2. The Employment of Our Armour (6:18-24) V.18 a) Prayer - I. Prayer causes us to keep the armour on, it gives us focus and oversight if it is done in the Spirit. II. Why shall we pray always? A. Because the devil can come any time, especially when we are not praying. B. Because others (even all saints) need our assistance in prayer. III. Prayer causes us to be watchful - as soon as prayer reduces so will our alertness - when our alertness reduces then the taking on the armour reduces - as soon our taking on the armour reduces we will fall. Matt.26:40-41 b) Perseverance - With this process in mind we then know why we have to persevere. V.19 c) Precession - I. Prayer causes God to release the right words (utterance) at the right time. Jam.1:5-6 II. Prayer causes God to release boldness, that is - remove the fear of man and stir up trust to God. Acts 4:29-31 III. The mystery of the Gospel is the plan of God concerning the Church. 2:11-3:11 V.20 d) Preaching - All preachers are ambassadors, they represent another King and kingdom. All ambassadors are hired to speak boldly and strongly for their countries even so are all Christians. V.21-22 e) Purpose - Tychicus may have carried this letter to the Ephesians to encourage and comfort them, he also informed them about Paul. V.23-24 f) Proclamation - Paul declares 4 important virtues that this letter ought to bring forth: I. Peace - The work of God through Christ establish peace. II. Love - The work of God through Christ reveals His love. III. Faith - The work of God through Christ stirs our faith. IV. Grace - 1. The work of God through Christ enables us to receive His grace. 2. Paul began with grace 1:1 and ends with grace, all things that comes from God is by grace, no believer deserves anything from God and God owes no believer anything yet He gives him everything. 1.Cor.3:21-23 “ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ” Eph.1:3 “ The entrance of Your Words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” Psalms 119:130 Reference material used in making the Bibleschool manual: Bible Commentaries: Thomas L. Constable’ s - Notes on Ephesians. Chuck Missler’ s - Written and audio commentary on the epistle of Ephesians. Jon Courson’ s - Thru-the-Bible audio commentary on the epistle of Ephesians. Chuck Smith’ s - Audio commentary on the epistle of Ephesians. Edward Hindson/Michael Woodrow’ s - King Jame's Bible Commentary on the epistle of Ephesians. Zondervan’ s Niv’ s - Expositor's Bible Commentary of the epistle of Ephesians. J. Vernon McGee’ s - Commentary on the epistle of Ephesians. David Hocking’ s - Commentary on the epistle of Ephesians. H. L. Willmington’ s - Guide to the Bible. Old commentaries were used as well with minor help. Bible Surveys and outlines: Valleys Bible Church’ s - Bible survey on the epistle of Ephesians. J. Hampton Keathley’ s - Survey on the epistle of Ephesians. Nelson’ s - Complete book of Bible maps and charts. H. L. Willmington’ s - The Outline Bible. Harvestime International Institute’ s - Basic Bible survey. Bob Bolender’ s - Survey on the epistle of Ephesians. Gerald Duckett - Bible’ s survey on the epistle of Ephesians. Mark A. Copeland’ s - Executable Outlines. Ray C Stedman’ s - Panorama of the Scriptures. Old Testament types and figures: Kevin T. Connor’ s - The feasts of Israel. Kevin T. Connor’ s - The tabernacle of Moses. Kevin T. Connor’ s - The temple of Solomon. Encyclopaedia/ Dictionaries: International standard Bible Encyclopaedia. Nelson’ s - Illustrated Bible dictionary. Dictionary of Biblical imagery. Greek reference material: Strong’ s - Exhaustive concordance. Thayer’ s - The new Thayer’ s Greek-English lexicon. Englishman’ s - The Englishman’ s Greek concordance and lexicon. Vine’ s - Complete expository dictionary. Bible versions: King James Version 1984 - Is the Bible translation used in this manual. Hendrickson’ s - The interlinear Bible.