 Good afternoon, Pastor David. Hey John welcome everybody to a random moment unfiltered well tomorrow's Wednesday It is and we have our Wednesday evening services And I'm looking forward to it because you've been taking us through a series on spiritual warfare and specifically Have been looking at each weapon Tomorrow you'll be taking us through the shield of faith and what I thought was interesting about the language that's used in In the Bible it says above all take up the shield of faith for it will quench All the fiery darts of the wicked one or the devil and so when it means above all is it the most important weapon in addition to When it says and above all it's just it's a literary Way to to continue with thought and develop it a bit further Because you at first reading might say this must be the most important thing When in fact it's it's one of the things because the armor is to work together. And so he's making a Point emphasizing the need for this this shield now as we look at that Concerning the shield of faith tomorrow and we'll be looking at it closely The Roman soldier had two different shields one shield was a round shield a small shield And that small shield that they had would be used for a close-up hand-to-hand kind of combat But the other shield and this is a shield that's being spoken of in In Ephesians 6 the other shield is a large oblong oblong shaped shield that You know it was around four feet in height and around two or three feet and so they would use it in a variety of ways includes including Working together with the other soldiers so when the darts of the enemy and they were they were large darts You know larger than lawn darts and they would ignite them. They would wrap them with With with cloth or something that would remain ignited and then from a distance from different directions would hurl them In order to cause distractions and break ranks What would happen is the the shield was made of leather normally And it would have the capacity of quenching that the flame so that it doesn't burst into flame and ignite him if he Had hit him it could do him great damage And so when all of these darts and distractions are coming They would use the shield, you know, and so there were times when that they would actually Form a group where some would put their shields down and the others would put them above and that way They were able to protect the the group of soldiers that were involved in combat and so Excuse me tomorrow as we gather. I'm going to be sharing of the individual Responsibility that I have to make sure that my armor is properly secured But I also want to emphasize the fact that we are a fighting unit I think that what has happened today at least in the church It seems that we have an awful lot of Christians who have forsaken the assembly of themselves whether they're believers Some who are even watching right now perhaps haven't been in a live service for a long time Even though they may not even realize this but even a couple of days ago Biden stated that the that this pandemic is over and so Fact is is it's time for the church to come back because we're supposed to be a fighting unit We're working together and so on on one hand We have the individual responsibility of donning our our armor on the other hand. We need to understand That as a unit we're protecting one another as well as fighting for the cause of Christ in against a demonic Opposition and all of that and so yeah the the shield of faith The awareness of who God is in the promises of God and how they apply to us and how you can apply those promises to various Circumstances and situations is very important to know and also I'll be pointing out that the fiery darts that already have been basically Enumerated for us from the first chapter up to the sixth chapter when Paul is speaking about the various weaknesses of the flesh the Divisions that can take place and and the gossip and and the various things I'll be pointing those out very briefly But sometimes when we ask ourselves, oh, what is the fiery dart what Paul's already been dealing with those things? the enemy has already been launching those attacks against the Ephesians and Continues to launch those long-distance attacks against us And so we'll be using the shield of faith. There's something that we are supposed to have already Become aware of it's something that we use for those individual battles We've already sunk into the armor But we take up these these things at the moment of conflict and there are times that you you have to put The shield of faith before you are above you but you do that normally as a unit you can do that as a unit And I want to make that application tomorrow and just the name of it shield of faith is that there's a active faith that we must Perform we exercise we we exercise our faith There's a there is a passive faith that went in which in which we rest in the things of God and passively we rest But there is also the application of faith that that that that under conflict And various other things we we have to make sure that we have Applied that to our life and in its active form. So yeah, we'll be saying that tomorrow and then tomorrow also church family We'll be celebrating communion. Yes after the Bible study So invite you friends and family to come out and join us and this has been proven to be a Very good study. I know a lot of people are going through a warfare. Oh, yes Many challenges, but as you mentioned that you said something before is as you made an application I thought about the other day is that You had put a specific. I don't know if it was a game or something on pause and found out the news about the game and And watched it with a different anticipation kind of a different perspective And and I've been thinking about we may be going through the warfare in the game But we already know who won the games over games over and and so I was thinking about that as as We've been going through this I know many people are going through a lot of many things, but we've won in Christ in Christ We were victors and we get to celebrate that by taking communion. Amen. So come on out church family We'd love to have you we're still taking sign us for Israel. Mm-hmm matter of fact the list is growing It's growing right I got an account today and we have quite a number of people going in yeah We do want to encourage you guys to come out and join us You can actually go to our website CC Calvary CCV org go to our events tab Scroll down. You'll see us a picture says Israel click on there. You can register all the information's there There's a countdown. It's like a hundred seventy days really less than six months Yeah, and so we would love you guys to come join us So we look forward to seeing you tomorrow 7 p.m. Pastor David. Thank you so much for sharing with us God bless you guys and thank you for tuning in