Ephesians 6:12 Scientists have no problem accepting things which don’t exist in the physical universe in order to help them understand that same universe. The problem with their unbelief is not logical, it is spiritual. Since they have not (yet) chosen to believe on Jesus Christ as the so...
Ephesians 6:12(ESV) says: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness,against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” ...
Ephesians 6:12 In conclusion, when we speak of the kingdom of God (and in the book of Acts this is what is recorded as being what Paul preached all the time), we are speaking of where the spirit of God has its way. Though the term may include a reference to the kingdom of God...
Ultimately God and Jesus and The Holy Spirit are in Control. The devil is the god of this World. “Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and saith unto him, All these things will I give...
He refers to the State as "the powers," a reference throughout the ancient world to the demonic nexus between evil and empire (Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 2:15, etc.). But Romans 13 has been used throughout the modern history of the church to buttress the legitimacy and power of the ...
Ephesians 6:17 talks about the helmet of salvation, another piece in the armor of God. We can put it on by gaining the assurance of salvation.
(see John 6:63; Ephesians 6:17; 2 Peter 1:3; 1 John 5:7, RV). Though we are now required to manage without the direct, personal ministry of apostles like Paul, we are still commended, as the Ephesian elders were, “to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to ...
The meaning of the word is not known, though various interpretations are given below. (It should not be confused with the Hebrew word sela which means “rock”, or in an adjective form, “like a rock”, i.e.: firm, hard, heavy.) It is probably either a liturgico-musical mark or ...
"Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the lover of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self." St. Augustine, DE CIVITATE DEI, Book XIV, Chapter 28 ...
The excerpt above on the necessity and benefit of prayer is from a lecture by J N Darby on Ephesians 6:10-20, entitled “Canaan and the Armour of God”. I have attempted a narration of this encouraging address (below), as it has been both a challenge and a blessing to my soul. Can...