There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

have been tested and “proved,” then we pass the tests and become “approved” of God (2 Cor. 10:18; 2 Tim. 2:15). The word approved is from the word dokimos and means “to be accepted after the testing.” Surviving and overcoming a severe test from Satan places you in the category of an “overcoming” believer. The Greek word for “overcomes” (1 John 5:4) is the word nikao and means to conquer or to be victorious. The word was used among the Greeks to indicate an athlete who strived and eventually mastered the particular game in which he or she had competed. They were the champion of that game. 2 The second New Testament Greek word for “to test” is peirazo , which originally meant “to pierce something with the intention to search it.” It later came to mean “to put something to the test with the purpose of discovering if there is good or evil, or to discover if the thing had a particular weakness. ” There are certain items manufactured that must be tested before going to market to ensure they have no faults or weaknesses and will not break after the consumer purchases it. This Greek word indicates the type of test that produces such pressure that some men would fold or break under the weight. In the New Testament this word is used in connection with the tests and temptations that Satan brings, attempting to exploit the weakness in the person, breaking down his or her willpower during a time of physical or moral weakness. An example is when, concluding His forty-day fast, Christ hungered, and then the devil came to Him to test Him with food (Luke 4:2–3). Christ passed the test and ran Satan off the mountain by putting on His helmet of salvation, His breastplate of righteousness, and