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“Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,” ‭‭Ephesians 6:13-14 NKJV By God’s grace, in the previous articles , we’ve been looking at one of these armours, the Belt of Truth. A lot has been said about this armour and how we can always fasten this belt around our waist so that we are always winning. You can check out the blog site to review what we’ve discussed over time regarding the belt of truth. We’ll start looking at another armor God expects us to wear so we can remain in the victory He has won for us, so that we can continue to win and reign in life. This armour is called the breastplate of righteousness. In today’s article, I’ll share an overview of what I believe will be a transformative teaching that will empower us to keep winning. When we talk about the Victor’s mentality, we’re talking about b...

By God’s grace, in today’s article, we’ll finish what we started about knowing Jesus intimately in the Scriptures. We’ve already discussed three ways to see Jesus intimately through the Scriptures: • Photographically in the Gospels • Doctrinally in the Epistles • Prophetically in the Old Testament By God’s grace, I’ll share two more in this article. You can check the previous article to get the full experience of what we’ve taught. Another way we must know Jesus, who is the truth, is: 4. Experientially in the Believer’s Life We need to understand that knowing and seeing Jesus goes beyond theological or intellectual knowledge; the aim must be to know Jesus personally and experientially. That’s what I intend to share with you in today’s write-up and this is the aim of the Scriptures. We’ve talked about knowing Jesus through the Gospels, Epistles, and Old Testament—all to these is to an end that it leads us to a living relationship with the person of Christ. To have an experiential relat...

We’ve been talking about seeing Jesus as seeing the truth, and the way we see Jesus is through the Scriptures. We’ve already explored three ways to do this: • Photographically in the Gospels • Doctrinally in the Epistles • Prophetically in the Old Testament I’d love to continue writing about the prophetic aspect in the Old Testament because I didn’t finish it in the previous article . I started sharing key examples of how Christ is revealed prophetically, focusing on direct Messianic prophecies. Let’s continue with another example: Through types and shadows: These are people, events, objects, and institutions that symbolically point to Christ. For instance: 1. Adam: A type of Christ as the head of a race, just as Christ is the head of the New Testament Church (Romans 5:14). This tells us we’ve been disconnected from the old Adam. We’re now in the lineage of the new Adam, which is Christ. If you still see yourself in the old Adam, you won’t be able to walk in the truth. You need to star...

In the previous articles , we started discussing how to see as God sees. We saw that the only way this is possible is when we start seeing Jesus through the Scriptures. I mentioned that I would share five ways we can see Jesus intimately through the Scriptures. Last article, we began with the first one: Seeing Jesus photographically in the gospel I want to share a bit more on that before moving to the second way. It’s vital to look at Jesus’ portrait in the gospel: observe Him when He was on earth in His incarnate state; see His active obedience to God’s holy law; notice His reactions to others—His kindness, His compassion, His sensitive nature; and consider His response to His enemies and all they did to Him. This is the portrait of Jesus. If we truly want to walk in the truth, we must consider His life in the gospel. The reason we see so much junk today, and why some believers sheepishly swallow it, is because they haven’t taken time to see Jesus photographically. For example, when y...