THE ARMOR OF GOD: BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS - EPHESIANS 6:10-20

The Church as an Embassy for Sojourners

I was I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. I want to remind you Saints that that this is this is kind of your embassy here. This is when we say think of the imagery of the fact that we are sojourners.

That we have been set apart, right? We're not citizens of this land. We're citizens of the kingdom and God has left us here in a foreign land. And and when we get to come together each one of us that's in Christ has the indwelling Holy Spirit All together as one and then the unity there's nothing special about this place.

It's an old restaurant, right? This is not a there's not holy ground here the presence of the Lord is with his people and when we come it's as if we are together in our embassy and we get to celebrate we get to be encouraged refreshed and Challenged so that we may go back out into that foreign land and Share the good news of the kingdom of Christ.

Amen. Amen. Well, I'm so glad you're here. If you're a guest with us We've got some connect cards over at that table or somebody can get you one or may have gotten one in your in the bag. That they handed you outside If you could fill that out.

There's a little section on the bottom of that that that has a prayer request. Everybody needs prayer, right? I need prayer. We all need prayer and so there is a group of Saints here at the church that meet we set around that area right over there every Tuesday morning from 7 to 8 and Everything on those cards if you want prayer for that we we go and we intercede for you so if you if you want to if you have need please fill one of those out and put it in the offering plate when Here in just a few moments and and that goes for you to Saints if you need prayer just turn to your brother or sister and say I need prayer and tell Lay it out for us because we are we are seeking to lift each other up as we as we walk through this land together.

We have an exciting day today. We have an exciting day every Sunday. Don't we I say that every week don't I exciting day? It's always an exciting day, but it's funny the last four weeks in a row We have brought before you a new member recognition and We're not gonna break the streak today.

So we are presenting a new family for membership this morning. We pull it up on the screen here for new member recognition, right. Bobby and Heather Clark. Could y 'all come up here with the kids? We got Hannah Samuel Amos and Shiloh.

All right. Come on. Y 'all might want to come up over here on this side. Well, come on. We'll make it work. And how are you it's good to see y 'all. I Got to go have dinner over at their house the other day and me and my family we had a great time they the hospitality and the love and we got to chat about what it means to be a part of a community and and their love for this church and the people here and.

They've gone through the new member Classes all four of them, but they've done interviews. As a matter of fact y 'all didn't just do one interview y 'all y 'all interviewed every one of the elders. They did an interview they were like actually we'd like to interview you.

That was perfect. That's exactly it because I think what what we're seeing is is that meant like many of you the the Clark family sees the the great value of covenant body of commitment of encouragement of Being accountable to one another.

They're not just coming saying we're accountable to you. They're coming where they're saying we're accountable to you. You're accountable to us. We're accountable together as a whole and as a body and we are so excited to present them.

We the elders have met and we say hey. We believe this family needs to be a part of us. And so we want to present them to you as the church family. So members of twelve five church if you affirm the Clark family to become the next covenant.

Members of this body, please stand in affirmation. All right. Well Bobby and Heather we you know, y 'all seen the process before like I said, we've done it y 'all can be seated. Y 'all seen the process before this is not a gift.

This is an ESV study Bible. This is the same one that we we give to every new member every new family. We've signed your names in here. We've dated it for today so that you can always look back go. That's the day that we officially became family with twelve five church, even though we were positionally family with all those Christians.

We are coming with them in mission and I and in this life. And so we we give this out as a commission, right? This is what we're about like everything in the new member class everything on Sundays everything on Wednesdays everything that we do is saying this is Giving us everything we need for life and godliness and and it is the words of King Jesus.

And he is the one that that makes the rules and sets the pace and this is what we're looking to. So I want to give this to you guys as a commission. And I'm so excited to see how God uses y 'all in this church.

Can I pray for y 'all? All right church pray pray with me, please. Oh dear Heavenly Father Lord. I thank you for the Clark family. Lord, I thank you for your grace and mercy and your kindness and and your provision and your timing Lord I thank you for their children.

I thank you for their love for you. I thank you that that that you are bringing their gifts to this body Lord I pray that that they would be used mightily for encouragement challenge and edification. Lord I pray for the children that they could grow in this community.

