So, I told you to turn to where, Ephesians 6, look at verse number 11, it says,
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the
devil.
So, does it say half the armor?
The whole armor, right?
It says, For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places.
Who is that talking about?
Satan and his minions, okay?
That's who we're wrestling against.
We're wrestling against principalities and powers.
All these powers are put in place to stop us from preaching the gospel, including these
hell-bound apartment managers.
Why is it the apartment managers are always like, from the devil?
You know, there's some diamonds in the rough that will just let us continue to go soul
wanting, but most of the time they're like, you're not supposed to be here, you know?
And then they try to kick us out.
And you know why?
The armor complexes are most of the time the most receptive places to go.
And so Satan's got his little bulldogs, his little managers he's put in place to stop
us from going soul wanting.
But you know what?
We're going to keep going soul wanting, regardless of what the hounds of hell are trying to do
to stop us.
So it says that we're supposed to put on the whole armor, not half the armor, not 95 percent
of it, the whole armor of God.
It says, Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God.
It says it twice.
You think God's just like stuttering here?
He wants us to get this, all right?
That you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand.
And sometimes that's all we can do.
Sometimes that's all we can do is stand with our armor on, and you know, just like, whatever.
Come on, give me your best shot, Satan, because that's all we got is our armor, right?
But one of those pieces of armor is really important.
Look at Ephesians chapter 6 verse 15, it's two scriptures down from where we're at right
now.
It says, And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
So does your feet have armor that's supposed to go on top of it?
Yeah.
And you know what the word shod means?
Shod means wearing shoes of a specified kind.
So your shoes are supposed to be like these gospel armor shoes, you know?
So have some comfortable shoes, guys.
But anyway, we're talking about a spiritual armor, and you know, the fact that your feet
are going out, even if you were barefoot and you're going soul winning, you know what,
your feet are shod with the gospel, the preparation of the gospel of peace.
You've got your armor on.
But see, some people like to walk out with their feet naked.
They don't like to put the armor on.
They just want to sit there and say, well, I've got the full armor on.
But I'll tell you what, if you're not going and preaching the gospel that you don't have
the full armor of God on, you have all of it but one piece.
And so we need to understand that preaching the gospel is helping us to win this spiritual
battle.
Hey, who wears armor?
Soldiers.
So if you're not a soldier with the feet shod with the gospel of the preparation of the
gospel of peace, then you're just going out with the part of your armor on.
And you know what that means?
The Satan's going to smoke you because you don't have all your armor on.
See, if you've done all you can, he's not going to be able to do that.
He's going to, it says, you know, that take on the whole armor of God that you may be
able to withstand in the evil day.
What is the evil day?
Well, sometimes we have some evil days, don't we?
Your kids are sick, your pastor's sick, you lost your job, your wife's fighting with you,
everything's going wrong, but you've got that armor on.
You know, and you're going to be able to at least just stand there with your armor on.
But look, you don't have any excuse to not go soul winning.
And part of soul winning is having your feet shot with the preparation, the gospel of peace.