1. Are You Ready to Rumble?
Ephesians 6:13-17
OIF 2007 Sermon Series

2. Are you ready to rumble? Why we need the armor? What is the armor?
How do we get the armor?

3. Eph. 6:13-17
13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (NIV)

4. Are you ready to rumble? Why we need the armor? (v. 13)
What is the armor? (vv )
How do we get the armor? (Isa. 11, 59)

5. Why? (v.13) We are really at war We need the proper gears for war
Armors invented by man will fail always

6. What? (vv.14-17) Belt of Truth & Breastplate of Righteousness
God-given characters of the Christian soldiers

7. What? (vv.14-17) Readiness from the gospel of peace Shield of Faith
Helmet of Salvation
Sword of the Spirit

8. Isaiah 11
1 A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse;        from his roots a Branch will bear fruit.
 2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him—        the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding,        the Spirit of counsel and of power,        the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD -
 3 and he will delight in the fear of the LORD.        He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes,        or decide by what he hears with his ears;
 4 but with righteousness he will judge the needy,        with justice he will give decisions for the poor of the earth.        He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth;        with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
 5 Righteousness will be his belt        and faithfulness the sash around his waist.

9. Isaiah 59
15 Truth is nowhere to be found,        and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.        The LORD looked and was displeased        that there was no justice.
 16 He saw that there was no one,        he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;        so his own arm worked salvation for him,        and his own righteousness sustained him.
 17 He put on righteousness as his breastplate,        and the helmet of salvation on his head;        he put on the garments of vengeance        and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.