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 As promised, here is part 6 on the Armor of God.

Next is the helmet of salvation.

Ephesians 6:17a “17 Put on salvation as your helmet…”

Question: Who is your salvation?
Jesus Christ alone is your salvation.

You never read the Apostles telling young believers that they need their heart or spirit renewed after they have put their trust in what God has done, receiving His salvation. We are given a new heart and a new spirit, made holy by God’s mercy and forgiveness. Our old sin nature is cut away and we are given a new nature, a new spiritual DNA that is none other than that of Jesus Christ, Himself.

What we DO read in many places and in many ways is that we need our minds to be renewed.

Romans 12:1-2 reads, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.”

People say, “Well I have it in my head, I just need to get it down into my heart.” Nothing could be farther from the truth. We have the Gospel and all it means established in our new heart and new spirit by the Holy Spirit. What needs to be renewed and transformed is the way we think.

How we think about the world, about relationships, about ourselves, about others, about everything, needs to be transformed. We need to think and reason as God does. He wants us to know His will, to understand with His understanding, because then, we begin to see that His ways actually are good, prefect and the most satisfying of all choices.

The helmet of salvation is Jesus, Himself; Jesus’ finished work, transforming and securing our thinking to be grounded in His faithfulness and His love/commitment to us that nothing can separate us from.



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