DAY 665 - God Offers And Prepares That Full Armour for you. It's There Already! (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

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                               Today's Reading: Ephesians 6:13-17

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Bible Study

     Today we come to the famous passage about the command to put on the full armour of God. I think most Christians think all the time about how to put it on or where to find that. Let's hear what John Stott says:

     The expression the whole armour of God translates the Greek word "panoply", which is 'the full armour of a heavy-armed soldier'… The point is that this equipment is 'forged and furnished' by God…the armour and weapons are his, but now he shares them with us.  We have to put on the armour, take up the weapons and go to war with the powers of evil.

     John Stott. God's New Society: The Message of Ephesians. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1979, p. 275.

Bishop N.T. Wright says ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._T._Wright ) :
      Sometimes this spiritual attack will take the frontal form of actual authorities in towns and cities who try to prevent Christians from spreading the message.  Sometimes it will take the more oblique form of persuading Christians to invest time and energy in irrelevant side-issues, or to become fascinated by distorted teaching.  Sometimes it will be simply the age-old temptations of money,sex and power.  But in each case what individuals and the whole church must do is, first, to recognize that attacks are coming; second, to learn how to put on the complete armour which God offers; and, third, to stand firm and undismayed.

N.T. Wright. Paul for Everyone:Te Prison Letters. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004, p.76.

     Both John Stott and N.T. Wright are pointing us to the same direction. God offers and prepares that full armour for us as His soldiers. Do you know what you need to do so as to be able to put on that full armour and ready for the warfare?
     

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe":  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: God offers and prepares that full armour for you. It's there already!

    Wow! What I got from Jesus today is another big, big paradigm shift! It is somewhat like the question of how can we have the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The answer is, you are being filled with the Holy Spirit and then the fruit will come out. Or, another question is: How can we live out the beatitudes? The answer is, you repent, come into the Kingdom of God and then your life will be changed to be more and more living out the beatitudes, that is more like Jesus.

    Here, the question is : how can I put on the full armour of God? The answer is, you need to have Jesus as King so that you are in His Kingdom. Then, you'll be just like a soldier going in the room to put on your uniform and arm your equipments. Everything should be there waiting for you. But, you need to put it on yourself.

    The question is that you need to check whether you have each piece everyday, just like a soldier and policeman need to check his equipment before he starts his daily routine duty, right?

    Remember, God offers and prepares that full armour for you. It's there already! Just put in on and check! Can you do that each day? 
    
Dear Lord Jesus,
You are our King. Lead us to be able and willing to put of those full armour offered and prepared by you so that we can be able to fight that spiritual warfare. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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