As Christians, God calls us out of the world's status quo and calls us to be a people who are different and changed. At the start of this work week, Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives the challenge to exhibit a life that evidences a life of peace...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
This week we looked at other pieces of armor Christian's are commanded to put on and stand up in. Today, our culture knows that what you wear says something about you. But what does it say if one ends up wearing a different gender's clothes.?...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When we obediently obey to don the breastplate of righteousness, we aren't doing so arbitrarily. We aren't even doing it selfishly. We don't put it on to invoke some magic spell. We don't get it to gain for ourselves. We don't do it so we can live...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Pastor John Samuel Barnett presents the next piece of armor of God, the breastplate of righteousness. Hopefully in these lessons you see how non-passive the Christian life is. We are called to put on. We are called to stand. We are called to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives us one of the best ways to know if we are wearing the belt of truth. The diagnostic tool for knowing if we're wearing it is whether we are standing or not. Standing in what? That's the message for today....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Sadly, today there are many so-called teachers who tickle the ears of their listeners using God against His true message. They are quick to congratulate those within hearing that they are super special and they have been extra sensitive or they...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When we don our armor of God we also realize that we are not standing alone. We are not soldiers of fortune or lone wolves who have no home or sovereign. We stand with other armor-clad believers who make up the Church of Christ. With this type of...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Salvation is the starting point of accepting the truth of God and rejecting the lies of Satan. Pastor John Samuel Barnett presents the relationship between salvation and truth so that we can orientate ourselves to our enemy, the devil's, attacks....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Now that we know what our armor is, we need to know who we use it against. Pastor John Samuel Barnett provides an obvious but needed contrast between Satan and believers. This is needed because we were once in his camp. He was once our father. We...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Part two of Pastor John Samuel Barnett's very important message on putting on the whole armor of God to resist the hidden spiritual world's attacks. https://youtu.be/0dhQgAsFTGM(From 2016APR03 - SWS-16 - How God Uses the Full Armor of God to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]