Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

"....guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called 'knowledge' which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith...

John MacArthur writes in The Truth War ~

'The gospel message is a clear, definitive, confident, authoritative proclamation that Jesus IS LORD, and that He gives eternal life, abundant life to all who will believe. We who truly know Christ and have received that gift of eternal life have also received a clear and definitive commission to deliver the gospel message boldly as His ambassadors.

But we are not merely ambassadors - we are soldiers, commissioned to wage war for the defense and dissemination of the truth.

We are ambassadors with a message of good news for people who walk in a land of darkness and dwell in the land of the shadow of death. And we are soldiers - charged with the pulling down of strongholds and casting down the lies and deception spawned by the forces of evil.

Our task as ambassadors is to bring good news - our mission as soldiers is to overthrow false ideas. Our warfare is not against flesh and blood and our duty as ambassadors does not permit us to compromise or align ourselves with any kind of human philosophies, religious deceit or falsehood. We are not called to wage war against people or to enter into diplomatic relations with anti-Christian ideas.

If these sound like difficult assignments - it is because they are.!.'

...Grace be with you." 2 Timothy 6:20-21