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| SECRET CHURCH // ANGELS, DEMONS AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE Posted: 17 May 2011 11:00 AM PDT The following was taken from the transcripts of Secret Church 7 – "Angels, Demons and Spiritual Warfare" The spiritual world and the reality of the Bible Catch this. If you do not believe in the spiritual world, then you are denying the reality of the Bible. Even deeper, if you deny that there is a spiritual world around us, you are denying the truthfulness of Jesus Christ himself. Because Christ was inundated in the spiritual world from the very beginning; an angel announced his consummation as well as his birth. He was tempted by the devil – Matthew 4, Luke 4. He was served by angels after his temptation. He could've called down legions of angels from the cross. Angels were present at the tomb when the stone was rolled away. They were present when he ascended into heaven. To undermine the reality of the spiritual world is to undermine the very reality of the birth, live, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ himself. So spiritualities are pervasive. We need to avoid two errors here. C.S. Lewis talked about it. There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence; the other is to believe and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors, and hail a materialist or magician with the same delight. Error number one is empty rationalism. Either to deny the spiritual world as religious fancy or to compartmentalize it. And this is where we need to realize, particularly in this room, in this context, that we are far more secularistic, humanistic, and materialistic than we would like to think. And we tend toward this – the empty rationalism. The other extreme to avoid, though, is an excessive fanaticism. Yes, there are spiritual realities, but if we are not careful, we will overanalyze them and overreact to the spiritual world, causing all kinds of misunderstanding and misconception. I wanna be point-blank honest here. After studying this for months in preparing for tonight, I am convinced that there is all kinds of fiction, superstition, fantasy, nonsense, nuttiness, and downright heresy when it comes to ideas about spiritual warfare in Christian circles. We need to be careful. Yes, not to confine ourselves to an empty rationalism that ignores the spiritual world – but we also need to be careful not to indulge ourselves in excessive fanaticism. For more content regarding Secret Church #7 Angels, Demons and Spiritual Warfare click HERE. |
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