Don't Let The Enemy Steal From You

The Enemy Wants To Steal What’s Yours

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The devil does not come to you and say:

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"I'm the devil."

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No, that's not how the devil appears.

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The Bible says he appears as an angel of light.

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So, how can you tell?

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In fact, the devil is never more deceitful

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and cunning than when he appears,

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as the Bible says: a minister of righteousness,

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which is according to works.

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And we think that the enemy comes and

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we can tell. You know, so obvious.

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And for believers, it often comes very subtly.

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It comes as a thought in your mind.

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He will drop something in your mind,

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or he can shoot a symptom of a disease

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in your body, that you have to

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accept and believe.

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And then you believe you have it, then you got it.

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He can do all kinds of things to steal from you.

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Steal what? Your health!

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Kill, and destroy.

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So the idea of stealing means you have it.

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You don't steal something from a house, right,

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or from a person if the person does not have it

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or the house does not possess it.

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It's not there in the house!

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You only steal because there is something that

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a person has that you want to take away, right?

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And the Bible says: "Satan comes to steal,"

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"to kill, and to destroy."

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So after you've killed, how can you destroy?

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It's killed already. Destroy the testimony,

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the reputation of the person. It goes on, you know?

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The devil hates some people that

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even after they've passed away,

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he tries to destroy— even until today,

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the devil hates Martin Luther. Hmm?

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So, the Bible says: "Put on the whole armor of God"

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"that you may be able to stand against the"

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"wiles of the devil."

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"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood."

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Watch this, "but against principalities."

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The first level are principalities.

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That's why the word is "principal."

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The first, alright?

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The evil spirits are principalities.

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The ones that are around on earth.

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The ones that tempt you,

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the ones that put bad thoughts in your mind.

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Amen.

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The ones that make you feel the symptoms of

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the sickness and disease and says that you are next.

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Or you probably have that disease.

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Right? That evil one.

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Or the one that comes to you and tells you:

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"Do you see your wife, the way she"

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"talks to you just now? She's taking you for granted."

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"She doesn't care about you anymore."

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Actually, she's undergoing anxiety

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at that time and she probably said something

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out of anxiety, her tone is not right.

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But instead of believing the truth of the matter,

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the devil has lied to you.

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And now your treatment of your wife is based on a lie.

Here's What God Wants You To Focus On

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You must know this, people.

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Live in the Spirit. Walk in the Spirit.

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To the world, and to some Christians,

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some carnal Christians as well, to them,

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the physical world is more real.

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"I sit on this chair, you know, this is real."

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"I can feel it, Pastor." But you know something?

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The Bible says that the things that are temporal

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are things that you can see.

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The things that are seen are temporal.

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The things that you can feel,

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that which is palpable,

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like this speaker, anything you can touch,

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this pulpit, anything you can touch is temporal,

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even our bodies, because you can see it.

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But you can't see your spirit. My spirit. Why?

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Anything of the spirit is eternal.

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So we think we are more conscious of temporal.

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Come on! One day, if it is left alone,

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it will disintegrate, so does the body. Amen.

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But the spirit is forever, forever healthy,

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forever, forever, forever, which is quite a long time.

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So, the devil wants to make sure that

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you don't think about whatever that

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is happening to you in the spirit.

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He wants you to just think about the physical,

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it's more important. It's more important.

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I tell you, there's a provision you can't see

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that never changes.

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That's why Jesus looked up to heaven with five loaves

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and two small fish.

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In the Greek, it is two small fish,

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Two small fish and five loaves,

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He looked up to the invisible realm,

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to the supply in the kingdom of God.

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He looked to the Father.

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And when He fed them, all of them were fed

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until they were full, and there were

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twelve baskets full left-over.

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But we look towards the physical,

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"What is this among so many?"

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Are you with me so far?

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So, what I'm going to show you is this:

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that when He has done this: "wipe out the handwriting,"

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"nailing it to the cross."

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The next verse says:

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"Having disarmed principalities and powers,"

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"He made a public spectacle of them,"

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"triumphing over them in it."

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"So, having disarmed principalities"

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Same word! "Principalities and exousias."

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And powers.

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So in other words, for example,

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you ask: "How come the devil had authority?"

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Or "the demons have authority?"

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You do something you're not supposed to do.

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Now he says, "Look, God, you said"

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"the soul of sins will die. That's the law of the universe."

