Emmanuel Fellowship & Worship Center

Emmanuel Fellowship & Worship Center "Where biblical truth is believed, taught, and lived."
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12/25/2025
06/29/2025

**๐…๐Ž๐‘ ๐Œ๐˜ ๐๐‘๐Ž๐“๐‡๐„๐‘๐’ ๐ˆ๐ ๐‚๐‡๐‘๐ˆ๐’๐“**

Proverbs 18:22
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

๐™‰๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™Ž๐™ƒ๐™€ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™›๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ ๐™– ๐™ƒ๐™ช๐™จ๐™—๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™!

If she stalks you, if she constantly call you, if she is constantly in your inbox, if she shows up uninvited, if she wonโ€™t take no for an answer, if she tells you, โ€œGod told me youโ€™re my husbandโ€, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ž๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐š ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ซ ๐š ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‰๐ž๐ณ๐ž๐›๐ž๐ฅ. What you have is either a woman thatโ€™s desperate or a woman thatโ€™s demonic. What you have is a woman that has left the godly way so she can have her own ungodly way. What you donโ€™t have is a woman of God!

๐’๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ, ๐›๐ฒ ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ
๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ.

๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ?
First Let me tell you what not to do! Donโ€™t play with her, dont conversate with her, donโ€™t exchange texts or emails with her, donโ€™t giver her any reason to think you are remotely interested in her. She is what the Bible called the โ€œstrange womanโ€. Simply because this is not how a biblical or virtuous woman behave.

๐‡๐ž๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐š ๐๐š๐ซ๐ค ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž!

**Listen at scripture men**

Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

๐–๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฌ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ, ๐ฌ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ง ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž! ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง, ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ž๐ž๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง.

06/28/2025

There will be no Sunday morning worship this Sunday. The Church is moving to a new location. Thank you for your support and we will keep you posted.

06/24/2025

"The Beauty of Balance" 3John 1:2-4 (God's creation is a world of balance, of interdependence. Look at your life and see if it is balanced, for there is beauty in balance).

06/10/2025

The Price To Be A Living Sacrifice!

06/03/2025

The Time Has Come! 2 Timothy 4:1-5. (This phenomenon we call time has this one truth. It comes to pass it does not come to stay! What are you doing with your time? Hopefully, you are making good use of it.)

Congratulations Quincy! Your EFWC family is so proud of you!  Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is o...
06/01/2025

Congratulations Quincy! Your EFWC family is so proud of you!
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it...
Proverbs 22:6

05/28/2025

Maximum Security! Psalm 27 (I want to show you where God has positioned us and what we have as a result of the positioning. You got to listen to this liberating word!)

05/20/2025

"Serving Under Sovereignty" Isaiah 50 (Do you really know who you are? Do you really know who you're serving? Let me reintroduce you to you and show you the reality of his Sovereignty)

05/13/2025

***HERE IS THE SOUND DOCTRINE ๐„๐—๐๐‹๐€๐๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐ ***
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ง ๐€๐ซ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐.๐“. ๐‚๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ง๐›๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ!

As previously stated the doctrine of armor bearer ministry is unbiblical, and has no place in a New Testament church. This title and its practice is taken out of context from the Old Testament and infused into N.T. church.

๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐˜โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜.
Historically in ancient wars fought all across the globe, soldiers utilize armor for protection.
Armor bearers served either kings or high ranking military officials.
The armor weighed about 140 lbs. so the armor bearer didnโ€™t really carry it he transported it into battle via chariot. He help put the armor on the king or the military official. However he cared for it, cleaned it, sharpened it and repaired it when needed. In that day his services were essential and necessary.

** ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—•๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ**
In scripture specifically the Old Testament, the armor bears is mentioned 14 times. The first time you see an armor bearer in scripture, ironically he is being ask by the king not help him put on armor but to help him commit suicided. 5 others times the armor bearer is connected with death. Five other times you see an Old Testament of Jonathan and his armor bearer going into battle. Tragically you see Jonathan, King Saul and his armor bearers killed in battle, this divinely brought about by God as he is clearing the throne for David to become king. What todayโ€™s pastors like to point out is that David was King Saulโ€™s armor bearer and they are correct. There is no spiritual significance nor are there anything to suggest it is an office for the N.T. Church. This is same king Saul that that tried to later take Davidโ€™s life.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น, ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ถ๐˜. ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—•๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ผ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ.

