$5000 Fine For Wearing Orange Shoes

Ephesians 6:11-12

¹¹Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹²For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

Paul used the example of the Roman soldier’s armor to describe the Armor of God.  To the people alive at that time, the Roman soldier was a common sight.  Everyone, reading the letter to the Ephesians, had a visual image in their mind as they read the letter Paul wrote to them about putting on the whole armor of God.  Today most of us have a hard time visualizing what Paul was talking about.  For the average American male, it would have been better if Paul had used the typical uniform worn by an NFL football or NHL hockey player.  The seriousness of the warfare would however be trivialized.  The Roman soldier was serious business; they had the power over life and death in their hands.

With this being the case, why am I stuck on football analogies?  I think the average male sitting in the average church in America, thinks more time thinking about football, hunting, fishing, golf or any hobby, than about “spiritual warfare”.  As to the average female in the average church in America, I do not feel qualified to make any comparison.  The females reading this blog will have to do that for themselves.

Getting back to the title of this blog, on Nov. 7 of this year, one of the Philadelphia Eagles wore orange shoes, violating the NFL Uniform Rules.  For this infraction he was fined $5000.  Why?  Do orange shoes give a player an unfair advantage? Nope!  It is just against the rules!

If the NFL has rules, do you think that maybe God does too?  YES!  Well, first and last, He IS GOD!  He makes the rules!  How many of us are wearing the wrong armor?  How many of us are wearing NO armor?  How many of us don’t even know that there is a battle going on?  How many of us could not care less?

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We wonder why the church today is an impotent church!