The Real War Goes On!

(some excerpts from David Berg “The Spiritual Warfare Depends on Us”)

THE HEAVENLY FORCES, THE ANGELS OF GOD, ARE ROOTING FOR US, & OUR DECISIONS SWITCH ON THEIR POWER AGAINST THE ENEMY!

Yes! What they do is entirely dependent upon what we do.—How we work, how we pray, the decisions we make.

There would be no point even in our existence if the tide of battle was entirely dependent on the Heavenly forces.

What we do & say etc. governs how much power they're allowed to use against the Enemy.

But if we stay inside of the magic circle‚ the force field of God's protection, then the Devil is not allowed to touch us, not allowed to come in, only when we get on his territory.

… but it is what we do & how we do it & the choices we make & the right or wrong we do which unleashes either force.

The whole point of the whole game is that it is in a sense a game of choice, a game of will, the majesty of decision, & it all depends on us!

The Devil wasn't up there fighting with God in Heaven & having a fist fight with the Lord! The Devil was fighting for the control of Man's mind & body & spirit here on Earth! God was speaking, trying to influence them, & the Devil was speaking & trying to influence them. Whether they won or lost depended on their choice, & they lost. They made the wrong choice.

God made Man a free moral agent to make choices & decisions, right or wrong, good or bad, so the whole tide of the spiritual battle in Heaven is dependent on us.

THE BATTLE IS FOR THE CONTROL OF OUR MINDS & HEARTS & SPIRITS, BODIES AS WELL, WHICH WILL FOLLOW, & just like they did in the Garden of Eden, it was through the words that they spoke that they tried to influence Adam & Eve. It's a battle, a wrestling match for spiritual control, & it's largely done through words & communication, influences. You can call it "words", but they don't always speak in words, they also give pictures & thoughts. The Lord gives warnings & good thoughts, & the Enemy gives temptations. So there's a battle of the mind, a battle of the spirit‚ a battle of the heart, which winds up in the battle of the body!

… whether we follow God's suggestions & His orders‚ or whether we do what the Devil tells us to do, like Adam & Eve in the Garden. The victories or losses are entirely dependent upon our decisions.

We are the ones deciding the course of the battle! We are the ones controlling the tide of battle according to our decisions & what we think, what we do, what we say‚ whom we obey.

… As far as the world is concerned, it looks pretty much like the Church has lost and the world has won! But that's the way the Lord knew it would be‚ because He said, "Strait is the gate & narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, & few there be that find it. But broad is the way & wide is the gate that leadeth unto destruction, & many there be that go in thereat!"—Mat.7:13,14. So the Lord knows that the vast majority of Mankind are wrong & going the wrong way & He's giving an illustration to all the forces of Heaven & Hell what happens if Man is given his choice!

God [the Empire] has left the choice up to us up to a certain point where He finally steps in & cries, "Foul! Penalty! Stop the game!" And because the other side is doing wrong, they forfeit the game & we win, because we made the right choices, we listened to the right voices, we obeyed the right commands, we did the right things.

Once we're saved the battle is not for our Salvation. That's completely settled by the Lord, we're saved. The battle is for the souls of men & their actions & their deeds & their words & attentions & all that sort of thing, & which way goes the World.

We don't win'm all, but thank God, we win most of'm!—Amen?—Are you winning or losing?

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Ephesians 6:12

2 Corinthians 10:3-4