So we're going to be looking in Ephesians chapter
6, so if you want to turn there That's where
we will be So Ephesians chapter 6 and we will
begin in verse 10 and we'll read this section
here. Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the
strength of his might. Put on the full armor
of God so that you will be able to stand firm
against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle
is not against flesh and blood, but against the
rulers, against the powers, against the world
forces of this darkness, against the spiritual
forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Is that too loud? How's that, is that better?
Okay, so just before the white one. Therefore
take up the full armor of God so that you'll
be able to resist in the evil day. And having
done everything to stand firm, stand firm therefore,
having girded your loins with truth. and having
put on the breastplate of righteousness, and
having shod your feet with the preparation of
the gospel of peace. In addition to all, in addition
to all, taking up the shield of faith, which
you will be able to extinguish all the flaming
arrows of the evil one, and take the helmet of
salvation and the sword of the spirit, which
is the word of God. With all prayer and petition,
pray at all times in the spirit. and with this
in view be on the alert with all perseverance
and petition for all the saints. And pray on
my behalf that utterance may be given to me in
the opening of my mouth to make known with boldness
the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an
ambassador in chains, that in proclaiming it
I may speak boldly as I ought to speak. Okay,
is it on Okay Okay, sound check that felt sound
pretty good sound pretty good. All right, all
right, okay So Hopefully you were able to listen
there while we had those issues but This is a
probably a familiar passage to us all and it
deals with What we would say the armor of God
But before we really deal with that, I think
there's some other things that we need to talk
about here and I think Obviously Paul addresses
them here so What is the purpose of this armor
that he goes on to talk about what's it for?
Okay to stand against the wiles of the devil
that's what he says right and then he goes on
there and he describes what? Right after that
there Okay a spiritual battle right he's talking
about these forces So, for us to engage in this
battle, what is necessary? We must know the enemy,
right? That's what Paul's telling us. We're to
put on the armor for a purpose, to withstand
the wiles or the schemes of the devil. And there's
a battle that's being engaged in here with spiritual
forces, right? That's what he says there. So...
I think it is imperative for us to understand
and to lay hold of, as best we can here, the
fact of this spiritual warfare. It isn't a question
of whether there will be a warfare or whether
the Christian is in some sort of battle here,
right? I mean, Paul just says this is the case.
This is the reality. Okay, it's an unseen reality,
right? That's a spiritual warfare. It's a spiritual
battle. This armor that we're to take on, is
it a physical armor? No, he talks about the shield
of faith, right? Belt of truth, these things.
This is not a physical piece of armor that we're
gonna put on our bodies, but it's a spiritual
armor. And so it's a spiritual battle. So it's
essential that we understand that we are engaged
in a spiritual warfare and that our struggle
is not against flesh and blood. So Paul makes
it real clear, right? He says flesh and blood.
What's he mean by that? Human, right? Humanly
speaking. He's not speaking there of flesh as
he speaks of flesh in Romans and things like
that and these other passages, but he's speaking
flesh and blood. So it's not a physical battle.
It is a spiritual battle. What does it look like?
So what do we mean by a spiritual battle or a
spiritual enemy? And what does that look like?
When we talk about the unseen realm, when we
talk about these unseen forces, when we talk
about a spiritual warfare or a spiritual battle,
What do we think about? What does that look like
in our lives? When we're walking through this
world or, you know, in the morning we're reading
our Bible and we're talking about some spiritual
battle. What comes to our minds? What are some
things that we think about? Anybody? Okay, warring
against sin. Okay, distractions. from our our
goal there in the morning or whatever when we're
reading but how is that so that okay that's good
that's fine Okay, so a guarding of our minds
are focusing our attention upon the Lord at those
times and not being distracted Okay, good. That's
good anything else How so okay okay I think that's
good I think that's a good I don't know that
I would say that that's I mean I guess it is
spiritual in a sense for sure okay so that's
good I mean it's definitely a good thought right
I mean that's our that's our daily life are we
going to choose This over this am I going to
choose the flash over the spirit things like
that so good anything else What else what else
comes to mind? In the mind okay, yes, I would
say absolutely What are what are those things?
