Open your Bibles for 10 minutes or so to chapter 6 of Ephesians.

Ephesion 6.

And I want to read verses maybe 10 through 20 and make some comments probably as I go rather than reading the whole

thing through and then coming back.

Just making some comments as I go and the whole point here is to stir us up to pray for 45 minutes or so for the

manneka people and watch God do some great things at a distance. One of the things before I read it that constantly astonishes me is that God who could, with one blink of an eye or flick of a little finger,

dispatch all of Satan and all of his hordes out of the world and out of the way, instead of doing that employs human agents to do war with

them and fight them in order to get victories.

And all I know to say about that is in his inscrutable wisdom,

more glory will come to him and more joy will come to you in participating in this triumph.

I don't know what else to say because he could do it so

easily without us. He could just get rid of the devil so that all we had to deal

with was human flesh. But he hasn't chosen to get rid of the devil. He will throw the devil into the lake of fire someday, but now he gives him leash, lets him do great damage in the world and then does gives us a text like this.

So let's read this to see what's his what's the

point for us of letting the devil in the world and then calling us in to engage with this enemy.

So here's what we're to do.

Verse 10, Ephes and 6.

Finally, be strong in the Lord. This issue of strength is so important. You see it over and over again,

especially here in Ephesians, strong in the inner man back in chapter three. We must be strong and notice what kind of strength it is.

In the Lord and in the strength of his might.

So it isn't our strength. He's not saying, come on, let's recruit big he men or he women or she women or whatever they are.

That's not the kind of strength he's talking about. It's in the Lord.

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