Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

Now let's jump into what you said about Ephesians.

Yeah, and again, I see this as tying in and I don't know that we need to spend a long

time on this, but he's got this beautiful bunch of verses about girding up your loins

and taking on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shot with a preparation of the

gospel of peace and the helmet of salvation and so on in my spirit.

All of this is really coming right from Ephesians.

But the interesting thing is, and again, covenant's on my brain, but I'm going to feel

okay about it because you told me I could.

So the promises in the covenant include words like, I will be your shield.

I will be your protector, right?

I think the idea is that protection is one of the blessings promised to Israel.

If we're going to look for those blessings, it's one of the blessings promised.

And so again, I see this as a logical transition.

We're talking about the covenant and the keys of the kingdom that have been committed

as part of this.

And as a result, I want you to gird up and be ready both to be protected, but to go out

and do the battle that will bring other people into that protection.

A cohesive section, I think, that helps us understand what God wants us to do and how

it's tied into the sacrament and doing the sacrament with an eye single to his glory.

I can't not equate the armor of God with the sacrament because I think of the priest

up there saying that they may always have his spirit to be with them.

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