Title: Victory! (16 of 17)
Series: WHO AM I?
Scripture: Ephesians 6:9-18
Author: Tim Badal
Please turn to Ephesians 6. We have two weeks left in our series "Who Am I?" As we've been looking at this book since the beginning of January, my hope and prayer is that your faith has grown. We've learned truths about our God and our walk with Him, as well as about our relationship with each other as children of God and followers of Jesus Christ.
Today we're coming to the place where Paul writes, "Finally..." He's going to give his concluding thoughts to the church he loved in Ephesus; truths we also need in our day. I'm glad Paul waited until the end of the book to add these words because they are not things he could have brought up at the beginning. We need to have all we've learned up to this point in order to understand the meaning of today's passage. Had he started with this part of his letter, we would have lost heart. We would have slumped down, given up and given in. Now that we've heard what he wrote first, we have confidence and strength, realizing that we can do this, even though his words are ominous and disheartening.
What we'll learn today is that we're in a war, but we are fighting this war from a place of victory, not defeat. We can have confidence that the God Who loves and cares for us, Who has died on the cross for us, Who has empowered and filled us with His Spirit will now give us everything we need to find victory in this battle we'll read about today. So let's read Ephesians 6:10-18:
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withst ...
Series: WHO AM I?
Scripture: Ephesians 6:9-18
Author: Tim Badal
Please turn to Ephesians 6. We have two weeks left in our series "Who Am I?" As we've been looking at this book since the beginning of January, my hope and prayer is that your faith has grown. We've learned truths about our God and our walk with Him, as well as about our relationship with each other as children of God and followers of Jesus Christ.
Today we're coming to the place where Paul writes, "Finally..." He's going to give his concluding thoughts to the church he loved in Ephesus; truths we also need in our day. I'm glad Paul waited until the end of the book to add these words because they are not things he could have brought up at the beginning. We need to have all we've learned up to this point in order to understand the meaning of today's passage. Had he started with this part of his letter, we would have lost heart. We would have slumped down, given up and given in. Now that we've heard what he wrote first, we have confidence and strength, realizing that we can do this, even though his words are ominous and disheartening.
What we'll learn today is that we're in a war, but we are fighting this war from a place of victory, not defeat. We can have confidence that the God Who loves and cares for us, Who has died on the cross for us, Who has empowered and filled us with His Spirit will now give us everything we need to find victory in this battle we'll read about today. So let's read Ephesians 6:10-18:
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withst ...
There are 28715 characters in the full content. This excerpt only shows a 2000 character sample of the full content.
Price: $5.99 or 1 credit
.jpg)
