Suit Up
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Introduction - Football
Introduction - Football
Image 1 - You don’t face these guys.
Image 2 - By looking like this guy.
Who of us would—only rugby players.
Not All Roses
Not All Roses
It’s hard to catch our bearings after last week’s text, but 6:10-20 is Paul’s final thoughts on living the Christian life (chs. 4-6)
We can be so thrown that this looks like it does’t follow; Paul has just started to throw things at the end
However, we should see them is deeply connected to what proceeds
Paul’s instructions to live holy lives in the Lord - to live up to our calling - are hard
There are also forces opposing us - spiritual forces
Not people, not cultural forces
Spiritual forces
Not something we talk about much in this day and age
So with these things lined up against us - the difficulty, the opposition, how can we do it? How do we live the Christian life?
Dress Appropriately
Dress Appropriately
Not on our own.
As I mentioned, our lives are full of hypocrisy, and we think that if we just keep it to ourselves, no one will notice
Yet this is one of the strategies of those spiritual forces - isolate, isolate, isolate
Like a gladiator in Paul’s day headed for battle or a football player headed for the gridiron, we have to be ready
Paul tells us how to do this
Ephesians 13-17
We prepare through our knowledge, understanding, and application of the gospel
if is either gibberish or lifeless, then our faith is likely unready for the problems of this world and to live as Christ would have us
Jesus himself said that we’d have trouble in this world ()
So strengthen yourself and prepare yourself
Search the Scriptures - but not alone
Understand what Christ has done for you - but not you alone
Know how to react when you face opposition and