神的经纶里有一支军队，是由团体的战士所构成的。这意思是说，以弗所六章的战士乃是一个团体的整体。我们惟有成为一个团体的整体─基督的身体，才能穿上神的全副军装。这与许多基督徒所持守的观念不同，他们认为个别的信徒能穿着全副的军装。以弗所六章的军装不是为着个别的基督徒，乃是为着教会这团体的身体。六章所启示的不是信徒个别的争战，乃是团体的军队为着神在地上的权益争战。
属灵的争战不是个人的事，乃是基督身体这个团体的整体，争战对付神仇敌的事。在现代的军队中，没有一个士兵会单独作战。他乃是作一支训练精良、装备齐全之军队的一分子来争战。我们团体的形成一支军队之后，就能与神的仇敌争战。神的战略乃是用教会作祂的军队，来与仇敌争战。所以，脱离军队孤立是非常危险的。惟有留在军队里，我们才得着必需的保护。
多年前，主的子民认为属灵的争战是个人的事。但是这些年来，我们看见这完全是教会作神团体军队的事。你若与教会分离，就会打败仗。撒但的策略，不过是把你从作神军队的教会里孤立出来。我们要领悟，属灵的争战乃是基督身体的事，这是极其重要的。我们若看见这点，并且留在教会里，就会得胜。这场争战不是为着我们个别的信徒，乃是为著作神军队的教会。
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Spiritual Warfare – A Matter o Body – Eph. 6:10
In God’s economy there is one army constituted of a corporate warrior. This means that the warrior in Ephesians 6 is a corporate entity. Only as a corporate entity, the Body, can we put on the whole armor of God. This is contrary to the concept held by many Christians that an individual believer is able to wear the entire armor. The armor in Ephesians 6 is not for Christians as individuals; it is for the church corporately as the Body. What chapter 6 reveals is not the believers fighting as individuals, but a corporate army fighting the battle for God’s interests on earth.
Spiritual warfare is not an individual matter; it is a matter of the Body, a corporate entity to fight the battle against God’s enemy. No soldier in a modern army would enter into battle by himself. Rather, he would fight as part of a well-trained and fully equipped army. After we have been formed corporately into an army, we shall be able to fight against God’s enemy. God’s strategy is to use the church as His army to fight against the enemy. Therefore, it is very dangerous to be isolated from the army. Only by remaining in the army will we have the necessary protection.
Years ago, the Lord’s people regarded spiritual warfare as an individual matter. But through the years we have seen that it is altogether a matter of the church as God’s corporate army. If you separate yourself from the church, you will be defeated. Satan’s strategy is simply to isolate you from the church as God’s army. It is crucial for us to realize that spiritual warfare is a Body matter. If we realize this and stay with the church, we shall be victorious. The battle is not for us as individual believers; it is for the church as God’s army.