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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

As we come now to the Word of God, I want you to turn to your Bible to Ephesians chapter

6.

We are going to look to the next portion of Scripture in our study in Ephesians.

We are really coming to the very end after many months in this wonderful epistle.

And this morning we are going to go back to chapter 6 verses 10 through 17.

We looked at the first part of it last week and we'll wrap it up this morning.

We will be considering the believer's armor, which is a familiar portion of Scripture.

And I think it was back in 2008 or so I did a series on this that may have been eight or nine messages which are available at the Grace to you website.

But for us in this season I'm just going to consider the armor of the believer in one message and we'll gather it all together this morning.

To begin with let me read starting in verse 10 of Ephesians 6,

finally be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.

Put on the full armor of God so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness,

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