Enemies - Part 1 - Enemy Appeal Series

Some of us have become way too comfortable with lust, anger, and porn, flirting at the edge of fornication or adultery, laziness, drunkenness.

The last time I read the Book we are supposed to be at war with these things. And yet we have become so comfortable with the enemy that we have begun to agree with the enemy. I will always be this way! We have accepted the enemy rather than slaughtered the enemy.

I came to tell you that those things and those people that keep you involved in those things aren’t your friends! They are your enemy. Well they are just my buddies, my hanging out partners . . . no harm . . . no foul. You need to get a clue! They are assigned by the enemy of your soul to stagnate, distract, and destroy you. It may not seem like they are hurting you, but anything or anyone that causes you to quit moving forward, growing, maturing, and making progress is an enemy. If they provide you opportunity or the distraction that keeps you the same they are an enemy! If they keep you bound, addicted, dependant they are an enemy.

One man said it like this, “The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.”

How close is too close. When you begin to see any enemy as a friend you are too close. When you begin to justify collateral damage, justify pain, justify digression, justify backward movement, or justify bondage then you are too close!

Our problem is that we want to kick it with what we have been called to kill!

Too many of us have become more acquainted with our enemy than we have with our victory!

Some of the things you are now used to and satisfied with you were called to overthrow.

Saul’s issue wasn’t ability, power, or authority . . . he had 210,000 men. His issue was obedience! Our issue isn’t ability, power, or authority . . . we have power to bind and loose, life and death, our issue is obedience.

They destroyed everything accept what appealed to them. I have news for you . . . your enemy will probably be something you are attracted to! How many of us would destroy our enemy accept it appeals to us?

You need to discern your enemy and then you need to destroy your enemy. Quit allowing things to stay alive that you were instructed to kill! Because . . .

B. What you refuse to kill will kill you!

Saul was so comfortable with the enemy that he refused to follow the instructions of God and he kept alive what was supposed to be dead and I read to you the end result! It was an Amalekite that ultimately killed Saul.

What have you been instructed to kill that you allow to remain alive? What did God say to you 10 years ago about that relationship? What did God say 6 weeks ago about that activity? What did God say yesterday about that habit? What you refuse to destroy will rise up and destroy you! It may not happen today. It may not happen next week. It may not happen next year. Ultimately, however, the thing you refuse to decisively deal with will come back and decisively deal with you!

Some of you have been asking yourself, "Why am I still in same season? Why am still fighting the same battles? Why am I still fighting the same temptations and struggling with the same issues?”