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Ephesians chapter 6 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Ephesians chapter 6. Let us pray.
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  Our Lord and our God and our King and our boss, our
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  everything. Father, Father, us, We love you.
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  King Jesus, we worship you today in spirit and truth.
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  We come into your throne room with praise and Thanksgiving.
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  You are the author of everything, seen and unseen.
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  You're the only uncreated. We love you.
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  Father, keep us from the accuser.
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  God, keep us from the evil one. God, we stiff arm sin and self.
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  God, we stiff arm rebellion. God, we just want you and we
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  want more of you. Father, we love you and we love
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  your ways. We love your word.
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  God, we love your church. God, let us make ourselves and
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  adorn ourselves ready for you. Father, we love you.
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  God, Holy Spirit, indwell us. Holy Spirit, fill us.
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  Holy Spirit, wreck us today with your holy presence.
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  Teach us today and convict us. I decrease as you increase.
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  It's all about King Jesus, teach us your eternal past.
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  Father, we acknowledge you today and we ask that you'll direct
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  our steps. We love you, deny Yeshua, we
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  love you, Yahweh, we love you Jehovah Rapha, Jehovah Nicey,
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  Jehovah Jireh, El Roy, El Elyon, we love you God the most high
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  God, we worship you today and we love you.
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  Father, teach us your ways and lead us on past from glory to
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  glory. And it's in Jesus Christ, holy
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  and precious name that I pray, Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. Children, obey your parents and
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  the Lord for this is right. Well, it goes without saying,
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  friends, we need to teach our children obedience.
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  We don't need to teach them how to be bad.
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  It's easy to see a child snatching a toy from another.
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  It's easy for a child to lie and to steal.
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  But we need to make sure that we're teaching them to obey,
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  friends. And that is, he's going to tell
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  us that is how they achieve a long life on this earth.
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  Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment
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  with a promise that is all the way back in the 10 commandments.
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  The children are told to obey and to honor their mother and
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  father. 13 that it may be well with you, and you may live long
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  on this earth. And then he goes on after he
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  tells the children that they are to obey their parents.
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  And that is a precursor to obeying authority, which
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  ultimately leads to obeying God. Four.
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  And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but
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  bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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  It's easy when you have authority over your children.
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  It's easy for you to provoke them.
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  You know all their little buttons and you know how to push
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  them. And God here is telling the
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  fathers to grow up, quit acting like little children, to
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  actually train up your child in the way they should go, so that
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  when they are older they will not depart from it. 5 Servants,
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  be obedient to them that are your masters, according to the
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  flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart as
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  unto Christ. So you have to understand, no
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  matter if you're the employer, the employee, we all serve the
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  same Master Jesus Christ, and he's telling us to be of 1
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  accord and one mind. And we don't need to be
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  backbiting and dissenters. We do not need to sow discord.
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  We do not need to be talking badly.
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  If you cannot agree with the principles and the morals of
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  your employer, it's not time for them to leave.
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  It's time for you to go. 6 Not with eye service as men
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  pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God
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  from the heart. So he's saying, don't just do
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  things to be seen, do things as if, as if you're working unto
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  the Lord. Do everything for God, Do it all
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  unto God, for everything is naked and laid bare in his
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  sight. He knows all of the nuances.
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  He knows all of the unspoken things that go into something.
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  You cannot pull the wool over his eyes.
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  God sees it all and He knows it all.
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  So we work for God and God alone, and God will reward the
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  things that we do in secret 7 with good will, doing service as
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  to the Lord and not to men. We work for God Almighty and not
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  for men. 8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man
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  does, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he is a
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  bond or free. So you need to understand
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  whatever position you find yourself in, in a lesser
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  position or a higher position, we all are going to give an
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  account to God Almighty and there is a grave responsibility
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  for those that are in the higher positions.
