To Teach Them War (1) An Introduction: Acknowledging Our Warfare
Huizinga presents a biblical exhortation on the spiritual warfare that Christians constantly face against sin, Satan, the world system, and their own flesh. The article emphasizes the necessity of recognizing this ongoing battle and actively engaging in it through dependence on God's strength, drawing on scriptural imagery and the inevitability of conflict for all believers in Christ's kingdom.
We are at war. Not a war that leaves our blood pooled on the soil underfoot and holes in our flesh -- though it may and it did for the captain of our salvation one dark day on a hill outside of Jerusalem -- but it is a war in which souls are killed. It is a war with Satan and his hosts, with this present evil world and all of its rebellious attitudes, vain philosophies, carnal pleasures, and corrupt behaviors, and with our own desperately sinful flesh. It is a war with and against sin. "Then...
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