ARMOR of GOD Explained

we recently finished a series on the subject of angels and demons and in that series I explained what demons are according to Jesus demons are disembodied spirits which means that they can't be fallen angels because angels have bodies so if they're not fallen angels what are they and where did they come from well there are two theories actually there's three theories but I just debunked one the most popular theory is what demons are fallen angels but according to Jesus they can't be fallen angels because demons are disembodied spirits and angels have bodies so that leaves us with only two theories the first theory is that demons are the disembodied spirits of a pre-adamic race but there aren't any scriptures to support that so it's impossible to prove it might be true but there's no supporting evidence to hang your hat on so it's just a theory the second theory is that demons are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim that died during the flood now as I said two weeks ago this theory not only has scriptural support but it's also what the Jews believed at the time of Christ in fact the common Hebrew word for demon at the time of Jesus was Tam munna fall and Tam muna fall literally means dead Nephilim and that's what the Jews believed at the time of Christ they believed that demons were the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim that died during the flood they were dead Nephilim the spirits of the dead Nephilim I also gave you a few facts about demons such as demons Varian wickedness and in power demons seek to oppress people and they entice people to sin and if at all possible they want to possess the body of a person I also explained that we can do certain things that opens the door to demons and the demonic activity things like the worship of other gods and idols involvement in occultism drugs pornography and different or I should say any type of perverted sexual activity or sexual sin now those are the most common ways of opening a door to demons into demonic activity but those aren't the only ways there are other ways of opening the door and remember the more often you open the door more access you give demons to your life and the more involved they are in your life now what are we supposed to do with this information in other words is this just interesting or are we supposed to do something with it well two weeks ago we looked at a passage of Scripture that tells us what to do with this information how to do it and why we need to do it the what how and why and that passage of Scripture is Ephesians chapter 6 verses 10 through 12 verse 10 tells us what to do verse number 11 tells us how to do it and verse number 12 explains why we need to do it so let's read that passage of scripture says finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places now according to this passage of Scripture what you need to do is be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might and how do you do that you do that by putting on the whole armor of God and why do you need to do that well that's because we don't wrestle with flesh and blood we wrestle against principalities against powers against rulers of the darkness and against spiritual wickedness in high places and then in verses 13 through 18 Paul talks about each each piece of armor and its purpose but Before we jump into that and we start looking at each individual piece let's back up a second and let's focus on verse number 11 this morning because there's certain information that you need to know before we start looking at each individual piece of armor and its purpose so turn back to verse number 11 and let's read that verse again it says put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil now according to Paul the whole purpose of putting on the armor of God is to protect you from the wiles of the devil you see the devil is wily kind of like wily coyote how many of you remember the cartoon wily coyote how many of you too young remember that well Wiley coyote was a coyote who was always trying to catch the roadrunner so he's always coming up with these ingenious ideas of how to catch him but for one reason or another these plans always backfired on him and he was never able to catch the roadrunner here's a video of one of those cartoons in case you've never seen one of them let's run it [Music] meet me meet me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I hated that cartoon I never thought it was funny I mean you know I heard some of you laughing but to be honest with you I never really cared for that but the reason he was called Wiley coyote was because he was Wiley everyone knows what Wiley means write the word Wiley refers to something or someone who was cunning and sly an example of Wiley is a bank robber whose picture never gets caught on a surveillance camera he's too sly in cunning for that to happen he's what we would call wily well according to Ephesians chapter 6 verse 11 the devil is wily and the whole purpose of God's armors to be able to stand against his wiles now let me give you a definition of wiles because Wiley and Wiles is different Wiles is defined as devious or cutting stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants and people that's exactly what demons do they employ devious and cunning stratagems to manipulate you or persuade you to do what they want yeah if you came up to me as a pastor out what do demons do I would say they do everything they can to try and manipulate you or persuade you to do what they want and what do they want anyone no they want you to sin