Put on the whole armor of God by Richard Roberts
So what? If all the people who hated me during the height of my ministry were here, this building couldn’t accommodate them. But they couldn’t stop me one time! …APPLAUSE… And they’re not going to stop you.
“Put on the whole armor of God, for we wrestle not with flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places, against demonic forces who are in those people,? who are motivating those people, who are causing those people to oppose everything of God that’s in your life.
They don’t dislike you. They could care less. They just don’t like to see someone with more power than they’ve got. …RESPONSE… They’re mad now because Christians are getting hold of some of the money. And they’re going to get a lot madder before it’s over. …APPLAUSE…
He said, “Put on the whole armour of God that you might withstand in the evil day.” And I’m telling you, the evil day is all around us. What I feel is that the church, what we call the church, is becoming a spectator sport. Go into one and tell me where the power of God is. Tell me where someone is getting healed. Tell me where someone is speaking in tongues or prophesying or using one of the nine gifts of the Spirit. Tell me. Go to any of them. Am I against them? Certainly not. I’m for everything good that they’re doing. But in a minute I’ll show you where they’ve stopped and where we must not stop because we’d be just like them. We’re not to be proud because we could be just like them.
He said, “Having done all to stand, stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth.” Why did he use that piece of the armor first?
Now we’re adults. I don’t see any children here. My loins are between my legs, as yours are. This is where our procreative power is. And God said, “Multiply.” The only way God could have children and people born on this earth was to give people loins. And He said, “For this reason they shall leave father and mother and cleave only unto each other and become one flesh.”
The only way they can become one flesh is when the male organ goes into the woman’s vagina. That’s the only way they can be one. There’s no other way. And the physical oneness is to be the type of the spiritual oneness of the man and his wife.
And he said, “Deal with your loins.”