Fight the Good Fight against Satan and his Kingdom of Darkness and Walk in the Light

As believers in Christ, we are fighting the good fight against Satan and his kingdom of darkness by overthrowing reasonings and every high thing rising up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive man’s thought unto the obedience of Christ.

On the positive side, we fight the good fight of the faith by laying hold on the eternal life.

On the negative side, we have an enemy, and we stand one with the Lord and in the Body to fight against the enemy and his kingdom of darkness.

In this age of the degradation of the church, we all need to realize that the enemy has a lot of subtle works to not only wear out the saints of the Most High but also lead them away from the faith.

There are so many teachings in Christianity today, and there are so many so-called “ministries”, denominations, free groups, sects, “churches” and so on.

It’s almost as if someone receives some light from the Lord in His word, and now he starts his own thing, his own group, his own ministry, and his own work. Oh, Lord Jesus!

The enemy comes to the people of God in a subtle way, as a wolf dressed in a sheep’s skin, and he seeks to lure them away from the faith.

We need to return to the pure revelation in God’s word and lay hold on the eternal life. What all believers in Christ have in common is the eternal life; in this life, we are all one.

If we all return to simply taking Christ as life and living Christ, we will all be one.

If we all lay hold on the eternal life and not trust our natural life nor rely on our own understanding, we will be one in the Lord’s life.

The Lord Jesus has given us His life, His name, His word, and even His glory that we may be one (see John 17).

May we exercise our spirit and come to God’s holy word to enjoy Him as life, and may we live by the divine life day by day.

Without the eternal life, without enjoying and living by this eternal life of God, we are nothing.

We are just like the rest of the people in the world, walking aimlessly and doing things according to our own preferences. Oh, Lord.

May we come back again and again to the divine revelation in God’s word, remain in the divine truth in God’s word, and lay hold on the eternal life to which we were called.

Hallelujah, we were called to the eternal life, we were given the eternal life, and it is this eternal life in us that can counteract and defeat any degradation and deviation in the church!

As God’s Soldiers, we Fight the Good Fight against Satan and his Kingdom of Darkness

On the positive side, we fight the good fight of the faith by laying hold on the eternal life and by being constituted with the divine truth so that we speak God’s economy and expose and put aside any different teachings.

On the negative side, we are fighting the good fight against Satan and the kingdom of darkness.

When God created man in the beginning, He created him in His own image and after His likeness; also, God gave man dominion over all things (Gen. 1:26).

Because God has an enemy in this universe, He wants to defeat this enemy not by Himself but through man.

The first man, Adam, was defeated by the enemy, but the second man, Christ, defeated Satan and judged him on the cross.

Even though two thousand years ago the enemy was judged on the cross, he still is moving about, roaming around the earth to do a vigorous work, even a more vigorous work than two thousand years ago.

The works of the devil and his kingdom of darkness is so prevailing, and he is doing things that are beyond our imagination.

We are confronting a very difficult situation, for many things in the world situation and in our environment are related to the activities of the enemy.

The authority of darkness is even more fierce today, for the enemy knows that his end is near, so he is struggling and fighting with all his might.

As God’s soldiers, we fight the good fight of the faith against Satan and his kingdom of darkness (Acts 26:18; Col. 1:13).

On one hand, we fight for the faith, for God’s economy; on the other hand, we know that God has an enemy, and we fight against Satan and his kingdom of darkness.

We should not be only able to preserve ourselves whole but we should also challenge the devil (Matt. 12:26, 28).

When the children of Israel who entered the good land and saw the enemies and the giants there, the Nephilim, they thought that they would be eaten by them.

Joshua and Caleb, however, had another spirit; they knew that the land was promised to them and God was with them, so they wanted to boldly go on.

We should not be intimidated by the fierce work of the enemy.

We should not be threatened by his evil works and his attacks.

Rather, we need to know that the Lord is with us, and greater is He who is with us than he who is in the world (1 John 4:4).

We are not here only to preserve ourselves whole but even more, to fight against Satan and the authority of darkness to cause him to suffer loss.

In Christianity as a whole the major goal is the welfare of man, the interests of man.

But the Lord has raised up His recovery for His interests and His kingdom.

We are not here just for our benefit or spirituality, nor are we here merely for our overcoming; we are here for the completion of God’s economy, for the building up of His Body quickly.

We are God’s soldiers, fighting the good fight against Satan and his kingdom of darkness.

There are many zealous Christians in Christianity today, so zealous for the gospel and for good works; they want to do great works for God. but who today cares for God’s interest on the earth (1 Tim. 1:18; Eph. 6:12)?

Who will be one with God and one with the Body to defeat God’s enemy?

Not only should we do the gospel work and the work of edifying the children of God but even more, the burden of our work should be to put the enemy to shame and to cause him to suffer loss.

The kingdom of Satan will be defeated by the new man, the built-up and perfected Body of Christ.

We should be God’s soldiers, fighting the good fight, overthrowing the devil’s strongholds, and taking captive man’s thoughts unto the obedience of Christ (2 Cor. 10:3-5).

The greatest weapon of the enemy, his strategy and subtlety, is to influence and damage the minds of men so that he may use them for his nefarious purposes.

He injects things into man’s mind and manipulates their mind. As believers in Christ, though we walk in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.

Rather, the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but powerful before God for the overthrowing of strongholds.

We exercise our spirit, standing one with the Lord and in the Body, and we overthrow strongholds, and we overthrow reasonings and every high thing rising up against the knowledge of God (Isa. 2:11-12).

We exercise our spirit and take captive every thought unto the obedience of Christ.