in fact would you like to see some examples of how the devil or demons try to manipulate or persuade people to do what they want we'll start with Jesus now let me show you how the devil tried to manipulate Jesus and persuade Jesus to do what he wanted which was to give him to sin turn with me if you would to the book of Matthew chapter 4 verses 1 through 11 and follow along as I read this passage of Scripture then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted that's a very important word because these stratagems are always in the form of temptations you need to keep that in mind the stratagems that the demons use are I should say involve temptation so whenever they come out and they're trying to get you to do what they want really what they're doing is they are tempting you so this is a perfect example of the demons trying to manipulate Jesus and persuade Jesus to do what they want which is to sin so notice what it says then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when he had fasted for forty days and forty nights he was hungry and when the tempter came to him he said if thou be the Son of God command these stones be made bread but he answered and said it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God then the devil took him up into the holy city and set him on a pinnacle of the temple temple and he said unto him if thou be the Son of God cast thyself down for it is written he shall give his angels charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou shalt - they foot against a stone so even the devil knows Scripture and he's quoting scripture jesus said unto him it is written again thou shalt not tempt the LORD thy God again the devil took him up into an exceeding high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and he said unto them all these things will I give thee if I will fall down and worship Me then said Jesus unto Him get the hint Satan for it is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt out serve then the devil left him and behold angels came and they ministered unto Jesus now Luke adds a small detail that the book of Matthew doesn't but it's a very important detail and it's important because it explains how demons operate turn to Luke chapter 4 verse 13 and I'll show you what I'm talking about this is the very same story but it's in luke's gospel and it adds a very important detail this is what it says when the devil had finished tempting Jesus remember these stratagems always involve temptation every plan every scheme is to try and manipulate you and persuade you to do what they want and what do they want they want you to sin so these stratagems always involve temptation so notice what it says that's why the devil is called the tempter when the devil had finished tempting Jesus he left him until the next opportunity came in fact what's kind of interesting in the Greek you could actually translate it until the next opportunity do you see that the devil and demons are always looking for an opportunity to manipulate you or persuade you to do what they want and what they want you to do is to sin in fact that's a principle and I want you to write that down if you're taking notes write this down the devil and demons are always looking for an opportunity to manipulate you or persuade you to do what they want and what they want is for you to sin now the temptation of Jesus is just one example of how demons try to manipulate people or persuade them to do what they want but let me give you three other examples these examples are people that you know in fact if you didn't even go to church growing up you still probably heard of these three people and the three examples I'm talking about are Solomon Samson and David haven't even heard of those three people how many of you didn't grow up in church Wow okay just a few people that's wonderful I really commend your parents and probably your grandparents but you know most of my friends did not grow up in church but it was interesting even though they didn't grow up in church they had heard about Solomon they had heard about Samson they had heard about David you see Solomon was the wisest of all men Samson was the strongest of all men and David was the most loyal and devoted person to God of all men and yet all three of these men fail and the reason they fail is because they all had a certain weakness and the devil used that weakness as an opportunity to manipulate them and persuade them to do what he wanted and what did he want he wanted them to sin with Solomon Satan manipulated him and persuaded him to marry foreign wives and to worship the gods that they served with Samson Satan manipulated him and persuaded him through Delilah to reveal the secret of his strength now here's what most people don't understand I'm gonna go off on a tangent has nothing to do what I'm teaching on but it has to do with marriage and because we have young people here and some of you are single maybe you've been divorced let me explain something about that story because most people just think it's a good story Samson was unequally yoked he married a Philistine that's her Delilah well she was a Philistine now here's why this is important you don't quite understand the story until you understand he was an equal yo because any Jewish woman would have known where the source of his strength was because Samson was a Nazarite and there were two things that a nazar I couldn't do they could not drink or eat anything of the vine so they couldn't drink wine they couldn't drink grape juice even if it wasn't for a minute they couldn't eat grapes they couldn't