Warfighting is merely the tangible manifestation of a greater reality: we live in a world at war. There is enmity in the form of imposing wills pressing upon each other and this friction is felt.
Genesis 3:15
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
He shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise His heel.
War has been hard-wired into the human story by God since the Fall as observed in the early verses of Genesis 3. This struggle is real and is the undercurrent of every other legitimate struggle in existence. This is the baseline of all enmity. This is where it comes from and defines the jerseys of each team.
"God's will is that Christ's Kingdom should be encompassed with many enemies, His design being to keep us in a state of constant warfare." -- John Calvin
Our adversary, the devil, is a prowler and he is as crafty as the day is long.
Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He craftily adapts to the world as God directs. If God provides blessings, he tries to spin them as curses. If God curses, he attempts to paint them in the light of blessings. He is subtle and subversive and creative and effective.
He is an inventor of evil. There are any number of ways to get a sum wrong, but only one way to get it correct. Satan's strategy is to create new permutations of the same evil in order to present what appears to be a new thing, something we hadn't prepared for; but if we're paying attention, we can adapt to his schemes by seeing them for what they are... the same ol' seductions.
1 Corinthians 10:12-13
Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Our adversary, the devil, is a prowler and he is as crafty as the day is long.
Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He craftily adapts to the world as God directs. If God provides blessings, he tries to spin them as curses. If God curses, he attempts to paint them in the light of blessings. He is subtle and subversive and creative and effective.
He is an inventor of evil. There are any number of ways to get a sum wrong, but only one way to get it correct. Satan's strategy is to create new permutations of the same evil in order to present what appears to be a new thing, something we hadn't prepared for; but if we're paying attention, we can adapt to his schemes by seeing them for what they are... the same ol' seductions.
1 Corinthians 10:12-13
Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
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