II Corinthians 11:13

II Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. I don’t mean to scare you, but our verse is true. There are many false teachers today. And we as Christians must be aware of them. So how do we know who is a false teacher and who isn’t? Well, I like to call it the Jesus test. If a teacher says that Jesus is the only begotten Son of God and the only way to heaven, he is a good teacher. But if a teacher adds things that we must do in order to be saved, he is a false teacher, and run away from him as fast as you can. The Apostle John said it in I John 4:1-3 “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.” Good advice, Apostle John. Good advice.

II Corinthians 10:17

II Corinthians 10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. There is a story about a mouse and an elephant who were friends. One day they walked across a cable bridge, which swayed under the elephant’s weight. When they got to the other side, the mouse said, “Boy, we sure shook that bridge, didn’t we?” Well, I suppose that the mouse did add a little weight to the pair, but the elephant was the primary shaker, wasn’t he? Just like the mouse, we can glory a little bit, but not very much at all. Jesus Christ is the only One who should receive any glory. After all, He did all of the work. our part was only to believe. Jesus is wonderful, isn’t He?!

II Corinthians 10:3-5

II Corinthians 10:3-5 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 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; Every day of our lives we are in a spiritual battle. God is cheering for us and Satan is fighting against us. Our own fleshly desires and laziness are on Satan’s side and they are trying to battle against the good things that we might want to do. And then the world is trying to defeat us too. The world doesn’t like Christians because Christians do right and are an embarrassment to them. We make sinners look bad. And so it seems that everyone is against us. Everyone but God. He is with us! God is fighting for us in our spiritual battle. And with God on our side, we will win. That is, if we don’t give the enemy a way to sneak in behind God’s back. That is because we ourselves are our own worst enemies. We let Satan, the flesh, and the world slip in and control our lives. God is fighting for us and we let the enemy in the back way. So our only way to win is to let God do the fighting and not to let Satan or his allies to sneak into our defenses. We need to put on the armor of God and to stand with God against Satan. God will fight for us! We will win if we fight with God.