Sermon Series Untangled: processing emotions for God's purposes - when you're anxious. Part 2

The holiday season can bring about some unwanted emotions for many.  Some of us might feel lonely, anxious, hurt, sad, or hurried.  Throughout his life, we see in scripture that Jesus expressed real-life emotions.  Frustration, anger, agony, sorrow, and joy are just a few we find in scripture.  Hebrews 4:15 tell us that "...we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses."  So, what we want to do throughout this series is to practice taking our emotions before the Lord first.  We want to learn to untangle our emotions from a biblical perspective and we will do that by examining the emotions of Jesus.

A three-week interview series where we’ll hear from different members of our church regarding some “uncomfortable” topics.  The church is not called to be comfortable. We are called to be the hands of feet of Jesus and often times that requires us to get our hands and feet messy because people are messy. Life is messy. When we walk into these uncomfortable things we can be confident that God will provide

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A three-week interview series where we’ll hear from different members of our church regarding some “uncomfortable” topics.  The church is not called to be comfortable. We are called to be the hands of feet of Jesus and often times that requires us to get our hands and feet messy because people are messy. Life is messy. When we walk into these uncomfortable things we can be confident that God will provide. 

We’re in our 3rd week of the Flesh and Blood series. A series on spiritual warfare and how we can apply the armor of God to stand firm in Him against our spiritual enemy, the devil.  This morning this topic has brought us to the subject of Satan and his demons.  Scriptures tell us about both and that they both exist.  

Our key thought throughout this series has been, "What you see is not all there is."  That thought continues to ring true as we wrap up the series talking about Angels.  Scripture shows us evidence of God's army of angels.  Some of them are seen and some work unseen on our behalf.  We'll look throughout scripture, New and Old Testament, to answer a few questions about angels.

The Bible describes the spiritual battle that happens around us as "our struggle."  We need supernatural power to defeat Satan, and God has provided this by giving us his Holy Spirit within us and his armor surrounding us.  God's Holy Spirit is necessary and essential to living the life that God created you to live as a follower of Christ.  Today we identify three things you may not have realized about the Holy Spirit and what the Holy Spirit gives us the power to do. 

Today we're laying the ground work and talking about some basic fundamentals of spiritual warfare.  We're involved in a spiritual battle right now.  Whether we want to acknowledge it or not.  What do we need to know about the battle?  What are the spiritual forces of evil setting out to do?  How do we wage war?  We'll answer all these questions as we begin our sequel in the Flesh & Blood* sermon series.

*original series from October 2021

It's our final week in this series, and we look at a subject that Paul spent a lot of time writing about, guarding against the enemy.  Ephesians tells us all about putting on the full armor of God so that we can stand firm when satan attacks.  We can probably all admit that we fail to put on parts of that armor on a daily basis.  Satan attacks us in our daily lives at times without us realizing it.  One of the things we must know about our enemy is his strategies because, in order to guard the table against him, we must anticipate his forms of attack. So in this final week, we'll look at who scripture says satan is, and we will identify his strategies.