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315 | Conversations - Armour of God - Our Feet · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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  well in John chapter four.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  In this episode of the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast,
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  join Kim Miller and Erica Close in a conversation as we walk with Jesus.
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  In today's conversation, we continue our series on wearing the armor of God
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  as we journey through life.
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  In today's podcast, we continue our study of Ephesians 6, 10-17 and chat about
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  feet that are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
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  Well, hello, everyone. My name is Erica Close, and I am here with Kimberly Miller.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries
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  as we continue getting dressed with the whole armor of God.
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  We've been talking for the last few Wednesdays in our conversation podcast about
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  what it means to take up or put on the whole armor of God.
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  And we're going to read Ephesians chapter 6, verses 10 through 17 in just a minute.
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  But what we've been doing is we've been walking through the armor of God.
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  And we've been starting from the very top to the very bottom.
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  So we started talking about the helmet of salvation.
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  We covered the breastplate of righteousness.
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  The shield of faith. faith, what it meant to have our loins girded with truth,
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  wearing the belt of truth.
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  And then last week, we talked about what it meant to be able to wield the sword
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  of the Spirit, which is our only offensive weapon in the armor of God.
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  And today, we have gotten down to our feet. And so today, we're going to talk
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  about what it means to have our feet shod with the preparation of the the gospel of peace.
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  So before we get into our conversation, I'm going to go ahead and read Ephesians 6, 10 through 17.
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  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
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  Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
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  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
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  against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
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  against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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  Wherefore, take into you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand
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  in the evil day, and having done all to stand.
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  Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate
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  of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
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  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench
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  all the fiery darts of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation and the sword
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  of the spirit, which is the word of God.
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  Amen. Aren't you just so excited that he gives us everything we need so that
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  we will not fall victim to the devil?
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  He allows us to get up and fully embrace the armor he has given us so that the
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  devil cannot penetrate us or our lives.
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  And we're clear that the devil's walking talking about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour,
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  but he can't get us because we are protected by all that God has given us,
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  that helmet of salvation, that breastplate of righteousness,
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  that shield of faith, and the belt of truth, and the sword of the Spirit.
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  And now we're talking about the feet that are just shod or put together with
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  the preparation of the gospel.
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  Gospel and we know that God has
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  commanded us to go into all the world and teach and preach the
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  gospel and so this preparing our feet with the gospel of Christ is this way
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  of saying we are to take what we have and take it to the world and I think that
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  sometimes we get a little caught up,
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  on what it means to witness or how can I tell someone to be saved when in reality.
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  He has given us all that we need when he saved us because all you have to do
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  is tell the story you believed.
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  And explain you believe in Jesus and how you were saved so that someone else understands it.
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  You don't have to know Genesis to Revelations and 750 verses.
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  You don't even have to know the Romans wrote. You need to know Jesus loves me. He died for me.
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  He shed his sinless, perfect blood to cover my sins.
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  And when I believe in him, he gives me eternal life and comes to dwell on me with the Holy Spirit.
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  And every born again believer has to know that or they couldn't be born again.
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  We have to know him in whom I have believed, right?
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  I love that thing about the preparation of the gospel, the feet shod with the
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  preparation of the gospel of peace, because it's our feet that are about motion.
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  It's our feet that get us moving.
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  So many of the other parts of the armor of God, you know, our defense, our protection.
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  The sword of the Spirit is, you know, our offense, but we're not going to have
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  any need to use the sword of the Spirit or to be protected unless we're moving, right?
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  We need to be out moving through the world carrying that gospel of peace.
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  And I do think he says prepared.
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  So I can't give you what I don't have. That's good.
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  And so not only do I need the armor of God on me, I have to start with that
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  helmet of salvation. I have to be saved.
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  And then I can begin to tell you about what I know.
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  I can tell you how he has affected me and how his love for me is infectious.
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  I can do all of those things. things and
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  I also love that it says preparation and even though I can tell you all the
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  amazing things that God has done for me and through me I also need to prepare
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  so when second Timothy says,
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  study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed
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  rightly dividing the word of truth he's just telling us know the word of God
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  in a way that you can take it to someone else.
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  It's kind of like if somebody's sick and you go pick up their antibiotic at
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  the drugstore, as long as you have it in your hand, it doesn't do them any good.
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  You got to take the antibiotic to them. And we have the cure for this world's
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  sin, for the wickedness, for the darkness, for the destruction of sin in our
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  friends' and family's lives.
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  We have the cure for that Because we have Jesus in us, and we've got to take Jesus to them.
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  I think that one of the things that you talk about our feet being prepared,
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  when our feet are prepared, they're ready to go, right? They don't have blisters. They're not sore.
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  You know, they have good shoes, you know, whatever it is, whatever is covering
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  our feet and making it so that we can go into difficult places.
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  We have that. I mean, when we think about why our feet have to be shod or to
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  be covered at all, it's because we're not going to be walking all the time on
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  nice plush carpet, right?
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  So often our feet, because of the call of the Lord upon our lives,
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  our feet take us to difficult places.
