Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, May 23.

No one can successfully withstand the devil on their own.

But God has provided the right equipment for believers to stand firm.

Here's a lesson in how to get dressed in the armor of God.

Every command that God gives us in His Word has a divine purpose behind it.

He doesn't just give commands just to be forgiving them.

He gives them for a very specific reason it is always for our good.

Well, that is especially true when you and I come to face the whole issue of our warfare.

Because our warfare is daily, oftentimes moment by moment.

God has given us some very clear commands, some very clear instruction in the Word of God

as to how to prepare for that, how to be ready to face the conflict,

how to be ready to face evil spirits and Satan and all the things that are involved in that warfare.

Well, in the sixth chapter of Ephesians, if you'll turn there,

you'll find a very clear command that our Lord gives us here in this sixth chapter.

Because here the Apostle Paul is dealing with what you and I have to deal with every day,

and that is spiritual warfare.

And you'll notice in this passage that he uses some terminology and describes some things that physically you and I could never do.

But spiritually we can, because this is a spiritual battle,

we can expect to look at it from that perspective.

So let's begin reading in this 10th verse, remembering that in these first three chapters,

he's talked about how wealthy we are as believers.

In the fourth and fifth and half of this sixth chapter, he's talked about how we to live.

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