Jonah 4

Paul finishes Ephesians with this section so that we would take the devil seriously.

That we – St Nic’s Rockingham - would know we are in a real, viscous, spiritual war.

We can’t see this war  – but we feel its blows.

We’re not  threatened with bombs – but this war threatens to knock us off our feet – as we seek to live for Jesus.

The battle scars are wrecked lives, broken marriages, split churches and Christians giving-up on Jesus.

… or just sliding back into the old pre-Jesus life.

So why don’t we take it seriously?

We take the threat of job redundancy or our health seriously. But not the devil.

One preacher said: “We think of the world not as a battleground, but a playground”

This passage is in the bible so that we would know we live in a battleground, take the devil seriously and stand firm.