A gathering of Christians and Jews, where Jamie is speaking, is disrupted by 6 or 7 members of the Jewish Defense League who storm the platform. In order to get them to leave peacefully, their leader is allowed to speak to the congregation for five minutes. Afterwards, Jamie says our enemy is not the people who are trying to disrupt the gathering; rather, this is spiritual warfare. Jamie concludes by stating we are people of love. God is calling us to be healers and forgivers, not sword swingers. (The disruption is edited out, but the 5-minute talk by the JDL student leader is left in for context.)
Topic: Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual House Cleaning
How do we deal with the hurts from our past? Jamie encourages us to make a number of lists, including the things we don’t like or of the hurts we have experienced. Then he reveals how we are to deal with these issues. God is calling us to sweep our houses clean and be refilled with the Holy Spirit.
Spiritual Warfare
In this teaching, Jamie discusses the finer points of spiritual warfare. Jesus is very specific in asserting that we have an enemy. If we don’t acknowledge this, we are fools. But if we resist the enemy, he will flee from us. In God’s hands, we are mighty instruments in the fight against the kingdom of darkness. Jamie then lists four things we must do to be successful in spiritual warfare.
Standing on Victory Ground
God has enemies, and He deals with them harshly and with dispatch. He doesn’t take pity on His enemies, and He doesn’t expect us to, either. Satan is God’s enemy, as are his demons and those who do his bidding. There is no sympathy for the devil. Let God arise and His enemies be scattered!
Battle Strategy
Jamie uses King Jehoshaphat as an example for how we should prepare for spiritual warfare. He lists 8 specific ways to prepare for battle, and if we do them, we will never have to draw our sword. The battle will indeed be the Lord’s.