eat raisins they couldn't do anything like that because the Nazarite was set apart for God and he was supposed to stay away from even the pearance of evil so he couldn't either drink or eat from anything from the vine but the second thing that a Nazarite couldn't do is he couldn't cut his hair John the Baptist was a Nazarite John the Baptist probably had hair passed his bottom and the reason he did is because he couldn't cut his hair neither could Samson now had Samson married a Jewish woman she would have known where the source of his strength was but Delilah wasn't a Jewish woman and the Jews kept the secrets of the Nazarites to themselves so none of the Philistines knew where the source of his strength was so they came to her the Philistines her own family her own people they said get him to tell you what the strength of a source is and you know the story but here's the interesting thing had he not been unequally yoked it would never would have happened to him let me explain something you marry someone who's not a Christian you become unequally yoked I can tell you that if you live for Jesus you live for God they're not gonna like it it doesn't matter whether they're a good person MA the problem is when you start reading your Bible when you start praying when you start emulating Jesus Christ it convicts them of their sin and there's a reason why they haven't accepted Jesus they still want to sin so it's going to cause problems in your marriage and anyone with half of a brain understands that you don't date anyone that's not a Christian and you should have said Amen good lord read your Bible stories anyways what David Satan manipulated and persuaded him to have an adulterous affair with Bathsheba but he took it a step further he manipulated and persuaded him to murder her husband in order to cover up the secret because she was pregnant and he would have known she had an affair so he had her husband murdered now all three of these men were tempted with girls in other words sex you think Satan saw their weakness which was lust and he waited for just the right opportunity to manipulate them and to persuade them to do what he wanted which was sin and then BAM the trap sprung the temptation was there they hit the spring and they found now let me explain something most of the devil's schemes revolve around the 3gs gold glory and girls in other words Satan and demons are going to use one of these three things most of the time to tempt you with Balaam it was gold his weakness was the desire for money so when the right opportunity came Satan used the temptation or his desire for money to manipulate him and to persuade him to do what he wanted which was to sin and of course Balaam fell for the temptation and he did what God did not want him to do yeah with Simon in Acts chapter 8 it was glory his weakness was the desire for glory so when the right opportunity came Satan used his desire for glory to manipulate him and to persuade him to do what he wanted and what did he want he wanted him to sin so he used his weakness this desire for glory as the temptation people that happens all the time in fact young people let me help you out with this some of you want to be popular you want to run with the popular kids you want to have glory you don't recognize it as glory but that's what it is and so what takes place is those demons know what you secretly desire and that's your weakness so they're gonna use your desire for glory or popularity as a way to be able to manipulate you and persuade you to do what they want which is to sin it could be partying it could be using drugs it could be doing things that you know is not right but I'm gonna be honest with you kids you think it's just for you let me tell you what's going happen you're gonna grow up you're gonna become an adult and you still want glory you want to be someone important and you want to run with the right group of people and I have seen adults act just like teenagers in their 50 and 60 years old they party because their friends party they do things because their friends do those things you want to know why it's because they want glory we don't call it glory but that's what it is we want to be popular we want to be seen as going with the right people the important people let me tell you something the kingdom of God they're not important people they're a bunch of fools running around they might have money but let me tell you all that will be in vain when Jesus Christ returns or the day they die so you need to understand this is what happens with Solomon Sanson and David it was girls it was sex their weakness was lust so when the right opportunity came Satan used their desire for sex Satan used the Lila for Satan for for Samson and he used her to manipulate and persuade Samson to do what he wanted which was to see him did the same thing that David let me tell you David had this desire for women yeah where he had eight wives and one day he's in the palace and if you ever get a chance to go to Israel you'll find out where the City of David was you'll find out that David's Palace was actually the highest home there was and he looked down upon the City of David and so when he came out on the terrace of his palace he was able to look down on all the other houses now what most people don't realize is the women would bathe before their husbands came home just as you women want to look good for men they wanted to look good for their men too so they would work all day and before the winter for their men came home from the fields or from their work they would go up on the roofs and they