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Introduction
Last week we looked at the Belt of Truth.
We saw that truth protects us.
We looked at post-modernism and its rejection of objective truth.
Then we looked at the Word of God and how it is Truth.
It is trustworthy, it is from God, it is His Word.
We looked at what the Bible says about itself.
The reason why it was important to mention what the Bible says about itself is because there is no greater authority on the Bible than the Bible.
It is God’s holy Word.
It is God’s inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word!
We meet together three times a week to hear from God’s word.
Let’s look at what it says this morning.
The breastplate is an indispensable piece of armor.
It surrounds the torso and protects the vital organs.
The lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, and bowels are covered by the breastplate.
Of course, our heart is protected by the breastplate.
We refer to the heart as the seat of our emotions.
We feel with our hearts.
The breastplate is an indispensable piece of armor.
It surrounds the torso and protects the vital organs.
The lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, and bowels are covered by the breastplate.
Of course, our heart is protected by the breastplate.
We refer to the heart as the seat of our emotions.
We feel with our hearts.
The breastplate is there to protect our emotions, feelings, our heart.
Our feelings must be protected.
The devil attacks our feelings.
In fact, this may be one of his favorite areas to attack the child of God.
If the devil can get you to focus on your feelings more than on the Lord, then he will render you ineffective as a Christian.
Downcast or Depressed
The devil can and will cause an unexplained depression to come on people.
I am not by any means trying to downplay physiological and the psychological issues related to depression.
However, I need to point out that we are not just physical and emotional beings.
We were created in the image of God.
If we are born again, then we are spiritually alive and the devil will attack us spiritually.
Therefore, we need to protect ourselves with the whole armor of God.
Inadequacy
This often times comes on those in the twilight years of life or even on the death bed.
The devil attacks us with feelings of not doing enough for the Lord.
He attacks with a fear that we have not done enough for the Lord.
At any time in a believer’s life, the devil can attack with feelings of inadequacy.
He tells you that you are not worthy.
He may be attacking a Sunday School teacher or even a deacon and telling you this morning that you are not worthy of the position that you have in this church.
The best thing for you to do is to agree with him on that point and continue listening to the sermon because I will tell you what to tell him next.
Satan uses inadequacy to keep people from being saved.
He will tell you that you are not worthy of salvation and that God can’t forgive you.
The Bible does tell us that we are not worthy, but it also tells us that God loved us.
Keep listening this morning, because we will see that it is God that makes us worthy.
Desires
Satan attacks our desires by inflaming our desires and making us desire more than what is permissible.
We must fulfill our God-given desires within the boundaries that He has given us.
Those boundaries are not there to limit our enjoyment, but to protect us and provide greater fulfillment.
Conscience
The devil will use our consciences against us.
He will remind of sins from our past and put thoughts in our heads.
He will tell us things like, “How can you be saved and struggle with that sin?” and “There is no way that God can forgive you for that !”
These attacks and others must be prepared for.
We prepare for these attacks by putting on a breastplate to cover our feelings.
The breastplate that we are told to wear is made from righteousness.
The breastplate is there to protect our emotions, feelings, our heart.
The breastplate is there to protect our emotions, feelings, our heart.
The breastplate that we are told to wear is made from righteousness.
The breastplate that we are told to wear is made from righteousness.
Our feelings must be protected.
Not our righteousness.
Not our righteousness.
We can see from Romans chapter 3 that the breastplate of righteousness can not come from our righteousness, because we are not righteous.
We are absolutely bankrupt when it comes to righteousness.
In fact, our accounts are filled with sin rather than righteousness.
Isa
When I look at the holiness and righteousness of God and compare myself with Him, I can not help but come to the conclusion that I am utterly worthless.
Telling one lie, having one lustful thought, stealing a piece of candy, coveting my neighbor’s possession, having hatred in my heart: any of these things cause me to be sinful and unrighteous.
Regrettably, I am guilty of all of these things and more.
A single lie
We are guilty and worthy of sin’s wages.
We are utterly helpless in our sins.
The righteousness by which we protect our hearts must come from someone else.
The righteousness of Jesus
Hebrews 4:15
Jesus, although tempted as we are, never sinned.
He is righteous.
His righteousness is the only righteousness that can save you and protect you.
We can not rely on our own righteousness or the righteousness of our mothers and fathers.
We can not rely on the righteousness of any person other than Jesus Christ Our Lord.
Imputed Righteousness
This is the whole foundation of our standing as Christians.
Another term for imputed righteousness is Justification by Faith.
In , we see the apostle Paul disavowing any merit he may receive from his personal righteousness.
His faith is in Christ, the righteousness that is from God by faith.
Paul recognized that no matter how good he was, he could never attain God’s absolute and holy standard.
What is God’s standard?
Matthew 22:35-28
Oh how far each of us fail to meet this command.
Even after nearly 3 decades of being a Christian, I have yet to come to the place where I can honestly say that I have met the requirements of this commandment.
Yet, even before I began to love God, Jesus stepped out of heaven and onto this sinful earth.
He lived a sinless life for 33.5 years.
I have a hard enough time being sinless for 33.5 hours.
At the fulness of time, God the Father imputed our sins, Yours, mine, everyone’s sin, upon Jesus.
This means, that he legally and justly transferred our sins to Jesus.
Jesus, the righteous, died for sinners.
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