Preperation of the Gospel of Peace

Ephesians 6:10–20 NKJV

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

Focus Verse

Ephesians 6:15 NKJV

15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

1. Before I can take the Gospel anywhere, I need to make sure I have it myself!

2 Peter 1:5–11 NKJV

5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. 10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

when one is in the fold one will bear the fruit of the fold that he is in.

Focus Verse:

2 Peter 1:10 NKJV

10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble;

when we are saved we will bear fruit.

Matthew 3:8 NKJV

8 Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance,

Ephesians 4:22 NKJV

22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

2. The Lord Jesus taught us that we should let the tears grow up with the wheat.

Matthew 13:24–30 NKJV

24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ 28 He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ 29 But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

Only The Lord knows who among us is wheat and others are tares.

That means that their are people who are sitting in Churches right now that are not true believers,

Jesus is the one who will sit on the Judgement seat. We will not, we need to love people.

3. We are called to encourage people to work out their own salvation.

Philippians 2:12 NKJV

12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

This doesn't mean that we deiced what saves us.

it means we fallow the Holy Spirit to work on the flesh but we need to work on ourselves.