Read Ephesians 6:12 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on our struggle is spiritual and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
LESSON 2
Put on the Armor of God
Primary passage: Ephesians 6:11
Read Ephesians 6:11 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on put on the armor of god and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
Read James 4:7 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on resist the devil and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.
Read 1 John 4:4 in its surrounding paragraph or chapter. In this lesson, focus on greater is he that is in you and ask what the text actually says before importing a later argument into it. Note the speaker, audience, setting, repeated words, commands, promises, warnings, and how the passage fits the wider biblical story.