Tony Evans Speaks Out on Spiritual Warfare
By Tony Evans
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Tony Evans
Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, founder and president of the Urban Alternative, former chaplain of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, and present chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on nearly 1,000 US radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit TonyEvans.org.
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Tony Evans Speaks Out on Spiritual Warfare - Tony Evans
America
Remember that old newsreel that shows President Franklin Roosevelt addressing Congress the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941?
Talking about a day that will live in infamy,
the president declared that in reality, America was already at war. Roosevelt just needed a declaration of Congress to make it official.
I am not the president, but I have a declaration to make: You and I are at war! In fact, we are engaged right now in the mother of all battles. No war in history can compare with the battle you and I are fighting. It can be the cause of either your greatest joy as a Christian or your deepest pain.
THE AGENDA IN SPIRITUAL WARFARE
The war I am talking about is the spiritual warfare that you became a part of the day you received Jesus Christ as your Savior. This war affects every area of your life. There is no way you can avoid the conflict. There is no bunker or foxhole you can crawl into that will shield you from the effects of this cosmic battle between the forces of God and the forces of Satan.
You may not even know you’re at war. A lot of Christians don’t. But other people can see the results of the battle in those people’s lives, because they have become casualties of spiritual warfare.
Some Christians are emotional casualties of spiritual warfare. They are discouraged, depressed, downtrodden, and defeated. Others are marital and family casualties. Divorce, conflict, and abuse are some of the battle scars
these believers bear.
Still others have been wounded morally in the battle. They cannot control their passions, or they make poor moral choices. For some Christians, the wounds have been inflicted on their finances. They are losing the financial battle because they are losing the spiritual battle. It’s not just a matter of how they use their credit cards.
Since we are all at war, and since there is so much at stake both here on earth and in eternity, we’d better find out what spiritual warfare is all about and how to fight the battle successfully. That’s what I want to help you do in this book.
The Essence of the Battle
Let me begin by stating the obvious. The essence of our warfare is spiritual. Because of this, the degree to which we will be successful is the degree to which we are prepared to understand and fight this battle on a spiritual level.
Perhaps a definition will help at this point. Spiritual warfare is that conflict being waged in the invisible, spiritual realm that is being manifest in the visible, physical realm.
In other words, spiritual warfare is a battle between invisible, angelic forces that affects you and me. The cause of the war is something you and I can’t see. But the effects are very visible in the kinds of problems I mentioned above, and in the day-to-day stuff you and I face all the time.
It’s hard enough to fight an enemy you can see. It’s much harder to fight someone you can’t see. That is exactly the kind of enemy we face. Paul wrote, Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places
(Ephesians 6:12).
This verse identifies the enemy: Satan and his demons. That means we are making a grand mistake if we think people are the real enemy. People can be bad, no doubt. But they are merely conduits for this greater battle. Satan has been very successful in getting us to fight people, rather than fighting that which is causing people