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You Are Forced to Participate (October 3, 2025)

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On the first two days of October, we have talked about the covenant relationship, how to restore a broken covenant, and how the covenant position relates to God’s protection. Over these next few days we will review the spiritual battle. Spiritual warfare is done in the spiritual realm. The devil has a spiritual voice and he is a liar.

Being successful in the spiritual battle starts with understanding that there is a real war. But I don’t want you to believe me. I want you to study this matter from a Biblical stance. So let’s look at a few Scriptures to begin this journey.

“You shall not bow down to them or worship them …” (Exodos 20:5 NIV)

Spiritual warfare finds its way to our doorsteps when we bow down to or worship false gods. That is a very broad statement. Perhaps it would be simpler to say that we should only worship God and choose Him when temptation is presented. We should not allow a parent, sibling, spouse, pastor, or friend to tell us what we are uniquely responsible to hear from God.

This passage can provide insight:

Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11 NIV)
“Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.”
“The tempter came to him and said, ‘If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.’ Jesus answered, ‘It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’
“Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. ‘If you are the Son of God,’ he said, ‘throw yourself down. For it is written:’ ‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’
“Jesus answered him, ‘It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’
“Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. ‘All this I will give you,’ he said, ‘if you will bow down and worship me.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’
“Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.”

What insight do you get from this recorded exchange between God (in flesh) and Satan? Just like Satan didn’t know who Jesus is, he doesn’t know who you are to God or your destiny purpose. However, he might suspect that you are worth targeting. How does this passage instruct you?

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SPIRITUAL GIFTS:
Without a spiritual connection to God, a person cannot experience the supernatural anointing from God. The adversary wants to manipulate and confuse what it means to be a child of God.

“So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”
(Galatians 5:16 NIV)

As you walk with the Spirit, you hear God’s voice and receive His anointing.  You will learn your strengths and weaknesses and come to understand your spiritual identity. If, however, you don’t walk with the Spirit and recognize God’s voice, you will be susceptible to the enemy’s voice and manipulations of your identity. The adversaries’ interpretation of who you are is contrary to God’s plans for your life.

The enemy is clever and can fool even religious people who don’t walk with the Spirit of God. Listen, the psychological warfare used by the devil is cloaked in selfish desires of the flesh. You must know your spiritual identity which is intricately tied to how God uniquely designed you. Do not be deceived.

“There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.”
(1 Corinthians 12:4-11 NIV)

SPIRITUAL BATTLE:

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” (Ephesians 6:12 NIV)

Secular psychiatrists will discount psychological warfare in the spiritual realm and label gender dysphoria as mental illness. Christian deliverance ministry vastly differs from secular psychiatry. Secular psychiatry expects for each person to decide their own fate and to be their own “god”. Christian deliverance ministry investigates the warfare/disconnect in the spiritual realm, helps to assess the spiritual battle elements, and works to restore/improve the spiritual connection to God. 

DON’T BELIEVE ME … ASK GOD YOURSELF!

If evil spirits can convince someone that they are the opposite sex from who God created them to be, then the adversary has succeeded in polluting the identity of the person and his/her connection to God. The way to reverse the enemy’s success is to submit yourself to God: 1) Ask the Lord to silence and bind the enemy so that you can have a sincere forgiveness conversation with God without interference from the evil one; 2) Ask God to identify the sins that you need to ask forgiveness for and humbly seek His forgiveness. This needs to be a specific sin acknowledgement versus “forgive me for everything”.  You can’t learn from your mistakes if you don’t know exactly where you have gone wrong.  Learn from your conversation with God. Ask God to expose the enemies’ lies and deception so that you can walk free; 3) Ask the Lord to take back any spiritual authority that you gave away when you weren’t walking with God; 4) Seek direction from God going forward.

“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.” (Ephesians 6:13-18 NIV)

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The Gender Reveal:
God knits together the physical body in the mother’s womb using the parents’ DNA. The decision of male or female gender is exclusively God’s to make as He creates the child in the mother’s womb. God sovereignly chooses the key identity characteristics of each person. It’s not by chance. It’s by design.

“Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” (Psalm 139:16 NIV)

With sonogram and blood testing technologies available, expectant parents can know the sex of their unborn child even before the baby is fully formed. However, the gender of the child is never a surprise to God. God chooses the physical and spiritual body of every individual. He doesn’t make mistakes nor is He ever unsure of His plans.

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.” (Psalm 139:13-15 NIV)

Flesh Versus … :
“See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will heal, and no one can deliver out of my hand.” (Deuteronomy 32:39 NIV)

God is sovereign over life and death, both physical and spiritual. Let’s look at the physical body first where male and female characteristics are most obvious. The physical body is created by God in our parents’ likeness while the spiritual body is created in God’s image. God is Spirit. The spiritual being will either go to Heaven or Hell (as determined by God) when the physical body dies.

God breathes the “breath of life” or the spiritual being (created in God’s image) at birth. The spiritual being is separate from the physical being and is not part of the reproduction process. The physical body dies but the spiritual body is eternal.

•“The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” (Job 33:4 NIV)

•“This is what God the LORD says—the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out, who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it, who gives breath to its people, and life to those who walk on it:” (Isaiah 42:5 NIV)

•“But after the three and a half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them.” (Rev. 11:11 NIV)

•“And with that he breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’”. (John 20:22 NIV)

“Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7 NIV)

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There are few things that we get to sovereignly control. We don’t get to choose when or where we’re born, who our parents are, our gender, ethnicity, or biological siblings. God chooses all those things. And since we are not God, we don’t get to usurp His authority.

Rarely do we even get to know our divine purpose except for glimpses in hindsight. We don’t get to demand or bargain for the spiritual giftings, anointing from God, or rewards from God. We don’t get to decide for God when it comes to discipline and punishment. Our true identities are largely dictated by all those things outside of our control.

So why do some try to pretend that they aren’t who God created them to be? Why do some males want to be females,  females want to be males, and others want to be gender neutral or binary? Is their confusion exclusively a mental illness known as gender dysphoria or is there an underlying spiritual problem?

Why would anyone want to oppose God’s choices on such a basic tenant of their identity? The adversary wants to confuse people about their gender to manipulate their spiritual well-being. Evil can find a way to permeate itself into the minds and hearts of unprotected, naïve, and wayward souls. Should we help them or ignore them? Should we pretend that the devil doesn’t have them in his clutches?

Male and female are vastly different in many ways. The divine architect chose for men and women to function in specific roles. For example: a woman cannot be a substitute for a man and a man cannot be a substitute for a woman when it comes to their roles in creating offspring.

The adversary wants to oppose God’s choices. With the obvious God-chosen physical differences in the male and female genitals it would seem unlikely that the devil could succeed in gender deceptions. However, he uses psychological warfare to manage his schemes against humanity.

What is the Church’s responsibility to help restore proper identity? Are we even allowed to discuss this issue from the pulpits? Has the devil, armed with political correctness, made It impossible for us to help those who have been deceived?

“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27 NIV)