The Spiritual Warfare Depends on Us

David Berg 6/87—The Majesty of Choice! (excerpts)

THE MAIN WARFARE IS ACTUALLY GOING ON HERE AMONGST THE HUMANS, & THE OTHER SPIRITS ARE MERELY HELPING US! The Angels of God & the departed spirits are helping us, & the demons of the Devil are trying to defeat us! So the major battle of the forces of Heaven & Hell is for or against the humans‚ it's not that it's all that much just between them & in the Spirit World. Helping or hurting us is their main project, & in the process of it, of course, they fight each other.

THE MAIN BATTLES ARE FOR & AGAINST US! The main spirit battles, of course, are going on in the Spirit World, but they hinge almost entirely on us & our decisions here. But if Man makes the wrong decision & goes the wrong direction, then, in a sense their hands are tied, & the hands of the devils & demons & of Satan are liberated to bring about devastation amongst humanity, just like is happening right now!

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Jesus 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!

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

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Proverbs 3:5,6



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