Paul compares the spiritual armour and weaponry we need to a familiar image everyone knew – the armour of a Roman soldier. Many believers are happy to go to church but they do not want to go to War. Once a person accepts Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour, he is enlisted into a Warfare. We are required to put on this whole armour and understand how to use them, without which a believer is in danger. By it a believer is protected from the attack of the enemy and be enabled to deal a death blow to his advance. A christian wardrope includes a war suit. "In the last days--------". 2Tim 2:3 - As a good soldier of Christ, endure hardness.

Q1. How many things make up this armour? Name them. How can we describe the strength of these weapons?. 2Cor10:4.

Q2. Why must we put on this whole armour of God?. Eph6:11b, 1Tim1:18

Q3. What type of war? and what are the things we are fighting with?. Eph 6:12,

Q4: Can we fight this war with our own stength?, Why? 2Cor 10:3, 1Sam2:9

Q5: Name two people in the Bible that used this armours and how? Is 59:16-17, 11:5.

Just as the belt gathered together a Soldiers armour and secures his sword to his side, so does truth ties together the believers armour. Today, many are like Pilate who asked what is truth?. Truth can be discovered/obscured, accepted/rejected, applied/ignored.

Q6. What is the truth and how can we put it on?. Jn17:17, Eph4:15,25,29, Rom 12:17, Jn4:24, Jn14:6.

Q7: What can knowing the truth do for you? Free from what?. Jn8:31-32, Rom8:2.

Q8: How does your enemy deceive and how can you overcome?, give examples. Jn8:44, Gen 3:4, Is 59:19,Acts 5:3, Math 4:5-7.

As the breastplate protects the vital organs of a soldier, so is righteousness essential for the Xtian to avoid a mortal wound. It protects areas of our relationship with God. Christ himself put on this armour.

Q9: What is this righteousness? Eph4:24.

Q10: How can you receive and walk in this righteousness? 1Cor 1:30, IJn5:18. Rom13:11-14. , Rom10:10, 1:7

Q11: What will happen if we do not put on this breastplate of Righteousness?. Prov 13:6

Q12. The Crown of righteousness is for which people?. 2Ti4:7-8

The soldier's shoe laced up past his ankles gives him traction to stand his ground and advance.

Q13. What will this piece of armour do for you and what can you do to put it on?. 2Tim 4:1-2, Rom10:15, 1:16

The righteous will live by faith. Faith in God enables the believer to enter the spiritual realm and sees the unseen. Walk by faith and not by sight. Knowing whom you have believed.

Q14. Name the fiery darts of the wicked, give examples.

Q15. What does having faith and lack of it do to the believer? 1 Jn5:4, Mk 11:23, Rom 5:1, 1Cor16:13

Q16. How can we put on faith?. Rom 10:17, 1Cor 15:57

In war, a blow to the head could be fatal without helmet. Salvation includes justification and sanctification. Are you saved?. The assurance of salvation gives us confidence in God in the midst of satanic attack. Jesus died on the cross in other to give us this helmet.

Q17. How can we acquire this weapon called salvation and what can you do with it? Rom 10:10. Acts4:12, 1Thes5:7-8, James4:7.

The word of God is our weapon of defence and attacks against sin. We can never win the battle without God’s book.

Q18. How can you acquire this weapon? Josh:8, Rom 12:2

Q19. What can you do with it?. Heb 4:12, Jn15:7, Jer23:29. Ps119:105,

Is the greatest weapon of all for attack. It must be constant, intense and unselfish. 1 Thes 5:17,

Q20. What can make your prayer effective/hinder it?.Mk11:25, Lk21:36.

Q21. What happens when you pray ? Mk11:24, James5:13-15, Mk3:27,.