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How do we stand firm when the evil day comes?

Ephesians 6.10-20 We come to these final verses in Paulā€™s letter to the Christians in Ephesus. He wrote this about 30 or 40 years after Jesus died and rose from the dead. There is so much here. William Gurnell was a vicar in Suffolk in the UK. He was pastor of a church not far from where I was vicar. In 1655 ā€“ just a year or two before me - he published a book about these verses. Well that is not quite true: he published three books about these verses, with 261 chapters and 1472 pages. But donā€™t worry, I will be briefer. Slightly briefer! How do we stand firm when the ā€˜evil dayā€™ (v13) comes? How do we stand firm in our faith in Christ when we face those tragedies and disasters that life can and does throw at us? We watched ā€˜The Theory of Everythingā€™ last week. It tells the story of Stephen Hawkins, a young man with a brilliant mind. In the film he has a fall, is taken to hospital and is diagnosed with Motor Neurons Disease. In one moment, his life ā€“ his ho...