Emphasis On “Whole Armor”
Perfect coverage is, above all, when wearing armor in a battle, the enemy will seek one minor imperfection, and the tiniest imperfection will take you down.
To be whole is to be perfect, Holy, and complete. There is only One Who is Whole.
This Perfect Armor is not something we make on our own.
Whole Armor leaves nothing unguarded.
It is called the Armor of God; God designs, prepares, and gifts His armor. He prepares it for us & it is only put on us by Grace through Faith.
We must be equipped with Holy Armor by God’s Will; we are His earthen vessels designed for Him to use when the appointed time comes.
God’s Armor overcomes the devil’s attacks of both force and fraud.
We then are unmoved by the deceits put forth in the material world. Unfazed by the snares, he lays upon all the earth and unbothered by all his shenanigans designed to ensnare into foolery all who can be trapped (which is ALL flesh).
Standing against Satan’s wiles means we stand against his schemes & maneuvers purposed to deceive & trick, seductively disarming all the flesh and any armor produced by the flesh.
Wile: devious or cunning stratagems (plans with a purpose) employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants.
The GOOD NEWS FOR CHRISTIANS:
Those whose Armor is the LORD, YHWH Himself, cannot, I repeat, CANNOT FAIL, nor have the Armor disarmed by Satan or any power or principality.
God can’t fail or be disarmed by anyone; He is All-powerful, He is higher than ALL THINGS & is your Armor.
Jesus covers you, Armored. The flesh is not the object of protection here: It is your soul.
When protected in the Armor of God, your Soul can NOT be touched.
Though the flesh is weak, you are unharmed by the deeds of your flesh.
Instead of reaping the rewards of the flesh, as we deserve, in eternal death and separation from God’s Love…
God instead determined, BECAUSE OF HIS UNMERITED MERCY, that our flesh cant taint the Soul when indwelt by His Spirit. (making us genuinely dead to the self/flesh). Although we are in the flesh, we don’t live in the flesh, knowing it’s already dead in Christ.
In God’s Armor We Are Confident That Our Soul Will:
Reap the rewards of the Spirit. The prize (Eternal Life) of the Spirit is ours by the determination of the Father’s Sovereign Will (Grace) through the Sacrifice & propitiation of my sins by Jesus Christ (Faith), marked & protected to endure by His Holy Spirit/Essence in Unison with both the Father & Son (Glory of God).
Grace, Faith, Glory Of God
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us, therefore, take off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light…
Romans 13
PUT ON the Lord Jesus Christ…
