EPHESIANS 2:1-2 & II CORINTHIANS 10:3-4
EPHESIANS 6:10-17A
GENESIS 3:1-5 CASTING DOUBT: “DID GOD ACTUALLY SAY? CAUSING DENIAL: “YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE.”
BLIND DECEPTION II CORINTHIANS 4:4 & II CORINTHIANS 11:3-5
TWO EXAMPLES LEGALISM: GALATIANS 1:6-7 PROSPERITY GOSPEL: FALSE PROFITS!
I. OUR RESOURCES (10-11A) A. AUTHORITY OF GOD B. ARMOR OF GOD
II. OUR RESISTANCE (11B-12) A. SATANIC FOE (I THESSALONIANS 2:18) B. SPIRITUAL FORCES (COLOSSIANS 2:15)
III. OUR RESOLVE (13-17A) TWO TIMES: “ PUT ON ” TWO TIMES: “ FULL ARMOR ” FOUR TIMES: “ STAND ”
PREPARE FOR WARFARE A. BELT OF TRUTH B. BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS C. SHOES OF GOSPEL OF PEACE D. SHIELD OF FAITH
“ RENEWING THE MIND ” “WE DESTROY ARGUMENTS AND EVERY LOFTY OPINION RAISED AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, AND TAKE EVERY THOUGHT CAPTIVE TO OBEY CHRIST” (II CORINTHIANS 10:5). “SEE TO IT THAT NO ONE TAKES YOU CAPTIVE BY PHILOSOPHY AND EMPTY DECEIT, ACCORDING TO HUMAN TRADITION, ACCORDING TO THE ELEMENTAL SPIRIT OF THE WORLD, AND NOT ACCORDING TO CHRIST” (COLOSSIANS 2:8).
HELMET OF SALVATION
TENSES OF SALVATION 1. PAST TENSE – FROM THE PENALTY OF SIN 2. PRESENT TENSE – FROM THE POWER OF SIN 3. FUTURE TENSE – FROM THE PRESENCE OF SIN
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER “THE SPIRITUAL BATTLE, THE LOSS OF VICTORY, IS ALWAYS IN THE THOUGHT- WORLD.”
A. DISCOURAGEMENT “THEREFORE, HAVING THIS MINISTRY BY THE MERCY OF GOD, WE DO NOT LOSE HEART” (II CORINTHIANS 4:1).
B. DISTORTION “AND THEIR TALK WILL SPREAD LIKE GANGRENE. AMONG THEM ARE HYMENAEUS AND PHILETUS, WHO HAVE SWERVED FROM THE TRUTH, SAYING THAT THE RESURRECTION HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. THEY ARE UPSETTING THE FAITH OF SOME” (II TIMOTHY 2:17-18).
C. DOUBT “FOR I AM SURE THAT NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE, NOR ANGELS NOR RULERS, NOR THINGS PRESENT NOR THINGS TO COME, NOR POWERS, NOR HEIGHT NOR DEPTH, NOR ANYTHING ELSE IN ALL CREATION, WILL BE ABLE TO SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD” (ROMANS 8:38-39).
KING SAUL’S AMALEKITE SPOILS D. DISOBEDIENCE “I HAVE OBEYED THE VOICE OF THE LORD” “TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE” (I SAMUEL 15:20-24)
E. DENIAL “FOR DEMAS, IN LOVE WITH THIS PRESENT WORLD, HAS DESERTED ME AND GONE TO THESSALONICA ” (II TIMOTHY 4:10).
“ TAKE ” THE DELIVERANCE “BUT SINCE WE BELONG TO THE DAY, LET US BE SOBER, HAVING PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF FAITH AND LOVE, AND FOR A HELMET THE HOPE OF SALVATION” (I THESSALONIANS 5:8).
FUTURE-FOCUSED “AS WE LOOK NOT TO THE THINGS THAT ARE SEEN BUT TO THE THINGS THAT ARE UNSEEN. FOR THE THINGS THAT ARE SEEN ARE TRANSIENT, BUT THE THINGS THAT ARE UNSEEN ARE ETERNAL ” (II CORINTHIANS 4:18).
HEBREWS 12:1-2
SATAN WANTS US TO LOOK AT MARRIAGE AS A CONTRACT. BUT IT IS A COVENANT.
MALACHI 2:14-15 “BUT YOU SAY, “WHY DOES HE NOT?” BECAUSE THE LORD WAS WITNESS BETWEEN YOU AND THE WIFE OF YOUR YOUTH, TO WHOM YOU HAVE BEEN FAITHLESS, THOUGH SHE IS YOUR COMPANION AND YOUR WIFE BY COVENANT. DID HE NOT MAKE THEM ONE, WITH A PORTION OF THE SPIRIT IN THEIR UNION? AND WHAT WAS THE ONE GOD SEEKING? GODLY OFFSPRING. SO GUARD YOURSELVES IN YOUR SPIRIT, AND LET NONE OF YOU BE FAITHLESS TO THE WIFE OF YOUR YOUTH. ”
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