“God as provided everything we need to dress for success” Ephesians 6:10-18

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“God as provided everything we need to dress for success”

Ephesians 6:10-18

Tonight we are still in the letters that Paul wrote to several Churches. Paul wrote 13 letters which are called epistles.  Paul writes this letter to the Christians in Ephesus while in prison in Rome.  Paul wrote the letter to the Ephesians sometime in AD 60–61, around the same time he wrote Colossians and Philemon, as he sent all three letters to them by hand. It was during this time that Paul sat in Rome undergoing his first Roman imprisonment, making Ephesians one of the four epistles commonly known as the Prison Epistles. The others are Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon. Being in prison and being chained to a Roman Solider all the time, I imagined that Paul notices how he was dressed for success in battle. He created and analogy using the parts of an armor to describe our spiritual provisions that God has given us to be protected in battle and be successful in our warfare.  Paul letter to the Ephesians is not like most of the other letters.  While Paul was not responding to a particular theological or moral problem, he wanted to protect against future problems by encouraging the Ephesians to mature in their faith. So after laying out profound theological truths in the first half of the book, Paul made his purpose clear: he expected that this community of faith would walk in accordance with its heavenly calling. As a result of the theological realities Christians accept by their faith in God, several practices should follow in their relationships within the church, at home, and in the world.

Ephesians 6:10-18