He did not give you life to spend it on troughs and trifles. We are going to spend two weeks on this text and here is how we will do it, God willing. The text is not long four short verses. There is a description of a great conflict or battlefield and how you fight and how you win. The more I thought about this text, the more I thought that we need to take these two things on different Sundays.
Today look at the battlefield and the conflict and the contestants and what s at stake.
And next Sunday look at how you fight and win. The Battlefield First, then, I see verses 12-14 as the description of a great conflict or battleground in the life of a typical believer. This is you and me here. Not an unbeliever. Let s describe the situation here.