Genesis: Blessed From the Beginning | A War As Old As Time

The Bible assumes that Christians are part of a war. The pastor and writer Paul says things like:  “Fight the good fight of the faith.”  “Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes”  “Fight the battle well.” “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but…against spiritual forces of evil”  “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world,”  “Share in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus” The assumption is there is a conflict going on that is not always perceptible to our eyes but still very real, and that we’re swallowed up into it whether we like it or not. In Genesis we get some of the origins of this battle between God and spiritual beings who did what Adam and Eve did: they believed a lie and rebelled against God because of it. All of this leads to a strange story in Genesis 6 about sons of God, daughters of men, and some weird kids called Nephilim. In this message, Pastor Joel explains what’s going on and how it tells us more about our own involvement in the spiritual warfare of being a disciple of Jesus.