The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

As we come now to the Word of God, I want you to turn in your Bible to Ephesians chapter 6.

We're 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. It 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 Ephesion 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, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

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