would do or they would have a bath in fact they would pour the water in the morning and they would take the curtains down and the heat from the Sun would warm up the water so when they got up there it wouldn't be cold they did that first thing the morning is sat there all day then when they came they had actually kind of like a little tent and they would put curtains around just like a shower curtain they would strip off all their clothes in that and they would take a bath only problem is David could look down on all the houses and they could did something he shouldn't have done he was a lawyer so it comes out and he starts looking upon the people but he noticed there's one good-looking girl I mean she is built and she's taking a bath and it wouldn't surprise me if she didn't know that David was watching and as a result of that the demon Jews Bathsheba to manipulate and to persuade David to do what they wanted which was to sin yeah now listen to me every one of you have a weakness and if you're honest with yourself you have many weaknesses and demons know what your weakness is or what your weaknesses are so they rot they wait for the right opportunity to manipulate you and to persuade you to do what they want which is to sin they know what your weakness is and that's what they're going to tempt you with they wait until you're at your weakest point like Jesus was to hit you with the temptation if you notice Jesus went out to get closer to God and as he was fasting and he fasted for forty days and then it says he was hungry now here's what's interesting about your body you literally can go without food for 40 days but if when the forty days comes you've eaten up all of your reserves so now you're in that process of dying because after you fast for a period of ten days or to two weeks here's what's interesting you kind of lose your sense for hunger I know I fasted for over ten days before she would ever notice that or know that look at me that's one of my weaknesses is food I'm just being honest but the devil knows that but let me tell you after 10 days you gotta lose that desire for eating now I never fast more than 10 days it got to that point but I want you to know after that I couldn't wait to go eat but anyways after 40 days then your brain kicks in and says you're hungry but the reason it does that is because you're in the process of dying and so he was hungry he was at his weakest point he has now become a mortal man because actually he's not mortal because he's never sinned and can't die until he takes upon himself to sin but anyways his body is to that point and he's hungry he's at his weakest point and that's exactly when that was the opportunity that devil came in to try and manipulate him and persuade him to do what he wanted which was to sin they waited until his guard was down now that's what the devil does for us he catches us at a weakest moment when our guard is down when we drifted away from God and that's when they hit us and the stratagems they use our sly and cunning sometimes you never see it coming sometimes you fall for the temptation and you didn't even realize it was the temptation and bam you did exactly what they wanted people that's what Paul meant by the wiles of the devil now look back at verse number 11 let's read it again but on the whole armour of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil the stratagems that the devil uses and will always and always use for you and they will always involve temptation now according to Paul the whole purpose of the armour of God is to protect you from the wiles of the devil but you have to put it on because if you're not wearing God's armor it will not protect you it won't do you any good so how do you put on the armor of God does anyone know anyone well let me tell you what I've heard preacher sack and remember when God called me to preach I hadn't yet taken Greek I was going back to school I had my first Greek grammar of course it's five hours let me tell you you really don't start learning anything until after you get Greek grammar out of the way which is a year it's ten hours of Greek then you really get in to the point where you can start translating and getting into syntax but here's what's kind of interesting before that time I was studying the armor of God and I read this and I said Lord how do you do that and so I was seeking to find out how do you put on the armor of God and here's the number one thing I would hear preachers say they would say you need to get up every morning and in your prayer time you need to pretend like you're putting on the armor of God and then they would actually illustrate it they would come in and say in the morning your prayer time you said God I'm putting on the helmet of salvation right now and then they would act like they're putting it on and God I'm putting on the breastplate of righteousness I'm putting it on because I want to walk in righteousness and god I'm putting on the loin belt of truth I'm buckling it up in the name of Jesus and Lord I'm taking my shield of faith right now and I'm taking the sword of the Spirit and I'm going to present the gospel today so I'm putting on my feet the preparation of the gospel of peace and they would say that's what you do and you do that every morning in your prayer time I didn't know any better man I wanted to do what God wanted I wanted to put on the whole armor of God I didn't want to be a reproach especially if I was going in the ministry so I get up in the morning and I would do that in my prayer time but I always felt silly and it never seemed like it really