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"You cannot break your law, God."

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"He just sinned. I saw him sin."

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"I have the right to do this to him."

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That's exousia (authority) on the devil's part.

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Do you understand?

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But this is the good news: this verse is saying:

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Jesus disarmed the exousias (devil's authority.)

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The devil has no more authority over our lives.

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So when you study warfare, it's important you

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understand He stripped them of all authority over us.

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That doesn't mean— a deceiver—

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the wiles of the devil is such that—

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he makes you think.

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When someone has already lost,

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but he can make you think he's winning.

Stand Your Ground!

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"Therefore, take up the whole armor of God"

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"that you may be able to withstand in the evil day,"

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"and having done all, to stand."

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So, what does it mean to stand?

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Notice the emphasis on "stand."

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Stand, stand, stand.

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"That you may be able to withstand. In the evil day."

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"And having done all, to stand."

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Stand means what? Stand your ground.

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Stand means you already have the victory.

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You're standing on victory ground.

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You're standing on health ground.

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You're standing on holiness ground.

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You're standing on wisdom ground.

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You're standing on favor ground!

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But the enemy will try his best to tell you that

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no, you don't have it.

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You need to get it. But you don't have it.

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And that's a fiery dart, because

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to stand means it is yours already.

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He's trying to take what is yours.

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So even for people with symptoms in their body,

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do you know you are the healed,

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and the devil is trying to steal that from you?

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Because by His stripes, you were healed.

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Past tense. You are the healed.

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We ARE, not trying to be

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more than conquerors through Christ.

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The sin that you are so troubled about,

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that you find yourself falling into again and again,

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if you're a child of God, listen, it has

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no power over you.

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The problem is that you're reckoning it so alive.

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You are so afraid of it, you reckon it alive,

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and that's why it's alive in you.

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Regardless of what comes against you,

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your thoughts and all that,

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whether physical symptoms and all that, say:

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"I am the healed of the Lord. Thank you, Lord."

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Take communion and say:

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"Lord, by Your stripes, I am HEALED." Amen.

Take Up The Shield Of Faith

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Notice the things that you put on.

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Okay? The things that you put on.

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Number 1.

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"Having your loins gird with truth."

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It's aorist tense. All these are aorist tense.

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That means it's done already.

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You're not putting it on. It's done.

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"Having girded your loins with truth,"

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"having put on the breastplate of righteousness."

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Done already. Are you listening?

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"Your feet shod with the preparation of the"

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"gospel of peace." Done already.

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"Above all, taking the shield of faith"

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"by which you will be able to quench"

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"all the fiery darts of the wicked one."

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It's also aorist tense!

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Alright? Though it's in the participle,

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which means you take it up,

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and you still hold it up.

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So all this is done already.

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Notice the shield of faith is called the shield—

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in the Greek, it is called the shield of THE faith,

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and it's ABOVE ALL!

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Of all the pieces, God says.

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I know the most offensive is a sword.

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The rest are defensive, right?

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But of all these defensive ones, if you don't have

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anything else, remember,

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if you have your shield, you're still protected.

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That's why it says, above all,

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taking up the shield of faith.

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And the Roman shield is actually like a door shape.

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It covers the entire body.

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Okay? It covers the entire body.

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Are you with me so far?

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Have you seen the, they call it the phalanx?

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Right? They cover it, and like a tortoise, right,

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to protect from the arrows and all that.

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So their shield is full length.

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It covers them.

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God says, "Take up the shield of THE FAITH,"

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"by which you shall be able to quench all the"

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"fiery darts of the wicked one."

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THE FAITH means only one thing.

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Today we say: "What's your faith?"

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"What's your faith? What's your faith?"

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No, it's not a matter of what's your religion.

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THE FAITH here refers to one thing only:

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justification by faith. Let me prove that to you.

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In Galatians 3, it says, "Therefore, the law"

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"was our tutor to bring us to Christ,"

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"that we might be justified by faith."

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Now here: "but after faith"

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It is not "after faith." In the Greek, it is:

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"After THE FAITH has come,"

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"we are no longer under a tutor."

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Who is the tutor? The law.

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"After THE FAITH has come." But the context here

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says that "the faith" refers to justification by faith.

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So what is the shield of THE FAITH?

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You've got to keep on believing you are

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justified by faith.

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That's the only shield that will hold, man!

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