Spiritual warfare isn’t something entered into by only a few elite spiritual special forces who can defeat the enemy in prayer. Spiritual warfare is a corporate activity that includes every believer, whether conscious of it or not.
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The most crucial phrase in the Bible is “in Christ.” We don’t inherit anything from God; Christ does. We become recipients of the inheritance only by being “in Christ.”
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Part of the reason for the incarnation was for Jesus to reveal the Father. He told Philip, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.” Luke opens his gospel with a statement of purpose. Theophilus could have certainty about the things he had been taught. In his second volume, the book of Acts, Luke refers to the thing Jesus began to do and teach and illustrates that through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Jesus will continue to minister to the world and his people through the church, his body.
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Our God is a God of variety. When he distributes his gifts, those gifts don’t limit us to some confining box and restrict us from being who we are. In fact, when we understand our gifts from God and give ourselves to those gifts, we are “who we are” more than at any other time. We are living according to God’s unique intended purpose for our individual lives.
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A Biblical Christian life is a Spirit-filled life. I found a new word that I will probably over-use, but hey, who cares? The word is pneumatocracy. Pneuma is the Greek word for spirit. The “tocracy” part has to do with ruling. We use it in words like Theocracy and democracy. So, a pneumatocracy means to be ruled by the Spirit. That is what we all should strive for. Paul commands it.
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I have heard it said that if you emphasize spiritual gifts, you will be putting everyone in a spiritual box and destroying the freedom to act as individuals. If anyone believes that, I can only assume they have a minimal understanding of how God manifests himself through the gifts he has given to the church in individual persons.
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