We No Longer Fight Because Jesus Won!

And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone - even alcohol. For by this time sanity will have returned. We will seldom be interested in liquor. If tempted, we recoil from it as from a hot flame. (AA, pg 84)

We do not fight, not because we are working a program, but because Jesus has done all the fighting, and has fulfilled all the requirements in our lives.

And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; 15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." (Colossians 2: 13-15)

The Enemy's greatest weapon is not earthquakes, natural disasters, or mean people.

He uses God's law, but we must remember that the law is good, when used for its intended purpose:

The law cannot justify us:

"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Romans 3: 20)

So what did the law do? Show us that we are sinners in need of a savior:

"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 5: 20-21)

and

"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 56The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 15: 55-57)

and

"Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers" (1 Timothy 1: 9)

Yet in Christ, we are all made the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5: 21)

The law was a means of guardianship for one group of people until Jesus came:

"But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster." (Galatians 3: 23-25)

We no longer fight because the battle has been won, and God causes us to walk in triumph in His Son (2 Corthians 2: 14)

We are more than conquerors (Romans 8: 37) because of all that Christ has done.

We no longer fight, because Jesus Christ has defeated the greatest enemy, death, and with death has also been removed shame, guilt, reproach, and all other forms of condemnation.

We receive all that we need because God has given us all things in His Son, Jesus!

We No Longer Fight -- not because of Twelve Steps, not because of AA, but because Jesus won, and in Christ we are  more than conquerors!