Various · Ephesians 6.

Verse 12. "For we wrestle not with flesh and blood," etc. The quality of our adversaries, and the manner of our warfare, are now further opened to us. First, we wrestle not with flesh and blood, According to our birth and lineage, so is our conflict. We are born, as believers, not of flesh and blood, but of God. Hie enemies are, therefore, ours. We inherit, with the treasures of His love, His eternal enmity against the Wicked One (Ex. 17:16). As it respects personal enmities, dead men can have none. And _we_are dead with Christ. It is because we are also risen with Him that we find ourselves exposed to the enmity of that which crucified Him, and still disallows His name. Of the enemies arrayed against us, there is, indeed, a fearful number, and of mighty power. When we consider them under the names and descriptions which they here receive, we may well feel as grasshoppers in their sight. But they are in the land which is the Lord's, and our calling is to dispossess them by the power of His might (cp. Num. 13:30-33).