**Please note, the Bible makes it clear kings had armor bearers.**
The Levitical preisthood was the spiritual component of Israel. They served, advised and tended to the temple and the things of God. ๐—ก๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ.
The concept of an armor bearer in the House of God was a foreign concept and would have never been accepted as it has no place spiritual matters.

๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ง๐จ ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ก!
We are as the holy scriptures states, all soldiers in the army of the Lord.

๐๐Ž๐– ๐๐€๐˜ ๐‚๐‹๐Ž๐’๐„ ๐€๐“๐“๐„๐๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐ ๐€๐’ ๐–๐„ ๐†๐Ž ๐€ ๐‹๐ˆ๐“๐“๐‹๐„ ๐ƒ๐„๐„๐๐„๐‘!
God was never in favor of Israel having a king! ๐—ช๐—ต๐˜†? Notice the first reason God gives for his disapproval of a king is the very thing you see pastors doing as it relates to an armor bearer the church. 1 ๐’๐š๐ฆ 8:11 ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐š๐ข๐, ๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ง๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ: ๐‡๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ,

The armor bearer has been appointed for the pastor. His loyalty and duties are for the pastor.
If you are intellectually honest, this is what pastors are doing, taking a member and appointing them to a position solely for themselves. Doing the very thing that Lord warn Israel about, and the N.T. church pastors are doing the very thing that God detests. A man appointing another man to serve him.

๐‹๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐จ๐๐š๐ฒโ€™๐ฌ ๐œ๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ก, ๐ˆ ๐๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ.

The so called armour bearer has been relegated to the position of a servant to the pastor. Think about the duties, These so called church servants are expected to carry Bibles, water, robes, towels and many other things that the pastors so desire. They are expected to run errands, pick up clothes from the cleaners, wash the car, mow the lawn, pick up the pastor on Sunday morning, drop off and deliver packages. You will find the armor bearer adds no value to the church or bring no glory to God. If you are honest, what it does is foster the uplifting and hero-worshipping of the pastors instead of The Lord. There is this unhealthy and unspiritual focus on the pastor, and not The Lord. The armor bearer is and has become an unnccesay attraction.,

๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ข๐ญ. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š ๐ฉ๐š๐ข๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ง๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐š๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ, ๐š ๐Ÿ๐š๐ซ ๐œ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ง ๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ.

**๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ**
From a hermeneutical perspective it is a gross misrepresentation of scripture. It is unbiblical and find no scriptural foundation that allows for an Old Testament concept to insert itself as a New Testament doctrine.
No church historian or astute theological student would ever consider the possibility of such a thing.

The armor bearer concept is a very new concept in the church and violates the very tenet of scripture and that is adding to it or wresting the scriptures to ones own destruction.

๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜†โ€๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ตโ€. I would vehemently disagree with your assertion and biblically state the foundation for my disagreement. This misrepresentation has a profound negative effect on the N.T. church. Of course not from the pastorโ€™s point of view so letโ€™s take an another perspective.

The question one should asked, why would a pastor want an armor bearer? Why would he need or desire someone to carry his bible, walk behind him with his robe, and cup of water.

These pastors that desire an armor bearer, desires this false sense of entitlement. Pastors in this time are seeking to be celebrated and celebritized as if they are above the congregation. The armor bearer devishly inflates the egos of pastor, to the degree he actually believe he should have someone serving him.

God call pastors to the pulpit not to a pedestal, to be a laborer not to be lifted up. He is call to the work of the ministry not to be worshipped as a minster.

**๐™‡๐™š๐™ฉ๐™จ ๐™ก๐™ค๐™ค๐™  ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐˜ฝ๐™ž๐™—๐™ก๐™š ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™จ๐™š๐™ฉ๐™ฉ๐™ก๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™ž๐™จ**
In the New Testament, armor is mentioned 5 times.
Let me be clear, pastors in the NT church have armor. However his armor is the same as every other believer who has been born again.
๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ: Eph 6:14-18
Loins covered with Truth
The breastplate of righteousness
Feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace
The shield of faith
The helmet of of salvation
The sword of the Spirit which is the word of God
Prayer

This armor has been specially and specifically designed to fight, not flesh and blood as Old Testament saints battled but a different foe. Well who are we battling with this armor?

