Mike Riddle Spiritual Warfare

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One of our members requested not only that we invite Mike Riddle back, but also that we ask him to speak on the topic of spiritual warfare, and I can tell you for sure that in my own family in the last few years, Mike knows too that we've faced a lot of spiritual warfare, and I'm sure a lot of people in our country, in our world are dealing with that as well.

So we're glad to have a military man here with some strategies. He knows the enemy, and he knows how to teach us to be prepared. Mike has a bachelor's in mathematics and a master's in education. He's the founder and president of Creation Training Initiative.

He is an international speaker and teacher on biblical creation, apologetics, and Christian education. And with that, we're happy to turn it over to you, Mike.

Spiritual Warfare as a Battlefield Briefing

Well, thank you, Terri. You forgot the most important thing. I have six very cute grandchildren.

That is important. Don't forget about your wife too, Leslie.

Yes, yes, 48 and a half years. But anyway, Terri, you mentioned my military. I was a proud member of the United States Marine Corps where we're trained how to fight physical wars. And we're trained to uphold the Constitution of the United States.

But there's another war going on in America, an even more important war, and that's our spiritual battle. And that's the one we're losing today is our spiritual battle. So I want to talk about that and what we can do to help fight this war.

So I'm going to start with something we learned in the United States Marine Corps. It's called a briefing. And before we send our troops to the battlefield, we sit down with them. And we go through this briefing.

And we do this briefing to help save their lives. So I'm going to do something very similar here. Because we talk about lives. We're talking about spiritual lives. We're talking about eternity. And many are perishing today.

And we need to go out there and learn how to fight this battle. So we're going to talk about what's our current situation, what our mission is. I find out most churches are unaware of our mission or do not know how to carry it out.

Then we're going to talk about execution, how to carry this mission out for nothing less than victory. We know in the end we do have victory. But in the meantime, we need to get on the battlefield and stop going back to our houses and going to our churches and putting barbed wire fences around there.

We need to get out into the public, onto the battlefield, and start witnessing and defending our faith. So we want to start with our situation. What is our current situation? Well, we're being bombarded.

The church is being bombarded by the public school system, universities, news media, and even many church leaders.

Get this.

Many church leaders are telling us the Bible or parts of the Bible are not relevant. And they're trying to reinvent God's Word. This coming out of many church leaders today. But the Bible, especially the first chapter, is not relevant.

Even the last chapter, they say, is not relevant. Well, without those two books, folks, the beginning book and the ending book, we don't have much of a Bible or things to look forward to. So we need to get on the battlefield.

So Jim Wilson, I've liked his quote. He's from the Naval Academy, wrote a book called Principles of War, a handbook on strategic evangelism. And he kind of puts this in perspective. In the study of warfare, great men have concluded that there are some overriding principles that if followed will always tend towards success in battle.

And if neglected or ignored will tend toward defeat or even destruction. Well, we have one of the principles that's been ignored in our church today. It's called education. We're playing education. We're not doing real education in the church, especially in this thing called Sunday school.

We meet for a week. We meet for about an hour a week, if that. And then we have somebody stand up there and talk a little bit, maybe a little interaction. And then we leave at the end of 12 weeks, 15 weeks, 20 weeks.

What can the people that attended that Sunday school class do with the information? Mostly nothing. We forgot how to do good education. And that's one of the principles we need to get back to. So we cannot ignore education anymore.

We need to learn how to make disciples. We need to learn how to make a good apologist. You go out there and defend the faith and be able to evangelize and bring down those strongholds. That's where we're losing the battle on the spiritual field.

So we look at the churches today, where many churches stand. They avoid controversial topics such as creation, sin, hell, and marriage. It's called soft teaching. That's not what the Bible tells us to do.

But we're not on the spiritual battlefield. We're not training our people in the church how to get into the spiritual battlefield. Many churches let the culture influence their teaching rather than influencing the culture with the gospel.

Many churches, I found out, don't even know the full content of the gospel. And so we have many people in our churches being susceptible to false gospels, false.

Teaching.

