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Introduction: This passage deals with the Christian, his battle, his struggles and weapons.
 

1.Paul was accused of living by the worlds standards and not Yahweh's (v.1-2).
2. Christians are at war but  we cant fight  in a fleshly way (v.3-5).

1. (10:1-2) People were saying Paul was walking after the flesh. That means he wasn't living by Yah’s Word, but by the worlds. He was doing his own thing.They were saying two things about Paul.

1.Some were saying that Paul was fake (2 Cor. 10:1). That’s what the word  “base” means. They were saying that Paul was bold in his instructions; he gave them the business when he was writing to them, but he was all shy when it came to speaking face to face with them.

Check out Paul’s answer to the church and to his critics; it was respectful but it was  a blunt warning:

“I beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ.”

Basically Paul is saying if I’m weak, then so is Yahoshua (Jesus). Christ was meek and gentle in handling the insults, attacks, rumors, lies, wrong, and evil done to Him. Paul was saying that Jesus Christ was his example in dealing with people; that is the reason he was meek and gentle when preaching and confronting people face to face. He was not base and lowly because he was a punk, but because Jesus Christ demonstrated how people are to be handled, even people who are evil and in error. Jesus Christ confronted people in meekness and gentleness; therefore, he, Paul, was meek and gentle.

2.Some were saying that Paul was carnal—that he walked after the flesh. This means several things:

• that Paul was not really saved.
• that Paul was preaching and ministering in the flesh; he was not really called of God.
• that Paul was living in the flesh; he was an ungodly and immoral man seeking only to please and live for himself.
• that he was only after a personal following—only seeking to sell his own ideas and position—only interested in getting money and props.

Paul says that he will confront these critics when he arrives in Corinth. He has the confidence, that is, the inner strength and boldness, to confront them; and he will. But notice even in this declaration of spiritual strength and boldness, Paul was meek and gentle.

2. (10:3-5) Christians go to war but not in a fleshly way. This is a passage every christian should memorize and think about often. It forces the believer to discipline and gain control over his mind and thoughts. Check out three main points.
1. All believers are in a spiritual war! Scripture is perfectly clear about this:

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritualwickedness in high places” (Ephes. 6:12).



The war is not against flesh and blood, against physical and material beings, but against spiritual forces. Spiritual forces lie behind man’s evil and lustful behavior, unbelief and arguments against God. These spiritual forces attack the imaginations and thoughts of you and me!  They inject selfish and devilish ideas against God and against other men. And from the energy of these ideas come the evil acts of men.
checkout two things.

• Selfish, evil, and lustful thoughts are mental and immaterial. Ideas and thoughts are not physical and material substances. They are invisible and mental substances.
• Selfish, evil, and lustful ideas are by nature not of God. God is not evil, selfish, or lustful; therefore, such evil thoughts and reasonings are often injected into the mind of men by spiritual forces that stand opposed to God.

Paul’s point is this: he and other believers “walk in the flesh”; that is, they live in a body just like all other people. But they do not war in the flesh. They do not fight the struggles of life using only their own strength. Why? Because believers know that there is a spiritual warfaregoing on for the minds and lives of people. Believers know that the evil forces of the spiritual world lie behind...

• sin and evil
• disorder and devastation
• corruption and deterioration
• death and hell

Believers know that they cannot “war after the flesh”; that no man nor any combination of men can conquer the spiritual forces that tear and eat away at man until they destroy him. No matter how strong, educated, or scientific man may become, he cannot deliver himself from the spiritual forces that cause sin and death.

2.The Christians’s weapons are not physical, but spiritual. Physical or carnal weapons would be human weapons of the mind and body such as...

• discipline and control
• strength and ability
• knowledge and intelligence
· science and technology
• ideas and thoughts
• beliefs and doctrines
• resolutions and rules
• health and esteem
• education and social development
• 
wealth and welfare
· eloquence and personality
• appearance and attractiveness
• laws and principles

Naturally, every human power and weapon available should be developed and used to the fullest extent possible. The human body and the world are said to be the temple of the Lord, two of the places where He dwells. But Christians know  there’s nothing in the world that can conquer the spiritual forces that lie behind the evil and death of this world. That’s why he fights the spiritual battles of this life with spiritual weapons, weapons that are of God and are made mighty and powerful by God.
Now check this out. Christians use spiritual weapons to “pull down strongholds.”  Look at the news and behavior of people day by day, and  you will see evil is everywhere. You can’t defeat evil with carnal weapons because its to strong. Only the spiritual weapons of God can beat evil.