Shoes of Peace

The Armor of God

Belt of truth

Breastplate of Righteousness

Ephesians 6:12 KJV 1900

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Ephesians

The Shoes of Peace

sandals that fit tightly

hobs on the bottom for traction

hard sole for protection from below

shoes for standing firm

we need to be able to stand firm on the Gospel

stand firm on Gods word not compromise

The fish

The early Christians formed an acrostic from these letters as follows: I= Iesous (Jesus); CH=Christos (Christ); TH=Theous (God); U= UIOS (Son); SOTER (Savior). today songs to “you”

ending prayers to “your name”

ending letters “in Him”

we are substituting the name of Jesus with pronouns to whoever the listener or reader wants it to be

standing firm on key themes of the Bible

standing firm on what the Church is...

Gideon

Judges 7:5–6 LEB

So he brought down the troops to the water, and Yahweh said to Gideon, “You must separate everyone who laps up the water to drink with his tongue like a dog from those who kneel.” The number of those lapping up the water with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; all the rest of the troops kneeled to drink the water.

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only the ones standing did God use

the others compromised their defence by kneeling

Shoes to move gracefully

1 Samuel 17:38–40 LEB

Then Saul clothed David with his own fighting attire and put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with body armor. Then David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire, but he tried in vain to walk around, for he was not trained to use them. So David said to Saul, “I am not able to walk with these, because I am not trained to use them.” So David removed them. Then he took his staff in his hand, picked out for himself five smooth stones from the wadi, and he put them in his shepherd’s bag, in the pouch. And with his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine.

David could not move very well in armor

God trained David to be light on his feet and to fight with a sling, and a club

Psalm 23:4 LEB

Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

we should not go outside our expertise

Shoes to advance

ways, tactics, and methods from the past not for today

Facebook ministry, share

to talk to some one face to face no, but to the camera yes

the old ways are comfortable, but Goliath was not killed the old ways

old ways going door to door

new ways social media

Shoes that give a Peaceful feeling

peace with God

Sins confessed, sure of your salvation, no doubts

how can we bring peace to someone else if we have no peace?

Conclusion

we need good shoes to protect ourselves from satan

we nought only need them but to put them on

to stand firm on Gods word

to move gracefully without hindrance

to advance with the times

to be at peace