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You Have Been Drafted

20 September 2026 · Dr. Franklin Watts · Spiritual Warefare Preparedness

Ephesians 6:10–18

If you are a Christian, you have been drafted — a soldier in God's army whether you feel like it or not — and the ground rules are His, not ours. Opening Paul's call to arms in Ephesians 6, and drawing on his own National Guard days, Dr. Franklin Watts presses three things home. The enemy is real: the devil's first strategy is persuading a sophisticated age that he does not exist. The battle is not only the fallen nature within us but a real enemy outside us — "principalities and powers." And the fighting is ours to do: "Who puts on the armor? You. Who stands? You." Against the popular "let go