Victorious Life - Bible Baptist Church

Text: Ephesians 6:10-13

If you’re oblivious to your surroundings

Be strong in the LORD (vs 10)

Being strong in the LORD means allowing the LORD to be strong, so you’ll have to stop leaning on your own understanding.
What follows are the LORD’s weapons in the warfare you’re involved in.
- Weapons such as truth, righteousness, peace, faith, hope, and the words of God.
The issues of life are spiritual and moral.
Your problem isn’t biology, your problem is discipline.
Your problem isn’t chemistry in your body, it’s believing lies.
David and Goliath. The victory doesn’t belong to the strongest and biggest because that’s not the battle. The warfare isn’t muscle versus muscle.

Put on spiritual armor (vs 11)

God’s armor
- Put on the whole armour of God…
- Armor of light in Romans 13:12
- Armor of righteousness in 2 Corinthians 6:7
- Weapons mighty through God 2 Corinthians 10:4; able to destroy imaginations
- Your armor is truth, hope, faith, peace
…that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil… You will not be able to fight without it.

Know the mission (vs 12)

If you don’t understand what you’re fighting against, you won’t stand. You’ll never know what hit you. And in a spiritual battle, the target isn’t physical. Although it’s going to have physical effects.
But I can’t lift weights and become a more discerning person. I can’t run a marathon and that make me a more spiritual person.
Peter fought the wrong battle in the garden. He drew his sword to kill Malchus, but by then the battle for him was already lost in the prayer room.
King Josiah gets into a fight with the king of Egypt after being warned not to insert himself in the war Egypt has with Assyria.
This is why the fruit of the spirit in Galatians 5 is so needed. Because if I understand what the LORD is trying to produce, then I also understand where the battles are.

Take up the strength of God so you can stand (vs 13)