Insights On Spiritual Warfare from 1 & 2 Kings

Our class discussion on 1 & 2 Kings surfaced these insights on spiritual warfare:

1. Compromise with the enemy weakens us for the continuing battle.
2. Compromise with the enemy is disobedience toward God and can bring swift and severe chastening
3. When the true God is rejected, a false god will fill the spiritual vacuum. This is true both for the individual and for a society.
4. We should seek biblical guidance and counsel if we wish to win our spiritual battles (Prov 20.18)
5. Wisdom is supremely important in spiritual warfare (Prov 4.7), but the biblical writers never conceived of a cerebral “wisdom” apart from personal relationship with God (Prov 9.10). Superior intellect alone will never win spiritual battles.