The prepositional phrase, "in the Lord," denotes the sphere from which the Ourselves, but that we continually depend on the Lord to strengthen us. The passive verb suggests that we are not the ones who strengthen " Be strong" here is literally: "be continually strengthened." In the original text that's in Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Let's look at these verses and see if we can make applications to our lives today. That battle was fought and won by our Lord Yeshua Life is not a struggle, it is, but we (twenty first century believers) are not fighting against powers, against the world forces of this darkness, or against the spiritual forces of And as Christians weīattle the world view and regulations of non-believers. Relationships, we battle with our own fleshly lusts life is a struggle. We fight to maintain our health, we fight to earn a living, we battle to maintain We are not fighting Satan, demons, or gods, but, as believers, we are in a battle. Having said that, let me say that I believe that weĬan find application of these verses in our lives today. Got nothing else from the last five weeks of study, hopefully you at least realized that Iĭo not believe that we are fighting with Satan or spirit beings today. So in the first century their battle was with "spirit beings." What about us? If you Places," which denotes the spiritual realm, the place where Yahweh dwells. Places"-these forces are "spiritual," they are not human, and they are in "heavenly Paul goes on to say, "against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly Literature for spirit beings if he did not mean spirit beings? Would Paul use this word that is used only here in the Bible, but was used in other Occurs in pagan literature as an epithet for gods, rulers, and heavenly bodies. In the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, kosmokrator means:"'lord of the world, world ruler," and it This is its only use in the New Testament,īut it is used in Testament of Solomon of spiritual beings. Used of human and spiritual powers, but notice the other words used, "world forces," Word "powers" is from exousia, which means: "power, ability, privilege." These titles are The word " rulers" is from the Greek arche, which has a wide range of meanings. The spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Were fighting was against "spiritual being.," Notice the terms Paul uses: For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,Īgainst the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against I believe that the battle that the first century saints We have been talking about the "divine council" and the battle that was going onīetween Yahweh and the lesser gods. In Complete Armor")! So compared to them my time spent on these verses is short. Gurnall, wrote almost 1,200 pages of double-column, small print on them ("The Christian Lloyd-Jones wrote two volumes of sermons on these verses. In case you think that my introduction was too long, let me tell you that Martyn Weeks looking at the subject of "Spiritual Warfare," which was an introduction to versesġ0-17. We are continuing our study this morning of Ephesians 6. The Armor of God Ephesians 6:13-17 Delivered 03/01/15
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