This sermon has shown how we place responsibility exactly where the Bible has placed it. When you talk about obedience to God's commandments to love and from Ephesians 5, love is not just that emotion you keep feeling and it fades away when time comes for tests.
A man who truly loves himself does not just enjoy his own body but the same way a husband has no justification. It is more spiritual, emotional or cultural. So what makes this message somehow uncomfortable is that this removes all kinds of excuses.
When we talk about abuse, abuse is not just explained away as that anger issues but it's talking about that provocation. We have been in a position where the Bible has called us. Amen. So with the work of darkness, James makes it clear that every strife and all kinds of things do not just come from God. They are more of an earthly or sensual and devilish.
So at the same time, this teaching is not just about shifting all the blame to Satan alone in order to escape accountability, rather it is that act of warning us when a man walks in disobedience. At this time, he opens himself to a spirit that brings hatred and violence.
Amen.
What is God's will? God's will is to protect, not to destroy. This message is declaring in a manner that we stand it is not just that loud sign of worship that we engage in long prayers and all kinds of long acts, but it is obedient, expressed in love, especially at home.