touched me and then guess what I learned a Greek and I found out that that's a bunch of hogwash that is not how you put on the armor of God you see there's only one way to put on the armor of God and it's the only way that you can put it on people there's no other way and this way is the biblical way so let me explain how to put on the armor of God and to do that we need to read verses 13 through 17 in Ephesians chapter 6 so let's read that says wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand stand therefore having your loins gird about with truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace above all taking the shield of faith wherewith you should be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God now I want you to notice that I have highlighted I have bowed faced and I have underlined three specific or particular pieces of equipment that's part of the armor of God the breastplate of righteousness and verse number 14 the shield of faith in verse 16 and the helmet of salvation verse 17 and the reason that I've highlighted those pieces of armor is because in the original you know Greeks they're all written in the ablative of source case now let me give you a little Greek syntax list and explain what I mean by the ablative of source case Dana in manty has written the textbook that most seminaries use when they're teaching Greek students syntax in fact this was the textbook that I used to John Brown University and for one whole year that's all you do is you study syntax now Dana and Mandy who wrote this book that all the seminaries use this is the way they define the ablative of source case they define it like this now which is named in the noun modified by the AL ablative ozox existence to that which is denoted in the ablative did everyone get that it makes sense so now that I told you that you know how to put on the armor of God right not at all well let me explain what this means in fact let me move this up to where we want that to be and I want you to know I have great penmanship so I wrote this definition out and I want you to notice what it says that which is named in the noun modified by the ablative owes its existence to that which is denoted by the ablative now here's what's great about Dana and Manties textbook it defines every one of the cases like this and you have to memorize that and then you have to understand what it means and be able to apply it when you're translating Greek so let me explain what this means that which is named in the noun well the breast plate breast plate is the noun is written in the accusative case that means it's the direct object so it is the noun so it says that which is named in the noun what's named in the noun the breast plate is modified by the ablative righteousness is written in the ablative case alright so it says that which is named in the noun the brace plate modified by the ablative owes its existence to that which is denoted in the ablative what's denoted in the ablative righteousness now let me tell you what that means in simple terms that anyone can understand it what this is saying is the breast plate owes its existence to righteousness let's go further the shield owes its existence to faith the helmet owes its existence to salvation in fact it might make more sense if I say like this righteousness causes the breastplate to come into existence faith causes the shield to come into existence salvation causes the helmet to come into existence so when you start walking in righteousness the breastplate automatically comes into existence and is automatically put on when you stop walking in the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus then all of the sudden the breastplate disappears and it's no longer on so I don't have to pretend like I'm putting it on all I have to do is walk in the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and when I do that righteousness causes the breastplate to come into existence and it's already put on when I walk in faith that causes the shield to come into existence and I automatically have it but when I stop walking in faith the shield disappears and now all of a sudden I don't have it it ceases to exist why because faith is that source which is why in Greek it's called the ablative of source case same thing with righteousness the source of the breastplate is righteousness that's why in Greek it's called the ablative of source does that make sense now you can see where this is going when you walk in the truth of God's Word the loin belt automatically comes into existence and is automatically put on but when you stop walking in the truth of God's Word then the loin belt disappears and it's no longer on you and people this applies to every piece of armor so let me give you a principle everyone knows what a principle is right the principle is the fundament truth that explains how something works so when I stand up here and I give you marriage principles I'm giving you fundamental truths that explain how marriage works when I give you financial principles I'm giving you fundamental truths that explain how finances work when I gave you parenting principles I'm giving you funding not truths that explain this explains how parenting works and the more principles you know the more you know how things work and when you know how things work then you can make wise decisions and you can do the right thing and you can prosper and you can succeed and you can be blessed and everyone won't like you because it seems like everything seems to work out for you unless there's an attack of the enemy and even then you come