Eph. 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
The spirit world is real, just as real as the physical world. If it were not our Lord would have not warned us about it and equipped us to deal with it through the Armour of God. There are usually two extremes to any matter and this one is no different. Some folks will either totally ignore the reality of the spiritual, or they will make more of it than is there.
False religion, folk lore, superstition, and Hollywood seem to amplify the spirit world to the point that it is out of God's control and beyond man's scope to be victorious through spiritual attack. Monsters, demons, ghosts, witchcraft all are magnified, sometimes to the point of being omnipotent and immortal...Jason and Freddie never die in the movies. What nonsense! In Scripture we find that our God is in control of everything, Satan loses, believers are victorious, heaven is eternal, and so is hell. The Bible admonishes us to not be afraid of sudden fear. The "boogie-man" is not going to get us.
However, we must respect the fact that the devil is real, he does have an influence on our life, and what we allow the world to place in our minds can have spiritual outcome that is anti-Christ. The spirit world is working 24/7 to defeat souls being saved, Christians living for God, Christ being honored and the Kingdom of our God increasing. Darkness can never have fellowship with light and there is no middle ground.
While we earnestly contend for the faith, let us be reminded that our true enemy is not flesh and blood, but the principalities, powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places against which we stand having our loins gird about with truth.
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