Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
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… and having done everything to stand firm. Stand firm then with the belt of truth buckled around your waist and with the breastplate of righteousness in place and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel, the good news of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith with which you are able to extinguish all the fiery arrows of the evil one Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and pray. Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. pray also for me that whenever I open my mouth words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in chains pray that I may declare it boldly as I should in the name of Jesus Amen archived audio our mobile app and much more that's LutheranHour.org in danger all the way. …
will accept to join me in Ephesians chapter 6 Ephesians chapter 6 verse 13 and 14 unusual love is our focus for the month of February. On Tuesday, David and Tamela Mann is going to be with us, engaged in a conversation. I hope that you'll come and you'll be a part of it. On next Sunday, over 100 married couples in our church are going to renew their vows. It's going to be an amazing, amazing time. And in this same place that I stand next Sunday, I'll be preaching with Mrs. Bryant. She's going to preach with me. And it's going to be a wonderful, wonderful encounter with God. Ephesians chapter 6, verse 13 and 14. Amen. Ephesians chapter 6, verse 13 and 14. Let's read together with uplifted voices. Come on, everybody. Therefore. Bless the Lord. Let's read verse number 14 again with a little bit more vim, vigor, and enthusiasm. Everybody, stand firm then. Amen. You may be seated. the King James version puts it this way and having done all to stand stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth and having the breastplate of righteousness I'm going to preach today using as a subject I'm trying to keep it together I'm trying to keep it together would you lean into the person beside you tell them I need you to pray for me because I'm trying to keep it together. …
… and having done all to stand. Stand therefore having girded your waist with the truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. above all, above all, taking the shield of faith with which you are able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. I love and I want to center in on verse 16. Above all, above all, taking the shield of faith, the truth is it is essential for us to have faith in God. Faith is the currency that heaven trades in. If you get anything from God, you give God faith, and He, in return to your faith, saves you. And every other promise in the Scripture is unattainable without faith. …
… Put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground. And after you've done everything to stand, stand firm then with the belt of truth. buckled around your waist with the breastplate of righteousness in place and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. And if that's not enough, pray. This is how we fight. and pray. How do you pray? Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. And with this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people. Pray also for me that whenever I speak, now remember, Paul is in a jail when he's writing this. He has been arrested when he's writing this. He's in chains when he's writing this. …
… It's the same exact word that Paul uses in Ephesians chapter six, verse 14. put on truth some people say you have to check your mind at the door to become a Christian to have faith and that is the farthest thing from the truth faith in Jesus revolves around and requires thinking all the time about what is true worldliness involves not thinking just go along with what the world says about money and sex and ambition and a million other things Christianity says, no, think about what's true. Do you see the spiritual battle that is taking place between your ears every day? Your mind is a battleground. And there are spiritual forces of evil who want to have their way in it, that want you to believe all kinds of lies about yourself, about your circumstances, about others, about the world, and ultimately about God himself. And if spiritual battle begins in your mind, then that means spiritual victory comes through believing and spreading what is true. …
… to stand your ground. After you have done everything to stand, stand firm. Stand firm with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. Paul is painting this picture of a soldier getting ready for battle because it's one thing to recognize that there is an enemy. It's another thing to realize that you have to get ready to fight back against the enemy. I think that one of the ways that the enemy attacks us is by diverting our attention. You think your enemy is your boss or your spouse or maybe your mother-in-law, not me. Some of us wake up in the morning. We're ready for a fight with the wrong enemy. Paul says our struggle is not against people. It's not against flesh and blood. It is against spiritual forces in a heavenly realm. And you've got to get ready. And here's how you do it. He says, you put on your armor. Now, when we get dressed for the day, at least when I get dressed for the day, the last thing I do is put my shoes on. But if you were putting on armor, like, you know, you're going to have a breastplate and a shield and a sword. Your hands are going to be tied up. So you got to put your shoes on first, right? And Paul says that our feet are fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. Look at your neighbor and say, I'm ready. …
