Pastor Hope Flask

September 22, 2024

Main Scripture: Ephesians 6:10-20

Additional Scriptures: Philippians 3:4-11, Romans 10:3-4, Hebrews 4:13, 2 Cor. 5:21, John 3:17, 1 John 1:9, Ephesians 1:4-6

POINTS:

• Breastplate: Covers our deepest feelings about ourselves.

• Satan prosecutes us by accusing our consciences.

• Righteousness: whatever we use to lift our heads and look at the world and say I have nothing to be ashamed of; I am presentable.

• Everyone wears a breastplate.

• We are all working towards a verdict.

• Our self-image is the accumulation of verdicts.

• We repress our unrighteousness before God and project it onto others.

• Religious breastplate: Trying harder.

• Psychological breastplate: God takes you just as you are.

• Imputed righteousness: God has transferred the liability of your record to Jesus and His record onto you.

• Imparted righteousness: The fruit of the Spirit.

• Application:

  • Ask the Holy Spirit to examine your motives

  • Cross-examine those motives with imputed righteousness and ask the question - who told you that?

  • Talk back to those motives with the truth of God’s word.

• May our chant be “Another good soldier for Christ”