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        <b>PREPARATION:</b>
      
      
        
      
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        the belt of truth, 
      
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        (Eph.6v14;)
      
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        <b>How can you recognize a lie if you don't know the truth?</b>
      
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        -the breastplate of righteousness, 
      
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        (Eph.6v14;) - 
      
      
        <b>We can only be righteous through Christ.  The heart is protected.  The heart must be 
        right with God.</b>
      
      
        
      
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        -the preparation of the gospel, 
      
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        (Eph.6v15;) - 
      
      
        <b>Ready to share God's word of salvation and hope.</b>
      
      
        
      
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        <b>WEAPONS</b>
      
      
        
      
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        -the shield of faith, 
      
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        (Eph.6v16;) - 
      
      
        <b>Extinguishes the flaming darts of Satan, all of them!  </b>
      
      
        
      
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        -the helmet of salvation, 
      
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        (Eph.6v17; 1Th.5v8;) - 
      
      
        <b>Know you are saved, remember you're saved and God's child.  Not only protection for the 
        head, but a weapon against Satanic forces.</b>
      
      
        
      
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        -the sword of the Spirit, 
      
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        (Eph.6v17;) - 
      
      
        <b>God's Word.  Sharper than any two-edged sword.</b>
      
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        <b>THE COMMAND:</b>
      
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        <b>Pray in the spirit and petition God with perseverance concerning all the saints.</b>
      
      
        
      
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        -called "the armor of God," 
      
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        (Eph.6v11;)
      
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        -called "the armor of righteousness," 
      
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        (2Cor.6v7;)
      
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        -called "the armor of light," 
      
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        (Rom.13v12;)
      
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        -not carnal, 
      
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        (2Cor.10v4;)
      
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        -mighty through God, 
      
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        (2Cor.10v4-5;)
      
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        -the whole, is required, 
      
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        (Eph.6v13;)
      
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        -must be put on, 
      
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        (Rom.13v12; Eph.6v11;)
      
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        -to be on the right hand and left, 
      
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        (2Cor.6v7;)
      
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         an idiom meaning: "to attack and to defend."
      
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