Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are at war. Paul made it clear that we do not battle in the physical
realm, but in the spiritual realm—powerful spiritual beings, evil days,
darkness, the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in
the sons of disobedience, flaming darts of the evil one, this present darkness,
and spiritual forces of evil were all terms he used to describe that war.
12For
we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the
spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. [Ephesians 6:12 ESV]
Believers Do Not Battle an “Entity”, but an Enemy
Discussing sin, Farley wrote, “There’s a power called
sin, and its desire is to overtake
us. Again, we’re not speaking of sins or sinning but of an entity called sin”
(p. 116, emphasis in original). He
then asked the question,
