Where is spiritual wickedness located according to this teaching?
Spiritual wickedness is located in high places, not down in the gutter, skid row, or among the offscouring of humanity. This teaching stresses these are high positions of tremendous power and authority, and believers are up against something beyond the normal.
Les teaches from Ephesians 6:12 that the believer does not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. He emphasizes that this wickedness is not down in the gutter, not on skid row, not out among the offscouring of humanity, but in high places. Les says this should wake us up, because we are up against something beyond the normal, with tremendous power and position. He compares the same Greek word in Matthew 10:1, where Jesus called His twelve disciples and gave them power.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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Why should the truth about spiritual powers in high places wake us up?
The enemy believers face is beyond the normal, has tremendous power, and holds high position, which is why this truth should wake us up.