The SECRET OF GOD’S ARMOR!!!!

You mean there is a secret to understanding the armor of God???



YEP!!!  Sure is!!!



So, tell me!!! 



I can’t just tell you, but with God’s help I will show you!!! 



First, let’s look at a scripture that most of us have seen many times!!!  And let’s look at it in a couple of different Bibles!!!



2 Timothy 2:15 (KJV) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.



2 Timothy 2:15 (CEB) Make an effort to present yourself to God as a tried-and-true worker, who doesn’t need to be ashamed but is one who interprets the message of truth correctly.

2 Timothy 2:15 (CEV) Do your best to win God’s approval as a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed and who teaches only the true message.

As I read this scripture I noticed that some of these Bibles don’t use the word, “STUDY!!!”  However, I did notice that each one of them said that we have to know the WORD of GOD, so that we can teach it to others correctly!!!




Now, what I want to know is, how in the world are we going to know GOD’S WORD, if we do NOT read and study it???




If we want to be able to fight the enemy, we must spend time with God and we must learn HIS WORD!!! 




WAIT A MINUTE!!!  HOLD ON!!!  I thought that you said that we had to put on THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD to fight the enemy!!!



But that’s just it!!!  Don’t you see!!!




THE SECRET TO GOD’S ARMOR is in HIS WORD!!!! 




THE SECRET TO BEING ABLE TO USE GOD’S ARMOR TO FIGHT THE ENEMY IS KNOWING GOD’S WORD!!!! 




We must know GOD’S WORD so that we can USE IT AGAINST the enemy!!!  That is how we put on GOD’S ARMOR!!! 




WE MUST ARM OURSELVES WITH THE WORD OF GOD!!! 

So, you mean if I read and study God’s Word, I will learn more about God and get closer to HIM!!!  And HE WILL HELP ME to understand more of HIS WORD!!! 




Yes, that is exactly what I am saying!!!

When GOD talks about us putting on and wearing HIS ARMOR, HE isn’t talking about a suit of heavy metal that soldiers actually wore to battle!!!



2 Corinthians 10:3-5

³ We do live in the world, but we do not fight in the same way the world fights.

⁴ We fight with weapons that are different from those the world uses. Our weapons have power from God that can destroy the enemy's strong places. We destroy people's arguments

⁵ and every proud thing that raises itself against the knowledge of God. We capture every thought and make it give up and obey Christ.

THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD is a SPIRITUAL SUIT OF ARMOR that we as GOD’S CHILDREN must put on, so that we can be prepared to withstand the attacks of the enemy!!!  And we can ONLY do that by knowing THE WORD OF GOD!!! 




God uses each piece of a real suit of armor to show us how each piece of the armor is supposed to protect us!!!  As we can see, if we study this out, each piece of armor has a different job to do!!!




Any time we are going to fight the enemy, we have to make sure that we put on the Armor of God, from head to toe!!! 




If we ONLY put on one piece of the suit of armor, then we are leaving important parts of our self unprotected!!!  We must wear the whole armor, if we want to be totally protected!!! 




After ALL that is why a person would wear a suit of armor!!!