Ephesians 6; Verse 14; The Gospel Armor; Loins-Truth; Heart-Breastplate of Righteousness

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(Ephesians 6:14) 14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness."


Overall, let's "man up."

(Job 38:3) "Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me."

Let's look at one other place. God's Word the fruit of the loins is used, in faithfulness what Christ gives us-ward. So we're protecting self from sexual impurity as well having pure motives, by standing for truth Holy Spiritually to physically.

(Isaiah 11:5) "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins."
Hence the belt and breastplaste combo Paul is teaching here.

(Showing the point how we stand here, a call to be accountable what it means. Obviously we do not answer to satan. Matter of fact we turn it right side up in his face). 

Please refer to end-times study in Ezekiel 13:1-7 for the outline for the end-times false doctrines of the false teachers/prophets.


(Ezekiel 13:5) "Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD."
(What puts that Gospel Armor on? Verse by verse learning/teaching/studying filling yourself with the Word of God. The first step of course faith the shield, and faith comes by hearing the Word of the Lord. Remember what Christ said? Fill yourself with the Word in the process suiting up with the armor lest satan with and through the evil spirits come and rob you).

(Luke 11:21-22) "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:


22But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

Therefore, How should we view this? No one says to a armed robber come in my house tie me up and take whatever you want. By all means make sure you tie it in quadruple knot too! No, who says that? That's what satan wants to do with your mind (bind you up). So, this is a battle of the mind, carried out through the Holy Spirit in Yeshua the Christos name, not our own spirit. Another huge mistake is taking this personal and doing it yourself. I myself, look at as all "business" (the Lord's business), but take it personal as satan thinks he can actually try and win me over. Get mad, get real mad.

The battle of the "fittest",

More negativity that can lead to disaster here. During an evil spirit attack it could also seem it will never end. The endurance part as satan wants you to feel that way, no hope.

No hope, no rest so you might as well give it up. I'd get even more mad. He is the fool without eternal life. He is the fool not fit for the Gospel Armor. Stand up for your savior and Lord.
satan's first m.o. to take over is of course doubt, leading to the negative emotions. The opposite of doubt is of course faith. Faith in who Christ says He is, and what He came to do. The cross, at salvation, and that He will do it. He is in control. You have that you CANNOT and WILL NOT lose. Now remember we already won, we have to do it, stand up in your mind. Not laying on the ground raising up the white flag surrendering. The worse thing you want to be doing is feeling yourself here, coming along with, "why God, why me." Be proud of the fact it's you. The Lord is calling you to stand with confidence in you. You don't send a coward into battle.

(I Peter 1:13) "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ."

So we will cover both here: The mind and the heart. Every piece of equipment deals with either one. Overall, the breastplate to protect the condition of the heart. Righteousness = The condition acceptable to the Lord (accepting Christ as savior of course), then doing right according to God's laws through Christ, the motives of the heart carried out though the mind. Obviously, if we are living by and thinking of the flesh we are in serious danger here.


(All the Gospel Armor is found in Exodus, Psalms, Deuteronomy--Song of Moses, and Isaiah. And other places).

(Exodus 12:11) "And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover."

(Exodus 28:30) "And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment (justice) the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually."

(Judgment = justice. Hence righteousness doing right according to God's law after that acceptance of Him by and through Christ). 

(Isaiah 59:17) "For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke."

With many references. That being said,

(We're making a stand against satan. Firmly planted and now ready to take ground with confidence though our savior Christ. Doing so satan does not even have one leg to stand on, if you will. Anatomically, the loin area begins below our ribs down to our pelvis in the abdominal area. Why worry and anxiety begins there in the pit of the stomach. Worry and anxiety lead to fear. So we have a tipping point in the stresses in life here. We all have stress but it is as this exact moment we make the choice in how to manage it. Managing it begins filling yourself with the truth of God's Word. In managing stress we need to examine the priorities in life. Most of all whatever it is concerning the things of the world it is not the end of the world. In that regard we must trust the Lord He has only our best interest in heart and mind. All things work for our own good. He is not going to set you on a path of damage, but to protect you. This takes trust after faith in the cross. Meaning, we don't always see the other side of things. The world would call this taking a risk. This is no risk when it comes to the Lord, but all promise).

