The Shield of Faith (Part 2)

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Fiery arrows do not come all throughout the battle. When do they come? Right when you’ve decided to storm the stronghold of the enemy. We’re looking at the armor of God—it’s an illustration Paul uses as a way of saying we have everything we need to meet the battles of life, but we must make use of those resources. And in looking at the shield of faith, we see that the more we decide to get our lives together, the more likely we are to find fiery arrows coming at us. This passage on the shield of faith teaches us: 1) God lets Satan send us fiery trials, 2) we should expect fiery trials, and 3) faith is not a passive thing. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on March 29, 1992. Series: Spiritual Warfare – The Armor of God. Scripture: Ephesians 6:14-18. Today's podcast is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	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
0:15.7	how the idea of the armor of God can allow us to stand in the battles of life. Life.
0:29.0	Stand firm then. With a belt of truth buckled around your waist, with a breastplate of righteousness in place, with your feet
0:37.6	fitted with the readiness that comes from the Gospel of Peace.
0:42.2	In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith with which you can
0:45.8	extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of
0:50.5	salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God.
0:56.9	That's the end of that reading of God's word.
0:59.8	We're looking at this.
1:01.9	We said the armor of God are the various benefits and resources and
1:04.9	and privileges of the gospel that we don't use we've been saying all along that
1:10.7	the armor of God illustration that Paul is using is actually his way of saying to
1:16.2	you and to me you have everything if you're a Christian you have everything necessary to meet all the battles of life and if you're not
1:26.1	meeting all the battles of life it's because you're not making use of what you have
1:29.3	that's that's the whole idea behind the metaphor.
1:32.7	And last night we began to talk, and tonight I think we can finish up
1:35.8	this particular part of the armor that says,
1:39.4	in addition to all this, take up the shield of faith
1:41.7	with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows
1:45.2	of the evil one. Now, three principles here.
1:50.6	Started in on a few of them. As usual, I got a lot of questions about them.
1:54.0	And let me lay out the three things that this teaches.
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