The Believer’s Warfare Podcast – Pastor John MacArthur for Grace to You
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We come this morning to a brief kind of introduction, a look at the first section versus 10 through 13. Let me read it to you. “Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh ad blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand.”
Now that’s as far we’ll go this morning and we will not exhaust all that’s in those verses but be coming back to them next time we study this and in following sessions. So we’ll kind of look at it in an overview and pick out some key things but let me remind you of the context briefly as we begin. Paul has in this book presented to us the great realities of being in Christ, what it means to be a believer, what it means to belong to God, what it means to have the spirit of God in dwelling, what it means to become adopted into God’s family, what it means to stand in him, the position of the believer, who he is in Christ, who she is in Christ, where we stand, our identity, a definition of our character because of Jesus Christ.
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And we have seen in the first three Chapters this great section on positional truth, who we are in Christ. We saw the great realities that we are blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies. That we have been given adoption and love and predestination and forgiveness and enlightenment and knowledge and understanding and power. We’ve been taken out of the dominion of Satan and placed into the kingdom of Christ. We have been made to do good works which God has before ordained. We have been moved as it were away from the style of living of the world and ushered into a whole new dominion, a union with God, a union with Christ, a union with the spirit, a union with every other believer.