Also Lord I pray that you would mold their hearts through all of this Lord help us as a people to be diligent to walk with them as we covenant with them together in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. We're excited.

Prayer for Mount Vernon Baptist Church and Pastor Jeremiah

All right. Okay guys well We the last couple weeks. I don't think we've prayed for a local church, but we typically do every week. We like to do that because we like to remind ourselves, right? We're not alone there are other local churches all over the place of Saints brothers and sisters who they have covenanted together and they are meeting to worship the triune God today.

And and so this morning we we actually have we kind of we kind of threw the schedule off. We were praying for one church and this morning. We're gonna pray for another Mount Vernon Baptist Church. I believe out in.

Where's that at? Black Rock, I believe Black Rock, Arkansas. And the reason we're praying for them this morning afraid for him before Trent Kirksey is the pastor there. He reached out to Pastor Jeremiah this past week said hey, I'm not gonna be able to preach.

I don't have anybody fill in. Pastor Jeremiah said I'm there. So Pastor Jeremiah is there this morning. That's why we're missing him today. He is there filling in the pulpit. So we want to pray for them specifically pray for For Trent pray for that church and and also pray for Pastor Jeremiah as he proclaims the Word of God to them this morning.

So, please bow with me dear Heavenly Father. We come to you once again, and we thank you for your provision. We thank you for your grace and mercy and kindness. We thank you for bringing your children together.

You've not left us to ourselves. You have brought us into community and you've designed community for us to grow and you Lord, I pray for Mount Vernon. I pray for the people there. I pray that you would give them grace Lord.

I pray that you would work in their hearts God. I pray that you would raise up leaders that you would raise up deacons that you would raise up godly men and women and young people that care for kingdom purpose and and Set aside the things of this world and want to live for you together as a church.

That they could be a healthy congregation. Because King Jesus you are worthy of a healthy church and and we pray for for Pastor Trent Lord we pray that you would give him wisdom and discernment Lord. I know how how Unbearable the weight of being a single pastor in a church is and I know that you've not does you've not designed it that way you've you've specifically called for plurality multiple pastors in each church because one man cannot carry the load of being the under shepherd of a congregation and Trent is diligently seeking to to Be obedient to you while hoping that and praying that you would raise up other other men other pastors.

So we ask that for him give him grace Lord. We pray for Pastor Jeremiah. We love him him and Ali and and JJ Lord. What a blessing he is to this congregation. Overwhelming blessing to me and Lord. We pray for him this morning as he proclaims your word once again to another congregation that that you would bless the word.

That it would go forth and that it would change hearts that it would challenge that it would encourage. And Lord, I pray that that church would would be stronger in Sanctification when Pastor Jeremiah leaves and when he found it.

Call to Worship from Isaiah 61

Well, we thank you for them bless them in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Guys, how about it? Y 'all want to start service? Everybody start. I am ready to start. I've been excited about worship. I've been wanting to work together with you guys all week long.

I'm thrilled about this encourages my soul stand. Come on guys call to worship is Isaiah 61. It is just two verses in Isaiah 61 for a call to worship. Let's look to the Lord the source as we prepare to worship.

He says I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. He has clothed me with the garments of salvation. As a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress. For as the earth brings forth its sprouts.

So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise. Righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations. From every nation tribe tongue from every people group. He has an elect. He is a people and I was thinking about this the other day.

I was talking to my one of my daughters we were driving and one of the songs we're gonna be singing this morning Psalm 150 we're gonna be singing and in a part of that song talked about and the nation's bringing bringing their honors before the king and I was overwhelmed with this idea that that that We forget King Jesus is returning.

We forget that King Jesus is returning and when he returns. Even the most pagan nation and peoples will have no choice but to plow their face into the ground before him. He is king and he will come and he will parade his victory parade through this earth with us.

Right alongside with him his children in his righteousness and he won he will bring vengeance and justice in an unjust and and broken sinful world. Let's pray a prayer of adoration to that great God. Oh Dear heavenly father.

We bow before you once again, and you are good. You are gracious. You are merciful. You are kind. You are long-suffering. You are. You are righteous and holy and altogether separate from us and who we are.

Lord as a people we are sinful people this flesh wars against us. Oh, but the righteousness of Christ is given to us in faith and Covers us and makes us righteous in your perfect righteousness. Lord what a good and gracious God to do such a thing.