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  And we need to learn how to be servant leaders and shepherd
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  kings. And that is where meekness comes
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  in. You might have power, but do not
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  abuse that power, friends. Do it with fear and trembling
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  before the Lord. 9 And you masters do the same things unto
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  them, forbearing threatenings, knowing that your master also is
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  in heaven. Neither is there respective
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  persons with him. He is not going to look at your
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  high position and think any more of you.
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  You do not get to try to argue with God and call God into the
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  courtroom and tell God how to behave or what he should think
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  or ask God, does he know who you are?
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  It doesn't work that way. 10 Finally, my brothers, be strong
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  in the Lord and in the power of his might.
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  Here is the warriors power. We're going to get into this
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  little section and Paul has built this crescendo up,
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  friends. You can see it all being built
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  up. And right here he says finally,
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  and this letter that he wrote here to the Ephesians, Paul is
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  going to end on a high note. He's going to go out with a
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  bang, friends. He's going to go out on top,
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  friends. And let's see what he has to say
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  to the warriors. He tells us verse 11, put on the
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  whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the
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  Wiles of the devil. This is the warrior's armor.
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  So not only the warrior's power is in the power of the Lord, the
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  power of the Lord's might. That's how we are to be strong
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  friends. But then we start putting on
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  this armor so that we can stand against the devil.
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  We are not to be found sitting on our blessed assurance.
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  We are called to be found standing in His holy presence.
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  12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
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  principalities and powers and rulers of the darkness of this
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  world, and against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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  So you need to understand who is our foes?
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  People are not the problem, friends, it is the spirit behind
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  the people that we war against. People have been hijacked by
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  these demonic entities who desire a body, these demonic
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  spirits who want to inhabit and possess and to do their
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  biddings. Friends, we do not war against
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  people, we war against the principalities, we war against
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  the powers, we war against the rulers of darkness, we war
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  against the spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore
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  take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to
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  withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand,
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  stand, stand, stand, take a stand against the things that
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  you know are evil. Do not be found being the silent
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  majority, friends. We are to speak up and speak out
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  and to stand up against all the atrocities of our day and our
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  hour, and we will give an account for all the times that
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  we remain silent. We do not need to fear the one
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  that can kill the body, but we need to fear the one that can
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  kill the body and cast our soul into hell.
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  Stand therefore 14 having your loins girt about with truth, and
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  having on the breastplate of righteousness.
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  So we put on this belt of truth. Everything on the entire armor
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  is hinged upon the belt. The belt is the centerpiece of
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  all the armor. If we cannot stand on truth,
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  then all the other pieces make no sense.
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  We do not need to go out into the battle naked with nothing
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  but a sword. We do not need to go out into
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  the battle naked with nothing more than a shield and a sword.
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  We do not need to go out into the battle with nothing more
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  than a helmet and a shield and a sword.
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  We must put on this belt of truth first.
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  Everything is hinged upon truth and Jesus Christ is the truth
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  and having on the breastplate of righteousness.
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  So this protects our heart. Friends, as we put on this
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  breastplate of righteousness, our hearts will not be LED
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  astray by all of the worries and the cares of this world.
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  It will protect us from the fiery darts of the enemy of
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  worry, anxiety, depression, greed, and comfort.
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  When the fiery darts come our way, our heart will be protected
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  if we will do the right thing. Say the right thing, friends. 15
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  And your feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of
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  peace. And whenever you will tell the
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  truth, and you'll live the right way, you will receive this
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  peace. And we need to put on these
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  shoes and run the race, and take the gospel to the whole world.
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  16 Above all, take the shield of faith, where with you will be
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  able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
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  This shield is above all because it is above your head, it is
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  above your shoulders. Friends, we lift the shield of
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  faith up over our minds. We lift it up over our thoughts,
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  we lift it up over our fears. We have to have faith over fear,
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  faith over feelings. We lift it above all.
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  It is the highest part of the armor.
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  You lift it up over your head. 17 Take the helmet of salvation
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  and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
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  So this helmet protects your mind.
