The Armor of God
Girt Loins (protective girdle)- Truth
Breastplate - Righteousness
Footwear - Peace
Shield - Faith
Helmet - Salvation
Sword - Spirit - Word of God
The whole armor of God.
Truth- Joh_14:6 Jesus …I AM the... Truth
Righteousness- Mat_6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and HIS righteousness…
Peace- Joh_14:27 ...my peace I give unto you
Faith- Gal 2:16 ...by the faith of Jesus Christ
Salvation- Luk 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Spirit Word of God- Joh 1:1,2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. Luk_11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. Luk_4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Do you catch the picture here? The BIG picture.
Jesus is- truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, and the Word of God.
Our armor, the Whole Armor of God is JESUS CHRIST our LORD and SAVIOR He is OUR Protector! Do you see why we have to have the Whole Armor or none? You can't have just a part of Jesus, you have to have ALL of Him! You have to believe in ALL that He is, was, and will be.
The only way we have of being protected against all that the evil angel Satan will throw at us is if we truly have our Savior as a REAL part of our lives, a PROTECTOR. He WILL be our protector but we MUST PRAY ALWAYS. We cannot forget this part…
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints
Praying ALWAYS. Why do we PRAY ALWAYS? We pray always because that is HOW we live in contact with our Savior. Prayer is the communication channel, the SPIRITUAL communication we have with our Savior!
Faith- believing in the unseen. BELIEVING.
We have to BELIEVE. We have to CHOOSE to BELIEVE and HE is ALL THINGS!
Put on the WHOLE ARMOR of GOD.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Put on CHRIST.
Here is Adam Clarke's Commentary on this concept-
'As many of you as have been baptized into Christ - All of you who have believed in Christ as the promised Messiah, and received baptism as a public proof that ye had received Christ as your Lord and Savior, have put on Christ - have received his Spirit, and entered into his interests, and copied his manners. To put on, or to be clothed with one, is to assume the person and character of that one; and they who do so are bound to act his part, and to sustain the character which they have assumed. The profession of Christianity is an assumption of the character of Christ; he has left us an example that we should follow his steps, and we should, as Christians, have that mind in us which was in him.'
Put on Christ.
Put on the Whole Armor of God.
Put on Christ.
We have to have Jesus as our PROTECTOR and believing that HE is our PROTECTOR is something imagining the ARMOR of GOD can allow us to do in a more visual manner.
God is our protective girdle.
God is our protective breastplate.
God is our protective footwear.
God is our protective shield.
God is our protective helmet.
God is our defending sword.
And we have to CHOOSE to make HIM a REAL part of our lives. He will protect us as long as we allow Him to, He'll never force His protection upon us, never.
ALL BY HIS GRACE! ALL THROUGH HIS LOVE ALWAYS!
Girt Loins (protective girdle)- Truth
Breastplate - Righteousness
Footwear - Peace
Shield - Faith
Helmet - Salvation
Sword - Spirit - Word of God
The whole armor of God.
Truth- Joh_14:6 Jesus …I AM the... Truth
Righteousness- Mat_6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and HIS righteousness…
Peace- Joh_14:27 ...my peace I give unto you
Faith- Gal 2:16 ...by the faith of Jesus Christ
Salvation- Luk 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Spirit Word of God- Joh 1:1,2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. Luk_11:28 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. Luk_4:4 And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
Do you catch the picture here? The BIG picture.
Jesus is- truth, righteousness, peace, faith, salvation, and the Word of God.
Our armor, the Whole Armor of God is JESUS CHRIST our LORD and SAVIOR He is OUR Protector! Do you see why we have to have the Whole Armor or none? You can't have just a part of Jesus, you have to have ALL of Him! You have to believe in ALL that He is, was, and will be.
The only way we have of being protected against all that the evil angel Satan will throw at us is if we truly have our Savior as a REAL part of our lives, a PROTECTOR. He WILL be our protector but we MUST PRAY ALWAYS. We cannot forget this part…
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints
Praying ALWAYS. Why do we PRAY ALWAYS? We pray always because that is HOW we live in contact with our Savior. Prayer is the communication channel, the SPIRITUAL communication we have with our Savior!
Faith- believing in the unseen. BELIEVING.
We have to BELIEVE. We have to CHOOSE to BELIEVE and HE is ALL THINGS!
Put on the WHOLE ARMOR of GOD.
Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Put on CHRIST.
Here is Adam Clarke's Commentary on this concept-
'As many of you as have been baptized into Christ - All of you who have believed in Christ as the promised Messiah, and received baptism as a public proof that ye had received Christ as your Lord and Savior, have put on Christ - have received his Spirit, and entered into his interests, and copied his manners. To put on, or to be clothed with one, is to assume the person and character of that one; and they who do so are bound to act his part, and to sustain the character which they have assumed. The profession of Christianity is an assumption of the character of Christ; he has left us an example that we should follow his steps, and we should, as Christians, have that mind in us which was in him.'
Put on Christ.
Put on the Whole Armor of God.
Put on Christ.
We have to have Jesus as our PROTECTOR and believing that HE is our PROTECTOR is something imagining the ARMOR of GOD can allow us to do in a more visual manner.
God is our protective girdle.
God is our protective breastplate.
God is our protective footwear.
God is our protective shield.
God is our protective helmet.
God is our defending sword.
And we have to CHOOSE to make HIM a REAL part of our lives. He will protect us as long as we allow Him to, He'll never force His protection upon us, never.
ALL BY HIS GRACE! ALL THROUGH HIS LOVE ALWAYS!
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