What are some of those things that that are?
spiritual warfare Okay wrong thinking such as
Okay Okay, so we could what are some things that
we could say there specifically we could say
Temptations right we could we could just say
any temptation to Think incorrectly so we could
talk about doubts right doubting God Doubting
his word Doubting who he is That's a spiritual
warfare. That's a spiritual battle that we have
to engage in so temptation Doubts what else we
could talk about fears. They're about living
a life of fear We could talk about anxiety We
could talk about depression We could talk about
discouragement. Okay, those are a few things
that I wrote down here that are Things that we
have to engage in on a spiritual level So we
have to guard our minds we have to keep ourselves
from thinking in a in an unbiblical way So a
spiritual battle One thing that I I think is
helpful to think about here and we'll deal with
it probably more later on but Who's read spiritual
depression by Louis Jones anybody Okay, it's
great book right just talks about this spiritual
warfare quite a bit and One of the things that
he talks about there is Anything that would cause
us to take our eyes off of Christ. He talks about
Peter there walking on the water. And what was
Peter's problem? He takes this great leap of
faith, right? And he says, Lord, tell me to come
to you. And he says, come on out. So he gets
on the water and what happens? He takes his eyes
off of Christ. He begins to look at the waves
and it begins to sink. He begins to fear, okay?
So we can talk about this spiritual warfare,
this spiritual battle. We can talk about anything
that would cause us to take our eyes off of Christ
and to doubt or to fear or any of those such
things. So a spiritual battle, a spiritual warfare
that we are engaged in. It's important that we
understand that that is the case. What is another
thing that Paul seems to point out here with
with regard to this battle and who we're warring
against. What is a characteristic of this warfare
or this one that we're warring against I should
say? Anything stand out to anybody there about
who it is? Well what's he say about those things?
What's the description that he gives them? If
we could just, again, if you're not thinking
along the same lines as me, it's gonna be hard.
But I'm thinking, he seems to, he's telling us
here that it's powerful. Do you see that? That
these aren't just some weak, measly little things
that we're dealing with here. But what does he
say? He says, well, I mean, first of all, he
says, in order to do this, we've got to be strong
in the Lord. so that that implies this is going
to require some strength and so what we're fighting
against must be strong right um in the strength
of his might or if you have the king james the
power is it power of his might okay so again
that's what's required that's what's needed in
this warfare some powerful things are needed
here and then he goes on and he talks about the
schemes of the devil which we'll deal with a
little bit in a little bit here but then he says
rulers against powers, forces of darkness. Again,
that seems to be, what? A pretty admirable, what's
the word? Formidable foe. That's what we're dealing
with here. We're not just dealing with some weak,
creaturely. thing here but we're dealing with
a powerful force some powerful forces okay some
some real strong beings spiritual beings so rulers
powers forces of wickedness okay uh first peter
five eight anybody remember that passage how
is satan described there in first peter five
eight it's a roaring lion okay so that's again
That's seems to be telling us here that this
is a strong enemy The roaring line. It's not
a it's not just something to be easily dismissed,
right? I'm reminded of Daniel 10 13. I was thinking
about that here where he talks about the forces
of wickedness the powers of darkness and Daniel
10 13 there It's the story there of the angel
being opposed by the prince of Persia who's come
to give Daniel a message and he was hindered
and opposed by this force which seems to be a
spiritual or demonic force that was a hindrance
there and Michael had to come help him there
in order to deliver this message and so again
the idea there seems to be that there's a great
power there, a great force. And he calls him
the Prince of Persia. And so we see in that that,
again, the devil has power on this earth to control
men and to deal with nations in that way. So
we're not dealing with some small thing here,
but it's a serious powerful darkness. Jude 9.
I'll just read that because it's just easy. It's
easier to read it than to try to explain it without
reading it. So, Jude 9, but Michael, the archangel,
when he disputed with the devil and argued about
the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against
him a railing judgment, but said, the Lord rebuke
you. So here's Michael, the archangel, but again,
a powerful being, right? And he does not even
just... willy -nilly rebuke satan but he says
the lord rebuke you okay so it's a it's a powerful
force a powerful enemy that we are to withstand
that we are to war against it's not a small matter
it's not a small thing and it's not something
that we do on our own all right we're going to
deal with that i think later on here but again
what is what do we do be strong in the lord and
in the power of his might Power of his mind.
