Two Kingdoms Standing Our Ground

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Two KingdomsStanding Our Ground
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Standing Our Ground
Pattons Confidence Ive read your
book! Our Confidence Jesus Christ who gives
us understanding!
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Standing Our Ground

• Last time
• 2 Kingdoms at War
• Tonight
• Response to
• Evil Ones tactics.

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A Brief Forward

• Under-Spiritualizing
• Last Talk seeing with the eyes of faith.
• the seen and unseen
• Over-Spiritualizing
• Avoiding another extreme!
• the seen and unseen

The Devil made me do it!!!
Advice Romans 151-2
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One Piece of Advice

• Keep your eyes on heaven
• your heart on the cross
• and your feet on the ground.
• -Fr. John McHugh SOLT

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Evil Ones Strategies

• What he often tries
• Frontal Assault
• Misplaced Confidence
• Spiritual Disruption
• Divide Conquer
• Worldly Distraction
• How he often acts
• as a General
• as a Seducer
• as a Schoolyard Bully

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Frontal Assault

• Issue
• Intellectual
• who God is
• who You are
• Emotional
• Remedy
• 1) Choice is important thing
• 2) Who God is how He sees us
• Inform yourself
• S.S. your Church
  teaching
• spiritual conversations
• 3) Find the sine qua non of your temptations

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Misplaced Confidence

• Dont worry Lord, I have everything under
  control!

• Remedy Humility
• Accept yourself as you are
• Know ground rules What are the things I need to
  grow?
• Accountability (friend, small group, etc.)

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Spiritual Distraction

• Issue Disorder of life!

Remedy Watchfulness Perseverance - Know
your ground rules! - Watchful of life-giving
things
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Divide Conquer

• Issue Divided from life-giving relationships
• Isolation Mistrust Individualism
• Petty differences
• Being inauthentic
• Remedy
• Trust you are being formed
• The oxygen of love forgiveness
• Look for the good people are trying to do!

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Declining Commitment

• Issue Decline in commitment to Christ
• Remedy Honesty with self God
• To thine own self be true. Shakespeare
• Regular check-ups spiritual director, pastor,
  etc.

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Evil Ones Strategies

• What he often tries
• Frontal Assault
• Misplaced Confidence
• Spiritual Disruption
• Divide Conquer
• Worldly Distraction
• How he often acts
• as a General
• as a Seducer
• as a Schoolyard Bully

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acting as a General

• he attacks where when we are weakest.
• Reaction?
• Dont be weak!
• Get Real!
• Manage your weaknesses!

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acting as a Seducer

• he wants to privatize you. Dont tell anyone!
• Remedy Find a space you can speak freely about
  spiritual things.

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acting as aSchoolyard Bully

• if you run, he will chase. If you stand your
  ground strongly, he will run!
• Principle of Agere Contra
• Submit yourself to God, resist the devil and
• he will flee from you. Draw near to God,
• and He will draw near to you.
• (James 47-8)

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Battle of Little Round Top

• Managing your weaknesses
• Schoolyard Bully
• American Civil War
• Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
• July 1-3, 1863

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We are more than Conquerors
The war is over with Christ.

• God wastes NOTHING not even our sins.
• We are more than conquerors through Him who
  loved us... nothing will separate us from the
  love of God.
• (Romans 837)

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Some Questions

• 1) Where is this striking you tonight?
• Head? Heart? Emotions?
• 2) What do you do with that where it strikes you?
• 3) What are the ways in your life that this is
  actually helpful?