Jehovah Will Protect You - How? - JEHOVAH PROVIDES A SUIT OF ARMOR

 Jehovah has made avaiable to us a suit of armor that can protect us from Satan's attacks.  (Read Ephesians 6:13-17)  This spiritual armor is strong and effective!  But it will protect us only if we put on each piece of the armor-and keep it on.  What does each piece represent? Let us take a closer look! 

The Armor -What Is It?

The belt of truth represents the truths found in God's Word, the Bible.  Why must we weat this belt?  Because Satan is "the father of the lie." (John 8:44)  He has had thousands of years to practice his lying and has misled "the entire inhabited earth"! (Revelation 12:9)  But the truths contained in the Bible protect us from being deceived.  How do we wear this symbolic belt?  We do so by learning the truth about Jehovah, by worshipping him "with spirit and truth," and  by conducting ourselves honestly in all things. - JOHN 4:24; EPHESIANS 4:25.; HEBREWS 13:18.

6 The breastplate of righteousness  represents Jehovah's righteous standards.  Why must we wear the breastplate? Just asbreastplate protects the lteral heart of a soldier from being pierced, the breastplate protects our figuratvie heart, or inner person, from the corrupting influences of this world.  (Proverbs 4:23)  Jehovah expects us to love and serve him with our whole heart. (Matthew 22:36, 37)  So Satan tries to divide  our heart by getting us to love the things this world offers-things that Jehovah hates.  (James 4:4; 1 John 2:115, 16)   And if that does not work, he will try to bully us into going against Jehovah's standards. 

We wear the breastplate of righteousness by accepting Jehovah's standards of right and wrong and by living accordingly to those standards.  (Psalm 97:10)   Some may feel that Jehovah's standards are restrictive. But if we were to stop applying Bible principles in our lives, we would be like a soldier who removed his breastplat  in the middle of the battle because he  thought it was too heavy.  How foolish that would be!  To those who love Jehovah, his commandments are "not burdensome," but lifesaving. -  1 JOHN 5:3.

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