God doesn’t want us to somehow pick ourselves up, brace ourselves, and hold on for what’s coming against us…God wants us to experience Christ and know Christ subjectively so that we may learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus. “The truth with which we are girded for spiritual warfare is actually the very Christ we experience” (Life-study of Ephesians, msg. But if we read the Bible, pray-read the word of God, and seek the Lord to experience Him according to the truth, we will learn Christ as the reality is in Jesus and our whole being will be strengthened to stand! Christ lives in us today, and He makes us one with God. If we don’t live Christ, if we don’t have a daily walk in God and with God, we are not strong to stand in the spiritual battle. Because Paul’s living was conformed to the pattern of Christ, he had the strength to face the opposition, persecution, and rejection, and he could more than overcome through Jesus Christ in all the adverse circumstances. We see this also in the apostle Paul’s living – for him, to live was Christ ( Phil. This living is being reproduced in all the members of His Body. God was in His living, and He was one with God – Jesus lived a God-man living. If we read the Gospels, we see that Jesus did everything in God, with God, by God, through God, and for God. 4:20-21 tells us, we are learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus – we are learning Christ according to the actual condition of the life of Jesus as recorded in the four Gospels. Truth is God in Christ as reality in our living.Īs Eph. And this truth is not merely the objective truth in the Word, but it is the reality (see Eph. Our whole being needs to be strengthened with the truth. What does it mean to “gird our loins with the truth”? When we gird our loins, our entire being is strengthened. How wonderful it is that Christ can be our experience subjectively (as the reality, the truth, that girds our loins) and His blood covers us from the enemy (as our subjective righteousness, the breastplate)! Girding our Loins with the Truth To put on the breastplate of righteousness is to take Christ as our righteousness subjectively, applying His precious blood to our conscience, and overcoming the enemy not because of our merits but because of the blood of the Lamb ( Rev. This doesn’t mean only that we need to know the truth and be constituted with the truth in the Word of God but it means that we are learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus – we experience Christ and live Christ today, and this Christ lived out of us girds our loins, strengthening our whole being to withstand the enemy. What is the whole armor of God? It is Christ in many aspects experienced by us, enjoyed by us, and being wrought into us to become our enjoyment and living.įirst, we gird our loins with the truth. 12).įor the spiritual warfare we as the Body of Christ need to take up the whole armor of God that we may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand (v. 6:10-11), we need to realize that our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, the authorities, the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces in the heavenlies (v. 6:14 says, Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth and having put on the breastplate of righteousness.Īfter we are being empowered by God with the might of His strength ( Eph. 6:14, Stand therefore, having girded your loins with truth and having put on the breastplate of righteousness.Įph.
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