Salvation:redemption, preservation, deliverance from harm, ruin.
Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
The helmet of salvation not only protects your head from external blows, it protects what is in the head! There are internal blows the enemy launches at us. He wants to deceive the mind!
John 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
The proper way of being equipped with the amor of God is by knowing the truth of what is available to us through Jesus Christ. We must get a clear understanding of what a particular truth provides to us. We must passionately embrace what a particular truth has provided to us! We must know the truth by spending time in prayer and in the word of God with logo truth (written) that will transition to rhema truth (life) after we have spent time with it. We must spend enough time with truth to be illuminated by it.
Romans 10:8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): 9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Biblical truth must get rooted in the heart, not just in the mind. The carnal mind, the carnal thoughts, the carnal imagination will try to dictate what we believe. The mind will try to manipulate truth and rob it of its power to set us free from the bondage of the enemy.
Romans 12:1-2 I beseech[a] you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your [b]reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
The mind must consistently be renewed by the word of God, sometimes moment by moment. God’s word is truth, it has power and life to renew!
Meditate on the word of God. Spend time with it and in it! We are transformed by the renewing of our mind. God’s word renews the mind!
We must take to us the helmet of salvation to protect our thoughts from the fiery darts and flaming arrows of the enemy! As a man thinketh, in his heart so is he. If our mind is not renewed by the word and Spirit of God there will be no transformation.
2 Corinthians 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not [a]carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
We have powerful resources in our head, mouth, nose, ears, eyes, thoughts, imaginations and such. The enemy will try his best to get us to see with our eyes only and not with our imagination. Certainly, I can see with my eyes but the greater seeing is with the imagination. The Holy Spirit will infuse our imagination with the Divine if we allow Him to do so.
There are things we should see with our imagination before our eyes ever behold them! That is called vision! The use, or misuse of our imagination is determined by whom we are submitted to. If we will submit ourselves to God in the word and in prayer and resist the devil, he will flee from us.
We must cast down the enemy’s vain imaginations and bring into captivity every thought unto the obedience of Christ. Our mind can be an asset or a liability. Each individual determines that outcome. To whom are we submitting? To whomever we submit is our lord.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
The mind of Christ being in us is determined by our letting!
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
Philippians 4:8 kind of thinking is what establishes an internal, eternal helmet of salvation. The mind cannot be deceived when we think on those things! Salvation!
