The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
2 Corinthians 10:4
God had given us supernatural weapons. They are not weapons to fight against people because Jesus loves them and died for them. No these are weapons that fight against spiritual forces that stand against God and the knowledge of him.
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5
The spiritual forces also create arguments and pretenses that war in our minds and fight against the knowledge of Christ. So the weapons can be used in debate, discussion and prayer and these ultimately effect the mind. The mind is a battleground. The mind not submitted to Christ is hostile to him. Our natural minds fight against Jesus at many times and in various ways. We make the choice to take our thoughts and make them captive to Christ and to obey him. We choose to do that and submit to God and then God works in us to bring the change.
And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.
2 Corinthians 10:6
We see problems in others and want to correct them. But our weakness is in seeing our own faults. God is going to work on us first. He will work in our hearts, minds and lives to bring us top the point of submitting to him. Once we have submitted to Christ and obey him then he will work through us to speak to others.
For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
2 Corinthians 10:18 NIV
We often see the good intentions in our hearts while ignoring what our actual actions are and look down on others for their actions.
From that perspective we often commend ourselves and think more highly of ourselves than we ought.
What we need to do is submit ourselves to Christ, obey him and look for his commendation.
We often think that this is just a situation between us and God but the truth is that God puts people into our lives to work through this. There are church leaders who he wants us to submit to, as well as parents, bosses and governmental leaders.
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