THE ARMOR OF GOD
The armor of God is the armor of God, it's of him. You could say that the armor we put on each day is God himself. As Paul said, we are to put off the old nature and put on the new -- to clothe ourselves with Christ. We clothe ourselves in the armor of God himself: his truth, his righteousness, his peace, his faith he gives to us, his salvation, his Word -- our sword of the Holy Spirit.
With this armor of God we are able to resist the enemy's attacks, if we are aware of the enemy's presence and what he is trying to do in us and around us. If we are oblivious to the activity of the enemy, regardless of what we say to others about his reality, we may be taken for a long, serious, and sometimes deadly ride -- deadly in the sense of losing our faith. On the way to destroying our faith, demonic spirits want to destroy our inner well being, our relationships, our physical health, and our calling and function within the body of Christ and in society.
We will be able to resist the enemy if we love Christ more than anyone or anything, and put him before ourselves; if we desire holiness and righteousness more than the pleasures of sin; if we will deny ourselves and carry the cross that Jesus gives us; if we will give up our lives so as to gain our lives.
