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Armor of God | Week 3 | Message · Rewind

Rock Point Church

Pastor Hunter Jones · Mar 30, 2025 · 41 min watch · 3 min read

Armor of God | Week 3 | Message

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Big Idea
Key points
Application

Scripture in this message

Ephesians 6:13
Ephesians 6:14-15
John 8:44
John 8:31-32
Ephesians 6:15

Big Idea Key points Application

Big Idea

Gear up — don't give up — because you are in a spiritual war and God has given you armor to fight it.

In Ephesians 6:13-15, Paul calls believers not to give up in the face of spiritual opposition but to actively put on the armor God provides. Pastor Hunter Jones walks through the first three pieces of that armor — the belt of truth, the body armor of righteousness, and the shoes of peace — arguing that each piece addresses a specific tactic of the enemy: deception, moral vulnerability, and fear of sharing the gospel. The call is not passive faith but deliberate, daily gearing up for the battle every Christian is already in.

Key points

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1Christians are in a real spiritual war and must choose to gear up rather than give up.
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2The belt of truth is the foundational piece of armor because the enemy's primary tactic is to lie and deceive us about who we are and who God is.
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3Wrapping yourself in truth requires putting yourself in places committed to speaking truth — worship, community, and God's Word.
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4The body armor of righteousness — both the positional righteousness received at salvation and the practical righteousness lived out daily — protects the heart from the enemy's attacks.
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5When we treat God's call to holy living as a burden and take off our armor, we become vulnerable to wounds of shame, depression, and anxiety — not divine punishment but enemy attacks.
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6The shoes of peace are rooted in the gospel — the good news of Jesus' victory over sin and death — and they give believers the firm footing and confidence to stand and share their faith.
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7Putting on your shoes means living intentionally — inviting people to Jesus, especially with Easter approaching — because the enemy fears the victory you carry.

A story from life

Pastor Hunter's college backpacking trip through Europe, accidentally wearing the same bright yellow jacket as rioters at the Arc de Triomphe

Application

Pastor Hunter closes with a simple, direct question: where do you need to gear up? For some, it means getting back into the truth — joining a small group, returning to worship, or opening God's Word again — so the enemy's lies stop being the loudest voice. For others, it means honestly naming a sin, an addiction, or a compromising habit and choosing to fight it rather than excuse it, trusting that God is not angry but heartbroken to see you wounded. And for others still, it means lacing up the shoes of peace and living with bold, everyday intentionality — starting with a personal invitation to someone for Easter. The armor is already given. The choice is whether to put it on.

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Scripture in this message

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“we're gonna be looking at today in Ephesians chapter six verse 13 is this. We're gonna be looking at the first three pieces of armor that God gives us to face spiritual battles”
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From the transcript
“So we're in Ephesians chapter six verse 13 And Paul is reminding us, the church, gear up because you're in a fight. Verse 13, here's what he says. Therefore put on every piece of God's armor”
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“Verse 14, he says, Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth, the body armor of God's righteousness. For shoes put on the peace that comes from the good news so that you will be fully prepared”
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“In John chapter eight verse 44, he's talking to these Pharisees, and these Pharisees were they were the holy people. They were the people who followed God and and Jesus is calling them out”
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“In John eight thirty one-thirty two, so a couple verses above that, Jesus says, Jesus said to the people who believed him, you are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teaching. And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free”
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“Verse 15, I wanna read that again. It says, for shoes put on the peace that comes from the good news so that you will be fully prepared”

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There is a moment in any hard season when the temptation shifts from fighting to just enduring — and then from enduring to quietly giving up. Paul writes to believers who knew that feeling. He doesn't shame them for it. He simply says: put on the full armor of God, so that when the evil day comes, you will still be standing firm. That phrase — 'when the evil day comes' — is honest in a way we sometimes aren't with ourselves. Hard days are not a sign that God has abandoned you. They are a sign that you are in a real battle, one that every Christian is already in whether they feel ready or not. Pastor Hunter's point this week is not that you need to try harder or be stronger. It's that the armor has already been given. The question Paul is pressing — and the question worth sitting with today — is whether you are actually putting it on. Standing firm is not passive. It is a daily, deliberate act of trust. You gear up not because you are impressive enough to win, but because the One who won has outfitted you for the fight. You don't have to figure out how to survive today. You have to choose to suit up.

