Know Your Enemy | Ephesians 6:10-13
Prepared for Battle
1. You Must Realize You are in a Battle
Supernatual
Personal
Futile
2. You Must Recognize Your Enemies
Ephesians 2:2–3 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
World
Flesh
Satan
3. You Need the Lord’s Strength
God's Might
God's Mighty Work
Once We Were Now We Are
Dead (2:1) Alive (2:5)
Under the dominion of Satan (2:2) Seated in heavenly realms (2:6)
Objects of wrath (2:3) His glorious inheritance (1:18)
Separate (2:12) Brought near (2:13)
Foreigners (2:19) Fellow citizens (2:19)
Aliens (2:19) Household members (2:19)
Denied gospel mystery (3:5) Understanding gospel mystery (3:4)
Infants (4:14) Maturing in Christ (4:15)
Old self (4:22) New self (4:24)
Darkness (5:8) Light (5:8)