Stand Firm


Stand Firm

2 MIN READ ◦ DOUG GILES

“Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist on the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.”
- Ephesians 6:13 (NASB)

The Apostle Paul effectively says, if you don’t want to become roadkill under the wheel of Satan’s Prius, you’ve got to do four things:

1. Take up the full armor of God.

2. Resist on the evil day.

3. Do everything necessary.

4. Stand firm.

Now, if what I just read is true, then the half-ass, capitulating, slack-jawed, wilting, and wussified evangelical world is screwed, glued, and tattooed because we are not what the Apostle ordered here in Ephesians 6. The four traits Paul exhorts the believer to in Eph 6:13 states to this simple redneck that the demonic realm that we’re up against is far more than we can handle on our own. We’re in over our heads outside of Christ when it comes to matching wits and power with Satan and his ilk. Therefore, to be laissez-faire with the injunctions given by the Apostle Paul – who often danced with the devil – is to court our own ruination and that of our country and planet. Capisce? Uh...earth to the Christian: you need all the help you can get in this eternal game against Lucifer. In Christ, we’ve been saved by grace through faith. In Christ, we’ve been given a marvelous inheritance and we’re God’s adopted kids. In Christ, the chains that once enslaved us for years to various vices are shattered and He has guaranteed us eternal bliss via His resurrection from the dead. It’s all yummy and that’s a woefully incomplete list of what He’s secured for the saint.

That said, you and I won’t experience any of that bliss if we’re blissfully ignorant regarding the weapons of our warfare, if we’re dilatory in their appropriation and if we bereft of defiance of the devil all the way to the bloody end. I know...I know...it sucks. It sounds like a lot of hard and dirty work, and it is. However, if we’re prepped, if we’re utilizing every epic weapon God has issued us, and if we’re standing in the power of His might and not our own, then we get to see, in real-time, the crushing of Satan’s devices underneath our feet. Yep, when the powers of darkness throw everything they have at us, the armored, diligent church gets to see the following fulfilled...Rom 16:19b-20 “...be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.”



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Doug Giles is the host of The Doug Giles Podcast, the co-founder and co-host of the Warriors & Wildmen Podcast (1M+ downloads) and the man behind ClashDaily. com. In addition to driving ClashDaily.com (300M+ page views), Giles is the author of several #1 Amazon best- sellers. His book Psalms of War: Prayers That Literally Kick Ass (2021) spent 26 weeks at #1 on Amazon. In 2018, Giles was permanently banned from his two-mil- lion followers on Facebook.Doug is also an artist and a filmmaker, and his online gallery can be seen at DougGiles.Art. His first film, Biblical Badasses: A Raw Look at Christianity and Art, is available via DougGiles.Art.Doug’s writings have appeared in several other print and online news sources, including Townhall.com,The Washington Times,The Daily Caller, Fox Nation, Human Events, USA Today,The Wall Street Journal,The Washington Examiner, American Hunter Magazine, and ABC News.

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