The shield of holiness

Pastor Alexander Sosa

Second Communion Service

Guatemala, July 4, Year of Mercy

God reveals to His Church in Ephesians 6 the reality of our enemy

and the spiritual warfare we face each day, but He also reveals to
us He has already equipped us with everything we need to be
more than conquerors.

And Balaam took up his discourse and said, Rise, Balak, and
hear; give ear to me, O son of Zippor: God is not man, that he
should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has
he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not
fulfill it? Behold, I received a command to bless: He has blessed,
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: and I cannot revoke it. Nu 23:18-20 ESV
Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very
great. (Gn 15:1 ESV). Our Almighty God is our shield, He will Today we are focusing on the shield of Holiness. No one can stop
protect us and grant us victory all the days of our lives!
the word of the Lord to be fulfilled. If the Lord has spoken a word
of blessing over your life, indeed He will bless you. Yet the enemy
This God that is shown in 2 Samuel 22:31 ESV, His way is seeks opportunities to scare the people of God, to curse them.
perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; He is a shield for all There is no enemy, no hell, no demon, no witchcraft, or anything
those who take refuge in him. But you, O Lord, are a shield against us that could stop the Words the Lord has spoken over our
about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. Psalm 3:3 ESV
lives, for we are safe under His wings. He has blessed us, and no
one can revoke His blessings. The Lord has decreed blessing over
Even when the weight of sin could make our heads heavy and His people. The enemy is just trying to hinder the blessings,
bend them down, He is the lifter of our head. It does not matter the looking for our failures to open doors for him, but he is unable to
circumstances we have faced in the past, He is our shield and our stop the words of the Lord.
refuge.
We must not avoid our problems, instead we need to face them,
He will cover thee with his pinions, And under his wings shalt thou knowing He is on our side and He gives us strength to overcome.
take refuge: His truth is a shield and a buckler. Ps 91:4 ASV
We need to focus in holiness, for this is our shield. God protected
His people for there was holiness in their hearts. Holiness is our
His truth, His Word is a shield for our lives. If we are filled with His shield, if we live in holiness, the devil finds closed doors, and is
Word, and learn to agree with what He declares, then we believe unable to attack. All of us have been set free from evil spirits, and
His Word, we speak His Word, and we wait in His Word so that in these spirits always try to come back to where they used to live;
His perfect timing God fulfill His Word in our lives.
we need to live in holiness so when these evil spirit return they will
flee when they see the shield of holiness over us. If we seek
For wisdom is a defense even as money is a defense, but the holiness with all our hearts, Satan is out of opportunities.
excellency of knowledge is that wisdom shields and preserves We need to diligently seek to purify:
the life of him who has it. Ec 7:12 AMP
1 The lips
God has provided a series of shields for our protection in His Word Gods will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin.
that gives wisdom; if we seek His wisdom it will be a shield for us. 1 Th 4:3 NLT
In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you That we become holy is the perfect will of God for us! We must
can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one. Eph 6:16 ESV seek holiness. We do not do this in our own strength.
Jesus suffered so by His blood we could become holy (Heb
Our faith in God is also our shield against the enemy of our souls. 13:12). He paid the price for us to be made holy. We must strive
The list of shields in the Scriptures continues, yet we will not not to be always with the same struggles of sin, but overcome our
emphasize but one, here you have an outlook of the wide sins seeking God and holiness, He is able to deliver us, to set us
provision of our God for our defense and protection. Therefore, we free, to change our ways. He is the one who make us holy, yet we
are well aware that we are protected under any attack we are need to seek to be set apart.
We need to purify our lips, God promised to purify our lips for us to
facing right now.
willingly serve Him (Zep 3:9). We need to be careful of what we
speak daily with our family, our spouse, our children, and
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The shield of holiness

Pastor Alexander Sosa

Second Communion Service

Guatemala, July 4, Year of Mercy

everyone around us. Blessings must be in our lips, not words of

disrespect, not hurtful words, nor words of defeat or
discouragement. All of us had impure lips like the prophet Isaiah
confessed himself (Is 6:5). Therefore, we all need to take care of
every word that comes out of our lips. Let us avoid cursing words,
gossip, judgement, condemnation, complains, etc.

accountable to serve Him because of it (Gn 49:4). Every time we

receive His bread and wine, we also receive many blessings, one
of them is forgiveness and another one is cleanliness, purification.
In 1 John 1:9 the Greek word for forgiveness is G863 aphiemi
which means forgive, suffer, and forsake, and the Greek word for
cleanse is G 2511 katharizo which means to make clean, to
remove by cleansing, to purge, to purify, to make disappear, to
2 The clothes
clean from all blend. When we confess our sins, He forgives us
So the angel said to the others standing there, Take off his filthy and at the same time He cleanse us, in other words He makes the
clothes. And turning to Jeshua he said, See, I have taken away pain of sin disappear. Jesus makes disappear the desire to keep
your sins, and now I am giving you these fine new clothes. Zec sinning.
3:1-4 NLT
If our clothes have been filthy, Jesus is here to change them for
pure vestments. As Ephessians 4 and 6 instruct us in what we are
to wear, also Colossians 3:12-14 emphasizes that we must wear
mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, peace and love. It is easier
for us to desire to receive mercy, yet we so many times think twice
before we give mercy to others. This is year of Mercy, and it is
possible that we think more about the mercies we will receive,
than the mercies we will give. This can be compare to the year of
restitution could probably had been thinking more about what was
going to be restituted to us, instead of what we were going to
restitute to others.
We need to get dress of the Lord Jesus Christ (Ro 13:14).

Transcribed by Sister Karina Flores

3 The conscience
Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our
consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living
God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself
to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. Heb 9:14 NLT
God will purify our conscience from all sins of the past for us to be
free to serve Him. We will be able to forgive ourselves, our
conscience will be clear. Let us keep in mind the Apostle Paul,
though he persecuted Christs church, after being forgiven and
cleansed by His blood, was able to state he had a clear
conscience, he was free from his past. He had forgiven himself.
4 The heart
Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your
hands, you sinners; purify your hearts, for your loyalty is divided
between God and the world. James 4:8 NLT
We need to purify our hearts, our motives. We need to avoid
instability, in order to become trustworthy or we will not be
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