… Today is the final installment, finally, of this series on spiritual warfare. We've gone through Ephesians chapter 6, verses 10 through 20, and we've been looking at these. weapons, this armor that Paul tells the church in Ephesus to have. We have put on, looked at each one of these weapons, each one of these, this armor. Finally, my brethren, verse 10. Verse 10, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole arm of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand. Stand therefore, verse 14, having girded your waist with truth. Somebody say truth, truth, truth. Having put on the breastplate of righteousness. …
… Allow me to take a moment to read verses 10 through 17 of Ephesians 6. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, verse 13, take up the whole arm of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand. Stand, therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all, somebody say above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. …
… Stand therefore having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one and take the helmet of salvation. That's where we are today. Somebody say, the helmet of salvation. Look at your neighbor and say, we need to put the helmet of salvation on. No, no, I'm sorry. You need to put the helmet of salvation on for your big head. Go ahead and tell them for your head, your big head. We want to put on the helmet of salvation. We talked about all of these various armor that Paul the apostle talks to the church in Ephesus about. And among them he says, take the helmet of salvation. Go ahead, put that picture up there real quick of what a helmet looks like. It's to protect the head. Somebody says, it's to protect your big old head. …
… Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all, somebody say above all. Taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. I want to talk about the shield of faith. This is part five, the shield of faith. Say that with me. The shield of faith. All right, that's what I want to talk about today. Today's message is narrative. This is a narrative message. That means I'm not going to give you any points. You write down what the Lord say to you. I'm not going to have any defined points to give you. They're not going to come up on the screen for whatever the Holy Spirit says to you. Okay, somebody say this. The shield of faith. Now he tells us why this shield is important. He says because we're going to receive fiery darts from the wicked one. …
… to have the sword and to have all of the breastplate of righteousness and all of some of these other armor pieces needs the belt to be attached to and so I want to talk to you today about what this belt means. As a matter of fact it's called the belt of truth. Gird your loins he says with truth. And what we have a problem with today is that people are not believing truth. People are deceived by lies. We live in a culture where lies are the order of the day. It's what people embrace. People are governing their lives. They are governing their lives by lies. They are doing and believing and embracing lies. Look at your neighbor and say, stop believing a lie. Yeah, and the lie that you believe is often determined by what news channel you watch. Yeah, which news channel you watch would determine what you believe, how you vote, how you govern your lives, what decisions you make. and my assignment today, my job, my responsibility is to challenge you, to tell you today that the reality is God wants us to embrace truth. …
I'm going to read verses 10 through 15. Ephesians 6, verse 10 through 16. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole arm of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole arm of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand. Stand therefore, verse 14, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, verse 15, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. I want to talk about shoes today. This is spiritual warfare number four, part four. And I want to talk about shoes. Look at your shoes. This here is an armor bearer, Robert Littlejohn. …
… having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness. Today's part three, and I want to talk about the breastplate of righteousness. I want to talk about putting on the breastplate of righteousness. We already talked about the principalities, powers, rulers of darkness of this age, spiritual hosts of wickedness. We've talked about standing and withstanding. We've talked about the belt of truth. Last time we discussed and dialogued about the lies that the devil wants you to believe and embrace. And in fact, God wants us to hold on to truth. I gave you basically the seven truths that God wants us to believe. Today, I want to talk about the breastplate of righteousness. What does that mean? I'm glad you asked the question. A breastplate. It is the part of the armor that covers the most vital organs of a soldier. It covers his heart, his lungs, his stomach, his kidneys, his liver. All of those vital organs. And when Paul writes to the church in Ephesus, as a matter of fact, Paul's writing to them from jail. …
… day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm, therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace. In addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one, and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God." This is really Paul's wrap-up on this amazing letter to the Ephesians. After giving us so much information in the opening three chapters about salvation and so much already in chapters 4, 5, and 6 about sanctification, he comes to his final emphasis as he notes in verse 10 saying, finally, to draw our attention to the fact that there is a war and we are in that war by virtue of being a part of the kingdom of light. Because we belong to the Lord, we are at war with the devil and his schemes. …