They're not discerning anymore. Then we have many churches with music with no gospel or doctrine in it whatsoever. So why are we even singing in those churches if they don't have the gospel or doctrine.

In them?

Then many churches make church growth their main goal rather than the Great Commission. And then we don't have many teachers who can equip their people to share and defend their faith. That's another standpoint.

Many churches, even Christian schools, do not have people in their school or churches who can equip their people to defend their faith. No wonder we're losing the spiritual battle. We haven't even got trained to get onto the battlefield yet.

So that's where many churches are today. So the question, what happens when the church stops teaching parts of the Bible? The answer is easy. The world will supply the answers. And that is what's happening to our youth.

We're sending our youth to the battlefield, the public school system, and even some Christian schools, unable to defend their faith and their easy prey by the world. And that's why so many of our youth have doubts about the Bible today.

It's because the church and the homes and the Christian schools have stopped teaching. We're just doing what we've always done, and we've gotten so comfortable. We're afraid to take a step and do something about it.

And as a result, over 60 of our youth are leaving the church today. And now we're finding out they're not coming back later. This came 60 from six different studies. Six completely different studies all came to the same conclusion.

Over 60 of our youth are leaving the church. That is disaster right there. That means that's why our country's in the trouble it's in. One of the main reasons for trouble, we keep losing one generation after another, because the church has become so apathetic.

They're unwilling to understand how to educate, how to make disciples. Here are some of the reasons out of these six different studies why our youth are leaving. These are no particular order. One of them is Christianity is shallow and too exclusive.

Why?

Now, exclusive. Yes, we are. There's only one way to get to heaven. That makes us exclusive, and that's through Jesus Christ. But shallow? Yes, try going to different churches and see what's being preached.

It's shallow, not in-depth, a lot of stories. That's one of the reasons, and our youth see that. They don't see any reason, compelling reason, to go to church anymore, because they're not learning anything.

They're not getting answers, and the church appears to be anti-science. Why in the world is that? God is the creator of all the science. He's not in a battle with himself. All the science agrees with God's Word.

So why are we appearing to be anti-science? Because the church stopped teaching, and our Christian schools don't have people qualified to teach on apologetics, how to defend the faith. And many of our Christian schools have science classes and have Bible classes, and they don't seem to mix.

So that sets up a dichotomy of science against the Bible. That's wrong way to do the schools. We need to integrate the Bible in every class we teach in school. It should be in our science classes, our math classes, our history classes.

It needs to be openly integrated, and that doesn't mean you just get up and start by saying a prayer. It's more than that. It has to be integrated into every subject, and it's not being integrated. And that causes that separation between science and the Bible, and it's the Christian schools causing this a lot of times.

We're learning about evolution in college. Our students aren't ready for this. They're getting beat up because nobody prepared them. And I understand the parent is the number one teacher, but they're not being trained either.

So where are they going to get their training? We have a problem in Christian education. We're not on the spiritual battlefield. Lack of specific or scientific evidence for a creator. It's everywhere, folks.

Everywhere you look, there's scientific evidence for a creator. So why aren't we being trained to use it? Number five, college is a hostile environment towards Christianity. Yes, in high school, you might get your grades sacrificed a little bit.

You might get a little ridiculed. But in college, you're going to be openly ridiculed. You'll lose your grade, and you might even not. And it's a war there in the colleges. So we're sending our children to the battlefield unprepared.

That'd be like going to a battle where you've got guns and tanks and cannons and machine guns, and all you have is a slingshot. You're not going to go very far because your name is not David. And then the teaching of moral relativism.

Our students can't handle this, such as there are no absolutes. That's true for you, but not for me. And finally, what we're finding in these youth groups, many are not even sane. What does that tell you about our leadership in our youth groups?

Many are not sane. And yet, those are the ones that go on these big trips to other countries and other states to go do so-called witnessing. Many are not sane. The leaders in our youth groups, that's their number one priority, to make sure everyone in there fully knows and agrees with the gospel of Jesus Christ and accepts that, as they're accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

That is their number one mission right there, and that's not happening. So those are some of the main reasons our youth are leaving the church. So since the main youth are leaving the church, we must understand why.

