![]() ![]() None of us wants it to come to our families though it often does. Sin is the only enemy that will damn you at the judgment. And I’ll pray them in the order of their importance against me. I’ll tell you how I pray with my wife at night: We get down on our knees, and very often I use four S’s that I pray against. I don’t think Satan is the main enemy I think he’s the second main enemy. ![]() That’s why I preached the series years ago called Battling Unbelief, and then wrote Future Grace based on it. The warfare we’re in is primarily a warfare against unbelief. We are to be fighters of the good fight - namely, the fight of faith, the good fight of faith - meaning, whatever it takes, whatever roughhousing, whatever shrewdness, whatever tactics, whatever strategies it takes to build faith in our lives and the lives of people we care about that’s the fight we’ll fight. We’re not to be a mean-spirited group of people who pick fights. There’s a good fight, brothers, to be fought. In 1 Timothy 6:12, Paul says to the younger man, Timothy, “Fight the good fight of the faith.” Fight the good fight. So let me spend a few minutes setting the stage with this idea of men at war, and the biblical foundations of thinking that way: that we are at war, and in what sense we’re at war. Somewhere in the book on missions I say, “You will not to know what prayer is for until you know that life is war.” Somebody gave me the title for this time together: “Men at War: Pursuing an Undistracted Passion for God.” I love the title it’s a great title. ![]()
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