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  All the battles that you're going to fight today are won or
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  lost in the mind first. That is why it's so important to
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  let the Word of God wash over your mind, and that is the
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  importance, friends, we bring our salvation story back on our
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  minds. We tell our salvation story,
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  which is not only edifying to the here, but it's edifying to
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  yourself to hear your testimony being talked about.
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  And then very last in this entire armor is the sword of the
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  Spirit, which is the Word of God.
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  And it is mentioned last on purpose because there has been
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  so many cults that have been started because people only had
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  the sword and they did not have the shield, the belt, the
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  breastplate, the helmet, friends, or the shoes.
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  All they had was the sword. And they went out and did much
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  evil. And if you go back to the Garden
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  of Eden, whenever God told them not to eat from the Tree of the
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  knowledge of both good and evil, there are many people that have
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  wielded this sword, the Word of God, for much evil in the world.
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  Far be it from us to fall for their traps and their trickery
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  and their deception. They are ravenous wolves in
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  sheep's clothing. 18 praying always with all prayer and
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  supplication in the Spirit, and watching there unto with
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  perseverance and supplication for All Saints.
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  So this is the warrior's resource is our prayer life.
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  We need to be praying and making our prayers known to God, making
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  our needs known to God. Friends, we need to be praying
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  in the Spirit in season and out of season.
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  Friends, we need to be praying at all times.
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  Pray without ceasing. Friends, don't worry about
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  anything, but pray about everything, and take captive
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  every thought, and make it obedient unto Christ.
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  Pray for those that are on the battle lines out in the field.
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  Pray for the missionaries, friends of the churches. 19 And
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  for me that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open
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  my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel.
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  So here Paul is saying, Pray for me also.
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  Paul was entrusted with the mystery that is made known now
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  that Jesus Christ was well pleased to reveal to Paul on the
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  road to Damascus and in Arabia. And Paul here gives us the
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  Christian walk in the Christian life and what it's all about.
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  And it was entrusted to him. And now he says, Woe to me if I
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  do not preach the gospel. And that is our story as well.
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  It's like fire shut up in our bones that we cannot contain.
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  It must come out. 20 for which I am an ambassador in bonds, that
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  therein I may speak boldly as I ought to speak.
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  He's saying, look at these chains that I'm in.
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  I am an ambassador for Christ. I am the messenger for Christ.
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  And these chains denote that special selection.
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  And it is not chains of shame, friends, these were these were
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  chains of glory, and he wore them, and he wore him to show
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  the world that God had chosen him to reveal the mystery to the
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  church. 21 But that you also may know my affairs and how I do,
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  Tykus, A beloved brother, faithful minister in the Lord,
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  shall make known to you all things.
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  So Paul here makes it a little personal, and he's sending old
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  Ticacus to bring the letter to them, and he's saying he will
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  make it known to you. Anything that I've missed out
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  on, he'll make it known to you. 22 whom I have sent to you for
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  the same purpose, that you might know our affairs, and that he
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  might comfort your hearts. Think of someone who was
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  attached to Paul coming and any questions they might have had of
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  how's he doing, what is his life like and all the things that
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  they might want to know old Tychus could tell them about. 23
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  Peace be to the brothers in love with faith from God the Father
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  and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all them that love
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  our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, Amen.
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  So this is what we get when we come to the Lord.
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  We get peace, we get love. He gives us faith, He gives us
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  grace when we come to Him in sincerity.
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  And it's a beautiful ride and it's a beautiful life if you'll
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  let it be. We don't have to live in
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  bondage. We don't have to live in
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  shackles and chains that we wrap around ourselves.
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  We can be free because whom the sun sets free is free indeed.
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  And there's no prison that can hold us in.
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  Friends, we have the same resurrection power living inside
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  of us, and we need not be afraid.
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  We need not be discouraged in the hour.
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  We need to be clothed in his righteousness and his purity and
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  innocence. And he tells us, I send you out
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  like sheep among wolves. Be as innocent as doves and as
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  shrewd as snakes. We need to be more shrewd than
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  the children of this world. Friends, let the children of
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  light shine in this hour. I pray that you've been blessed
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  by this book and by this chapter.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.