We gave you some of those reasons, but here's what I call a wrong answer and a right answer. The wrong answer is this, and this is what's happening in many churches. Reinvent the church to be more like the culture.

That is the wrong answer. The right answer, we need to understand how the culture is challenging God's Word and train our people how to respond to these challenges. That is not happening in our churches today.

We go to church, we hear mostly a lukewarm sermon, sometimes a good sermon, then we go home, and there's no training. What about Sunday school, Mike? Well, most churches could do without it. Yes, we learn a few things, but we're not able to use it because we don't know how to do good education like the Bible teaches.

Learn how Jesus taught His disciples. Wonderful training there. The greatest teacher of all time. Learn how He taught and how He trained His 12, and you'll find out what we're doing in church is not how He did His training.

We're in a spiritual war. We have many false teachings and many false gospels out there, including in our mainline churches, false gospels being taught. Now, here's a survey done through Answers in Genesis, an American research group.

It is in the book, already gone. And they did a survey. When did you first have doubts about the Bible? And here's some of the results. Don't know, about 1 .5 of people, youth, said they don't know.

Elementary school, 4 .5 said they had doubts about the Bible.

Let's look at college.

Only about 10 .5 said they had doubts. That's when they first had doubts.

Why?

Why is that so low? We'd already lost them before then. Look at these next two. Middle school, almost 40 of our middle school students, Christians, have doubts about the Bible. And high school, over 43%.

Between middle and high school, that's over 80 of our Christian students have doubts about the Bible. What does that tell us about our Christian education there? It's not working. We're not doing the right thing.

What we're doing has got to change. We can't keep the status quo there. We're going to continue to lose one generation after another. I'd look at these courses that youth pastors have to take in college.

You can do away with a lot of them because they're not training them what needs to be done to get our students spiritually ready for what's going to attack them. So, let's take a look at the state of Christian education.

Many seminary graduates are unable to defend their faith. Isn't that sad? Seminary graduates cannot defend their faith. Churches seldom bring up topics like creation, evolution, moral relativism, or even the new ones like social justice and critical race theory.

They don't know how to teach about it. And our Christian universities simply are not helping us. I look at the courses that they give in many of our Christian universities, especially the ones that have apologetics.

And here's what I see happening a lot in our Christian universities when they have apologetics. They're training our students about the history of apologetics. You know, all the times I've debated, all the times I've talked to people, I've never had to resort to the history of apologetics.

That's not going to help them get on the battlefield. Or they teach about a lot of philosophy. I've not run into philosophy either. Why don't we get started and teach biblical apologetics? Because that's not the way they've always done it.

They've got to be academic. We've got to talk about the history of philosophy. We need to change our Christian universities. They need to get on the battlefield. And first of all, they need to understand there is a war going on and learn how to fight this battle.

But they're not doing that. Youth leaders are unable to train their students to defend their faith because they haven't been trained. Our uncertainty, we have a major breakdown in the Christian education system.

No wonder we're losing the spiritual realm. And most Christian leaders were not prepared to carry out the Great Commission against the strongholds of evolution and moral religions. Folks, the Great Commission is a command.

That should be the mission of every single church in this country. But it's not. And those that do have it on their mission statement don't know how to carry it out. They don't know how to make real disciples and get them prepared for the spiritual battlefield.

So understanding the opposition. If we're going to go to war, in physical war, we need to prepare ourselves. Who is the enemy? What's the enemy like? Spiritual warfare, we need to understand the opposition.

What are we fighting against? Well, we know our ultimate enemy is Satan himself. But we need to understand his tactics. We understand how he recruits people into his kingdom and how he uses people in his.

Kingdom.

So let's start with this one here. This is our opposition. In 2007, atheists come up with something called the Atheist Indoctrination Project. Now, what was that about? Well, here's a quote from that project.

It seems atheists have developed a comprehensive strategy to win the minds of the next generation. Notice that. They're out to win the minds of the next generation. Wouldn't that be nice if the church would do that?

But here's their strategy. The strategy can be described simply, let the religious people breed them. And we will educate them to despise their parents' beliefs. In fact, it is to a large degree orchestrated by teachers and professors to promote anti-religious agendas.