There's nothing I bring there's nothing that we have brought to. Bring any kind of glory to your name this morning before because all glory already belongs to you. May we just acknowledge it. See it and it's and it's magnificence.

That we use your people would be overwhelmed that we may see your glory that we may see you for who you are today. Help us to grow in our fear and knowledge of you. Great and mighty God. Thank you in Christ's name.

Amen.

We worship the God who is we worship the God. He opened the prison doors he parted the agency. The Lord. We won't be quiet shout out your praises. Joy in the house of the Lord. I got it surely in this place.

We won't be quiet We shout out your praise. God who saves We shout out your praise. Oh Now we are forgiven except in redeem by his grace that the house House of the Lord. There's joy in the house of the Lord today, and we won't be quiet We shout out your praise.

There's joy in the house of the Lord. I got it surely in this place We won't be quiet. Destroy the house We shout out Let me shout out I God have saved my soul. I am yours forever More I won't be moved of this. I'm sure you my God have saved my soul.

Change. I was saying I've saved my soul Gave to me the bow from bursting out with songs of praise But once was dead is now About my first thing out first thing out with My God has saved my soul. I am yours forever More I won't be moved of this I'm sure you my God have saved my soul.

Scripture Reading and Confession in Light of 1 Thessalonians 5

That's he has saved our soul like what what more do we have to be excited about. What goodness? Let's look at his word. Our scripture reading this morning comes from 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 Verses 5 through 11 where where he says for you are all children of light children of the day.

We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then let us not sleep as others do but let us keep awake and be sober. For those who sleep sleep at night and those who get drunk or drunk at night, but but since we belong to the day.

Let us be sober having put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of Salvation that he saved our soul right for God is not destined us with for wrath but to obtain salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ Who died for us?

So that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with Saint therefore encourage one another and build one another up. Just as you are doing a great blessed. Hope. You know, I you know, I read passages like this.

I think Okay, God has saved our soul like he's not destined us for wrath. I've obtained salvation in Christ Jesus alone and and and and we will one day be glorified and given glorified bodies with him like his and and and and that's a.

That is a great. Hope. But during the time that we're in this world. As we talked about earlier that we're sojourners, right? We. We feel the pull of the flesh. Right. We're reminded of a future. We're reminded of a position.

But we get pulled away by our flesh as Paul says this wretched flesh it will deliver me. And so we sin. We don't walk in righteousness at times. We walk in unrighteousness at times. And we feel that time and time again as we are on this race.

We falter and we fail but that is the very thing that we need to look and hope to him. In texts like this and a promise. And so as we often do every week we are gonna go to him in a prayer of confession.

Not just confession. We as his children go in confession acknowledging our sin. Both individually and corporately. But also we come to him with boldness and with assurance. That it is his righteousness that we stand in not our own.

And that we are positionally perfect. So bow with me. Let's pray Dear Heavenly Father. We come before you once again, and we humble ourselves. But we know that that we are. We're prone we're prone to to wonder.

As the hymn says prone to leave the God we love. We sometimes walk in the midst of the darkness and our flesh desires to Fall prey to it run to it. Wallow in it, but we sin against you we. We forget we forget about our position and you and Christ Jesus.

We forget about the fact that we were made a new creation. That we were created for righteousness goodness, and we want to follow our own way. We create idols. We can oftentimes be lazy and indifferent over father we are coming before you and boldness right now.

Because it is not my works it is not our works that allow us into your throne room. To come before you to hear our pleading. It is the very perfect righteousness of Christ that is imparted and imputed upon us your children.

That we get to come before you and stand in total assurance. For you are good and gracious. Kind to us even in our frailty and in our failings. Oh Lord, we thank you. We pray that we would be reminded of the cross today.

We would be reminded of The covenant of Redemption. And the covenant of grace that the triune God set out to accomplish did accomplish for us. For your glory above all things. Be honored in our worship today.

In peace. Skies. Before is your throne from desert to the sea.

All nature testifies. Praise.

Everything we would do would sing praise them. God we thank you for this time of worship. Thank you for this church body brought together to sing praise to your holy praise.

His mercy is love.

