Weapons of Righteousness
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Church attendance has always been a part of my life. It had focused my attention on spiritual things. By the time I was eight, the creation itself convinced me of the existence of God. I had begun to reason; "There must be more to life than what I see." Then, at the age of thirteen, I made a personal commitment to serve God. During church services, we would often sing, "This is My Father’s World," but later on I found out that Satan was the "Prince of this World." No wonder there was spiritual warfare. Around me, while I was growing up, I saw a lot of evil. Neighbors stole from us and there were deceitful people everywhere. Classmates would share horror stories with me from their own experience, yet I was never able to put a face on this behavior. Controlling people entered my life. If I didn’t submit to them, I would be subjected to guilt trips and character assassination. I saw a powerful spirit in these people and was finally led to conclude--there is a Satan. Once I became aware of the reality and power of Satan, I realized that I needed help in dealing with situations in which I felt confronted and attacked by him. I wondered, "How would Jesus or the apostles deal with my predicament?" This led me directly to a study of the New Testament. I wanted to see that their response was to the adverse situations that confronted them. There were times when responses to situations seemed to be contradictory. For example, in Matthew 23, Jesus strongly rebukes the scribes and Pharisees. Paul, on the other hand, tells us to use gentleness when we approach a Christian who has offended us or wronged the church. Further study brought out the facts that timing and relationship had a strong bearing on the proper type of response that was warranted. Personally, I have always reacted emotionally to adverse situations, particularly those that appeared to be evil in nature. I have to continually ask God to help me control this reaction in order for me to be able to respond properly to a given situation. An in depth examination of the graphics (Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 13, the Whole Armor of God, etc.) which have been purposely inserted at the beginning of this study are important foundation blocks in preparing for this study. The Apostle Paul, himself, refers to them as "Weapons of righteousness." (2 Cor. 6:1-10) It is my fervent prayer that, as you participate in this study, that you will share the same joy and confidence that I have experienced in preparing this material. "When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even
his enemies to be at peace with him." – Proverbs 16:7
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About the Book
This author invites you to a fresh, new approach to studying your New Testament. She provides you with a reference library for all the adverse situations in the New Testament and examines the "Weapons of Righteousness" that were used to overcome all these situations and the final victory in the Book of Revelation. She challenges you, in the accompanying workbooks with scriptures only and the weapons charts to build your own library. She found this study exciting and rewarding.
About the Author
Elizabeth Heimermann was born on June 16, 1931 in
Yalesville in the town of Norfolk, New York.
Her family moved to a farm off the Madrid-Norfolk Road. It was here that she received her elementary
education in a one-room schoolhouse. By
the time she was ready for the eighth grade, the one-room schoolhouse had been
closed as a result of the building of a centralized school in the village of
Madrid, New York.
It was in this centralized school that two teachers
had a major influence on her in the areas of Mathematics and English as well as
encouraging her in the development of her gift of teaching. In 1948 she graduated from Madrid Central
High School. At the graduation ceremony
she was presented with the Danforth Foundation’s Women’s Leadership Award.
After graduation, she attended the New York
Agricultural and Technical Institute in Canton, New York. After a two-year program in which she
majored in food administration and hospital dietetics, she graduated in June of
1950. She was married on the 24th
of the same month to Bill Heimermann, and has been married for Fifty years and
have five children and numerous grandchildren.
During her child-rearing years, she studied voice
under Professor Haywood of Syracuse University Fine Arts College. She worked for four years as medical
secretary for her husband in his clinical laboratory. Over the years, she has taught Bible classes for all ages as well
as conducting ladies workshops and served as columnist and editor for the woman’s
section of the periodical, “New York Highlights”.
Elizabeth enjoys a variety of activities, including
bird-watching, gardening, bicycling, cooking, teaching, organizing, writing and
singing. Her greatest source of
enjoyment, though, is in being a grandmother.