Famous actor and outspoken Christian Jim Caviezel recently spoke with former Navy SEAL Shawn Ryan on his podcast about the eye-opening reality of spiritual warfare. As the Bible teaches us in Ephesians 6:12, “12 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.”
Broaching the topic, Ryan began, “We talked a little bit about spiritual warfare before, yes, we started recording and with my new with my new faith, I think it’s my mission to spread the word, and it’s it’s already connecting me to people that I never would have been connected with before, like yourself, couple other people that are coming on the show soon.”
He continued, “And everybody that’s around me, that is a believer, that’s close to me has come to me and told me, be careful. You need to watch out. Eli Crane told me there are no free shots on target when you’re talking about spiritual warfare and that evil will start to try to seep into my life the louder I get about this. Did you experience anything like that?”
Responding, Caviezel suggested this view was incorrect, explaining that God’s children are protected. “That right there you’re saying that that’s garbage. And I want to tell you, Michael the archangel is is a patron saint to the Navy SEALs. Do you know this prayer say, Michael the archangel, defend us in battle,” he said.
The actor continued, “Your protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke and we humbly pray and do thou, Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell, Satan and all those these wicked spirits that move throughout the world, these these entities, will pay a high price when they dare get near God’s children and your God’s child, your prayers.”
“See, every time they do that, they risk being tossed into the furnace forever,” Caviezel said, discussing the the spiritual forces that protect followers of Christ. “And so this is their their job, they serve underneath this wicked beast, and he’s a beast, but we have to be you’re you’re different. Jesus often references sheep all the time. And when Jesus goes and leaves to find that one rescue sheep.”
Caviezel also pointed out the biblical wisdom that there are false teachers among the Christian community. “It’s not authentic, and there are a lot of wolves in sheep’s clothing, and our this modern day Christianity, fake that and and it’s in the church, it’s in the clergy, it’s in the bishops,” he said to Ryan.
Later in the discussion, Caviezel gave a sobering reminder for Christians to not be licentious, pointing out that faith without works is dead as cited in 1 James. “It’s what you do. Faith, without your works, is dead, 1James. So many people say, but they don’t do,” he said. 1 James 26 states, “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”
Watch the interview below:
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