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The Whole Armor of God: How Christ’s Victory Strengthens Us for Spiritual Warfare is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Ephesians ends with a charge to Christians to take up the armor of God so they will be equipped to fight in a spiritually dangerous world. But they often think they must put on this armor themselves in order to stand. In reality, God himself clothes his people with his armor, the same armor that Jesus wore when he won the ultimate battle for us at the cross—and therefore God’s own...

going to experience the attacks of the devil. Life as a Christian is not a picnic. It is an armed struggle against a powerful opponent, so you need to be properly dressed in the armor that God has provided. Paul itemizes the armor piece by piece. The first component he mentions is the belt of truth. The belt was the logical place to start because it was the first piece of the soldier’s equipment to be strapped on. It went underneath the armor to hold all the other
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