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In your own words, describe the “war” discussed by Dr. Dodson in this lesson.
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The war is between the spirit and the flesh. We walk in the spirit in order to obtain the things of the spirit. When we walk in the flesh, we obtain the things that are carnal. The new life is what we should push toward, for the scripture says we wrestle not against flesh and blood.<div> Ephesians 6:12 KJV “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.”</div><div> We fight against two wars one of the flesh and the other of the spirit</div>
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This is an ancient war as far back as Israel’s first battle with the Amalekites in Exodus. God will say “I will war with them from generation to generation.” I always wondered who GOD would have to war with that would last longer than a milli-second. Well. the Amalekites are descendants of Esau, the Elder brother of Jacob. Esau was strong in his own arm/strength (Jeremiah 17:5) and he SOLD his birthright. Jacob did not steal it, he forfeited the plan of God. He represented flesh and Jacob, by promise at birth, represented spirit. The Amalekites were the first to bring war to the Israelites in the Wilderness about 10-15 days out of Egypt. Moses on the mountain with his arms outstretched (type of Christ on the cross) and Joshua (typology of Christ in the Earth) fighting in the valley against this large enemy whose name means Aramaic and Arabic means “great in number or power.” (root word “amlak” means great.) But remember, the battle was not one by Joshua’s sword…It was won by Moses’s hands lifted up. The first battle with every Christian fresh from passing through the cross with Jesus is his flesh! Among all the enemies of God, this war carries on from generation to generation. The enemy does not make our flesh come alive, he simply stimulates our carnal desires which dulls the voice of the Spirit and thus grieves Him. We live in a world that Jesus describes as hating us, wars against us, and brings us trouble. Once you are born of Spirit, you have changed your ancestry from earth-born and the spirit of this world hates immigrants! So we will war….until we can ascertain that this is a take-over. Our Spirit King is a conqueror and greater is He that is in us than he that is in this world.
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The war is the evil desires that seems to lie within us. Struggle with what is within us, our past sinful habits, desires that is not honouring to God on the one hand. On the other hand, we have all these external temptations, stimuli that pulls us to act in ways that is not biblical, that is short of the standards of what the God of the Bible would want of us. The war is between what we know is the right thing to do, and what pulls us away from time to time
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We are fighting a war from within when we war with the spirit and the flesh.
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The war is a challenge to the peace of God in us by Christ Jesus. This war is manifested by fleshly, worldly desires versus God’s original and ongoing will.
