"The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."
2 Corinthians 10:4&5 


We live in times when the world is putting up as many arguments as possible to the reality of our God. Although a great percentage of people today believe in God, many refuse to believe the one true God, who is the Father of us all. And so they argue. It is interesting that when God is mentioned, few are threatened. When Jesus is mentioned, the vast majority are offended. When the Holy Spirit is spoken of, very few remain to believe in the one true God manifest in the three persons of the trinity. 
    If we are not careful, we will fall into the trap of watering down the message of Jesus. Since the word 'God' is more palatable, we stop short of speaking the name of Jesus. However, Jesus offended some. He was not willing to compromise who he was and what he came to do. At the end of his ministry on earth, only a hundred and twenty followers remained. All the others fell away. But there was a divine power, one that would only become greater after Jesus ascended to the right hand of the Father. And that divine power is now ours. So we are the ones who demolish strongholds, arguments and pretensions. But we must choose to do so.
    We never use the same weapons the world does, for if we do, we are forsaking divine power for worldly strength. Our weapons are spiritual. They are forged in the light of heaven and distributed by God himself. No weapon of the world can stand against the divinely powerful weapons of God. The weapons of the kingdom of Heaven are virtues like humility, love, patience, esteem for others, peace, and servanthood. The world does not understand these things because they are polar opposites of the principles of this world. When we use the weapons of heaven, we are conspicuous, noticeably different. 
    We are called to be ones who wield the weapons of the Spirit. We are called to be different than those around us. We are called to live in the Spirit, not the flesh. If ever the ideas of the world creep into our minds, we take those thoughts captive and make them obedient to Christ. In this way, we remain the victors, and we never submit to the basic principles of the world. As Christians, we are set apart. We have been called for a purpose. To fulfill the call, we must use the weapons that are divinely powerful, not worldly and weak. Take up the spiritual weapons and put away all arguments.