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Episode Notes: Putting on the Armour of God. (Ephesians 6: 10-20)

I think there are several ways to describe the Christian life. Even the bible describes it in different ways.

If you just started reading the Bible in Genesis and continued through the Old Testament, you might conclude that what God really just wants is for us to obey him. Keep reading; you'll discover that, in the New Testament, in places like John, it refers to the spiritual life as living in Christ.

Get to Luke's, and it seems to emphasize being filled with the Holy Spirit and thereby living the Spirit-filled life. However, here in the book of Ephesians, Paul uses the metaphor to describe the spiritual life as a walk, and he uses that image over and over again.

If spiritual life is described as a walk in which we obey God's revealed word, living in Christ and walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, what should that walk look like?

We are told there is not just difficult terrain to navigate, but there are dangers in the spiritual life. The Bible tells us there are wild beasts along the way waiting to attack and destroy. In addition, the New Testament warns us that we have an adversary who stalks the believer’s life journey like a hungry lion seeking to devour us.

The question we are going to consider in this passage is: how do we protect ourselves along the journey that is the spiritual life? If there's a lion about to pounce on us, is there any kind of defence system that we have?

Well, I believe if we study this passage closely, we will find the answer is an emphatic yes. Paul describes the defence system for us in vivid detail in Ephesians chapter 6, beginning in verse 10.

Let’s hear what it has to say….

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