SID: So I’m here with Rick Renner. Rick says we are dressed to kill. We’re believers by our love. What do mean we’re dressed to kill?
RICK: Well I’m talking about spiritual armor.
SID: Explain.
RICK: Spiritual weaponry. In Ephesians 6, verse 12, Paul says, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” And Sid, in that verse, it’s almost like the Apostle Paul had a revelation, and suddenly the spirit realm was parted and he was able to see into the spirit realm of how Satan’s kingdom is aligned militarily. And he saw at the top of Satan’s kingdom there were principalities then there were powers, then were rulers of the darkness of this world, and then there were low-level demons, which are powers in the heavenlies, which are dispatched into our atmosphere. And the only way that we can resist those low-level demons, which are dispatched into our atmosphere is if we carry and walk in the full armor of God. In fact, Paul says, “Therefore take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”
SID: Now I’ve heard a lot of believers take that literally. And every morning they get up and I put the helmet of salvation on, I put on the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and they say that, but it’s almost become a religious banter rather than what you teach.
RICK: Well I think that it’s very sincere when people do that. But if I sat on the edge of my bed and said, I’m going to put on my helmet, that is not putting on my helmet. The Bible very clearly says, “This is the whole armor of God” and “of God” in Greek means it’s the armor which comes out of God. And the only that you’re going to be able to habitually walk in the armor of God is if you’re walking with God, because it comes out of him. It’s a result of your relationship with God.
SID: When I heard you teach about the various parts of armor, when a Roman soldier was actually prepared to kill and when we have our armor we’re no longer defenseless against the devil. Well, take one piece of armor and tell me what that means and what it was in the natural, what it is in the spirit.
RICK: Well we have what’s called the shield of faith. And Paul is referring the shield of a Roman soldier, and there were two kinds of shields. There were small, round, decorative shields, which you would carry in a parade, but you would never use that to defend yourself. It was just a decorative shield. But the shield which a Roman soldier used when he was in battle is from the Greek word, “thureos”, which is the same word for an oblong door. If I were to pick out any door in this building, it would be the word “thureos” and that’s the same word for a Roman shield. And what happened, Sid, is when a Roman soldier would come into the infantry, they would measure him. Now this is very important because Romans, chapter 12, verse 3 says, “God is given to every man the measure of faith.” Well what is “the measure”? Well they measured a Roman soldier from side to side and from top to bottom, and they would make a shield just for his size so that he was covered from side to side, and he was covered from top to bottom. If you had a shield, you were completely covered.
SID: So each one had it tailor made for their needs.
RICK: Tailor made. And they were made out of wood and leather. And they would take the leather and they would dip it into the water, and they would saturate so that whenever flames would hit it, it would put out the fire. And likewise, our faith has to be saturated in the Word of God. And when our faith is saturated in the Word of God, it becomes a force that the enemy cannot penetrate.
SID: You know Rick, I’d like to spend the whole time, if we had it, the whole day, talking about this armor because, you see, when you understand, really understand what Paul was talking about, you realize how much protection God has given us. You realize that you’re literally dressed to kill. You said the mind is so important. Would you pray for people that their mind renewed to the Word of God right now.
RICK: I will because the mind is where the main attack takes place. And so Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray, Lord, right now for people whose mind is under assault, the enemy is trying to pave a road into their mind and to bombard them with lies about their self-image, about their health, about their marriage. And Father, I pray that they would listen to the Word of God and that every one of those lies would be uprooted and removed from their minds in the name of Jesus. Amen.
SID: The devil comes at you like a roaring lion, like, like a roaring lion. But you have that shield of faith. You have the sword of the Spirit. You are dressed to kill. You are more than a conqueror.
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