At this point one has overcome the fear of death thanks to Christ at the cross. Christians are not given a spirit of fear, but the spirit of truth (Romans 8:15; II Timothy 1:7).

This is no mistake confidence though faith comes through doing right as we will look into the breastplate of righteousness next.

Girding up the loins means we stand up and ready to battle. Faith, has already taken over with the shield, and we done away with self-defeating, self-condemning, self-refuting feelings at salvation with that helmet on.

Concerning the end-times, waiting on the Lord, and not letting it get to fear:


(Luke 12:35) "Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning (done by the Holy Spirit)."

So let me ask what else would have to fear? Other questions we need to ask is what is the stress from? ourselves? Trying to help carry others burdens, lightening the load for them? God says that is good. Anything that is pure DO NOT let satan or some man count it as negative. But in our hearts and mind we are serving the Lord for them.

Christians have to deal with this as you come to people with pure motives and are rejected. We cannot let satan or the world get to us in that respect. Christ overcame it and showed us the way. Overall, the point is serving man will bring bitterness. This is huge in the end-times with wormwood (bitterness, and them lamps going out, love waxed cold, making the world an even colder place).

This is why in verse 18, prayer. We begin with prayer to handling (perseverance = adversity) the spiritual/mental battle. Included is praying for the saints. The solution begins there at the stress management tipping point.

I ask once again, through your faith in Christ you have already overcome, now what is else is there to worry and fear about?

Breastplate of righteousness. Righteousness is the condition acceptable to God and then doing right. That being the condition stemming from a pure heart, thus pure motives.

As the breastplate protects the heart standing up with our chest out not in pride or arrogance, but the mindset of making our Father proud. He is proud of his army collectively as they do their part individually.

Furthermore, we also know in the battle field if you leave your position you let others down greatly and put them in harms way. But here we are focusing on self. Therefore, we may be able to help them (you cannot help anyone else if you cannot help yourself). Knowing how to stand we can also help pick others up off the ground.Who looks and leaves a man down on the battle field? That would be pretty cruel. No heart at all.

Finally, This is why the Holy Spirit plays both of these roles (Spirit of truth, the comforter-heart warmer, positive feeling through doing right) and in the life of a Christian. They are conditions. Used in the past tense, so we should have them. The Holy Spirit the spirit of truth. The Holy Spirit the heart-warmer in this cold, cold, world that is in the dark. What can we say? The Holy Spirit in the role of comforter is like a fireplace in an arctic winter day. Cozy, sense of warmness, security without chills.

Christ told us when dealing with satan and his evil messengers/spirits they want your armor. That is done by taking over the mind. The Lord cannot use wimps. Christ talking exactly about the Gospel Armor and what it takes and overall to stop satan's attempted robbery.

(Luke 11:21-22) "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace (their living conditions), his goods are in peace:

22But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils."

It begins with the heart then mind. Here is that peace. Closing going back to where the Gospel Armor originates. The Old Testament.

(Isaiah 59:7) "They do not know the way of peace, And there is no justice in their tracks; They have made their paths crooked, Whoever treads on them does not know peace."(No peace of mind, no justice = no righteousness. Making their own self-righteous way, self-serving).

(Please read Isaiah 59 a little deeper if you will. It goes from us not having salvation and how we live. To salvation and getting this Gospel Armor as referenced above. Begin Isaiah 59:16 for that).

We also know satan is coming to give the world peace message that the world gives. Not the peace the Lord gives at His salvation then doing right according to His Word. So the Lord gives this slicing (the sword) difference in Isaiah 59 as to what brings true peace of mind.

Amen †