You see what they're saying there? We have all our Christians out there, but they're doing the education, not the church. And that's why we're losing over 60%. They are serious about education. They control most of the education in this country, including many Christian churches, so-called Christian churches.

Here's another one. The Northern Arizona University, they're required to take freshman honors class. It's the book they had to read, written by Chris Hedges. He's a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.

And I'll let you know, Harvard Divinity School has really nothing to do with the Bible. Nothing to do with it. It's a pagan degree you get. So let me show you something about what was in that book. It's called this, The American Fascists, The Christian Right, and The War in America.

That's the subtype. And here's a quote from that book. Followers, evangelical Christians in the movement are locked within closed systems of information and indoctrination that cater to their hates and prejudices.

This is what they're learning at that school as freshmen. Then it goes on to say this. Most of America's fundamentalist and evangelical churches are led by pastors who peddle this non-reality belief system.

One that embraces magic and fiction of a Christian nation. This is what they're learning in the secular universities today. This is not an isolated case. Are you parents aware of this? Churches, are you even understanding this is going on?

And we're not combating it. Here's a comment from a student who attended that class. I didn't know Christians were so bad. We'd already lost them. Now here's a comment from a mother whose student was in that class.

Don't Christian realize what their children will be up against? If they do, why aren't they preparing their children for these battles? What a wonderful question. Why aren't the churches and Christian schools preparing our youth for spiritual battlefield?

We've gotten lazy and we've gotten comfortable. We've always done it this way. No need to change.

That is sad.

Here's another one. It's called the Clergy Letter Project. As of March 2021, 17 ,311 clergy of different denominations signed the Clergy Letter Project.

What is this project?

What did they sign? Here's what they had to sign. We, the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth. One that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests.

Over 17 ,000 clergy and church leaders signed that letter. 17 ,311 church leaders on Charles Darwin's birthday week in February preached Charles Darwin and evolution. They elevate Charles Darwin to be equal to or greater than God's word on that Sunday.

You can actually go out to their website and get ready-made sermons, how to teach evolution from the pulpit. 17 ,000 do that. What are we doing in the church? Business as usual. Let's be comfortable.

Let's not rock the boat. Let's make it easy for everybody. Don't preach the hard subjects in there. They're too controversial. Creation is much too controversial. Yes, so is the cross. So why are you teaching that?

They're influencing our youth not to believe the Bible right from the pulpit. Any church that's afraid to teach that God created everything in six days, it's influencing our youth not to believe the Bible.

Here's another project. Life Sciences Education. American Society for Cell Biology came up with a plan called Thinking Evolutionary Initiative. Came out in October 2011. The Thinking Evolutionary Initiative.

And here's what they do. They develop implement models of successful professional development for teaching evolution. They are helping their teachers teach evolution. Is the church helping anybody teach creation?

They identify sources of funding for K through 12 for teachers to attend professional society meetings. They help pay the teachers ways to come to these courses how to teach evolution.

What are we doing here?

We've got a lot of creation ministers around the country. Are we holding courses? Our ministry holds courses for doing this. We're not getting paid a whole lot to do that. It takes money to do good education.

Christians need to stop complaining and start putting up in their pocketbook and helping fund some of these creation organizations to help our youth. And stop that 60%. They find effective ways to train teachers to teach evolutionary thinking.

There is a need to create teacher leaders. There was trained master teachers. So they can go out and train other side of teaching. This is what our ministry is doing. We're just a small ministry folks.

But we need the opportunity to train many many teachers to get on the spiritual battlefield. They develop clear messages about the importance of thinking evolutionary. Our church is just avoid the whole topic.

They're more serious than we are. And they interact with communities, engage them as partners in education. And they utilize social networking. The world is far ahead of the church. That's why this country is falling apart.

The world is out educating the church. We're losing the spiritual battle. Here's Randy Douglas, PhD professor of ministry, made this statement. College is a war zone for young believers. We are not prepared for the battle of their faith.

They're simply not prepared for the battle of their faith. They're not prepared to go to the battlefield. Why are we so willing to sacrifice our youth? It starts in the home. We need to be serious in the home about training our youth.

