Confident Living Magazine Articles: Becoming Spiritually Aggressive. Theodore H Epp

Last updated on May 21, 2020

Confident Living Magazine Articles:Becoming Spiritually Aggressive

Becoming Spiritually Aggressive is a message by Theodore H Epp, Founder Director of Back to the Bible International.

Becoming Spiritually Aggressive

—by Theodore H Epp

(Founder Back to the Bible)

1 Corinthians 9:24-27;

Hebrews 12:1-4

Canaan, the Promised Land for the Israelites, is not a type of heaven as some have thought and as some hymns portray it.

Rather it is a type of the Christian’s battle against sin and his victory over it as he seeks to live for the Lord. Canaan was a scene of conflict, not of complete peace and rest as heaven will be.

The nations in Canaan become types of the principalities and powers we read about in Ephesians 6:12, where the Apostle Paul tells us, “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.”

When Joshua led the people of Israel into Canaan, he and they not only had to overcome the human leaders and their armies in the land of promise, but also the evil spiritual forces under the direction of satan who were the actual rulers of these heathen kings.

I have drawn more spiritual lessons for myself and the Back to the Bible broadcast from Joshua’s experiences and the book of Joshua and its New Testament counterpart, Ephesians, than from any other person or portions in the Bible.

We as believers are warned to put on the whole armor of God, according to the book of Ephesians, if we are going to enter victoriously into spiritual warfare against the powers of Satan.

If we are to avoid a stalemate in our Christian lives, an experience similar to Israel’s 40 years in the desert, we will have to choose to become spiritually aggressive.

“I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 3:14).

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