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ARMOR OF GOD SERIES
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His
might. Put on the whole armor of God,
that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil (Read all of Ephesians
6:10-20).
There are seven pieces to the Armor of God: the
Belt (one piece), the Breastplate (one piece), the Shoes (two pieces), the
Shield (one piece), the Helmet (one piece), and the Sword (one piece). The number seven is God’s number of
perfection.
We live in dimensions:
(1) the physical garnered by what we see, hear, feel, taste, touch and
smell; (2) the social garnered by temperaments, personalities and
behaviours; and (3) the spiritual garnered by a “sixth” sense we often
call intuition or that ‘inner voice’.
These dimensions are fluid, mixing together like water, oil, and fuel all
in one concealed container called life.
And for a human being to be successful at life, he
and she must be girded in truth. Jesus said, “I am
the Way, the Truth and the Life . . . .” All that is written in story books, text
books, reference books and all the e-books and ‘pedias’ may describe parts of
the whole of creation, but can never add up to the final version of truth. All that is TRUTH is found in the Bible,
humanity’s manual for living.
That’s why we must READ THE BIBLE to discern fiction (what is not real) from fact
(what is real) from lie (twisted reality) from truth (pure knowledge of God).
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the
flesh. For the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down
arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God,
bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being
ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled (2 Corinthians 10:3-6).
As born-again Christians, in the physical
dimension, we do not actually put on a soldier’s armor. Once our souls are saved, and we obey the
Great Commission to Go into all the world and preach the gospel to
every creature (Mark 16:15), we are given God’s Armor, discerned
in the spiritual dimension, but evidenced physically and socially as we Go! about fulfilling our Commission. The weapons are attached to the Armor of God
and, as we use them, we become mighty in God.
The first piece of God’s Armor that we are to put
on is THE
BELT OF TRUTH: Stand, therefore, having girded your waist with truth (Ephesians
6:14a). The BELT is the piece of
Armor. The weapon is TRUTH. And what is the weapon of TRUTH supposed to
do? Pull down strongholds which bind humanity in unbelief, cast down arguments
that go against bringing other souls to know God, transform every thought of
man into obeying what is in the mind of Jesus Christ; and punish all
disobedience as you fulfill your obedience to the Great Commission.
The Armor of God, therefore, is given to the
Christian soldier who makes himself or herself ready to Go! into all the world around him/her to save souls. Can a Christian who does not obey the very
reason for why Christ died, be given God’s Armor? Can a cold (disobedient) or lukewarm
(comfortable, apathetic) Christian be entrusted with the Holy Spirit’s fire-hot
weapons of warfare? GET UP, GET HEATED AND GET OUT THERE WINNING
SOULS. GOD’S GOT YOU COVERED IN HIS
ARMOR!
Where is the BELT OF TRUTH located and why? This piece of
armor is located at your center of gravity so to speak. The waist represents your pivot point, or, in
science when describing machines, your fulcrum.
And as the forces of life are thrown your way, including the “wiles”—the
tricks, the lies, the deceit—of the devil, the objective of the fulcrum is to
keep you balanced. Scientifically, the
power into a machine must equal the power out of the machine to maintain
balance, or equilibrium. Well, guess
what? In life, when Satan throws his full force at you, the girded power around
your center of gravity—the TRUTH—goes out from you, knocking Satan out and
keeping you steadfast and steady, balanced, unshaken, not frightened or
fallen! Halleluiah!
If the center of your being is TRUTH, then you
cannot be tripped up or trampled over by the wiles of the devil as you carry
out your Great Commission. The battle is
clear: You must go and save souls; Satan must stop you from saving souls which
are marked for hell.
With your center girded tightly with the BELT OF TRUTH,
you cannot be knocked off balance. You
stand, therefore, rooted firmly and Satan cannot operate against TRUTH. He flees from it.
“And you shall know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH shall make you free” (John 8:32).
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