Welcome to Gospel in Life. If you're a Christian, God has given you everything necessary to face the storms in your life with peace and fortitude, but many times it can feel difficult to access. Today Tim Keller shows

how the idea of the armor of God can allow us to stand in the battles of life. The verses that we've been looking at for a number of weeks have to do with the

whole armor of God and we're going to look let me just read to you

verses 14 to 18 but of course tonight we're going to be looking again the

second night the second week out of three that we're going to spend on this particular article of the

armor of God the shoes of the readiness of the gospel of peace. Let me just read you from

verse 14 to 18.

And Paul says, stand firm then with the belt of truth

buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness

in place, with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the Gospel of peace.

In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit. the

of the evil one, take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, and pray in the

spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.

With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying

for all the Saints.

Now, remember, Now remember Paul is using the metaphor of the

the metaphor of a soldier putting on armor breastplate in a helmet and shoes and so on,

as a way of saying that when you become a Christian, you get all kinds of privileges and benefits and resources and powers and

strength that you don't use. It's the whole idea behind the metaphor. He says

we have to wear them and this isn't the only place the Bible talks about putting on mercy, putting

on courage, adorning yourself. It's a way of saying that God has given you when you become a Christian all sorts of things that you just aren't using.

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