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Could you open your Bibles to the book of Ephesians?

Paul's letter to the church in Ephesus chapter 6.

And we're going to begin, reading it first time.

Finally, be strong in the Lord.

And in the strength of his might put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers against the powers against the world forces of this Darkness against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the Heavenly places, the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day and having done everything to stand for.

Say, a prayer for having, girded your loins with truth and having put on the breastplate of righteousness.

Let's pray.

Heavenly father Jesus, spirit of God, as we come to your precious word this morning.

We ask that you would Open the Eyes of our heart.

The eyes of our understanding that, we might hear your voice that we might see the things that you have prepared for us today.

Spirit of God, be our teacher.

We pray in Jesus name.

Amen.

So several messages have been focused on this passage from God's word in Ephesians 6, which instructs us about the spiritual warfare.

Every Christian faces, as redeemed members of a fallen, race living in a fallen world.

This teaching begins in first 10.

Where we are exhorted to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

We need to be constantly receiving strength.

We are called to be strengthening ourselves always recognizing, but the strength we need is always in the Lord.

It is in the presence of God that we are made strong.

Psalm 105, verse 4. Exhorts us to seek the Lord and his strength seek his presence continually.

Seek the Lord and his strength.

Seek his presence.

Continually.

It is in the presence of the Lord that we are made strong.

We also look at the second exhortation In this.

Passage in verse 11 put on the full armor of God.

We seen that this exhortation is really telling us that about our need to put on Jesus.

There's a parallel passage in Romans 13:12 to put on the armor of light.

And then to versus L A 14 to put on the Lord, Jesus Christ to put on the full armor of God to put on the armor of light, is to put on the Lord Jesus Christ.

Since the strength we need is in the Lord.

Therefore, we must be closed with Jesus everyday.

Every day before we go out into the world.

Before we begin, the struggle that we face each day.

We must put on the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Like so many other passages in the New Testament, this exhortation to close ourselves with Jesus and to put on our armor.

These expectations are meant to teach us our need to live in continual dependence on the Lord.

We were never meant to live independently.

To try to live independently is to be not truly alive.

In chapter 6 of John's gospel, the Lord Jesus use the metaphor of our daily food and drink to illustrate.

This essential reality saying in verse 35, of John said, I am the bread of life.

He who comes to me will not hunger.

He who believes in me.

Will never thirst.

Anna verse 53, truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the Flesh of the son of man and drink his blood.

You have no life in yourself.

If we are not daily feeding on Jesus, we have no life.

Aurora Australis seen truth in John chapter 15 in that classic wonderful metaphor of the vine and the branches.

I am the vine.

You are the branches.

Jesus to Claire's in verse 5 of John 15.

Alien versus four and six, you must abide in me.

You must remain in, you must stay connected to me.

And if anyone does not abide in me, he will be like a dried-up branch.

Staying connected to Jesus is not an option.

As though, we could choose a Christian Life with abiding or without it.

We should never make the mistake of thinking that abiding in Jesus.

The remaining in him, the staying connected to Jesus is some higher level of Christianity.

For those who are truly super spiritual.

Like if you want the premium version of the Christian life, then choose the abiding in Jesus auction.

No, there is no life apart from staying connected to Jesus.

If we're not holding onto the Vine.

Then we are just dried up withered branches laying around on the ground.

We must make the continual intentional choice to stay connected to the vine everything.

We need flows.

From the Vine.

Show in harmony with with this fundamental truth of scripture.

We now come to see that putting on the Lord.

Jesus is what enables us and equips us for the daily battle.

We find ourselves engaged in.

In our Study.

Last week.

We saw another exhortation contained in this section of Ephesians chapter 6, which is repeated four times.

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We are Exodia to stand firm.

Verses 11 and 13 put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.

So that you will be able to withstand in the evil day.

And having done everything to stand.

Anna verse 14.

Stand firm.

Therefore.

Here then is the goal of the battle.

The ultimate purpose for putting on the armor that we will be able to stand firm.

We're not called on to conquer.

We're not the hold on to gain the victory or to take Dominion when I called on to March into the enemy's territory.

You're simply called to stand firm to stand our ground because the ground in dispute, in this battle already Belongs to the Lord.

We're not called on to win the battle, which overcome in the Warfare because Jesus has already won.

He has already overcome the world.

And the father has put all things in subjection under his feet.

The Wharf are we wage with the world and the Flash.

And the devil is only to maintain and to hold on to the victory which Christ has already gained.

Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might put on the full armor of God, put on the Lord, Jesus Christ, so that you can stand.

Verse 11 says our struggle is against the spiritual forces of wickedness.

That word struggle in the Gris refers to a contest between two opponents in which each Endeavors to throw the other.

That's the literal.

Meaning.

To throw the other.

That's what the devil is trying to do to us.

He's trying to throw us down.

He can't overthrow Jesus.