We Are At War

INTRO: Let me give you a moment to pray a very brief prayer. Here it is: "Lord, if there is some truth in this message You want me to hear, I ask You Lord to speak to me." The title of this message is, "We Are at War!" What fear those words instill when it is literal physical war in one's own country. Our generation has never heard this! But I am talking about another war, one that is raging right now and no matter who we are we are in it. So, let me ask, what do we mean by the word "war"? A war, as we generally use it, is a conflict carried on by force of arms between two or more opposing parties. We see this right now in Ukraine where Russian "forces" and Ukrainian "forces" are fighting for supremacy. It is forces trying to take by force what they want.
In Israel we see a war as well. It is a war between the state of Israel and another force that is not a state. Each side has its "force." War is generally a bloody and gruesome thing. but in our world, we have different kinds of war. There is the war of words or the cold war. The news media wages war with pictures and words, both true and false pictures and words. In this war they fight for supremacy of the things they want. I read this morning that in war truth is the first casualty.
But behind the scenes of all that is happening in the world, there is a spiritual war. This war is between God and the devil and you and I are in it and we are at war. We are on one side or the other and sometimes we need to be reminded of this. We have all had part in the devil's army, but here is a scary truth, and that is even we as Christians may quite often be fighting for the devil while we think we are fighting for God!