SOLDIERS OF THE LORD

Greek: armed = kathoplizomai meaning to arm oneself

   armor =  panoplia meaning arms or whole armor

   battle = polemos meaning battle, fight

   enemy = echthros meaning opponent

   compel = anagkazo meaning to necessitate, compel

   force = harpazo meaning to snatch away, seize

   hate = misco meaning to hate

   soldier = stratiotes meaning serving as a soldier

                   stratologeo meaning to collect a camp or host

   stronghold = ochuroma meaning fortress

   occupy = pragmateuomai meaning to do business

   sword = machaira meaning fighting weapons

  violence = biazomai meaning to be forced or urged

             violent = biastes meaning forcible, violent

               war = polemos meaning battle, strife, contention

             warfare = strateia meaning military service

                               strateuomia meaning to wage war

1.      Matthew 10:34 “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”

2.      Matthew 11:12 “The kingdom of heaven sufferth violence, and the violent take it by force.”

3.      Matthew 13:39 “The enemy is the devil.”

4.      Matthew 16:18 “I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

5.      Luke 10:19 “Behold, I give unto you power over all the power of the enemy.”

6.      Luke 11:21-23 “A strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: but if a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.”

7.      Luke 14:23 “Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in that m house may be filled.”

8.      Luke 14:26-27 31 “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.  And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.  What king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able and sitteth down first and counteth the cost.

9.      Luke 19:13Occupy till I come.”

10.  Luke 22:36-38 “Then Jesus said unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.  For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, and he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.  And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords.  And he said unto them, It is enough.”

11.  Romans 13:12, 14 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.  Put on the Lord Jesus Christ.”  

12.  I Corinthians 9:7 “Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges?”

13.  I Corinthians 14:8 “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”

14.  II Corinthians 6:7Armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left.”

15.  II Corinthians 10:4 “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds:”

16.  Ephesians 6:10-18 “Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.  Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.  Take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

17.  Philippians 2:25 “I send to you my brother and companion in labor and fellow soldier .”

18.  Philemon 2 “Archippus our fellowsoldier.”

19.  I Timothy 1:18 “This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare.”

II Timothy 2:3-4 “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”

 


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