We Have a Mighty Weapon
ICS Daily Devotions

2 Corinthians 10:4-6 (NKJV) For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.

There is an urgent need to address the identity crisis among the next generation. Underneath their claim that the older generation doesn’t accept “new things” such as discovering your gender based on feelings, there lurks a deep sense of insecurity and a longing to be loved and accepted. Therefore, parents must love their children with an unconditional love, or else they will look for love elsewhere, and it is dangerous because they may not be able to differentiate between their feelings and the desire to be loved. This confusion will exacerbate when they are fed with wrong teachings that affirm their feelings are real and correct.

The struggle with their feelings is perhaps the biggest challenge faced by those confused with their genders, but what is really happening is they are living out of their soul. We are made up of spirit, soul and body. Because unbelievers are not empowered by the Holy Spirit and are separated from God, they live lives based on the soul which is self-centred. By doing whatever feels good, they are being held bondage by the sin nature.

Those who worshipped the goddess of Diana in Ephesus were under the same influences of the world. There were temple prostitutes and all kinds of evil under the sun. Influenced by the demonic hierarchy and led by their feelings and dictations of their senses through the body, the people’s minds were filled with sinful thoughts, and they were living in trespasses and sins. Therefore, the Apostle Paul wrote to the churches to help them renew their minds and to know the promises of God. He taught them the positional truths, especially the new creation realities, to help them overcome their bondages of sexual sins.

The LGBTQ movement is being advocated through social media and pop culture. If parents don’t teach their children the right values in their formative years, they will be subject to wrong influences at a stage when they are most vulnerable. We also need to pay special attention to children from dysfunctional families or with absent parents because the lack of positive voices and role models in their lives will magnify their insecurity, longing for love and acceptance among their peers.

The weapon of our warfare is the Word of God. It acts like a light that shines into the darkness of our hearts and minds, and helps us to differentiate between right and wrong. We can pull down those arguments and feelings that make us confused about our genders even if they’ve become strongholds in our minds. Based on what the Word of God says, we can tell our minds what to think and our emotions what to feel, take captive of every wrong thought and bring it into the obedience of Christ. We can subdue those thinking and feelings with the power of the Holy Spirit.

Sermon Series: Natural or Unnatural? (PART 1 Gender Confusion)