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Spiritual Warfare: Fighting The Battles In A War Already Won. Spiritual Warfare: Part Four – Armored Up continued. Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Ephesians 6:10 – 13
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Spiritual Warfare: Fighting The Battles In A War Already Won
Spiritual Warfare: Part Four – Armored Up continued
Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Ephesians 6:10 – 13 ‘Be Strong in the powerful strength of God. Put on every part of God’s Armor, so that you can remain standing against the plans and strategies of Satan. For the battle we fight is a wrestling match in which we grapple with the dark and wicked forces of the demonic army. This is not a normal fight! Thus, put on every part of God’s armor so that when the moment of temptation occurs, after doing everything that needs to be done, you are seen victoriously standing in place.’
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Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Warning: Truth, righteousness and the Gospel need to be a part of us, all the time, immediately. We can not begin to own and exercise these three things at the onset of a tempting attack.
Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Truth Only that which comes from God, declared by Him, can be trusted as truly true, or as absolute truth. 2. All other concepts considered as ‘truth’ can be ‘adjusted’, often miraculously, so as to not always be true. 3. Thus truth, truths, or things thought to be true, are not worthy to be understood as absolute truth apart from what God has spoken. Only in what God declares can we witness Absolute Truth.
Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Ephesians 6:14 Having Gird Your Loins With Truth ‘Gird Your Loins’ Entangled 2 Timothy 2:4 ‘Having’
Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Western Christian Entanglement and The Failure That It is Bringing… Our Children Our Culture Our Church
Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Practical Steps Toward Being a Person of Truth 1. Ask hard questions of yourself… Do I know the truth? John 8:31 -32 Am I open to the truth? Am I walking in truth?
Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Practical Steps Toward Being a Person of Truth 2. Be An Open-minded, Teachable Student of the Truth… Acts 17:10
Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Practical Steps Toward Being a Person of Truth 3. Be engaged in a community of truth for sharpening and accountability a. Pro. 13:20 b. Pro. 17:17 c. Pro. 18:1
Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Practical Steps Toward Being a Person of Truth 4. Pray
Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Practical Steps Toward Being a Person of Truth 5. Put truth in action in the public arena Matthew 10:2 - 5
Spiritual Warfare, Pt. 4 Armored Up Practical Steps Toward Being a Person of Truth 6. Don’t be a fool… or worse