So a powerful force is against us And we are
in need of the Lord's help one other verse here
second Corinthians 10 So Paul says second Corinthians
10 3 for though we walk in the flesh we do not
war according to the flesh For the weapons of
our warfare are not of the flesh but divinely
powerful for the destruction of forces We are
destroying speculations and every lofty thing
that raises up Against the knowledge of God and
we are taking every thought captive to the obedience
of Christ So again, we see their powerful forces
Destruction of fortresses bulwarks is another
way you could think of that fortresses That's
what we're coming against. That's what we're
warring against. Not just some small thing. A
formidable foe is who we are warring against.
So next, what does he say here? What is something
we should pick up? Not only is he powerful, these
demons, these forces, these spiritual beings,
but he says here that the scheme says the schemes
of the devil or the wiles of the devil. So not
only is this a powerful foe that we have to stand
against, but it's an intelligent, an intelligent
foe that we have to stand against. So wiling,
crafty, deceitful, trickery. Cunning all right,
that's that's what we're dealing with here if
you've ever Gone to war against someone so to
speak You don't want that guy to be real crafty
and cunning and deceitful right you want to see
what's coming at you You don't want him taking
the back door Sneaking around you want to see
you want to see what's coming on because you
like if I can see it I can take it But that's
not Satan Satan's not giving us the full frontal
attack. He's coming around the sides. Okay, it's
important for us to understand that. Have you
ever thought? I had this thought the other day.
Why? Why? Why is this really sinful? I mean,
is it really sinful? This thing I was thinking
about? And I was I was thinking, I mean, that's
right there. That's Satan. I know it's wrong.
this thing, this thought that I had. But the
back of my mind, I'm thinking, is it really?
That's a temptation. That's a thought of the
devil. That's the deceit of Satan. To take that
thing that I know full well is wrong, that I
shouldn't do, that I shouldn't think about, that
I shouldn't engage in, and all of a sudden question,
is it really wrong? Where does that come from?
The lies of the devil, right? He's not just coming
full on there, he's trying to deceive. He's trying
to fool. He's trying to get you to slip up in
this one thing. If you can accept that this is
okay, I mean it just snowballs from there. So,
he's deceitful. He's wise in that regard. In
being wicked and cunning. What else could we
say about Satan? I was thinking about this. How
about he's bold? Have you ever thought about
that? You ever think about the temptations of
Jesus? I mean, here's the Son of God and Satan
doesn't care a bit. I'm gonna come after him
here and I'm gonna try to tempt him. I mean,
that's bold to think that you could do that.
to think that you are so good and to think that
you have such power and such craftiness that
you're going to deceive even the Son of God.
I never thought about it like that, but that's
amazing. I mean, if we were to entertain someone
giving us some suggestion, right? Just, I mean,
just some off the wall thing. Somebody comes
up to you and says, hey, you know, Your brother
is blah blah blah blah or your wife is whatever
you would be Are you kidding me right now? Are
you really saying that to me as if I'm going
to believe you who are you? But yet that was
that's Satan Let me come against you. Let me
say this. Let me whisper that and he does it
to the Son of God even bold audacious Just worship
me if you just worship me you'll have it all
What a claim What if he's willing to do that
to the Son of God What was he not willing to
do to us? What temptation what thought is he
not willing to whisper in our ear? It's limitless
right anything anything that he can he will All
right Another example of just the wickedness
of the evil the power Luke 8 12 So that's the
story of the sower and In one of those see one
of where the seed is scattered there. It says
that the devil takes away the word So that they
will not believe Consider that so here you've
heard you've heard some good things. Maybe you've
heard some things on a Sunday morning Wednesday
night Maybe just some conversation with somebody.
You've heard some truth. What's the devil's goal?
Take that away. Let me distract you. Let me put
another thought into your mind. That preacher
really wasn't having your good in mind. He was
calling you out from the pulpit. Ignore all those
things. That was mean. He was wrong. Right? You
name it. Any suggestion. Any suggestion. Now,
again, that's not exactly what that passage is
talking about. They're taking the Word, but that
is true, nonetheless. The devil seeks to take
the Word that we hear, pervert it, ruin it, and
cause us to reject it. Ephesians 4, 27. We're
right here. I'll read it. and do not give the
devil an opportunity. So verse 26, be angry,
and yet do not sin, do not let the sun go down
on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.
What do we see there? The devil's looking for
every opportunity to cause us to sin, to cause
us to stumble, and to cause our faith to be shipwrecked.
