The Battle for Your Mind

4 October 2026 · Dr. Franklin Watts · The Whole Armor of God

Ephesians 6:10–13

Paul's call to arms turns to the enemy's chief battleground: the mind. Dr. Franklin Watts shows that Satan's great characteristic is subtlety — "more subtle than all the beasts of the field" — and that he concentrates his attack on man's greatest endowment, the capacity to think and reason. He blinds minds to the gospel (2 Corinthians 4:4), darkens the understanding (Ephesians 4:18), and sets the carnal mind against God (Romans 8:7). What, then, is the armor? Not titanium, nothing physical, and nothing you can hand to another person: "the armor consists mainly of knowledge" — the knowledge of