Psalm 18:39
39 For thou hast girded ['azar] me with strength [chayil]
unto the battle: [milchamah] thou hast subdued [kara`] under me those that rose up [quwm] against me. KJV-Interlinear
39 For
Thou hast girded me with strength for battle; Thou hast subdued under me those
who rose up against me. NASB
All of life is filled
with parables. Every moment of your life,
moment by moment, day by day, year by year, throughout your entire life, you
live actual parables.
Parables are real time activities,
that teach spiritual principles. The
unfortunate part of that is, that most folks do not realize it, nor do they
care.
These past few studies,
we have looked at military principles, aimed at the total destruction of an
evil enemy. In that victory there is no
compromise, no negotiation, no agreements.
The enemy is destroyed thoroughly, with no survivors.
And the big enemy in your
life is sin. If you choose to
compromise, to try to live both sides of good and evil, to try to have some of
each part of those opposites, then you will always have evil raising its ugly
head and taking you with it into destruction.
Diplomacy is the tool of
evil. It uses reasonable arguments to
get good to step back, thus allowing evil to regroup and get a better position
for yet another assault.
In evil there is no
honor, no truth no trust, no respect. In
evil, there is only maneuvering and evading and deception in order to gain some
advantage for destroying good.
This is why, in many wars
from history, when an evil enemy is not thoroughly vanquished, the trouble it
had caused, comes back again and again.
But in doctrine God has a
solution for your personal spiritual life.
He has provided you with a belt, ‘azar,’ a wrap, a bind, a compass or surrounding
envelop that totally wraps you up around, over and under and through and
through into the inner most parts of your soul.
God has surrounded you
with strength, ‘chayil,’ a force with resources. A force is an army with all of the resources
and logistics, and power it requires, even in excesses. Bible doctrine is that force with resources,
and Gods resources are unlimited.
For battle, ‘milchamah,’
is a conflict, and in your spiritual life, that conflict is in everything that
you face from this world, from your own thoughts, from people, from
bureaucracies, from storms, from disasters, from everything imaginable and
more.
And this Bible doctrine
in your soul, is the power that God, not you, but God puts all enemies under
his foot. To subdue, ‘kara,’ means to
bend the knee, to sink, to make prostrate, to cast down, to smite, to destroy,
to vanquish.
And it is not people or
armies or nations that are defeated, but it is sin in your life, or better
stated, sins control over your life is brought to a screeching halt.
And it is God who does
the fighting, by means of doctrine which you just happen to learn. Doctrine is the power, the tool and weapon of
choice for the spiritual conflict.
Evil exists
everywhere. The battle for your soul is
everywhere, even where you are not looking, and most folks do not look so they
do not see their imprisonment as a prisoner of war, to sin in the carnal life.
A little rotten apple
will spoil the whole barrel and so too a little tiny bit of sin that you allow
to enter into your life, will eventually consume you. Such is the power and danger of sin, even the
most insignificant and seemingly innocent sin.
After all, no one is hurt, what harm can there be? And that is the argument that is always used
to justify ones choices in sin.
So, evil is the enemy and
in order to preserve your freedom and liberty and opportunity in life, you have
to defeat that enemy so thoroughly that it cannot raise its ugly head to
reenter into your life and destroy you.
Sin and good cannot live
peaceably side by side. Only one can end
up and rule.
Have you ever seen those
bumper stickers made up of all of the various religion icons? That sticker says ‘coexist.’ That sticker is one of the most subtle forms of
evil that exists. It is the compromise
offered by evil that wants you to do nothing about your spiritual life, and
thus it will destroy you.
Only one will win. And at the end of history, Christ will
finally destroy evil completely so that we will have a good life for all of
eternity. But for now, you have the
military principle of freedom through military victory.
Destroy sin so that you can
live, or it will destroy you. And the sad part of that is, you probably will
not recognize your loss until it is too late.
Your victory is
accomplished through your daily study of Bible doctrine.
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