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The armor of God is this..
'The battle is the Lord's"
and this..
"when i am weak, then i am strong"
and this....
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God""""
Notice in the last verse that Paul does not say he lives by His faith, but he live by = Jesus's Faith.
That is this verse........"Jesus, the author and finisher of OUR Faith".
The revelation that is to understand the Grace of God, is to realize this verse as your Salvation.
= "GOD , who began salvation, in the born again, ...Shall HIMSELF be FAITHFUL TO COMPLETE IT"..
Notice...." GOD HIMSELF.......FAITHFUL to Complete it".
Now put all those verses together and you get this........"Put on the whole armor of God".
What is the armor?
Its the revelation that Salvation is not you trying to do it......It you learning how to exist in God's provision of it ALL
This is the "renewed mind".
See, the fight you are in , is against "the wiles of the devil".........His deception, His power, his desire to destroy you.
How?
IN the Spirit realm, that play out in the physical.
So, the armor of God, is God's Spiritual Power, that you are provided to resist and overcome the Devil's spiritual power.
The fight is a fight of FAITH. Its Spiritual warfare. And you dont fight that with your fists, or your willpower.
You fight that with theological perfection and Grace through Faith and believing prayer.
'The battle is the Lord's"
and this..
"when i am weak, then i am strong"
and this....
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God""""
Notice in the last verse that Paul does not say he lives by His faith, but he live by = Jesus's Faith.
That is this verse........"Jesus, the author and finisher of OUR Faith".
The revelation that is to understand the Grace of God, is to realize this verse as your Salvation.
= "GOD , who began salvation, in the born again, ...Shall HIMSELF be FAITHFUL TO COMPLETE IT"..
Notice...." GOD HIMSELF.......FAITHFUL to Complete it".
Now put all those verses together and you get this........"Put on the whole armor of God".
What is the armor?
Its the revelation that Salvation is not you trying to do it......It you learning how to exist in God's provision of it ALL
This is the "renewed mind".
See, the fight you are in , is against "the wiles of the devil".........His deception, His power, his desire to destroy you.
How?
IN the Spirit realm, that play out in the physical.
So, the armor of God, is God's Spiritual Power, that you are provided to resist and overcome the Devil's spiritual power.
The fight is a fight of FAITH. Its Spiritual warfare. And you dont fight that with your fists, or your willpower.
You fight that with theological perfection and Grace through Faith and believing prayer.
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""""Train up a child in the way he/she should go: and when he/she is old, they will not depart from it"""
You can't believe for your children, but you can show them what to believe.
And when it comes to God, show them the God of unconditional love.
Show them the God who is there for them, who cares for them, and who never leaves them.
Give them this HOPE.
You can't believe for your children, but you can show them what to believe.
And when it comes to God, show them the God of unconditional love.
Show them the God who is there for them, who cares for them, and who never leaves them.
Give them this HOPE.
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For your consideration:
When we consider "our feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace..."
The overarching lesson in the armor of God teaching is the authority of Christ.
The original intent of the teaching was to help us gain the reality of His authority in our lives.
From Ephesians 6:15: “..and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace...”
Your feet are the first part of your body to touch the earth, and usually it is the heel-to-toe that you
walk. So, your enemy lies in the grass to bite your heel. "He will bite the heel of the Son, and the
Son will crush his head." When your feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, they
become the weapon that actually crushes the head of the serpent. We should never think that the sword is our only offensive weapon. Your feet are as powerful as the sword, and here is why:
The word “peace”—the Hebrew word shalom, comprised of the characters shin + lamed + vav + mem—means: "to destroy the authority that establishes disorder." So, the "Prince of Peace" is armed with the authority to destroy that which establishes disorder. You were destined, in Christ, to have your enemy under your feet.
The word “peace,” and therefore the "gospel of peace", is a military term. Pacification is a term of war. To pacify an enemy is not to give him everything he wants so he will leave you alone. Pacification, in a military sense, is to degrade the ability of your enemy to resist you. Your feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, and the intent is that you so overwhelm your enemy with the authority that you represent that he has no ability to effectively resist you.
