Spiritual Warfare...The Matrix..."Wake Up"

The Matrix fight scenes as a metaphor for our spiritual warfare against "the powers and principalities" – as the Apostle Paul wrote, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Eph 6:12 TNIV).

Just as Neo stops the bullets of the Agents we to, “….can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one” (Eph 6:16).

It is our mind and our imagination that makes reality and it is what we use to fight the spiritual realm… In the book of Romans, Paul wrote this, “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will” (Rom 12:2). Greg Boyd in his book Seeing Is Believing wrote, “We become what we imaginatively see. If we all imaginatively see are the vivid re-presentations that have been instilled in us by the pattern of the world, we will be conformed to the patterns of this world. But if we learn to imaginatively see ‘the glory of God in the face of Jesus’ (2 Cor. 4:6), we will be transformed ‘from one degree of glory to another’ (2 Cor. 3:18)….. “We are continually interpreting our world, and the way we interpret it is mostly determined by the way aspects of our world trigger imaginative re-presentations that encode messages, create feelings, and thus motivate behavior. The re-presentations that are most vivid, most concrete and most like our physical experience exercise the strongest influence on our lives.”
We must awake; “This is why it is said: ‘Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you’” (Eph 5:14).

Awake out of the Matrix of the “…deceptive state of being…” to the reality that is in Jesus and fight the fight against an Enemy that cannot conceive that he has already lost, “When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature (the deceptive state of being), God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross” (Col 2:13-15).

So the Enemy lashes out against any advancement of the Kingdom of God, to any liberation, any awaking to the really real – God and his Kingdom.