Ephesians: The Armor for the Fight of Our Lives (Part 3) | Armor of God - Video

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Sermon Text: Ephesians 6:15 Sermon Date: 8/11/2024 Speaker: Brian Crawford . Check us out at: https://citylightvicksburg.org/ Or check us out here: https://www.facebook.com/citylightvicksburg . Aug 11th. sermon notes Ephesians 6:15 With the right shoes, they will support your whole body! Paul has the same idea in this passage. This particular piece of armor he highlights are the shoes which are the readiness given by the gospel of peace. We Christians in warfare cannot stand upright without the right footwear. The shoes that we wear, actually matter! We can break down this passage to see what he means by this: Readiness - to stand in preparation to deliver the gospel. The shoes imply a journey and movement. Part of your warfare is ongoing readiness to take something somewhere. And that something is the gospel - the good news - of Christ. Having the shoes on, means we are always ready for when the battle comes. We’re always ready to point people to the gospel of peace. Readiness “given by the gospel (aka - the good news)” - these shoes refer to not just readiness, BUT readiness to bring good news of happiness and peace. The gospel is not the gospel if you’re only talking about the bad. The gospel does not overemphasize the bad news, but it also does not focus on only the good news either! So, you must be ready to spread the good news of happiness and joy and peace, so that others experience it when they walk with you! Readiness given by the gospel of "peace" - what does Paul have in mind when he highlights the “good news of peace”? In Ephesians 2:11, he mentions the gentiles were alienated and separated from relationship from God before Christ. We were at odds with God - enemies. But Christ came and preached peace, and through Him, He established peace between each, one another, and God. When He went to the cross on our behalf, He made peace with God on our behalf! Throughout this text, Paul is calling us to wage war against principalities and forces of evil? And HOW is he calling us? With peace. And what kind of peace? A reconciling peace. A peace between us and others and peace between men and God. We too easily engage in cultural war in our day and age. And we should be careful to not confuse spiritual warfare with the cultural war. If we’re not careful to fight with God’s armor, we will wind up fighting FOR SATAN! We cannot wear our own armor, and fight for God. If we’re not a people of peace and reconciliation, then we’re waging war for satan, not for God. And the sad part is we will make this mistake and call it spiritual warfare, when it’s absolutely not. If you’re going to fight this fight - you have to put on the right shoes. The wrong shoes can impact your spiritual walk. #churchservice #armorofgod #spiritualwarfare #christianity #faith #divineprotection #spiritualawareness #ephesians6 #ephesians #righteousness #Justice #righteousness #culturewar #glorifygod #makingadifference #faithandfreedom