Thank you. Christians are involved in a continual,

Irreconcilable spiritual war.

And like every soldier who heads into battle,

it's important for us to be equipped with the appropriate gear.

Today on Truth for Life weekend, we'll take a closer look at the armor we need to put on

as we prepare for continual combat.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Ephesians, Chapter 6.

Now, you will notice that Paul's concern is that we would be wearing the full armor of God.

That to be a member of the army is not to be a casual dresser,

not to be haphazard in the pieces that we take in going out, as it were, for the day.

We must wear it all, the whole panoplia

of it, which is where we get from the Greek word, the full armor of God is the word panoplia,

from which you get in the hymn soldiers of Christ arise and take to arm you for the fight,

the panoply of God. For those of you who are wondering, what in the world is the panoply of God? It comes

there from that adjective in front of armor. It means the whole shooting match, and we're

supposed to be wearing it all. We need to remember as well that Paul is writing to a church,

and that there is a very realistic and necessary corporate dimension to what he's saying here.

While it is true that as individuals we need to be armed, we need to see ourselves, not living in isolation, but living in the family

and fellowship of one another, so that if you think in terms, for example, of taking up the

shield of faith, we think of it not just in individual terms, but rather that

as we took it up as a great company of people, there was just a solid phalanx of protection

all around the family of God. We need the armor in order to be able to deal with the constant

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