Ligonier Ministries, Aug, 2015
To become a Christian is to be enlisted in a war, one that is fought on three main fronts. In this session, Rev. Voddie Baucham will remind us how the world, the flesh, and the devil work against the kingdom of God. He will explain why battle, struggle, and hardship should not surprise us as Christians.
Baucham does an excellent job of explaining the forms that temptation can take. BTW, I read about those exact words – the world, the flesh, and the devil – years ago. They were said to a St. Bernadette Soubirous during a Marian apparition, but this is the first explanation I’ve heard of them. It is outstanding for sure.
There are other points I could bring up but I won’t because they’re too lengthy. I will say that one cannot omit the role that love plays in our salvation, as in “greater love has no man than this, that he should die for his friends”. With great enough love, we can overcome many evils, so we should pray for greater love from God, that we may overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil for His greater glory.
I find that simpler than being tortured by theology. I’ll leave that to others.