Now that we’ve seen the importance that peace plays in the life of a believer, how can we further develop that peace? How can we work on areas of our life that doesn’t always show the peace of God? Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives some practical means to developing more peace in God.

https://youtu.be/KqzgBb35v4g
(From 2016MAY08 – SWS-19 – Do You Have the Peace God Offers That Overwhelms All Anxieties)

As Christians, God calls us out of the world’s status quo and calls us to be a people who are different and changed. At the start of this work week, Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives the challenge to exhibit a life that evidences a life of peace that is given by God so that all may see and give glory to God.

https://youtu.be/TTp4AEEjaqc
(From 2016MAY08 – SWS-19 – Do You Have the Peace God Offers That Overwhelms All Anxieties)

This week we looked at other pieces of armor Christian’s are commanded to put on and stand up in.

Today, our culture knows that what you wear says something about you. But what does it say if one ends up wearing a different gender’s clothes.? Pastor John Samuel Barnett discusses a popular topic among his Q&A videos.

https://youtu.be/GCcTHZ-4GlI
(2012JUN10 – Q&A-13)

When we obediently obey to don the breastplate of righteousness, we aren’t doing so arbitrarily. We aren’t even doing it selfishly. We don’t put it on to invoke some magic spell. We don’t get it to gain for ourselves. We don’t do it so we can live in splendor. We do so in order that we might exhibit holy living. This too isn’t arbitrary. We live a holy life because it reflects God our creator and sustainer and His holiness.

Pastor John Samuel Barnett provides a check to see if you’re living holy.

https://youtu.be/uWFUUgNXZJE
(From 2016MAY01 – SWS-18 – Examing Ourselves – Are You Wearing Righteousness as a Breastplate)

Pastor John Samuel Barnett presents the next piece of armor of God, the breastplate of righteousness. Hopefully in these lessons you see how non-passive the Christian life is. We are called to put on. We are called to stand. We are called to fight. We are called, also, to obey.

https://youtu.be/Yd285C8L5fY
(From 2016MAY01 – SWS-18 – Examing Ourselves – Are You Wearing Righteousness as a Breastplate)

Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives us one of the best ways to know if we are wearing the belt of truth. The diagnostic tool for knowing if we’re wearing it is whether we are standing or not. Standing in what? That’s the message for today.

https://youtu.be/5em39BOb_FQ
(From 2016APR24 – SWS-17 – How To Stand Firm In The Lord – Wearing The Belt Of Truth)

Sadly, today there are many so-called teachers who tickle the ears of their listeners using God against His true message. They are quick to congratulate those within hearing that they are super special and they have been extra sensitive or they have been good enough to answer the call of God. They might throw out all kinds of emotional phrases to tell the listener that now that you have been so special as to accepted God, now God will reward you from this point on.

Is that what salvation bestows? Is that the message of the Bible? Pastor John Samuel Barnett presents the message that God saves us by His own choosing for His own glory to carry out the work He has destined for us.

https://youtu.be/s2rIPyh80Yk
(From 2016APR24 – SWS-17 – How To Stand Firm In The Lord – Wearing The Belt Of Truth)

When we don our armor of God we also realize that we are not standing alone. We are not soldiers of fortune or lone wolves who have no home or sovereign. We stand with other armor-clad believers who make up the Church of Christ.

With this type of community, what is God’s purpose for it and how can we know that we are obeying God within it? That’s the question Pastor John Samuel Barnett gives in this week’s Q&A.

https://youtu.be/2Bz29OOPSIY
(2012NOV1 – Q&A-23)

Salvation is the starting point of accepting the truth of God and rejecting the lies of Satan. Pastor John Samuel Barnett presents the relationship between salvation and truth so that we can orientate ourselves to our enemy, the devil’s, attacks.

https://youtu.be/KYx7q_irOWY
(From 2016APR24 – SWS-17 – How To Stand Firm In The Lord – Wearing The Belt Of Truth)

Now that we know what our armor is, we need to know who we use it against. Pastor John Samuel Barnett provides an obvious but needed contrast between Satan and believers. This is needed because we were once in his camp. He was once our father. We were haters of God and lovers of sin. The armor of God allows us to be able to stand against our old father and stand for our new, true, and only Father.

https://youtu.be/e8ORByiu2bs
(From 2016APR24 – SWS-17 – How To Stand Firm In The Lord – Wearing The Belt Of Truth)