The Christian Life: A Battle on Two Fronts

The Christian life is difficult, it is challenging, and it is a battle on two fronts.

One, internally. We fight on the inside because we still have remaining

sin. We have not yet had the redemption of our bodies. We still,

as Paul says in Romans 7, do things we don't want to do and fail to do things we

desire to do, and he sums it up by saying, "Who will deliver me from the body

of this death?" There is an internal struggle and it is waged around three impulses:

the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of

life, named specifically in 1 John 2. So we understand that internal struggle.