#ephesians

Here’s a sermon I preached a little while back on Ephesians 3:14-21

by whom are meant not civil magistrates, or the Roman governors, though these are sometimes so called, ( Titus 3:1 ) , and may be said to be the rulers of the darkness of this world, or of the dark Heathen world, and were in high places, and were of wicked and malicious spirits, against the people of Christ; yet these cannot be opposed to flesh and blood, or to men, since they were such…

I used to preach that if something was troubling us, we just had to let it go. I believed it for myself, and I believed it for everyone else too. If you came to me carrying a deep resentment toward a friend or a family member, my advice was simple: you just have to let it go. And if I was the one wrestling with hurt or disappointment—something I’d poured a lot of emotional energy into—I’d tell…

The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions, and some copies, read “you”, instead of “we”. This is a reason why saints should be strong in the Lord, and why they should put on the whole armour of God, and prepare for battle, since their enemies are such as here described: not “flesh and blood”; frail mortal men, such as were wrestled against in the Olympic games, to which the apostle alludes. For…