First Church Charlotte

June 9, 2019, | Pastor Nathan Elms 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 • Why should we care about spiritual warfare? • The Spirit of God & the flesh is incompatible with each other. • We first need to be transformed before we can help change the world. • Next, to be a part of the Lord's mission needs us to partner with him to give hope to this world. • The original design of God was to commune with mankind in our love for Him. • To be a love story, the option to walk away also has to be there. • Instead of communing with God, we chose to compete with God. • The deception of hell was to offer us something that we already had. • We will either lust for what we want or fear retribution from God. • Once we are transformed, we no longer live in fear and lust, but instead, we live in love & mission for the Kingdom. • Nothing makes sense with the Kingdom of God looking through fear & lust. • We do not receive transformation through our will and grit, instead, it is by the surrender of our will & accept our own powerlessness. • E