That's his goal. Who are we? We used to be his
and he wants us back. I never did read all of
Bunyan's other book. What is it? The Holy War
and the city of Mansoul. But I read the first
half of it or so and the whole goal he wanted
it back. He wants it back. He wants us back.
He wants every and so he's gonna seek every opportunity.
To draw us back to cause us to sin to sow those
seeds of doubt that we're really not Christians
We're really not the Lord's he really doesn't
love us. He really doesn't care for us and so
on Don't give him the opportunity Don't give
him any opportunity to cause us to sin Second
Timothy 226 This kind of goes along with that
I'll read it. 25. With gentleness correcting
those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may
grant them repentance leading to the knowledge
of the truth, and they may come to their senses
and escape from the snare of the devil, having
been held captive by him to do his will. So again,
just the whole idea there of who the devil is.
He has ensnared and captured men and desires
to keep them. And he desires us to fall into
sin and to live lives that are not pleasing to
the Lord. That's his goal. And then Revelation
2 10, again just speaks of, oh here I'll just
read it. of those powers on earth that would,
through the devil's leading, cause us harm. Revelation
2 10. John's here speaking to the churches. Do
not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold,
the devil is about to cast some of you into prison
so that you will be tested and you will have
tribulation for 10 days. Be faithful until death
and I will give you the crown of life. So again
just the idea there that Satan he is influential
in this world and his goal is to Shipwreck our
faith and he will use all means necessary whether
that's men or spiritual Spiritual things that
we've already mentioned So I'd like to read this
to you. So I got this from Thayer When I was
looking up some things So he says Satan This
is when he was giving a definition of the devil.
Thayer. Thayer's lexicon. Greek English lexicon.
Satan, the prince of demons, the author of evil,
persecuting good men, estranging mankind from
God and enticing them to sin and afflicting them
with diseases by means of demons who take possession
of their bodies at his bidding. The malignant
enemy of God, and the Messiah. So that was his
description of Satan. I think it's good. I think
it's something to think about there. All of those
things that Satan desires to do and to the ways
that he can do it. This is our enemy. This is
the one that we are warring against. Him and
his minions, all right? So if we are to engage
in this warfare, we must know who it is that
we're engaging. We must know that he's powerful.
We must... know his tactics. We must know a little
bit about him if we are going to engage. Now,
the other thing that Paul says here is we wrestle.
Verse 12. For our struggle is not against flesh
and blood or in the King James for we wrestle
not against flesh and blood Has anybody ever
wrestled? You ever wrestled your brothers Okay,
what's it require Okay, it requires strength
what else does it require Okay, some skill. If
you're gonna like really be wrestling like competing,
you gotta have some skill, right? Some technique.
You gotta have strength. What else you need?
Preparation. What? Preparation. Okay, some preparation.
What else? Stamina. Stamina. Some endurance.
Okay, that's a big one. If you think about wrestling.
I've wrestled some guys too in my day. and it's
like you can be the strongest guy in the world
and you start wrestling and I mean it's not long
you're like I am more out this is tough right
you can go hit the gym I go hit the gym all day
long but then I'm wrestling or I remember wrestling
some guy in high school just horsing around in
the pool I was about dead and I was stronger
than him and I was still about dead it requires
endurance It requires work. It requires strength
and skill. If we're going to wrestle against
these spiritual forces, that's what it's going
to take. It's going to take us enduring. Because
what? It's not a one -time thing. It's not just,
I was victorious today. Boy, the Lord helped
me today. I was strong. I resisted temptation,
those thoughts that came into my mind, I put
them out. Boy, it was a great day. I'm ready
for glory, right? No, you got tomorrow. You gotta
do it all over again. And when that same temptation
comes day after day after day, it becomes wearisome.
Lord, why? I've fought this all week and I've
been victorious. Can you not allow it anymore?
Sometimes the Lord says, yeah, we're done with
it. Sometimes not. You've got to press on. You've
got to trust Me more. You've got to rely upon
Me more. So, wrestling is difficult. It requires
endurance, stamina, strength. Again, it's not
our strength, right? We're going to talk about
that, but it's not our strength that we're relying
upon. What does Paul say? Whose strength is it?
It's the Lord's. Be strong in the Lord and in
the power of His might. All right, so we're wrestling
here. I think Brian said skill. That's something
to think about That is something to consider
skill or technique in our wrestling, okay? What
do we do when the temptation comes? What is our
what is our plan there? What are we gonna do?
