Pastor Jason Anderson - Audio

Today I want to talk to you about our struggle. In Ephesians 6:12 Paul writes, "For our struggle is not..." First of all, there is a struggle, and it is ours. I wish there weren't, but there is. We all have struggles. Some versions say, "For we do not wrestle against..." And it's literally describing a wrestling contest. Paul wants to tell us what we don't struggle with. There is a struggle, and here is what it isn't. Don't fight the wrong war so that you are distracted from the real war. And here is the problem, you may be fighting a battle that you aren't supposed to be fighting. You may be in a war that isn't yours to be warring. And so all of your attention and energy is being expensed into a distraction, and you've missed the real battle entirely. Then when it's time to fight the real battle, your barns are empty, you're walking onto a battle field emotionally exhausted. We say, "My struggle is with my boss, I'm fighting with m