Tony Evans Speaks Out on Spiritual Warfare by Tony Evans

Author:Tony Evans [Evans, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-57567-853-5
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2000-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

OUR AUTHORITY IN SPIRITUAL WARFARE

Now that we know something about the agenda of the battle and the adversary we’re up against, I want to show you the authority we have in Christ to wage spiritual warfare.

To do that, we are going to unfold Ephesians 6:10–17, one of the foundational passages on spiritual warfare in God’s Word. Let’s talk about the nature of the armor, the need for the armor, and the names of the armor.

The Nature of Our Armor

The apostle Paul doesn’t waste any time in spelling out the nature of the authority we have for spiritual warfare. It’s “the full armor of God” (Ephesians 6:11).

But before Paul gets to the armor, he gives us an important exhortation: “Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might” (v. 10).

This says the battle is the Lord’s, not ours. It is a passive command. That means God supplies the strength, not us. Our job is to “dress for success” by putting on the armor God supplies.

Six pieces of spiritual armor are named in Ephesians 6, and they are divided into two kinds by the use of two verbs. For the first three pieces of armor, Paul used the verb translated “having” along with another word (see vv. 14–15). But we are told to “take” the final three pieces of armor (vv. 16–17).

The difference is that the first three pieces of armor are things we have already put on. The idea is that we are to wear these pieces all the time, the way we put on our clothes every morning. But the other armor pieces, like the sword and the shield, we pick up as we need them, like a baseball player who picks up his bat when it’s his turn to bat.

I want you to see this distinction because it helps us understand how to use the armor God has given us.

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