Have you thought about that? Okay, let's just
say you know if you have some particular sin
that you struggle with What's the plan? What's
the plan when that thing rears its ugly head?
Maybe it's maybe it's fear Maybe it's some sort
of doubt Maybe it's a temptation Towards lust
or some other sin. What's the goal there? What's
the goal when that comes? What do we do? Is our
first thing to run to the Lord? What is it? Do
we have a plan? What's your technique in this
warfare, in this wrestling? Okay? You've got
to come up with something. Because if it's just
a matter of, well, I guess I'll deal with it
when it comes, yeah, you might be successful
at times. But you won't be successful consistently.
And it won't be nearly what it could be if we
don't have a plan as those things come. Whatever
that is if it's if it's prayer if it's reciting
some Bible verses if it's calling a friend Calling
your wife. I don't know what what all is is perfect
for you But you need to know you need to know
what's helpful What is it that helps you to resist
those things? How do you withstand the temptations?
How do you deal with fears? doubts anxieties
Anger frustration you name it whatever it is.
How do you deal with that? You've got to have
a plan. You've got to have a purpose. Again,
our enemy does, right? Satan has a plan. He has
his techniques. He's wily. He's crafty. What
is our plan? Do you have one? Okay All right,
so Any questions about that any thoughts any
questions about our adversary there Okay Okay
They might be jumping ahead there. I'm not sure
I could have missed it though No, I just mean
we're gonna Yeah, we might I yeah, but again,
I did think I was thinking tonight. I was like
well if we don't get any further We want to bring
that up right that's that's imperative so Remember
that who who who is Satan? Ultimately, he's a
defeated foe, right? Christ has conquered him.
He's conquered him on the cross. He has ascended
into heaven and has put all things under his
feet, okay? So, while he is powerful, and he
is a formidable foe, he is a defeated foe. And
the Lord has defeated him. And when we're strong
in the Lord and in the power of His might, we
are able to overcome, right? And so that is our
encouragement. That is a great encouragement.
No temptation hath overtaken you, but such as
is common to man. And what? With that temptation,
I'll provide a way of escape. So the Lord has
promised that. The Lord has defeated Satan. He
is a defeated foe. And when we are strong in
the Lord and in the power of His might, when
we are waging this warfare spiritually through
the power of the Spirit, we are able to overcome
this spiritual adversary, okay? So he is defeated
and we are able to overcome. That's part of our
warfare, right? That's part of winning the battle.
Again, having the proper mindset. Having the
knowledge, again, it's not just knowledge, but
it's faith that this is true. When we go on to
talk about the shield of faith, we've got to
believe that these things are true. If you don't
believe it's true, and you don't believe that
through the power of God, you're able to overcome,
and that Satan has been defeated, what hope is
there really, right? It's like what? Well, who
am I? Who am I to withstand this this adversary?
OK, so we've got to have a right view of that.
OK. Yeah, go ahead. So. Can we should we? And
how could we distinguish between the temptation
in the flesh? So if we're battling against our
flesh or the devil or his demons I don't know
that I have an answer for you there. I don't
know that it matters. What's our response for
either one? Yeah, I'm trying to think what would
be the difference How would I how if I knew that
this was just some fleshly appetite is that what
you mean some fleshly thing Versus the lies of
Satan How do I respond do I respond differently
So yeah, I don't know like I don't I don't know
that I have anything in particular That's going
to be different. Do you? I don't know in the
response and it's all that different, but I think
it is important to. That when we're trying to
get to know the devil and all the things about
him there, then we would expect. That the that
his attacks would be. Probably way more unexpected
Like we expect that we kind of especially the
older we get we know where our temptations Are
at least most of our weaknesses or what I mean,
that's not to say it can't surprise us this area
sure But I Guess I would just say that they're
you know, it's You know, when we say that he's
scheming and he's opportunistic, he's greedy
for influence, I think when he schemes, he plays
the long game a lot. And then when that opportunity
finally comes for him to spring or to lay his
trap, that's I think the response. in the response
that it may not be different, but it would be
so much better to be able to recognize and see.