out victorious you get pooped on you grow roses that's just the way it is now I'm gonna give you an armor of God principle what is an armor of God principle it's a fundamental truth that explains how the armor of God works so if you're taking notes I would write this down because you want to be able to stand against the wiles of the devil these temptations that are meant to manipulate you and persuade you to do what Satan worked once which is what to sin so to be able to stand against that you need the armor of God so write this down each piece of armor is automatically put on by walking in its source let me say that again each piece of armor is automatically put on by walking in its source as an example what's the source of the loin belt good lord read ephesians chapter 6 the loin belt of truth what's the source of the loin belt louder truth that's why it's called the loin belt of truth truth is written in the ablative of source case truth if we had it here loin belt of truth truth would be in the ablative of source case that means it's the source a truth everyone got that so when I walk in truth the loin belt is put on when I stop walking in truth the loin belt ceases to exist it's no longer on which means that I'm vulnerable to the wily attacks of the devil or demons and this applies to every piece of armor when I walk in faith my shield is put on when I stop walking in faith when I begin to doubt it ceases to exist when I walk in righteousness the breastplate is automatically put on but when I start doing unrighteous things let me tell you what happens when I start doing things that I know is it right when I start doing things that I know the Bible says I shouldn't do that breastplate is not there and guess what that breastplate is meant to guard your heart we're told to guard our heart because from the heart comes the issues of life you want to know why people have moral lapses you want to know why people have moral failures it's because somewhere they started doing the little things that they knew were wrong was wrong and the breastplate wasn't there they even guard their heart and Satan kept putting those things in the heart until finally he sees this opportunity and he uses a stratagem to manipulate them and persuade them to do what he wants which is to sin he tempts them and they fall now let's talk about stratagems because I've been talking about stratagems do demons use stratagems everyone knows what a strategy means right if you're taking notes write this down on define it strata stratagem is a planner scheme especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end result so demons you stratagems to try and manipulate you and persuade you to do what they want and these stratagems are always in the form of temptations they always involve temptation now this is where I'm going to drive this home I want everyone to understand how to apply this and right now you got all this and you're going yeah but how how do you put this all together well I'm gonna put it all together for you by making this one comment I can do the very same thing that a demon does oh yeah I can do the very same thing that a demon does and many times demons use your friends to do this all I got to do is look for your weakness and if I study you usually I'll find out but one of your weaknesses is one of the three geez it's either girls gold or glory now it could be something else but all I would do is study you for your weaknesses and find out what they are and then I would scheme yeah because the stratagem is a plan or a scheme especially want you one used to outwit an opponent achieve and end result so what I would do is see your weakness and then I would scheme on how I could use your weakness to manipulate you and persuade you to do what I want now it might not be the sin but I still could manipulate you to do what I want maybe you have a low self-esteem and so I realize that and I can use your low self-esteem at the right moments to manipulate you and persuade you to do what I want yeah by affirming you by telling you how good you are becoming and if you really love me or you wanted this blah blah blah and I would do that in such a way to get you to do what I wanted I want you to understand I would be tempting you with what you want to get you to do what I want and people that's how demons operate in fact the Bible talks about familiar spirits so let me explain what it means by familiar spirits if you know and believe this third theory that demons are the disembodied spirit of the Nephilim that died during the flood that means they've been here since the flood and they're usually in certain localities and many times they're with families it's over 6,000 years they've been watching these things they've been watching your family I saw the day you were born they know your genetic tendencies they know your environment they watched you they found out what's important to you what you desire what you want and now they go okay I know his weakness I know what he desires and so they do stratagems a planner scheme to outwit you to achieve their end result to manipulate you to persuade you to get what they want which is to sin so they wait for the right moments and maybe like David where he brought Bathsheba up there and maybe whisper here he's watching you the king he thinks you're beautiful and she put on a show I don't know whether she did or not let's put the get where it belongs David but she could have said no but he was the king and let me tell you oh demons know what you want and that's why it seems like you're always tempted with the same