This article is based on the sermon I preached last Sunday.

The Bible makes it clear that christians are involved in a struggle that is waged about us. This struggle takes place at the level of the spirit realm and involves spirit beings trying to control the destiny of humanity. For example Ephesians 6:12 (NLT)warns us:

For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.

As many have noted in the past, there are two errors we can make regarding this warfare, and both are equally dangerous.

At one extreme we can ignore the spiritual reality that surrounds us as if it doesn't exist. This tends to be the practice in western culture, even amongst christians. We have reduced much of life to what can be explained by science. This negates the entire spiritual realm entirely. Interestingly there has been a reaction to that with an unhealthy preoccupation with fortune telling, crystals, ghosts, eastern meditation and UFOs rising in western culture to fill the void.

The other extreme is to become obsessed with the spirit realm, seeing demons under every rock. Every set-back in life is seen as demonic influence or witchcraft while every good blessing is seen as direct intervention from God or ministering angels.

The truth, as always, lies in between the extremes and needs wisdom and discernment to see.

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