For reflection

Where in your life right now does it feel more like you are enduring than actively standing — and what might it look like to choose to gear up in that area today?

Pray

Pray for the willingness to stop drifting and start deliberately putting on what God has already given you for today's battle.

Jesus doesn't soften this: the enemy is a liar, and lying is his native language. There is no truth in him. That's not dramatic language for dramatic effect — it is a precise description of the tactic you are up against every single day. The lies rarely sound like lies. They sound like your own voice. They sound like a reasonable conclusion drawn from real pain. You're too far gone. God is disappointed in you. This is just who you are now. None of those sentences carry the enemy's signature, and yet every one of them comes from the same source Jesus is describing in John 8. Pastor Hunter made the case that the belt of truth is the foundational piece of armor precisely because everything else depends on it. If the lies go unchallenged long enough, they start to feel like reality. And once deception shapes how you see yourself and how you see God, every other piece of armor becomes harder to reach for. The good news is that Jesus, in the same passage, calls Himself the one who tells the truth — and says that truth is what sets people free. Freedom from the enemy's lies begins with recognizing them for what they are: not your voice, not God's voice, and not the final word.

For reflection

What is one lie about yourself or about God that you have been hearing on repeat lately — and what does Jesus actually say in response to it?

Pray

Pray for discernment to recognize the enemy's voice and for the courage to hold it up against what is actually true.

Jesus draws a quiet but important line here. He doesn't say that knowing a fact about truth sets you free — He says that remaining in His word does. The word He uses implies continuity, staying, making a home there. Truth is not just a concept to agree with; it's a place to live. This is why Pastor Hunter's application for the belt of truth was so practical: get back into places that are committed to speaking truth. Worship. Community. The Word itself. Not because checking those boxes earns you something, but because the enemy's lies thrive in isolation and silence. When you are only hearing your own thoughts — or the world's narrative — on repeat, the lies have no competition. When you stay in the Word, when you show up where truth is being spoken over you, the belt starts to hold. It does not have to be impressive. It does not have to be a two-hour Bible study every morning. It can be opening a passage before you pick up your phone. It can be walking into a small group even when you feel like you have nothing to offer. Staying in the truth is less about discipline as performance and more about simply refusing to go long without hearing what is actually real.

For reflection

What is one honest step you could take this week to put yourself in a place where truth is being spoken — and what has been keeping you from it?

Pray

Pray for a genuine hunger for the Word and for God to open a door back into community where truth is spoken and lived.

The body armor of righteousness covers the chest — which in the ancient world meant the heart, the seat of everything that matters. That placement is intentional. Pastor Hunter drew out two layers of this piece: the righteousness that is given to you at salvation — the standing before God you have because of what Jesus did, not what you've done — and the righteousness that is lived out in your daily choices. Both matter. The first is a gift you cannot earn and cannot lose. The second is a fight you enter every morning. When those two layers are working together, your heart is protected. When you treat holy living as optional or as a burden you've outgrown, you are not just bending a rule — you are taking off armor in the middle of a battle. And the wounds that follow are real: shame, anxiety, a growing distance from God that you can't quite name. Pastor Hunter was careful here, and it's worth being careful here too: this is not God punishing you. It's what happens when you are unprotected and the enemy has room to work. The call is not condemnation. It is an invitation to put the armor back on — to name what needs to be named and trust that God is not angry at you. He is grieved because He sees you wounded.

For reflection

Is there a habit, a compromise, or a pattern in your life right now that you have been excusing rather than fighting — and what would it look like to honestly name it before God today?

Pray

Pray for the honesty to name what needs to be named and for the trust that God's response is not anger but a desire to see you whole.

Shoes seem like a small thing until you're standing on uneven ground. In Roman military life, the right footwear was the difference between a soldier who could hold his position and one who slipped and fell. Paul reaches for that image when he describes the shoes of peace — readiness rooted in the gospel of peace. The gospel is not just the message you believed once. It is the ground you stand on every day. Jesus has already won over sin and death. That victory is not pending; it is finished. And when that reality is what you are standing on, the enemy cannot knock you over with fear, guilt, or the whisper that your past disqualifies you from being used. Pastor Hunter described these shoes as giving believers both firm footing and confidence — not confidence in yourself, but confidence in what you carry. The gospel you hold is not a fragile thing. It does not depend on how well you explain it or how perfectly you have lived. It is the power of God for anyone who hears it. Putting on your shoes means living from that reality rather than apologizing for it — standing where you are, planted, and ready.

