The Belt of Truth (Ephesians 6:14a)
Context
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- The battle is spiritual and not physical (Eph 6:12c)
- We have an enemy that isn’t flesh and blood (Eph 6:12c)
- Our enemy is the devil and his cadre. (HC 127)
- We don’t need to find the enemy, he will find us. (Dt 11:24, Josh 1:3)
- We need to stand firm, and refuse to yield any territory to the devil (James 4:7)
- The Belt of Truth
- Historical Background
- What is Truth?
- Does Truth Matter? YES!
- Truth is one of the characteristics of God. (Westminster Shorter Q4, Ps 31:5, Isa 65:16)
- God is a God who never lies (Heb 6:18)
- What is Truth?
- 1st, Truth is the Good News (Eph 1:13, 1Tim 2:4-6)
- 2nd, Truth is Scripture (2Tim 2:15)
- 3rd, Truth is the life of true righteousness and holiness (Eph 4:21-25, 1Pt 2:12)
- 4th, Truth is the exposing of evil and understanding the will of God (Eph 5:6, 9-11, 17)
- There will be false teachers (2Pet. 2:1-2)
- Can we know Truth? (Prov. 23:23)
- Jesus thought we could 78x “I Tell you the truth”
- Truth is known by obedience to Christ, and obedience to Christ comes from the renewing work of the Spirit in a person’s heart. (Jn 8:31-32, 1Pet 3:15)
- Does Truth Matter? YES!
- What does truth protect us from? (Eph 6:11)
- William Gurnall, Christian in Complete Armour
- We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only ‘mighty through God,’ 2 Cor 10:4 (vol I:53)
- Thus you see it is not armour as armour, but as armour of God, that makes the soul impregnable. (vol I:54)
[1] R. T. Kendall, Understanding Theology, Volume One (Ross-shire, Great Britain: Christian Focus, 1996), 265–266.
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