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Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "DTRT" Ephesians 6:13-14

• We need to go before God with honesty, sincerity, and integrity first.
• This life is only temporary.
• We have to put on the belt of truth before we put on the rest of the armor. 
• Everything else is dependent on your integrity and honesty before the Almighty God.
• The breastplate of Righteousness guards the vital organs.
• Righteousness means purity of heart and rectitude of life; conformity of heart and life to the divine law. Righteousness, as used in scripture, is nearly equivalent to holiness. 
• Rectitude: in morality, rightness of principle or practice; uprightness of mind. 
• Sin takes place with the omission of good things. 
• Other people can't do the job the way God wants you to do it. 
• When you slip away from the right thing, it's very easy to do the wrong thing.
• Sin is eminent when we fail to do what's right. 
• The problem is not what you're doing, but what you're not doing.
• Christ has given us His righteousness, now we have to walk in that righteousness.

D--Do
T--The
R--Right
T--Thing

• You can't go wrong when you do the right thing.
• The breastplate guards your heart. It guards your heart from deceit in ones own heart.
• David's sin began by him justifying not doing the right thing.
• The heart is deceitful. Our hearts are desperately wicked, and we can't know it. We shouldn't do what our hearts or emotions tell us, but we should do what is right.
• It's no the breastplate of not doing unrighteousness, it's the breastplate of righteousness--we have to take up the positive things. We need this to combat the forces of evil.