๐„๐ฉ๐ก 6:12 ๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐š๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ ๐›๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐š๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฉ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ, ๐š๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐š๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐š๐ซ๐ค๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐, ๐š๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ข๐œ๐ค๐ž๐๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ ๐ก ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ฌ.

Nowhere in the New Testament does God authorize or encourage someone to carry our armor, not even metaphorically. What would the Lord have us to do with this specially designed armor?

๐„๐ฉ๐ก 6:11 ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐†๐จ๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ฒ ๐›๐ž ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ.

๐„๐ฉ๐ก 6:13 ๐–๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐†๐จ๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ฒ ๐›๐ž ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐.

God commands not that your armor not be carried but that you put it on.

It would be helpful if we had a N.T. example of the practice that many churches have instituted for their pastors. So questions arise. Did Paul have an armor bearer, did Peter or any of the disciples have armor bearers.

๐ˆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐š๐๐ฏ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐š๐ ๐ž๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ ๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ซ. I think his example hurts the practice of this doctrine and his teaching destroys the concept of an armor bearer.

The Pastor should strive as other believers to achieve:

Philippians 2:5 KJV
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ก๐š๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฎ๐ง๐›๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐œ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ ๐›๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ซ.
Letโ€™s look at what Christi taught about serving and being served.

๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ค 10:45
๐…๐จ๐ซ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐Œ๐š๐ง ๐๐ข๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž๐, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐‡๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐š ๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฒ.โ€

๐…๐Ž๐‘ ๐„๐•๐„๐ ๐“๐‡๐„ ๐’๐Ž๐ ๐Ž๐… ๐Œ๐€๐ ๐–๐Ž๐”๐‹๐ƒ ๐‡๐€๐•๐„ ๐‘๐„๐‰๐„๐‚๐“๐„๐ƒ ๐€๐ ๐€๐‘๐Œ๐Ž๐‘ ๐๐„๐€๐‘๐„๐‘!
I think this needs no explanation, Christ makes it clear that his ministry was about serving others not having others serve him! The modern day armor bearer is about serving the pastor and not the people.

Letโ€™s look at some more of Christ teachings!:

๐Œ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฐ 23:11 ๐Š๐‰๐•
๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐š๐ง๐ญ.

There is nothing virtuous about having someone serve you. All over the Bible you see great men of God serving but rarely if ever do you see them desiring to be served.

Mark 9:34-35 KJV
But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest. [35] And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.

๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฐ๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ž, ๐š ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ! Let me give you one more example before closing this out

Its found in ๐—๐—ผ๐—ต๐—ป 13:12-16
[12] ๐—ฆ๐—ผ ๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป, ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฑ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ, ๐—ž๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐˜†๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚? [13] ๐—ฌ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ: ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—น๐—น; ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜€๐—ผ ๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—บ. [14] ๐—œ๐—ณ ๐—œ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป, ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ, ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜; ๐˜†๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€๐—ผ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ต ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ'๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜. [15] ๐—™๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—œ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ, ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—œ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚. [16] ๐—ฉ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—น๐˜†, ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—น๐˜†, ๐—œ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚, ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ; ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—บ.

But the pastor need help in the church, they armor bearer just help the church. God foresaw that and he gave the church and pastor help. They are called deacons!

๐‘ป๐’‰๐’†๐’ ๐’Š๐’• ๐’”๐’‚๐’š๐’” ๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ฌ๐’‘๐’‰๐’†๐’”๐’Š๐’‚๐’๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’‘๐’‚๐’”๐’•๐’๐’“๐’” ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’‘๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’๐’“ ๐’†๐’’๐’–๐’Š๐’‘ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’Œ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’š, ๐’๐’๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’Š๐’„๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‘๐’‚๐’”๐’•๐’๐’“?

In addition the church has help in what the scriptures call disciples. Let me explain, in Matt 28
God said go make disciples?
Lets close it with this comparison:
God calls us to be disciples!
God does not call one to the ministry of an armor bearer because there is no such thing.

***๐‘๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ***
The premise is, can you endure sound doctrine? The ministry of the armor bearer in the N.T. Church is not biblical!

****๐’๐ข๐ง ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ, ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ง๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ข๐ง***

05/13/2025

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05/11/2025

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