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This is a bonus 'Between the Seasons' episode of a talk I gave at 'Lighthouse' lunch club earlier this year....

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This Podcast is part of a 10-year project to complete an in-depth, daily study of the entire Bible, chapter by chapter, verse by verse.

Episode Notes: Putting on the Armour of God: The Whole Book of Ephesians - Our Calling Determines Our Conduct.

What determines how we should live our lives?

Some psychiatrists would say that there are unconscious forces driving our subconscious. Not everyone would go that far, but many would say that our past experiences shape our present and future behaviours.

Some would simply say it is a desire for pleasure. They just want to be happy and enjoy their life, and they might say something along the lines of “ I just want to be happy”.

For others, it is a drive for power or influence. They want to be in a position of influence, either through the job or by holding a position of political power.

A lot of people live for possessions. They try to achieve satisfaction in life through the accumulation of things. But many find their possessions soon possess them.

Many Christians would say that we don’t need to be driven by these base desires and motivations, and that we can have more control over ourselves than we do over our past experiences or our subconscious mind. Many Christians believe we can rely on something greater outside of ourselves than our own resources.

The Bible has many things to say about how we should live our lives, and the book of Ephesians has been particularly helpful in this area.

In this book, I’ve been going through this famous letter of the Apostle Paul. But now, before I finish, I want to summarise it by taking an overview of what I believe Paul was trying to get across.

To try and see the whole forest as well as the individual trees, the big picture, so to speak. It's one thing to open the Bible and find a verse that is meaningful for you, but sometimes it is another thing entirely to see that verse, in its context of a paragraph, and that paragraph within the context of the book, and that is what I want to do this time.

I want us to run through all six chapters of the book because this book, as much as any book in the Bible, tells us what should determine the way we should live our lives. Importantly is also tells us how to do it practically and apply it in real life….

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Episode Notes: Putting on the Armour of God. (Ephesians 6: 10-20)

I think there are several ways to describe the Christian life. Even the bible describes it in different ways.

If you just started reading the Bible in Genesis and continued through the Old Testament, you might conclude that what God really just wants is for us to obey him. Keep reading; you'll discover that, in the New Testament, in places like John, it refers to the spiritual life as living in Christ.

Get to Luke's, and it seems to emphasize being filled with the Holy Spirit and thereby living the Spirit-filled life. However, here in the book of Ephesians, Paul uses the metaphor to describe the spiritual life as a walk, and he uses that image over and over again.

If spiritual life is described as a walk in which we obey God's revealed word, living in Christ and walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, what should that walk look like?

We are told there is not just difficult terrain to navigate, but there are dangers in the spiritual life. The Bible tells us there are wild beasts along the way waiting to attack and destroy. In addition, the New Testament warns us that we have an adversary who stalks the believer’s life journey like a hungry lion seeking to devour us.

The question we are going to consider in this passage is: how do we protect ourselves along the journey that is the spiritual life? If there's a lion about to pounce on us, is there any kind of defence system that we have?

Well, I believe if we study this passage closely, we will find the answer is an emphatic yes. Paul describes the defence system for us in vivid detail in Ephesians chapter 6, beginning in verse 10.

Let’s hear what it has to say….

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The Renewed Mind Podcast. My Psychology and Mental Health Podcast:

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