Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
In his great series of sermons on this text, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones listed many ways in which he believes Christians wasted their strength. It was as if they had received some of the available might of God, but it simply leaked away like water in a bucket full of holes. These are some of the things Lloyd-Jones thought sapped the strength of the Christian:
• Committing to too many spiritual works or things
• Too much conversation
• Arguments, debates, wrangling
• Laziness
• Too much time in the wrong company
• Too much foolish talk and joking
• Love of money and career
• A desire for respectability and image
• An unequal yoking with an unbeliever
• Ungodly entertainment
• A wrong attitude toward or doubting the Word of God
By faith we rely on His might more and more and then we we do the work.
2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh.
2Co 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
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