Ephesians 6:18
Watch - stay alert, keep awake

Matthew 26:41 (1 Peter 5:8)
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

Perseverance – persistence, don’t give up

.Ephesians 6:19-20 The Gospel

Romans 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

1. We are not to be indifferent in sharing the gospel

1 Peter 3:15
but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; What good is knowing the truth if it is not shared with those who need?

2. We must protect the purity of the Gospel

Galatians 1:7-9

John 15:18-25

- Kosmos – Arrangement, order , system of values
- Aion - age, period of time

World
- John 16:11
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
- Ephesians 2:2;

James 4:4
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

2 Timothy 3:12
all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

John 3:19
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

Psalms 109:3 (Psalms 69:4)
They encircle me with words of hate and attack me without cause.

The world’s hatred of us should also be without cause.

1 Peter 4:14-16
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. 15 But let none of you suffer as a
murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.

vs. 26, 27 - The Helper = The Holy Spirit

- The Key to the battle - The Helper

- Dependency on the person and power of the Holy Spirit

John 12:31
Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.

Hebrews 2:14
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

Colossians 2:15
He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Revelation 12:12
Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!"

Revelation 20:10
and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

1 John 4:4
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1. We are in hand-to-hand combat together against a spiritual adversary!

2. God has provided us spiritual armor and weapons. Through prayer put them on.

3. Don’t be deceived, if we are representing Christ the world will never ever love us.

4. We are fighting from a position of victory.

- We fight from victory not for victory

- His victory is our victory

- We add nothing to His victory, and we can take nothing away from it.

Matthew 16:18
And I tell you, you are Peter,
and on this rock I will build my church,
And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.