Welcome to Studies with Stearman. Join us as we look deeper into the Bible.

Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching. And now, here's Gary.

Satan is out there trying his best to derail the redeemed.

He wants to throw things in our pathway.

There's no way that he has to make us stumble if we are, in fact, walking in the spirit.

No matter what happens, we don't live in fear, but in faith.

Ephesians 6.10,

finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,

against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Notice that Paul says, finally, this is his closing point in a long letter.

If you think about the Ephesian letter, it starts out expressing the will of God in choosing those whom he would have to be his followers. It then begins to describe

what happens after this process of choosing is made and then followed up on. then the Ephesian letter turns to the church,

the body of Christ, and it explains what the body of Christ is, and then it talks about how the

body of Christ is for the perfecting of saints in unity. And then it gets to the gifts.

After you've put off the old you and put on the new you and you have been renewed in your

mind, you begin a new kind of walk.

And it's a walk of guess what?

Relationship.

It's the relationship that's compared with husbands and wives, fathers and children, bosses and employees,

masters and servants. So what begins as God's will in choosing you before the foundational world

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