No matter where you send your children, whether it's private school, Christian school, public school, you need to make sure you know what they're being taught so that can be common. If you don't have the background, you need to go to your church and say, we need courses here.

There is spiritual battle going on. We're in a spiritual war and the church needs to wake up. Parents need to know and our Christian schools need to start preparing our youth for this battle. Here's Ben Shapiro, graduate of Harvard Law School, got his undergraduate at UCLA.

College students are attacked with bias from the moment they step on campus till the time they leave it. The effect is devastating. The burgeoning problem of brainwashing by the universities must be combated.

Folks, he's not even a Christian as far as I know. He's not even a Christian. He sees the problem in the church. We're not doing our job. So, I want to show you something about the trend. The percentage of people with a biblical worldview is declining with each new generation.

Let's look at this chart. Starting way back with my generation, the baby boomers, all the way to today, the Gen Z. Notice the percentage with a biblical worldview is going down with each generation. Those are pretty liberal.

It's much less than 4 today that have a biblical worldview. That downward chart there, what it's showing, the downward trend, says this clearly. It's screaming this, that what we're doing is not working.

We need to start something called education in the churches. We need to learn how to educate our youth so they're ready for the battlefield. Stop doing what you're doing, and let's stop being lazy and apathetic, and get on the spiritual battlefield.

Now, I know I'm talking hard here, but somebody has to do it. We need to get out of our slumber, our comfortableness, and learn how to educate and prepare our youth for the battle they're going to be in.

We cannot afford to lose another generation. And unfortunately, we've almost lost this next generation. So the question, who should we blame? Should we blame the pro-abortionists? How about we blame the evolutionists, or the gay rights activists, the relativists, or the teachers and professors who want to teach all of these things?

The answer is no, folks. They're not to blame. They're a problem, yes, but they're not to blame. The blame goes on the church. Ladies and gentlemen, we've had decades to prepare ourselves for these, and we decided we did not want to do it.

We just decided we'll keep the status quo. We'll keep on doing what we've always done. We had decades to prepare ourselves for the attacks by the abortion industry. We've had decades to prepare ourselves against the downfall of marriage, biblical marriage.

But we decided we don't need to do that. We're comfortable. Let's keep preaching our sermons every week, and we'll have our Sunday school, and everybody can get up and have a good time. We need to learn that there's spiritual battle going on.

It's run by Satan, and he's recruiting people into his kingdom. We have to stop letting him recruit this next generation. Let me go to the next slide here. We just had a crash there. There we go. We're on again.

It's nice when computers fix themselves real quick. Here's another quote from Vodibach and Guttis Diemen. It's cited in a wonderful book called Indoctrination. It says this, The correlation is clear. If we continue to send our children to Caesar for their education, we need to stop being surprised when they come home as Romans.

We're losing over 60 of our youth because we fail to train them and equip them. So that's our situation. Now let's get down to our mission. What is our mission? Well, that's easy. I don't have to invent a single thing here.

Our mission, every church has this same mission. Well, they should have, but they don't. Our mission is this. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you.

And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

Amen.

That should be the mission of every church. Folks, that should be the mission of every Sunday school program, but it is not. Folks, the pastor's job is to preach God's word from the pulpit. The Sunday school program should be making disciples, but it is not doing that.

That's why we're losing so many youth. Matthew 28, 19, and 20. Let's take that mission apart. We have the word go, but in the Greek there, it means going. It's a participle. This is not just going on a mission trip and you're done with your mission there.

No.

This is a lifelong thing.

It's a participle.

It means going, continue doing this. Then we have another participle for those of you who love English, usually end in I-G. We're going to be out there baptizing and get this next part, teaching, continue to teach this next generation.

So three participles in there, going, baptizing, teaching. And there's one imperative verb in there. We are to make disciples. That's a breakdown in our churches today. It's a breakdown in our Christian schools today, making disciples.

Yes, our schools are doing a good job of being academic, but they're not preparing the youth for the battlefield. Mission. Let's take a look at the children. Proverbs 22, 6. Train up a child in the way he should go.

