Why Spiritual Warfare?
Updated: March 20, 2025
Popular Religion has inflicted what may be the greatest travesty of our time: it teaches us to accept occupation. Like Israel of old, many have been taught to accept almost anything as “God’s will,” cowering under Philistine rule as just punishment for their past sins and those of their fathers. We submit to the pressure of sickness, poverty, defeat, and loss as something we just have to accept until the Lord’s return.
This attitude could not be more opposed to the scripture, nor to the nature of God! The Bible is quite clear about what is good and about what is bad (for example, read Deuteronomy 28-31). Jesus Himself made this even more clear as He “went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him” (Acts 10:38). The early disciples and apostles were not confused about this either, and even to this day Jesus’ disciples continue to wreck the kingdom of the enemy by undoing everything that he does.
How do we do it? First we must be absolutely convinced of the goodness of God, and that His definition of “good” is just like ours! We acquire this conviction by studying the Bible and particularly, the New Testament. Was Jesus “ok” with sickness and death? Were His disciples “ok” with poverty? Did they sit and ponder whether or not it was God’s will when they encountered the demon-possessed or oppressed?
God in Jesus has given every member of His household (See Why Born Again?) the legal authority to enforce His will in the earth, within the jurisdiction they hold both individually and corporately. We do this using the same methods used by Jesus and His early disciples. We aren’t using physical weapons because He didn’t use them, and such things don’t work with demons anyway. We use God’s law (scripture, the Bible) to command and teach, and to resist, refuse, and rebuke every evil force or effect we encounter in this world. We demand that God’s will be done “on earth as it is in heaven,” not our own authority but on the authority of God’s own Word. When we submit ourselves to God and resist the devil, he flees from us. When we know who we are and Who’s we are, we can be bold, chasing all enemies out of our Promised Land!
( 1 John 3:8, 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 NIV, James 4:7, 1 Timothy 6:12, Proverbs 28:1, Deuteronomy 31:7-8, Daniel 11:32, Numbers 13:25-33, Psalm 23:5)