When we preach the gospel, we do not try to convince others of the truth in God’s word; we fight the battle to release the hearers from the enemy’s usurpation in their minds.

The human mind is altogether damaged by the devil, so everything is upside down, full of rebellion, and full of darkness.

Our warfare is with the authority of darkness (Isa. 5:20).

We need to fight the battle against Satan and his kingdom of darkness, taking captive man’s thoughts unto the obedience of Christ so that the mind of man can be renewed unto the obedience of Christ.

May we be strong warriors in prayer so that the myriads of evil spirits will not be able to have their way in our being and in the being of the saints.

May we be able to walk and work with Christ, overcoming in this age and reigning in the coming age.

Lord Jesus, we stand one with You and in the Body to fight against Satan and his kingdom of darkness. Amen, Lord, we want to be God’s soldiers, fighting the good fight in the Body and one with the Lord. We do not war according to flesh; rather, the weapons of our warfare are powerful before God for the overthrowing of strongholds. Lord, we exercise our spirit to be one with You and one with the Body. We stand one with You by faith and we stand in the Body to fight against Satan and his kingdom of darkness. We exercise the weapons of our warfare to overthrow strongholds, reasonings, and every high thing rising up against the knowledge of God. Amen, Lord, we do not want to only preserve ourselves but also challenge the devil. We want to be strong warriors in prayers so that the myriads of evil spirits would not be able to have their way! Hallelujah, the overcoming One, the victorious One, is in us and with us! Christ has won the victory, and we stand in His victory to proclaim His victory over the enemy! Amen, Lord, we take captive every thought unto the obedience of Christ. We want to walk and work with You, overcoming in this age and reigning in the coming age!

Walk in the Light and Reject any Darkness to See and Enjoy the Divine Reality

The spiritual warfare against Satan and his authority of darkness is very real and practical; you only need to take a look at the world situation and the things happening around us today and you will see how busy the enemy is in damaging man and fighting against God’s interest.

However, so many times in our Christian life we are in darkness; we not only not fight against Satan and his authority of darkness but we ourselves walk in darkness.

1 John 1:6 speaks of walking in darkness.

This is to walk habitually in darkness, to live, behave, and have our being in the nature of Satan’s evil works.

We need to be those who walk in the light (v. 7) and not in darkness.

God is in the light, and all the divine things are real to us in the light.

To walk in the light is to live move, do things, and have our being in the divine light, the light that is actually God Himself (v. 5).

When we live in the light and walk in the light, the divine reality of God and all the divine things are real to us, and we enjoy all that God is in our daily living.

But when we are in darkness, it seems that everything of God, God’s economy, the church, and the church life are not real for us.

It all depends on where we are, in darkness or in the light. When we’re in darkness, we sense that everything is vanity and emptiness. Oh, Lord!

Whenever we have such a feeling or sense, we should turn to the Lord, repent, confess, and come back to the light.

If we confess our sins, the Lord is faithful in His word and righteous in the blood of Jesus to wash us from our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness (v. 9).

Then, we can walk in the light, even as the Lord is in the light, and we have fellowship with one another.

When we walk in the light, we see the Lord Jesus and all that He is to us, and we enjoy one reality after another.

Everything related to the Triune God, God’s economy, His salvation, and the church with the church life, is real to us when we are in the light.

But when there’s something that hinders the light, when we have a sin that we did not confess or an offense that we did not deal with, we are in darkness, and God, Christ, the church, and the Body do not seem real to us.

For example, we may be offended by a particular brother or sister; they did not say something out of order or intentionally to offend us, but we may be quite sensitive and they said something, and now we’re offended.

We are not “marble Marys” in the church life; we are men of flesh and bones, and offenses are unavoidable.

But if we remain in this offense and do not deal with it before the Lord, the switch is turned off, and we’re in darkness.

We may not have an appetite to read the Bible, and we may be unhappy with the saints.

We may not even want to meet with the saints, thinking that the church life is not that enjoyable.

We may think that the ground of the church is not real, and we may not care for the church that much.

On the one hand, we may not deal with the offense because we want that person to come and apologise to us.

On the other hand, Satan and his authority of darkness use that offense to keep us in darkness, and we are the enemy’s prey. Oh, Lord!

But if we just turn on the switch, just turn to the Lord and call on His name, the switch of life and light is turned on, and we repent before the Lord for living and walking in darkness.

We simply enjoy the divine light, we experience the cleansing of the Lord’s precious blood, and the divine things will become real to us once more.

May we fight the good fight against Satan and his authority of darkness by walking in the light day by day, even moment by moment.

Lord Jesus, we want to remain in the light and walk in the light. Amen, Lord, we love to be in the light, walking in the light with the saints and having fellowship with the Lord and with the Body! Hallelujah, when we walk in the light everything of God, God’s economy, the church, and the Bible is real to us! Praise the Lord, we can enjoy the divine reality of all that God is, all He has done, and all that He is doing in us and among us by walking in the light today! Amen, Lord, grant us the grace to walk in the light day by day. We want to fight the good fight against Satan and his authority of darkness by walking in the light and dealing with anything that Your light exposes. We want to deal with any offense, sin, and trespass, so that we may enjoy all the divine realities and shame the enemy! Praise the Lord, the all-inclusive Christ is our portion allotted to all the saints in the light!

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References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-study of 1 John (msgs. 5, 7) by Witness Lee (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Fighting the Good Fight, Finishing the Course, Keeping the Faith, and Loving the Lord’s Appearing in Order to Receive the Reward of Christ as the Crown of Righteousness (2023 ICSC), week 1, Fighting the Good Fight.
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