A sermon on Ephesians 6:10-17

Christians are meant to be strong and courageous. We are in a spiritual battle which we cannot fight in our own strength. Satan is shooting his flaming arrows at true believers. How they need the armour which God has supplied. In these verses Paul describes the spiritual armour which the Christian must put on. He employs the image familiar to his readers of the Roman soldier. He is writing this letter from Rome, and may even have been looking at a Roman soldier as he wrote.

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Each individual is personally accountable to God.

Sin always has consequences. “The soul that sinneth, it shall die”. This is fundamental to the Christian gospel.

This is the same as Paul’s declaration in Romans 6, “The wages of sin is death” (v23). This death is being outside of God's favour, under His wrath, a plight leading to an eternal condemnation, an eternal death. We have also been told that the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son.

So, no one can blame their family or their environment for their sin, but each one is personally responsible before the Lord for his own actions. All are personally responsible to repent.

Indeed, God commands all men everywhere to repent. Those who do repent must then pursue all holiness of life.

We are not just called to take salvation and then carry on living as we did before. That is to mock God.

The one who repents and believes in Christ receives new life in the power of the Holy Spirit. This enables him to start keeping the commandments of God with all of his heart.

We are saved in order to be holy.

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Thank you for listening. We call it The 33:12 Report, after Psalm 33:12 which says "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord"

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Pastor Simpson has been a pastor of a Bible believing, independent Methodist Church for 35 years and now lives in Middlesbrough, UK. He has been and still is an active open air preacher for many years. He is also a Christian author and commentator, applying the Bible to National life both past and present.

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We learn from these verses 8-10 about the enormous contrast between a man's condition before his conversion to Christ and afterwards. Formerly he was in a horrible Satan-inspired darkness; now he lives in glorious light. Formerly he was a child of wrath and far off from God, now he is a new creature with a new nature. He has been rescued from Satan's kingdom, and brought into God’s kingdom. He now has the Holy Spirit within him.

This complete transformation brings obligations with it. True Christians must “walk as children of light". There must be a manifestation of the fruits of the Spirit in all goodness and righteousness and truth. A true son of God will exhibit his transformed status by applying his mind to putting to death all his former sin, endeavouring always to do the perfect will of God.

May the Lord help each one of us to walk as children of light.

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Thank you for listening. We call it The 33:12 Report, after Psalm 33:12 which says "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord"

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Pastor Simpson has been a pastor of a Bible believing, independent Methodist Church for 35 years and now lives in Middlesbrough, UK. He has been and still is an active open air preacher for many years. He is also a Christian author and commentator, applying the Bible to National life both past and present.

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