­ci­pal­i­ties and power, against the rulers of the world of this dark­ness, against the spir­its of wicked­ness in the high places. Not Peo­ple 13 There­fore take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and to stand in all things per­fect. 14 Stand there­fore, hav­ing your loins girt about with truth, and hav­ing on the breast­plate of jus­tice, 15 And your feet shod with the prepa­ra­tion of the gospel of peace: 16 In all things tak­ing the shield of faith, where­with you may be able to extin­guish all the fiery darts of the most wicked one. 17 And take unto you the hel­met of sal­va­tion, and the sword of the Spirit (which is the word of God).”

Satan Throws Fiery Darts

Satan throws fiery darts at us through thoughts.  Thoughts that do not line up with God’s char­ac­ter but the oppo­site of God’s character.

Satan even uses other peo­ple to come against us.  They can be Chris­tians and non chris­tians but they come at us as accu­sa­tion.  We must remem­ber that the peo­ple on the earth,though they may seem like our ene­mies because of the things they are doing to hurt us, are not our ene­mies. Satan and his fallen ones and demons are our enemy Not Peo­ple. You must take your eyes off of peo­ple and their sin and look to our Lord Jesus Christ.

We have to remem­ber that our war on earth is spir­i­tual and not flesh and Not Peo­ple.  We are spir­i­tual beings in an immortable body.  God is spirit and satan is a spirit and so is his army of demons.

Our war is not flesh and blood with the enemy or with oth­ers around us.  We have to sep­a­rate the per­son com­ing at you through accu­sa­tion or other means, and sep­a­rate them from their sin.  Jesus died for all men.

Satan is the Accuser of the Brethren

You, as a per­son, has to rec­og­nize the char­ac­ter of Satan is the accuser of the brethren to accuse and when some­one is accus­ing you, through a per­son, to rec­og­nize it is not them but the sin oper­at­ing in them.  The spirit of accu­sa­tion is try­ing to get you to accuse back to become one with some­one else’s sin.  We have a choise to rise up and real­ize we do not wres­tle with flesh and blood.

• Satan’s job is to bring sep­a­ra­tion in relationship
• Sep­a­ra­tion with Yourself
• Sep­a­ra­tion from God

Have you ever had a con­ver­sa­tion with some­one and seen the spirit of the scram­bler at work and inter­pret what you are try­ing to say dif­fer­ently then what you mean?  An argu­ment breaks out!  It is the enemy com­ing at you through some­one else.

The flesh acts like the flesh and when we decide to walk in the spirit it is oppo­site of the world’s way.

Satan does not want you and me to know the true char­ac­ter of God, but God’s Word does teach the true char­ac­ter of Satan.  Satan wants you to choose a way of death instead of life.  Choose the flesh way instead of the spirit.

In Gala­tians 5:16–25Gala­tians 5:16–25
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not ful­fil the lust of the flesh. ye…: or, ful­fil not ¹⁷ For the flesh lus­teth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are con­trary the one to the other: so that ye can­not do the things that ye would. ¹⁸ But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are man­i­fest, which are these; Adul­tery, for­ni­ca­tion, unclean­ness, las­civ­i­ous­ness, ²⁰ Idol­a­try, witch­craft, hatred, vari­ance, emu­la­tions, wrath, strife, sedi­tions, here­sies, ²¹ Envy­ings, mur­ders, drunk­en­ness, rev­el­lings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the king­dom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long­suf­fer­ing, gen­tle­ness, good­ness, faith, ²³ Meek­ness, tem­per­ance: against such there is no law. ²⁴ And they that are Christ’s have cru­ci­fied the flesh with the affec­tions and lusts. affec­tions: or, pas­sions ²⁵ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  

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¹⁶This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not ful­fil the lust of the flesh.

¹⁷For the flesh lus­teth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are con­trary the one to the other: so that ye can­not do the things that ye would.

¹⁸But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are man­i­fest, which are these; Adul­tery, for­ni­ca­tion, unclean­ness, lasciviousness,

²⁰Idol­a­try, witch­craft, hatred, vari­ance, emu­la­tions, wrath, strife, sedi­tions, heresies,

²¹Envy­ings, mur­ders, drunk­en­ness, rev­el­lings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the king­dom of God.

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long­suf­fer­ing, gen­tle­ness, good­ness, faith,

²³Meek­ness, tem­per­ance: against such there is no law.

²⁴And they that are Christ’s have cru­ci­fied the flesh with the affec­tions and lusts.

²⁵If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

The old man of sin” in us wants to suc­cumb to the pow­ers of sin. This is what we mean by wrestling. We are mean­ing it is a one-to-one warfare.

We have to cru­cify the flesh with the affec­tions and lusts.

Demon­strate the fruit of the spirit in daily life

Life in the Spirit

Walk in the Spirit

As Jesus was hang­ing on the cross He cried out “Father,  for­give them, for they don’t know what they are doing.”(Luke 23:34Luke 23:34
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
34 Then said Jesus, Father, for­give them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his rai­ment, and cast lots.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) Also while hang­ing on the cross Jesus endured ridicule from the reli­gious lead­ers. Peo­ple mocked say­ing, ” He saved oth­ers. Let Him save him­self if he is the Christ of God.” Isn’t this the same thing that the devil said to him when He was in the wilder­ness, “..if you are the Son of God?”(Matt Chap. 4).  He for­gave them for they did not know they were being used by the enemy to bring Death of Jesus.  Jesus knew it was the sin man­i­fest­ing through them that it was not them but a spirit of sit, the flesh oper­at­ing through them the people.