Pastor Dennis Heppner
My notes
Ephesians 6:10-18
The Armor of God
When you don't know the facts you more often come up with the wrong conclusion. We can often assume the wrong things.
There are evil around the world and they affect evem Christians.
In the middle of these human struggles there is a spiritual issue.
Verse 11 put on the armor of God to resistthe devil and its evil schemes
Devil is diabolos meaning through and through.
Devil - one who falsely accuses another or slanders
Satan meaning adversary. He strategizes on how to oppose your progress as a Christian. Seeing all the bad in you.
2 Cor 2:11
Schemes - methodos meaning a road.
The devil loves to make a playground out of people's minds.
It is tue that God loves us and that He is for us but life would not always go our way. We are in a spiritual wrestling.
Our struggle or wrestling - every Christian is affected by the struggle. Even our own inconsistencies may be a strategy of the devil to make you become ineffective.
We are never wrestling against humans.
He devil does not want you to become what God wants you to be in your life.
It's not God that brings trouble in your life. This is a day of grace. God will never be your enemy. God is for you. He will never leave you nor forsake you.
We wrestle against
1. World rulers
- cosmic supervisors
- supervising opposition eveywhere and at all times
- exercise a limited general authority
As long as you live in Christ you are not God's enemy and your life is in His hands.
3. Spiritual wickedness
Art of war sun tzu
All warefare is based upon deception
Offer the enemy bait, confuse and mislead
A confused army leads to victoy to another's
Things to consider that brings victory into our life:
1. Be aware that there are spiritual forces resisting the good in your life.
It's the little things that are more dangerous in life than the big things
2. Takw a stand against the devil's shemes and do what is right.
Don't talk to the devil, talk to Jesus.
When you do what is right in spite of what's going wrong you are takin a stand.
3. Pray in the spirit in all occasions. Let the Holy Spirit pray in you.
4. Be strong in the Lord and be strong in His mighty power.
5. Put on the whole armor of God.
6. Stay alert.
The differece between sports and being a Christian is that Christ has told us that we are gonna win.
Jesus has already won and when you choose he right you enforce His victory in your life.
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