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[976.06 --> 976.54] for battling |
[976.54 --> 977.54] because you can speak |
[977.54 --> 977.96] in the truth |
[977.96 --> 979.82] and you can live in the truth. |
[980.48 --> 981.78] And that is a very powerful thing, |
[981.86 --> 982.94] and there's so many illustrations |
[982.94 --> 984.18] throughout world history |
[984.18 --> 985.96] of lies being sown in society, |
[986.04 --> 986.98] and then there's this little group |
[986.98 --> 987.32] of people, |
[987.42 --> 988.24] this remnant of people |
[988.24 --> 988.48] who say, |
[988.56 --> 990.00] no, we know the truth. |
[990.36 --> 991.28] We're going to live in it, |
[991.28 --> 992.60] and people see the power of truth |
[992.60 --> 993.92] being embodied in a community. |
[994.82 --> 995.52] Christians are those |
[995.52 --> 996.72] who wear the belt of truth. |
[996.82 --> 997.72] They know Christ. |
[998.58 --> 999.50] They know the scriptures. |
[1000.24 --> 1001.18] They know the gospel, |
[1001.30 --> 1001.58] and therefore, |
[1001.70 --> 1002.66] they know who they are |
[1002.66 --> 1003.92] and who is in control |
[1003.92 --> 1004.52] in this world. |
[1006.12 --> 1006.44] Secondly, |
[1006.60 --> 1008.02] believers wear the breastplate |
[1008.02 --> 1008.66] of righteousness. |
[1009.34 --> 1010.18] Now, the breastplate |
[1010.18 --> 1011.20] in a Roman soldier |
[1011.20 --> 1012.16] would be protecting |
[1012.16 --> 1013.68] the vital organs right here. |
[1013.68 --> 1015.08] And the breastplate |
[1015.08 --> 1015.54] of righteousness |
[1015.54 --> 1017.22] is basically a recognition |
[1017.22 --> 1019.82] that we have been delivered, |
[1020.64 --> 1021.94] and we, by the work of Jesus, |
[1022.04 --> 1022.58] have been brought |
[1022.58 --> 1024.54] into right relationship with God. |
[1024.98 --> 1026.00] In fact, I think the best way |
[1026.00 --> 1027.06] to translate the word righteous |
[1027.06 --> 1028.70] is right related. |
[1028.82 --> 1030.36] We are now brought close to God, |
[1030.50 --> 1031.90] and we are protected by Him. |
[1033.40 --> 1035.40] Thirdly, believers wear the sandals |
[1035.40 --> 1036.86] of the gospel of peace. |
[1037.46 --> 1038.94] And I'm not going to get into |
[1038.94 --> 1039.60] some of the details |
[1039.60 --> 1041.30] of how differently people translate |
[1041.30 --> 1042.24] what this means, |
[1042.24 --> 1043.70] but I think there's two really |
[1043.70 --> 1045.56] powerful overlapping meanings here. |
[1045.64 --> 1046.12] One is, |
[1046.68 --> 1048.06] a way of defending ourselves |
[1048.06 --> 1049.10] against the work of Satan |
[1049.10 --> 1050.76] is sharing the gospel, |
[1051.46 --> 1052.98] is speaking about the person |
[1052.98 --> 1053.72] who is life, |
[1054.08 --> 1054.66] about the person |
[1054.66 --> 1055.50] who has defeated Satan, |
[1055.54 --> 1056.16] and that is Jesus, |
[1056.24 --> 1057.18] so evangelism. |
[1057.66 --> 1058.60] But part of that is |
[1058.60 --> 1059.18] the recognition |
[1059.18 --> 1061.10] that the gospel is peace. |
[1062.10 --> 1062.64] Satan is the one |
[1062.64 --> 1063.90] who splits and divides. |
[1064.08 --> 1064.50] Satan is the one |
[1064.50 --> 1065.40] who sort of cuts through |
[1065.40 --> 1066.20] and gets a wedge |
[1066.20 --> 1067.08] between relationships, |
[1067.08 --> 1068.28] and the gospel is that |
[1068.28 --> 1069.90] which unifies Jew and Gentile, |
[1070.02 --> 1070.66] slave and free, |
[1070.82 --> 1071.48] male and female, |
[1071.48 --> 1073.52] into the life of Jesus Christ. |
[1073.96 --> 1075.20] And so the very thing we share |
[1075.20 --> 1077.26] is the thing that is peace. |
[1079.66 --> 1081.12] Now there's the things we hold, |
[1081.20 --> 1082.52] the shield of faith. |
[1083.88 --> 1084.98] One of the most dangerous things |
[1084.98 --> 1085.46] in warfare |
[1085.46 --> 1088.04] was the flaming arrows. |
[1088.88 --> 1089.92] And that was a regular part |
[1089.92 --> 1091.24] of warfare in the first century. |
[1091.50 --> 1092.50] And we're told in this passage |
[1092.50 --> 1094.10] that Satan has these flaming arrows |
[1094.10 --> 1095.06] that he shoots at the church, |
[1095.16 --> 1096.02] that he shoots at believers, |
[1096.02 --> 1097.28] that will pierce them. |
[1097.60 --> 1098.28] And what we're told is |
[1098.28 --> 1099.52] the thing that protects us, |
[1099.52 --> 1100.48] that shields us, |
[1100.64 --> 1101.70] is the shield of faith. |
[1102.72 --> 1103.50] And what that means is |
[1103.50 --> 1105.04] it is actually believing in Jesus, |
[1105.38 --> 1106.86] it is putting our trust in Jesus, |
[1106.92 --> 1108.74] and remaining close to Jesus |
[1108.74 --> 1109.74] that protects us |
[1109.74 --> 1111.04] from those fiery arrows. |
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