For reflection

What would it look like for you to live this week as if the gospel you carry is genuinely powerful — not something to be embarrassed about, but something worth standing on?

Pray

Pray for a fresh confidence in the gospel — not in your ability to share it, but in the truth and power of what Jesus has already done.

Related passage

Paul quotes Isaiah here with unmistakable joy: how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news. The shoes of peace are not just defensive — they move. They carry you somewhere. Pastor Hunter closed the section on these shoes with a very concrete challenge: lace them up and invite someone. Not because you have to manufacture a spiritual conversation or have all the answers, but because you are already standing on the victory of Jesus, and the people around you need to hear about it. The enemy, as Pastor Hunter put it, fears the victory you carry. An invitation to church — especially as Easter approaches — is not a sales pitch. It's a simple act of saying, there is something here that matters, and I want you to experience it. That is what beautiful feet do. They close the distance between someone who hasn't heard and the good news that changes everything. You don't need a script. You need a name — one person who comes to mind when you ask yourself who in my life needs an invitation right now. The shoes are already on. The question is whether you are willing to walk toward someone.

For reflection

Who is one person in your life who needs an invitation — to church, to a conversation, to something that points toward Jesus — and what is one real step you could take this week to extend it?

Pray

Pray for a specific person by name, and ask God for the courage and the right moment to take one step toward them.

Reading the passage as a whole at the end of the week does something that studying it in pieces can't quite do — it lets you feel the weight and the grace of it together. Paul is not writing a checklist. He is writing to people in a real fight, telling them that the God they serve has not sent them out unequipped. The belt, the body armor, the shoes — each one addresses a specific place where the enemy tries to break you: your sense of what is true, your moral footing, your willingness to carry the gospel forward. What's striking is that none of these pieces are things you manufacture. They are given. Your job is to put them on. That is the whole of Pastor Hunter's call this week: where do you need to gear up? Some of us need to get back into truth. Some of us need to name a wound and fight it instead of live with it. Some of us need to stop standing still and start walking toward someone. All of it comes back to the same act — choosing, deliberately and daily, to put on what God has already provided. The armor is yours. The battle is real. And the One who outfitted you has already won.

For reflection

Looking back over this week, which piece of armor — truth, righteousness, or peace — do you most need to focus on putting on right now, and what is one concrete decision that represents doing that?

Pray

Pray through each piece of armor honestly — asking God to show you where you are geared up, where you are not, and what your next step looks like.

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Paul tells believers in Ephesians 6 to 'put on every piece of God's armor' — not as a one-time event, but as a daily, deliberate choice. This message from Pastor Hunter walks us through the first three pieces and asks a simple question: are we actually wearing them?

Discussion questions

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In Ephesians 6:13, Paul tells believers to 'put on every piece of God's armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil.' What does the image of putting on armor suggest about how Paul expects Christians to approach the spiritual battle they're already in?
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In John 8:44, Jesus describes the devil as 'the father of lies.' Pastor Hunter argued that the belt of truth is foundational because the enemy's primary tactic is deception — about who we are and who God is. What kinds of lies do you think people around us tend to absorb most easily, and how does staying in truth push back against that?
3
Pastor Hunter described the body armor of righteousness as having two sides — the righteousness we receive at salvation and the practical righteousness we live out each day. How do those two dimensions work together to protect someone, and what happens when one is separated from the other?
4
Pastor Hunter said that when believers set aside God's call to holy living, the resulting shame, depression, and anxiety aren't divine punishment — they're enemy attacks on an unguarded heart. How does that framing change the way we might think about or come alongside someone who's struggling in that place?
5
Ephesians 6:15 ties the shoes of peace directly to 'the Good News of peace with God.' What does it mean that the gospel — Jesus' victory over sin and death — is described as footing or firm ground? How might that shape the confidence with which people share their faith?
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Pastor Hunter closed with the question: where do you need to gear up? He pointed to three on-ramps — getting back into truth through community or God's Word, honestly naming and fighting a compromising habit, and lacing up the shoes of peace with bold everyday intentionality. As a group, what makes it hard for people in general to take that first step toward whichever piece of armor they're missing?

Pray together

Ask God for the courage and clarity to put on each piece of armor He has already provided — truth, righteousness, and peace — and to walk into the week ready rather than unguarded

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