Weapons of Our Warfare

House of God
Today’s Topic: The Culture of the Orphan: Weapons of Our Warfare
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

Greetings Kingdom Citizens:
Now when we talk about the strongholds of the mind of the orphan, how can we destroy or tear that down? When you look at 2 Corinthians 10:3-5, we have heard this scripture, preached, quoted and sung. Now what does it mean. Let’s see.

2 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 thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”

Now look at this! Paul states that though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. Hmm! Paul understands that our flesh is simply our housing and as spirits inside that house, our flesh is how we are able to function in the earth. Now we do not war after it meaning we do not war flesh against flesh. Ephesians 6:12 states that we do not fight flesh and blood. This is a spiritual war that we are entangled in between Satan and God. Satan knowing that he cannot defeat God will defile the children and try to prevent as many as he can from walking in the knowledge of their destiny. I framed the wording “knowledge of their destiny” for a specific purpose. Now Paul continues by telling us the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. To the orphan this is a huge problem because their viewpoint of life is from the soul and their thoughts are carnal and concerned about self preservation and provision. So the weapons of this spiritual war are not carnal.

Paul continues to say our weapons are mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds. Now we talked about these strongholds of the orphan and where they are located. The strongholds of the orphan are located in the mind. The person see’s life as a purpose to survive, provide and preserve for self. The culture of the son completely destroys that mentality to representing the Father and not worrying about self. So what the demonic does is make you think that you need to meet your needs and only you can depend on you. But the weapons through God are mighty to bring down that mental stronghold of the orphan to bring you into the knowledge of being a son. Can we prove this?

Look at 2 Corinthians 10:5: Casting down IMAGINATIONS and every high thing that exalts itself against the KNOWLEDGE of God, and bringing into captivity EVERY THOUGHT to the obedience of Christ. Do we see the capitalized words. All of them have to do with the state of mind. Cast down imaginations or self reasonings on how and why things must happen. Your thoughts are not His thoughts. Cast down everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. When you believe you can do things for yourself and do not need no help you need to cast that thought down. Be careful of false doctrines or religions that make you think that you can be more than who God called you to be or even be God Himself. Satan tried that and got kicked out of Heaven for that “imagination and thought”. We need to surrender every thought to the obedience of Christ. It is in being obedient to Christ that we will be disciple as a son and enter into the culture of the son and leave the culture of the orphan.

One of the strongholds that persist in the church is the gospel of going to heaven. In other words we preach heaven and going to heaven as a reason to get saved. The orphan delights in this thought process because it gives them a way to escape the tragedy of a worn out and bruising system that is on earth. The Gospel of the Kingdom is all about the restoration of God’s heart as Father to His sons and restoring His house and His children in rulership on the Earth. Did God not give man dominion (Genesis 1:26)? Did not God tell His son, Adam, to rule over the earth. Adam understood himself to be spirit clothed in flesh until the fall. Jesus comes, the Last Adam, to restore us into the House of God and gives us knowledge that we are spirit first housed in flesh. Too many of us look at our flesh first and spirit second and that is what caused Adam and Eve to fall. The demonic plays on your soul, your emotional and rational center of your being and tries to get you to think about self when the spirit, the person you really are does not think of self first. The orphan living in creation is without authority, identity and worst of all, without a destiny.

In the next message we will wrap up this mini-series on the culture of the orphan.

At the Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun Jr.