His life. Is you this morning? There's so many but your mercy is so much. I praise you for saving us the vilest. Your mercy is so much more. It's so great that you saved me Lord and i'm so great lord.

I pray this morning jesus lord if you would just Continue to bless this worship lord. Father lord if there's someone here this morning lord, that's lost lord. We don't know every heart in this room, but you do Lord, I pray that you would save him now lord.

I pray that you would bless this offering this morning. I pray that you would bless pastor nathan as he come and stands before us this morning lord and proclaims your word boldly preaches your So that we may hear Lord, I pray that you would just open every heart open every ear lord.

Just Lord clear out any distractions that satan may try to throw at us. Lord we love you. We praise you ask all these things in your mighty name in the mighty name of jesus. I pray.

The Armor of God and the Devil’s Schemes

Amen preacher and apologist, uh, john blanchard once wrote that uh. We as christians are opposed by a living intelligent resourceful and cunning enemy. Who can outlive the oldest christian? Outwork the busiest.

Out fight the strongest and outwit the wittiest you know as I Continually grow in the christian faith and in sanctification. I have seen This to be true in very practical and very tangible ways. And I have come to the realization that the enemy is is far more cunning than I had ever imagined or anticipated.

We have experienced that in our own body um over the past few months and. And uh, we see the attacks that come towards the christians the church the people of god. We prepare our defenses over here. Before we know it he is sowing division and discord over there.

We mortify sin over there and and all the while he tempts us over here. You feel it in your own life, don't you? The constant battle. Many christians today either blame everything on him Including their own sin and blatant rebellion against god.

Well, the devil made me do it and you know. No, that was just your laziness or your indifference or your unrighteousness. Your own flesh is strong enough to pull you away but the uh There's others that would just completely underestimate and downplay his influence.

Because he is playing on our flesh is what he's doing. That is already wanting to pull away and scripture gives us the reality of Just how? Involved the enemy is In the attack and the spiritual war that we've been discussing Over the past three weeks.

So go ahead and open your copy of god's word to ephesians chapter 6. We are going to read the whole of chat of verse 10 through 20 and ephesians 6 as we have been The last three weeks as we go into this third week of of our study on the armor of god.

And looking at how we can defend ourselves from the onslaught of the the schemes of the evil one. Ephesians chapter 6. Starting in verse 10 paul says finally Be strong in the lord and the strength of his might.

Put on the whole armor of god that you may be able to withstand or stand against the schemes of the devil 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 therefore Take up the whole armor of god.

That you may be able to withstand in the evil day. And having done all to stand firm. Stand therefore having fastened on the belt of truth. And having put on the breastplate of righteousness. And as shoes for your feet having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of god.

Praying at all times in the spirit with all prayer and supplication to that end keep alert with all perseverance making supplication for all the saints and also for me. That words may be given to me and opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel.

For which I am an ambassador in chains that I may declare it boldly as I ought to speak. Paul here gives us This spiritual armor and he uses the imagery of physical armor. As our brother chris has shown up and given all of us the imagery today.

Thank you for that. He was so excited to show me that armor out in his car the other day. He goes, I think I might return it. But no, I think I'm gonna wear it. I was like do it. And so we get the visual of what the apostle paul Was actually looking at as he's writing these words and he gets the inspiration for the imagery in this.

So thank you for that. Let's pray before we dive in any more that god would illuminate our hearts and minds to this truth. Or we bow before you once again, and we thank you for your word. Lord help us to Help us see it clearly.

Would help us to understand it. We pray the holy spirit that you would illuminate our hearts and minds to this truth. We ask that for those of us that are in christ and and have you indwelling us. We pray that.

We pray that you would sanctify us and work through us and in us. And seeing it we pray for those who do not know christ this morning. We pray that. That you would awaken them to this truth through your word.

The Breastplate of Righteousness as Christ’s Righteousness

Or give me boldness clarity christ name amen. Two weeks ago, we covered verses 10 through 12 of what we just read where where paul what does he do? He tells the saints hey be strong in the lord. And and in the strength in his strength and in his might right?

And and to do that we put on as he says the whole armor of god. And why is that? Why did he call us to put on this armor? He said he tells us that we may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

That's the purpose of the armor right and we will stand the evil one who is seeking someone to devour as peter said He hates you. You realize that right? He hates you and it's because he hates the one who took you from his control.