thing I have to be honest with you no I'm not gonna tell you my weakness do you want to know it I can't stand incompetence and I can get angry and my family we call it the angry spirit my grandpa was that way my dad's that way I'm that way and the devil knows the demons know but if something ticks me off I can get angry and so it waits for the right opportunity to be able to manipulate me and persuade me to do what it wants which is to blow up and I don't want to blow up at the people I love at my wife and my children now my wife didn't put up with it she learned learning early on as she's helped me to overcome that but I recognize that weakness because genetically it was passed on environmentally it was passed on and as a result of that when things didn't go my way I would get angry sometimes it works in my favor because I channel that anger to be able to get what God wants or what's good that's why the Bible says be angry but then it finishes and sin not the reason it says be angry is because that anger if it's used in the right way can accomplish God's purpose because there were many times but Jesus had a righteous anger the problem is I had the temptation to have an unrighteous anger and the devil knows that especially when I'm driving and you idiots don't know how to drive and you are sitting at the stoplight and it's been green for two seconds what is your problem and then I get home irritated because everyone was an idiot on the road but I have to recognize that when I start doing unrighteous things like yelling and like saying things and then the breastplate ceases to exist and my heart is no longer guarded and now the devil sees an opportunity to manipulate me and persuade me with the temptation to do what he wants which is to blow up and the reason he can do that is I no longer have on the whole armor of God's Word are you screw up you'll always be a screw up until you learn the whole armour of God and you put it on but you have to understand when it comes off and it comes off when you don't walk in it source when you don't walk in truth the truth of God's Word the loin belt is no longer there everything's flapping there's no place to hook your shield or your sword when you when you're doubting you're not walking in faith you don't have a shield yeah when you do things you shouldn't do the breastplate ceases to exist and your heart is not guarded I'm here to tell you people the armor of God is necessary now if you're here this morning and you don't have Jesus Christ let me say this you'll never have the armor of God because you're not walking in the truth of God's works there's no lone loin belt you don't have righteousness because the only righteousness a person can have is the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus so it means you can't ever be righteous you can protect your heart on your own but you're gonna fail miserably you're never going to be able to go on the attack because the sword of the Spirit is the Word of God so if you're here this morning never received Jesus let me tell you you're gonna always screw up you're going to do things you didn't want to do some of you are gonna have affairs and you didn't ever want to hurt your wife or your children or your husband and your children some of you are gonna in bezel and you thought you never would do that some of you are going to slander other people's reputations some of you are going to say such hurtful things to your kids that they never recover from them it's all because you're angry but the reason you are so because you don't have on the armor of God and the devil knew how to tempt you to get you to do what he wanted you to so if you're here this morning and you don't have Jesus let me tell you you don't have what you really need to not just be successful in finances but to be successful in all areas of life so if you're here this more you never receive Jesus I'm gonna give you the opportunity I'm gonna make it very simple for you I do this every service I'm gonna say a simple prayer and if you want to receive Jesus even though I didn't teach on Jesus you know that Jesus is the Son of God you know that he died for you you know that God raised him from the dead and you know he needs to be Lord of your life so if you need Jesus I want to say this simple prayer and if you repeat this prayer and mean it then your sins will be forgiven Jesus will become your Lord and when you die you'll get to go to heaven but also on this earth you can have the armor of God and you can become the person God wants you to be no matter how mad you think you are or no matter how bad your family was God can change you through Jesus Christ so if you're here this morning you want to receive Jesus I'm gonna say this prayer all you have to do is repeat it and mean it you don't even have to say it out loud so I want everyone to bow their heads close their eyes if you want to receive Jesus repeat this prayer god I know I'm a sinner and I know that my sin has separated me from you but God I believe you loved me and because you loved me I believe you sent your son Jesus to covin it with me to take upon himself my sin and to die for my sin and I believe that when Jesus died his soul went to hell to pay the penalty for my sin but I also believe that when all my sin was paid for God you raised Jesus from the dead Jesus I want you to forgive me I want you to be Lord of my life and I want you to save me

Channel: Cornerstone Fellowship

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Length: 46min 18sec (2778 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 31 2018