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  But regardless of where our feet
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  take us, they are protected with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
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  So we are taking him with us, but it is him that's protecting us as we go.
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  And you know, Romans 5.2 tells us that now the God of hope fill you with all.
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  Joy and peace in believing.
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  So when we believe, we receive this peace so that we can abound in hope through
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  the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  We have the peace of God within us.
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  And Isaiah 26.3 says that he will keep us in perfect peace when we are focused on him.
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  And so as we put on our shoes to go forth into this sinful, wicked world,
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  we are fully equipped so that the world can't get on us.
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  We're in the world, but we're not of the world.
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  And we have the cure to give to them. We have Jesus in us.
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  And he says, as we lift him up, he'll draw all men unto him.
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  And we know that Jesus loves us. That's the gospel of peace and that he came to save you.
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  He came to save and to seek those which were lost.
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  I think one of the things that's important is that in this part of this passage
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  in Ephesians, it's the gospel of peace that's talked about, right?
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  We're not talking about all the other aspects of the gospel,
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  like the importance of faith and how we're given the gift of salvation.
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  And the Lord makes us righteous and how we're following after truth and the
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  power of the Holy Spirit in us.
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  But this is the gift of peace.
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  And to me, that just makes me think that it's that gift of peace that we take
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  regardless of where we go.
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  I said before that, you know, our feet take us sometimes into difficult places to walk on, right?
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  We might have to walk on rough stones or hot sand or, you know,
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  super hot concrete or whatever it might be.
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  But we have our feet protected by the preparation that we have.
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  But at the same time, even as we are walking into those situations,
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  we have the peace because that will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is
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  stayed on thee, right? It's our mind that tells our feet where to go.
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  Our feet are following after Christ, and they may be in scary places,
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  but we can still have that peace that he gives us. And, you know,
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  it's this gospel of peace that fills us and then arms us with Jesus.
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  And this protects us and delivers us and leads us.
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  And it gives us the victory that we're told about in Romans 8,
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  37, because we're more than conquerors through Christ Jesus who loved us.
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  And we need to realize that we
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  are strategically positioned to tell others the good news of the gospel.
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  So we have the blessing and the calling to be instruments of the gospel so that
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  other people can learn and see Jesus and believe in him and obey his words.
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  We're commissioned to make all people aware of the gospel.
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  And the gospel is Jesus loves you.
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  You know, so much of this section of this passage is about taking that gospel,
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  right? And taking that gospel out.
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  And it really is a blessing to be part of being one who gets to share the gospel.
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  And wherever we go, we have that opportunity to share the gospel.
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  I love Romans 10.15 that says, And how shall they preach except they be sent?
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  As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel
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  of peace and bring glad tidings of good things.
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  You know, I think so often we don't think about feet as beautiful, right?
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  And when we're thinking about, you know, even the parts of the armor of God,
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  you think about those pieces of armor,
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  the foot coverings really aren't as impressive as, say, a shield or a breastplate or a helmet.
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  But we don't get anywhere unless we have our feet.
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  And we don't get to move through this life without our feet.
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  And I love that this passage says, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach
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  the gospel of peace, right?
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  Even our feet are beautiful if our feet get to do something for Jesus.
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  If our feet get to tell someone about Jesus, get us into a place where we can
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  tell someone about Jesus.
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  You know, when you talk about our feet taking us, it truly is our feet that
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  moves us in the footsteps of Jesus.
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  So when we prepare our feet with the gospel, we are literally controlling our
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  feet to do what God asks us to.
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  We are denying ourselves daily and choosing to pick up his cross and follow him.
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  And it allows us to teach others how to follow the commandments of God.
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  And it helps us be able to explain to others how God is completely supplying their needs.
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  Our feet being Being prepared with the gospel means that everywhere we go,
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  we are taking Jesus with us and exhibiting him to the world around us.
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  And in some ways, that's a sobering thought.
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  And maybe each of us should take a moment of pause and say, where have I taken Jesus today?
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  It's important for us to realize that we are filled with the Holy Spirit,
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  those who believe and follow after Christ.
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  And he has given us everything we need to defeat the devil.
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  Also, we're told in 1 Peter, everything we need to have holiness and godliness.
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  But he gave us all of this so that we could win others for him.
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  If we can stay unspotted from the world, if we can stay victorious over the devil,
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  then we are going to have a better opportunity for others to see Jesus in us
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  and to win a lost and dying world.
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  The armor of God is to protect us.
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  The sword is our defensive weapon.
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  But it's all a suit to set us apart that we'd be peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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  And an instrument in the hand of God. Well, this has been an amazing conversation,
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  and I hope we have really kind of struck your attention,
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  and motivated you and inspired you to completely take a closer look at the whole
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  armor of God as found in Ephesians chapter 6.
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  And we ask that you would just look at it, study it,
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  ask yourself questions about each of these pieces of armor, but understanding
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  and wearing the armor of God is a game changer,
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  because the devil has absolutely no hold on you and Jesus has separated you
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  from the world and he's protected you when you walk out with the whole armor
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