And when he's old, he will not part for it. What does that tell us? We need to be training our children. No guarantee they won't fall away, but the Bible tells us we should be training our children, starting in the home.

Parents, this is your responsibility above any church or other school. Deuteronomy chapter six, verses six and seven, our mission. And these words, which I noticed this word, I command you today shall be in your heart.

You shall teach them diligently to your children and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, when you rise up. Folks, our mission is to teach our children, make disciples.

And that's not happening. So let's get to the last part, execution. We know we have a problem. We're in a serious situation. We're losing over 60 of our youth. The churches don't understand education or don't want to do it because they're too comfortable.

So what can we do to solve this problem? Well, the plan of action is right out of the Bible, folks. 2 Timothy 2 .2, one of the greatest verses in the Bible on discipleship. And it teaches this, and the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

What does this mean? Well, Paul is talking to Timothy and Paul tells Timothy this, Timothy, now that I've trained you, you go out and do what I did. You train others how to teach also. What a model right there out of the Bible, where to be training others how to teach.

So they in turn can train this next generation. It is called discipleship. It's not easy all the time, but the Bible is telling us this is what we have to do. So the plan of action preparing the next generation, what do you need to know to be able to defend their faith and become better evangelists in a world that is hostile to the Bible?

Wow, that question should be asked by every youth pastor, every pastor in the church, every parent should be asking that question. What do we need to know to help our youth be able to defend their faith?

What do they need? They're on the battlefield already. We send them to public schools. About 90 of our Christian youth go to public schools. They are in the middle of the battlefield. What do they need?

And that's what I want to address you. Preparing youth for the battlefield, the spiritual battlefield. I'm going to call this the big nine. I'm going to go through it right here. Then we're going to take each one piece at a time.

We'll give you all nine of these. What our youth need to know when we send them out there to the battlefield. Number one, they need to know, share, and defend the gospel of Jesus Christ. I ask youth pastors a question.

I used to ask them several questions. Now I only asked them one question. If you have your students for one year, at the end of that one year, what would you want your students to be able to know or do?

And I get very few with the correct answer. Very few have the correct answer. And here's your answer. It's right there. They should be able to know, share, and defend the gospel of Jesus Christ and put on there, also believe it.

Know, share, defend the gospel of Jesus Christ. That should be the foremost thing we teach every one of our youth. To be able to do that and do it comfortably. We need to train them how to think and live biblically.

It's called a biblical worldview. Many of our youth, you saw less than 4 of our Christian youth have a biblical worldview. Matter of fact, it's come out recently that less than 50 of evangelical pastors in this country have a biblical worldview.

No wonder we're children. How to respond to biblical challenges. We need to train them how to do that. How to think critically and analyze statements and challenges. Remember, we're just going through a quick list of the nine here.

Then we're going to go through each one. How to refute evolutionism. Number six, presuppositional or how to use biblical apologetics. Number seven, how to respond to the claims of moral relativeness. Number eight, how to recognize and respond to biblical compromise.

And number nine, a new one, how to respond to the social justice movement and critical race theory. Our churches got blindsided. We had decades to prepare for this and we never saw it coming. And the church is completely blindsided again.

So let's go through these. Number one, the gospel. I find many churches either don't know or don't believe the full context of the gospel. There's number one problem. They don't understand or don't believe the full context of the gospel.

Know the gospel, share the gospel, defend the gospel. There are many false gospels in our churches today. There's the gospel of social justice, which is a completely false gospel. The soft gospel, the prosperity gospel, health and wealth.

Just send your money and we'll pray for you and you'll be prosperous. The cheap grace gospel. I say I'm saved, then I can go out and do anything I want because I'm saved. That Jesus loves you. Folks, that's not the gospel.

He loves you.

We know that, but that's not the gospel. Or a good God would never send anyone to hell. Folks, that's not the gospel. The sinner's prayer. Nowhere in the Bible does it say, save this prayer and you're going to be saved.

It's not to say that anywhere in the Bible, but that's where a lot of churches are today. Then there's the God-used evolution, which is a false gospel. All those are being used in churches across this country.