Sermons on Dealing With Enemies:

Witnessing To Your Enemy Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 28, 2012

How could you possibly witness to someone who’s hurt you? Someone who has gone out of their way to make you miserable? Paul and Silas did it. Can you do it too?

OPEN: In the 1870s, in the Old West, a town called Truckee, California decided to build a jail. This wasn’t just any old jail - this was wonder to behold. The walls were 32 inches thick at the lower level and there were no windows unless one counted the small vents for each cell. The ceilings were ...read more

Scripture: Acts 16:16-34

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Destroying Your Enemy

Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Nov 8, 2012

Obeying Jesus’ command to love our enemies doesn’t come naturally, however. Often our first response is to retaliate. The best way - the Christ-like way - to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend! To melt an enemy, try the warmth of love.

Opening illustration: There is a story told of two shopkeepers. Their stores were across the street from each other, and the two had a bitter rivalry. One day an angel came to one of the shopkeepers and said, “The Lord has sent me to tell you that you may have one wish. Whatever you ask for, ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Know Your Enemy

Contributed by Jeff Van Wyk on Feb 2, 2013

God created Lucifer a perfect spirit being and He also gave him the ability to choose to follow good or evil. Lucifer chose to become Satan by allowing sin to mold his character. His rebellion against God sealed and hardened his evil nature, and now he op

KNOW YOUR ENEMY The Nature and Character of Satan The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. - John 10:10 God created Lucifer a perfect spirit being and He also gave him the ability to ...read more

Scripture: John 10:10

Denomination: Charismatic

Dying For His Enemies Series

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Mar 27, 2013

Jesus had to die for us, his enemies, because the Father promised it to Abraham.

Good Friday 2013 Holy Week 2013 The psalms of Good Friday are the prayers of Jesus on the cross. If we are to understand better why, in my question of yesterday, we must believe that God did not make a mistake in making man, and, in the question of today, why Jesus had to die such a cruel death, ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 38:12-14

Denomination: Catholic

Good Is Enemy Of The Best

Contributed by Michael Stark on Jan 25, 2014

Choosing what is best is often counter-intuitive. Christians are responsible to choose what is best.

“Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him as a guest. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said. But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up ...read more

Scripture: Luke 10:38-42

Denomination: Baptist

Our Enemy (Hix)

Contributed by Jimmy Haile on May 20, 2014

Peter is going to tell us why we need to sober and watchful, remember he is speaking from experience.

1 Peter 5:8-Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Be Sober-Be restrained, be self-denying….A good verse to remember when we are thinking about this state of mind…Romans 13:14-But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

Word Study: Enemy

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Jul 13, 2014

To show that GOD has enemies and what GOD does to our enemies.

I. EXORDIUM: Do you have en8:56 PM 7/6/2014emies? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To show that GOD has enemies and what GOD does to our enemies. IV. TEXT: Genesis 22:17 (Amplified Bible) 22:17 In blessing I will bless you and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 22:17

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Enemy Within The Gates

Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Dec 25, 2013

The need to continue to devote ourselves to prayerful preaching.

THE ENEMY WITHIN THE GATES! Acts 5:1-16; Acts 6:1-7. There was opposition to the gospel from the very beginning of the post-Pentecostal phase of the life of the church. After all, Jesus warned us that if there were those who hated Him, there would also be those who hate us, His followers (John ...read more

Scripture: Acts 5:1-16, Acts 6:1-7

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

A Very Real Enemy Series

Contributed by Steven Damico on Aug 1, 2014

The spirit of Python will squeeze the joy out of your worship & praise.find out how to to get victory over this subtle destroyer.

A Very Real Enemy Acts 16:16-18 16 And it came to pass as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. 17 The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, ...read more

Scripture: Acts 16:16-18

Denomination: Apostolic

Death: The Last Enemy

Contributed by Antonio Silveira on Feb 16, 2012

We see a lot of movies about ghosts, afterlife, spirits, vampires, underworld creatures. People have a need to fantasize about what happens after we die. Let us see what the bible tells us.

1 Corinthians 15:26 - The last enemy to be destroyed is death. Death is the last enemy for a number of reasons 1. It is the final thing we will all have to face when we get to the end of our lives 2. It's the last step of our journey on Earth 3. It's our graduation day for the Heavenly life 1. ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:26

Denomination: Baptist

Love Your Enemies

Contributed by Freddy Fritz on Oct 13, 2013

In this lesson we learn that Jesus calls his disciples to love our enemies.

Scripture We are studying Jesus’ “Sermon on the Plain” that is recorded in the Gospel of Luke 6:20-49. A similar – but not identical – sermon is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew 5 – 7. Jesus opened his “Sermon on the Plain” with a description of ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:27-36

Denomination: Presbyterian/Reformed

Questions: Trap Of The Enemies

Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Jul 19, 2015

To show that we declare GOD's WORDS even to our enemies.

I. EXORDIUM: Did you encounter people trapping you with questions? A lot of times. I just stay away. Corruption is a process and does not happen overnight. 1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil companionships (communion, associations) corrupt and deprave good manners and ...read more

Scripture: Mark 12:13

Denomination: Pentecostal

Know Your Enemy Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Aug 9, 2015

It almost sounds as if Paul - one of the greatest Christian who ever lived - is struggling against sin. It sounds like he slipped up now and again and fell short. Is that even possible?

OPEN: In October of 1974 there was a heavy-weight boxing match held in Zaire, a country in Africa. It was called the “Rumble In The Jungle” and it featured two of the best heavy-weight boxers of the day. Does anybody know who those two boxers were? (George Foreman and Muhammad ...read more

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Praying For Your Enemies

Contributed by Mark Mitchell on Mar 23, 2015

We should pray for our enemies

I. Why should we pray for our enemies? a. That you will be like your father in Heaven v. 45 b. He causes and allows good and bad to happen to both the good and the evil. c. How patient has God been with you in your lifetime and should we not also be equally patient with our enemies. d. We must ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:44-45

Denomination: Baptist

Know Your Enemy

Contributed by Rick Boyne on Feb 24, 2015

When we know our enemy, we do not have to be afraid.

Know Your Enemy February 22, 2015 Evening Service Immanuel Baptist Church, Wagoner, OK Rick Boyne Message Point: When we know our enemy, we do not have to be afraid. Focus Passage: Isaiah 14:12-15 Introduction: The devil is the greatest of all the fallen angels, He opposes God and is completely ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 14:12-15

Denomination: Baptist