Ephesians chapter 6 is our text tonight and we’re looking at the believer’s armor. There are so many things that have come and gone in my life time in terms of Christian emphases. It’s good that some of them are fading away and have almost disappeared. It’s sort of like the offshoot of the Amish many years ago. It was a quirky kind of cult and they believed that marriage was...and cohabitation sinful. It didn’t last very long. They all died and there was nobody left to carry it on. That was a good thing...

Well, we have the opportunity again tonight to open the Word of God to the sixth chapter of Paul's letter to the Ephesians and a section that we have come to know as the believer's armor...the believer's armor. Ephesians chapter 6 and actually verses 10 all the way down through verse 18...

Turn in your Bible, if you will, to chapter 6 in Ephesians, a very familiar portion of Scripture is the main focus of this chapter. It actually begins in verse 10 and it runs all the way down through verse 20. It is about the Christian's war, or, if you will, the armor of the believer. This is really the end of the epistle and needs to be seen a little bit in its context. This particular epistle follows a pattern that many of the epistles of the New Testament follow, particularly those written by Paul, in that the opening chapters, namely in this case chapters 1, 2 and 3, identify our position in Christ. They are doctrinal. They define for us what it means to be a Christian...