He hates you. He hates christ. He hates god God. So he is evaluating. He is scheming. He is planning and he is attacking us at every turn and these attacks are not Coming at us in an open field and in plain view.

This is not a revolutionary war type of war where everybody stands in a line in front of each other. It takes turns firing. This is a different type of war. It's a type of battle because this attack this war is not of as paul says flesh and blood right.

It's happening in a spiritual realm. One that we ourselves are not privy to at the moment as far as being able to see. We can only see the effects of it. And then last week pastor jeremiah covered verses 13 and the first part of 14 here where we saw.

We are to prepare for this spiritual war that we that we ourselves can't see. And we do so by putting on this armor and the first piece of that armor that he talked about was the belt of truth. This belt of truth that is grounded in him and is believed and lived out by us.

As pastor jeremiah pointed out it is his truth. It's not our Interpretation of truth. It's not our vague truth. It's not it's not some truth that I come up with my truth and your truth are not both truth only his truth.

And we believe and we live it out. We are made ready by his truth. And so today we are going to look at the second part of this armor that paul Gives us imagery of and this is the breastplate of righteousness.

And in order to help us understand what what paul is talking about here I I want us to see four things that the the breastplate of righteousness symbolizes. Okay. Four things we're going to look at today.

And if you know me getting through four might be kind of hard, but we're going to make it happen. Okay, the last two are short. We'll make it happen. Now the first thing I want us to see is the breastplate of righteousness symbolizes First and foremost the righteousness of christ.

The righteousness of christ. As we said over the last two weeks each of these pieces of armor That paul refers to in these verses right the belt of truth the breastplate of righteousness. Shoes of readiness shield of faith helmet of salvation the sword of the spirit all belong To and are provided by christ and christ alone.

They are all already given to each believer. Okay every piece As a whole is already given to each believer and we see that most clearly in this point, I believe. That righteousness can only come from god, right?

And we've been thinking about that this morning right his mercy is more he's he's the one that is giving us Righteousness for none is righteous. No, not one as paul says, right? There is none righteous our righteousness.

Outside of christ the greatest thing that we have to offer paul says is as filthy rags before god. You have no breastplate of righteousness on your own to put on. You try and put your righteousness on.

And that righteousness is no armor at all. As a matter of fact, it's a weapon that's being used against you. It's harming you. This breastplace used to not this breastplate of righteousness used to not be available to us.

We were all once children of wrath right I was. Each one of you were once children of wrath children of darkness. Our greatest actions our greatest works were tainted in so much Unrighteousness that even one good deed from us was deserving of eternal torment.

You realize that? The greatest thing that an unbeliever does in his life the most the most gracious act Of kindness that an unbeliever does is tainted in so much unrighteousness that it it itself deserves eternal torment.

We don't like to think of sin like that. Do we? We don't like to think of the state of humanity like that. But that is precisely the state of humanity that scripture tells us and it is the ultimate truth.

You can't base anything off of your own truth. This is what scripture shows us about man. Because we ourselves were unrighteous and no one does good. No, not one. So scripture says right? If you are not in christ today coming to this church service will not help you.

If you are not in christ today taking communion at the end of this service will actually harm you. You are controlled Thoroughly and completely by the evil one. You may not think so the scripture says that he's your father.

And that you must do his bidding. And it's because Believe it or not You desire to do his bidding. It's not me speaking i'm just basing it off of god's word that's the state of humanity. And saints Such were some of us, but while we were still sinners Christ died for us and that is precisely the source of this righteousness.

It's the only source of the righteousness. This righteousness that we speak of it is alien to you and I. We didn't provide it we we did not have it in us. We had the opposite. It was given to us. We do not obtain it.

It is given directly to us in what is known as the great exchange. Oh, I love the great exchange. Some of you've seen me draw it up on a whiteboard. I get so excited when I get to do that because I get to show you the imagery.

I love it. This great exchange second corinthians chapter 5 what does paul say in verse 21 he says for our sake. For us those who were enemies against him those who were in darkness who were children of wrath for our sake.