I'm not sure that we always can or we ever can,
but I do know that it's, it is helpful, I think,
if you know that this thing is not coming from
me. I can remember one time working. I was by
myself and there was no doubt in my mind that
there was some demon that was Because the thoughts
that just came over me and just the darkness,
I knew it didn't come from me. And I think if
I had thought that it had come from within me,
that would have been really scary. But I knew
that it didn't come from within. So I think in
that respect, in those kinds of situations, it
is important that we know that that's not coming
from within us. And I just think also that in
the battle, at least, the devil is outside of
us. And so in our goings, we should expect that
we're going to see him. Dad told me the story
that Conrad used to walk around his chapel there
and rebuke the devils. Tell them to get away.
We're having a meeting here. And that's what
he would do. I'm not recommending that. I'm not
saying that that wasn't legitimate. He thought
that it was. I know that on Sunday mornings I
pray that the Lord would restrict and hold back
the devil and his demons from interfering in
the hearts and the minds and in the activities
that go on here on Sunday morning. So that's
different than the temptation from within. It's
coming from outside, so I don't know. That's
why I was asking what your thoughts were on it.
Yeah, I mean, I think that's right. I think it
is. Again, I don't know that there's any other
any different response, so to speak, but it is
encouraging to to know. As you said, when those.
Terrible things do come. To know that yeah. This
is this is from Satan. This isn't just me. I
mean, that is helpful. I mean, I don't know what
everybody else's experiences are, but, you know,
I've experienced things similar to Dave there,
where you really do get kind of a glimpse at
evil. At the evil influences and the evil forces
that are outside of you. And, you know, it's
good to know that those things are outside. That
it's not coming from within I Didn't say anything
about that yet. No, I don't know that I'm going
to The idea seems to be the spiritual forces
of wickedness in the heavenly places. I don't
think I wrote it down. But Hodge was just saying,
wicked forces or the demon, you know, spiritually
wicked forces as in demons, demonic activity.
And as far as the heavenly places, I don't really
have much to say there. I haven't really looked
into it that much. It doesn't seem to be, again,
the heavenly places. Some say it is like our
atmosphere, this world. I don't know that that's
necessarily accurate. I don't have an answer
for you. I can look into it. I didn't really
look into the verse that part of the verse 12
much. I had a couple of thoughts and maybe a
question. One thought was about how to like fighting
the temptations. I think it's like I personally
have found help. In just following Jesus example
of fighting with scripture. And so, like, you
know, there have just been times it's like if
you're struggling with a certain doubt or unbelief
or sin that you're needing to deal with, you
can just look up verses about that and even write
them down, memorize them. You know, I've even,
you know, years ago would just write them on
an index card so I could just pick it up and
read it because it was just such a battle in
my mind. So I definitely recommend that. And
then Dave's first point he made about the devil
not being all powerful. I was thinking while
you were talking, I think Becky shared the verses
on Sunday about the same power that raised Jesus
from the dead dwells in us. And I remember thinking
several years ago, it doesn't really feel like
that. Most of the time, it doesn't feel like
we have this amazing power. But when you consider
how powerful these forces of darkness are, that
it really is the powerful Holy Spirit keeping
us going and keeping us faithful and helping
us battle. So that's just an encouraging thought.
And then, I don't know if this is a thought or
a question, the other thing several, several
years ago, I used to always think that when the
devil tempted Jesus, When I would read that I
would picture like they were standing there talking
face to face Like and then one time it occurred
to me like was the devil just putting thoughts
in his mind like he does us What do you think?
Yeah, I think I think I think he was face to
face So, we'll end here and we'll deal, so my
next heading here is to be strong in the Lord.
So, we'll look at that some more next week and
in the power of His might. I do want to point
out, hopefully we heard what Dave said there,
as far as knowing ourselves. I didn't mention
that I don't think, maybe I did in passing, but
that's an important part of the battle. Okay,
that we would all know We're all different right
every one of us is different And so the things
that I struggle with are maybe not the things
that Brian struggles with You know or Jake or
Hannah whatever and so if we we if we know ourselves
That's also key to the battle Okay, if we know
hey, I shouldn't go here. I shouldn't do that.
I shouldn't watch this When somebody starts talking
about this, I shouldn't get involved in that.
You know, whatever it might be. I don't know.
You know yourself. And so to know yourself is
to war. Is to war in a good way. To avoid those
things. To deal with those things. You know,
if you know you're prone to gossip or you're
prone to being bitter. Dealing with those things
don't allowing those things to take root whatever
giving opportunity there, okay? So know yourself
as well be honest with yourself