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OUTLINE FOR SUNDAY MESSAGE, 9-13-26
“FIGHT,”
2 COR. 10:3-6 (KJV)
2 Corinthians 10:3–6 (KJV)
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
In 2 Corinthians 10:4, Paul describes spiritual warfare weapons that function “mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.”1 The phrase “strongholds” carries a double meaning that illuminates Paul’s broader point about spiritual conflict.
The Greek term ochuroma depicts both a fortified castle and a prison.2 The fortress imagery represents defensive barriers—walls constructed to exclude external threats2—while the prison dimension captures something more insidious: an internal confinement designed to prevent escape, making a stronghold fundamentally a place of captivity and imprisonment.2
The passage’s context matters: Paul immediately follows with “casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,”1 clarifying that strongholds are mental fortifications—systems of thought opposing God’s truth. The weapons Paul references aren’t physical but operate through divine power to dismantle these false belief systems, freeing believers from mental and emotional captivity constructed through lies and distorted perception.
1 Timothy 6:12 (KJV)
12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
FAITH, 1 TIM. 6:12, DEFINED
Greek agonizomai, pronounced ag-o-nid-zom-ahee, Strongs 75, to struggle, literally (to compete for a prize), figuratively (to contend with an adversary), or genitive (to endeavor to accomplish something):- fight, labor fervently, strive.[1]
Our text in 2 Cor. reveals that Christians are in a fight, a spiritual warfare, and that the weapons that we fight with in a spiritual warfare are spiritual weapons, not natural, or weapons that we can see with the natural eye, or that can be perceived by the senses. There is a spiritual struggle, a contention, a striving between us and something else, that many Believers will be shocked to know that that struggle is primarily an inner struggle, moreso than a struggle between us and some outward enemy such as demons, other people, or some other entity outside of ourselves, but the faith fight is primarily an inner battle as revealed by our text and the following scriptures, Ephesians 6:10–17 (KJV):
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 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. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Proverbs 16:32 (KJV)
32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;
And he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Mark 7:17–23 (KJV)
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable. 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; 19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? 20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Proverbs 23:6–7 (KJV)
6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye,
Neither desire thou his dainty meats:
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:
Eat and drink, saith he to thee;
But his heart is not with thee.
Matthew 12:32–37 (KJV)
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. 33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Galatians 5:16–26 (KJV)
16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
We get the victory in the inner-man, and everything else will follow that lead. Find peace within, joy within, happy in your own skin, at peace with God, can lay your head on your pillow at night and know that you held up the blood stain banner to the glory of God. Find that rest in Him by faith, Hebrews 4:1–6 (KJV):
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. 2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief. We enter into that rest by faith. Faith is in our spirit-man by the Word of God, and is our victory within, 1 John 5:4 (KJV): 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
Romans 7:14–25 (KJV)
14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
[1]
James Strong,
“Ἀγωνίζομαι,”
in Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary (WORDsearch, 2020).
OUTLINE FOR BIBLE STUDY MONDAY, 9-14-26
“YOU CAN’T OUTGIVE GOD,”
PS. 24:1 (KJV)
Psalm 24:1 (KJV)
1 The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof;
The world, and they that dwell therein.
God allows us to work on His earth; to use a part of the earth or what is in it or on it; and of its forces and energies; and to extract from it…food, materials, supplies, metals, wood, oil, coal or what-have you; or to work on or with that which others have extracted from the earth; in manufacturing, distributing, selling, buying, investing, or whatever may be your occupation or job or profession, and so, whether you have realized it or not, you have been working in partnership with God. In reality, we were blessed by God with the ideas, mental capacities, wisdom, the abilities, etc., to be able to prosper, Deuteronomy 8:18 (KJV): 18 But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. We own nothing, but are stewards of what has been placed into our hands. All of it belongs to God.
1 Corinthians 10:26 (KJV)
26 For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
Job 41:11 (KJV)
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him?
Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.
The farmer or the gardener may plant seed, plow and expend his labor in raising food, but, who supplied the soil? Who created the living process that makes the seed sprout and grow? Who sends the rain or provides water for irrigation? Who sets the sun in the sky and causes it to shine and warm the earth? Who causes the plant to drink out of the soil the minerals, vitamins and good elements to grow into vegetables, the grain, or the fruit? Did you perform this part of the business of raising the food you eat? It is said that God supplies about nine parts of everything man makes or produces; and man’s thinking, planning and working supplies only about one part. Amazing, isn’t it? He (man) puts in so little, but gets so much out. He (God) puts so much in, but asks for such a small amount out of it.
Deuteronomy 10:14 (KJV)
14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
Exodus 19:5 (KJV)
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine.
Psalm 50:10–12 (KJV)
10 For every beast of the forest is mine,
And the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know all the fowls of the mountains:
And the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee:
For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Haggai 2:8 (KJV)
8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
God does not take nine-tenths of the proceeds, or the income. He does not take eight-tenths, or seven, or even three or two-tenths. God is generous. God has reserved for His use, only one little, tiny tenth of what is produced out of His earth through His forces and energies. God takes only one-tenth, and a freewill offering. And after you have been honest in paying God’s tenth to God’s chosen Ministers or Representatives, then, and not until then, God had decreed that the other nine-tenths becomes legally yours.
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