The gospel of peace is not a gospel of compromise, it is not a gospel of accommodation; it is a gospel of triumph and conquest, to destroy the authority that establishes disorder: “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil”. Your feet are designed to display the sovereignty of the authority that you represent over all that opposes your King and His Kingdom—all of it, the entire realm of darkness.
The prosecution of the victory of Christ was left to the Church. Ephesians tells us that God’s “intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,” (Ephesians 3:10-11). You are His feet to have dominion over all the works of the devil. Anything short of that is that which falls short of our mandate in the earth.
The book of Ephesians essentially culminates with a discussion of the effective workings of the mighty power of the Lord Jesus Christ to not only overthrow the enemy in your life, personally, but to dismantle every conceit and every construct that the enemy has developed by which to entrap humans.
Grace and Peace,
Aaron56
When we consider "our feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace..."
The overarching lesson in the armor of God teaching is the authority of Christ.
The original intent of the teaching was to help us gain the reality of His authority in our lives.
From Ephesians 6:15: “..and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace...”
Your feet are the first part of your body to touch the earth, and usually it is the heel-to-toe that you
walk. So, your enemy lies in the grass to bite your heel. "He will bite the heel of the Son, and the
Son will crush his head." When your feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, they
become the weapon that actually crushes the head of the serpent. We should never think that the sword is our only offensive weapon. Your feet are as powerful as the sword, and here is why:
The word “peace”—the Hebrew word shalom, comprised of the characters shin + lamed + vav + mem—means: "to destroy the authority that establishes disorder." So, the "Prince of Peace" is armed with the authority to destroy that which establishes disorder. You were destined, in Christ, to have your enemy under your feet.
The word “peace,” and therefore the "gospel of peace", is a military term. Pacification is a term of war. To pacify an enemy is not to give him everything he wants so he will leave you alone. Pacification, in a military sense, is to degrade the ability of your enemy to resist you. Your feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, and the intent is that you so overwhelm your enemy with the authority that you represent that he has no ability to effectively resist you.
The gospel of peace is not a gospel of compromise, it is not a gospel of accommodation; it is a gospel of triumph and conquest, to destroy the authority that establishes disorder: “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil”. Your feet are designed to display the sovereignty of the authority that you represent over all that opposes your King and His Kingdom—all of it, the entire realm of darkness.
The prosecution of the victory of Christ was left to the Church. Ephesians tells us that God’s “intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,” (Ephesians 3:10-11). You are His feet to have dominion over all the works of the devil. Anything short of that is that which falls short of our mandate in the earth.
The book of Ephesians essentially culminates with a discussion of the effective workings of the mighty power of the Lord Jesus Christ to not only overthrow the enemy in your life, personally, but to dismantle every conceit and every construct that the enemy has developed by which to entrap humans.
Grace and Peace,
Aaron56
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Paul is describing a trained fully equipped soldier, not a raw recuit just entering his basic training.
For young children they need to be familiar with the bible and the many stories in it.
Not just the new testament Jesus stories, but 5he O T stories of Ezra, Nemiah, of Hosa etc.
I suggest getting familiar with coldcasechristianity and the practise of not teaching but of training young Christians to evangelise or defend their faith.
The blog wintery knight has some usefull articles about the factual bases of Christianity, as well as recordings of apologetic debates.
See:-https://winteryknight.com/2024/05/19/are-atheists-unbiased-about-the-question-of-gods-existence-2/
For young children they need to be familiar with the bible and the many stories in it.
Not just the new testament Jesus stories, but 5he O T stories of Ezra, Nemiah, of Hosa etc.
I suggest getting familiar with coldcasechristianity and the practise of not teaching but of training young Christians to evangelise or defend their faith.
The blog wintery knight has some usefull articles about the factual bases of Christianity, as well as recordings of apologetic debates.
See:-https://winteryknight.com/2024/05/19/are-atheists-unbiased-about-the-question-of-gods-existence-2/