He made him who's the him? Christ jesus to be sin. Who knew no sin. Christ jesus had no sin no sin about him whatsoever like you and I he was not unrighteous like us. He was perfectly righteous for he was the second person of the godhead in human form.

And he knew no sin. And paul goes on he says so that In him in the righteous christ who became sin for us we might become his righteousness. And The very righteousness of god that he placed on us. He the righteous becomes sin so that we the sinner may become righteous.

What an exchange. We got the we get the better end of that deal, didn't we? And how did this take place at the cross. Where christ bore our sin for the wages of sin are what death. He took the penalty of that sin, which is death.

And this is a once for all action. Christ has already done the work saints. Don't forget that He has done the work. So when is that work applied to us? How is that great exchange. Working out for us. How is that applied?

Paul says in romans 3 he says the righteousness of god. That alien righteousness from him to us through faith in jesus christ. For all who believe That righteousness that great exchange is applied at faith.

It is guaranteed at faith we are made righteous in christ through belief in him. Through faith in him. And once we are brought into faith his righteousness is forever applied to us. We are irrevocably positionally righteous.

That armor has been placed on you. And it cannot be removed so when god the father looks at us He doesn't see. The sin that I commit every few minutes or every few seconds. Sees the perfect righteousness that has been placed upon me of his son.

That is imputed to us even when we Are actively walking in righteousness. Or unrighteousness, he still sees us as righteous. Right. Even when you and I are actively walking in unrighteousness God the father still sees righteousness because he sees his son given to us.

That's because our righteous deeds have absolutely nothing to do with our position of righteousness. Nothing, they don't add to it. They bring no value to your position of righteousness. They certainly feed from our position of righteousness.

But they are in no way adding to it. We must remember that saying. So this is the first thing that this breastplate of righteousness Symbolizes is that glorious positional righteousness of christ that we have already been clothed in.

So how? Does that armor apply? In a way that That I have to actively put it on. If this is the righteousness of christ and it's already been placed on me. Then what sense does it make for paul to tell me to actively put it on?

You wonder that. What's this armor for? It's to protect us, right? The armor is a protection from the schemes of the evil one in the context of what paul is telling us here. What? What is one of the schemes that he uses?

Lies. Accusations. Accusations that bring forth doubt in the heart and the mind of the christian. Accusations that cause you and I at times to give up the fight. The spiritual war that is taking place.

To say i'm not up to this battle. This is insurmountable, and i'm too weak. And then we just lay down and die. We no longer run the race. We no longer fight the battle. No longer being useful for the kingdom and its purposes even though We are laying on a battlefield with perfectly righteous armor coverings.

Because we have fallen prey to the schemes of the devil and his accusation. What does that look like? Yeah, I think all of us have experienced different different ways. I think he's. He's very good at his schemes and he knows your heart.

He knows your mind. He knows how you work. So well, he's been watching you that he knows how to attack you and where to attack you. But sometimes we. We quit evangelizing. We quit sharing the gospel. Maybe because we don't have all the answers and we're afraid.

There's accusations you don't know your bible well enough. You don't know theology like pastor. Jeremiah does what if they ask a question that I can't answer? Or we feel like a hypocrite. I'm not living a righteous life.

I'm I fall prey to sin all the time. Who am I to tell this person that they're in sin and that they need to repent? You fall prey to accusation. Accusation. We give up on communing with him because we are inconsistent in our scripture reading and in our prayer because we think Oh, well those accusations they hit us and we say well, I I can't really ask god for this.

I can't go to him right now because I kind of ignored him for a week. Everybody's looking at me with that. Holy look like pastor. I don't do that. I do it. I'm confessing it to you right now. Sometimes I I try to put on my own breastplate of righteousness my own self-righteousness, right?

And satan his schemes they'll get to me and I forget my positional righteousness. I forget the armor and I fall prey to his tricks thinking that i'm exposed when i'm not. That's precisely why we need this breastplate of righteousness.

In that the righteousness of christ that is clothing us. We must consistently remind ourselves of of this Positional righteousness that is outside of ourselves. We have to. It's repetitive here. I know I sound like a broken record.

I'm, sorry. But i'm going to keep preaching it to you until I believe it. So that when he seeks to accuse it doesn't penetrate the heart. Does it make its way in that accusation gets deflected off of the shining glorious armor of christ righteousness?