120 Our Greatest Enemy

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Episode 120 Our Greatest Enemy

What is our greatest enemy? Is it Satan? The World? Those who say they hate Christians? While these may bring us afflictions and trials from time to time, I don’t think they are really our greatest enemy. I think our greatest enemy is ourselves separate from Christ. In order to see this, we must come back to Calvary and what Christ Jesus did on the cross. God judged the entire human race according to Adam at the cross and put it away from Him. It was infected with sin and beyond repair. Nothing in the old creation could be rescued, so God began a new race in Christ. This race would not fail because it is based on what God can do, not what man can do in himself. To enter into this new race we must be born again. In new birth we are joined with Christ and now all things are of God. To begin and continue in this new creation is God’s answer to sin, death, and the limitations of man separate from Him.

• God judged Adam’s race at the cross (Gal. 2:20,6:14, Rom 6:6)
• God began a new creation in Christ Jesus (Gal. 6:15)
• Now all things are of God (Gal. 5:16-21)
• To experience this we must be born into this new creation (John 3)
• We now must grow up into Him (Eph. 4:15, 2 Peter 3:18)
• We are called to walk in His life (Gal. 5:16)
• This walk is a walk of faith in His life (Col. 2:6)
• If we do not walk in faith in the new creation, what we are accord to Adam rules
  • Our natural reasoning rules (what we know from past experiences)
  • Our desires rule (flesh)
  • Our emotions rule
  • Our personality rules
  • The world rules us by its pressures
• The enemy appeals to what we are in ourselves (“be your own resource”)
• God bids us acknowledge that apart from Him we can do nothing (John 15:5)
• This is a continual walk of faith in the life of God (Gal. 2:20)

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