EPHESIANS: Modus Operandi

EPHESIANS Number 70

Modus Operandi

Let’s briefly look again at Ephesians 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.” (KJV 1900)

Our struggle is not against other people. Father loves every single person, and we are called to do the same. Rather, we struggle against unseen powers, rulers of the darkness—the valley of the shadow of death—the world and its earthy (fleshly) systems and ways of operating. We struggle against spiritual forces of wickedness that are not of this world. The devil and his minions.

The enemy has been de-clawed and defanged. He cannot touch us or harm us directly. Nevertheless, he is still able to affect those in the world. He can influence the world systems. Perhaps most importantly to each of us individually, he can plant lies in our minds that sound like they are coming from us. Working through his minion, the other fallen angels, He does this by orchestrating things that we read, see, and hear and by influencing the unsaved with whom we come in contact, and so on.

His lies seem very real, and they often seem true. He loves to wrap big lies in a little truth to cloak it so that we do not notice what it is until it has had its effect on our thinking. The armor of God consists of truth. Each element of the armor is a truth about who we are in Christ or the truth of the good news of Jesus Christ that brings us peace.

Spiritual warfare then consists of remembering that we are saved, righteous, justified, children of God Himself and that we cannot be harmed by the enemy.

The enemy is a liar, and truth is his Kryptonite.