Title: Helmet of Salvation/Ephesians 6:16
Contents Bible Ephesians 6:16
Title: Helm of Salvation
Ephesians 6:14 Stand therefore, girding your loins with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness,
Ephesians 6:15 Put on your shoes with the preparations of the gospel of peace
Ephesians 6:16 Having the shield of faith above all things, through which you are able to
destroy the fire
Ephesians 6:17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
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Among Paul's epistles, Romans emphasizes and explains faith, and in Ephesians, what is the church? What happens in the church, and what characteristics does the church have? He is telling us how to oppose those who oppose the church.
In the last chapter of Ephesians, chapter 6, the concluding section, he repeatedly tells us that our Christian life is essentially a spiritual warfare. All the members of our Ark Church are called to this battlefield as Christ's soldiers, and for this unavoidable spiritual battle, they must be armed with various combat equipment.
The full armor of God presented up to this point was to defend himself in battle. The belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel, and the shield of faith were painted. The helmet of salvation that I am going to talk about today is a piece of equipment for defense.
The only offensive weapon Sword of the Spirit, Sword of the Word This is the last defense equipment before speaking.
Block all enemy fire arrows with the shield of faith. But by putting on the helmet of salvation, it is to protect the head, which can be the most fatal part of our members.
When Satan sees us, he cannot defeat us externally./ Looking at the waist, he is wearing the belt of truth, looking at his front chest and back, he is wearing the breastplate of righteousness, and looking at his feet, he is wearing the shoes of peace prepared by the gospel. There is, looking at his left arm, he has the shield of faith, and looking at his right hand, he has a sword with the sword of the Holy Spirit. / There is no room to attack. There is no room for attack.
A believer is a believer. The characteristic of a believer is that, as much as there is persecution, his heart toward God becomes warmer.
Does that mean Satan gives up on attacking? No, there is one remaining way of attacking Satan. It is to make our head think useless thoughts and to get caught up in them.
It makes you think stupid.
Instead of listening to what God's Word teaches us, all too often we are dominated by futile thoughts.
Satan honors you in this way. Fantasy thoughts that go beyond the Word, a false sense of hopelessness that begins with emotions, a false sense of condemnation that God’s goodness toward me has run out, doubts about God’s love, making us look humble and fall into discouragement. All of these things that make us think they are lies are aimed at our heads.
We must not be dominated by all the foolish thoughts that come against our spirituality as we have been saved.
We need to know that the miscellaneous thoughts that arise in our heads are brought by Satan.
Satan cleverly penetrates into our thoughts, and creates a fog of false thoughts to cover up the words already planted in our hearts, and furthermore, to obscure God who comes with love in various ways, giving thanks for the word of diligence. It obscures our spiritual vision by preventing us from looking at the facts as facts, and in the end it shakes the assurance of salvation.
If this happens, even if he has all the armed forces, he loses the confidence and the target to engage in spiritual warfare.
When it's foggy, traffic broadcasts broadcast. If you ignore the warning and just run, you can cause an accident, inflicting great damage not only to yourself but also to others.
When the fog of evil thoughts is overshadowed by Satan, God sends a warning broadcast through the servants he has established, through the members of our faith, and through the environment and circumstances. Nevertheless, you should know that if you keep going despite the spiritual fog, you will awaken spiritual thoughts.
Satan hazes our thoughts in order to destroy us by making us lose our discernment.
I went to Seoraksan on my honeymoon. (Married in 1988) I went to the Unification Observatory by delaying the day.
When I looked at North Korea from the observatory, I could see North Korea, which I had only heard of in words, fluttering in front of me as if I could catch it in my hand. I could see Mt. Geumgang and the beautiful view of the East Sea and Haegeum River. It was very beautiful to see Mt. Geumgang through a telescope for 500 won. However, just below the observatory, there was a fence of the armistice line, there was a house built by North Korea for uninhabited people, and there was a slogan posted by North Korea and a large speaker that looked like five floors of an apartment building.
At first glance, it looked like a peaceful place with beautiful mountains and the East Sea, but it is a place where there is always a war of words centered on the iron fence. Both sides are touting large speakers. It is said that North Korea is using all sorts of tactics to break the saga of our military through this broadcast. He said that when he took a new shift, he knew how to play ghastly gossip songs, slandered the government, and sometimes gave speeches praising communism and Kim Il-sung (now Kim Jong-il) and using all sorts of conciliatory measures.
As we know, there are many North Korean defectors, don't they? However, the strange thing is that there are sometimes people who escape to North Korea after listening to this broadcast.
How much anti-communist education did you receive while attending school? At first I thought it was bullshit, and I do it every day. Then one day, the story sounded plausible, and there were people who believed it and foolishly crossed the fence and went on a road of no return. The reason I act this way is because I have changed my mind. What's the use of being fully armed if you change your mind?
It was because he failed to protect his head from the thoughts of theirs that penetrated them.
The secret to defeating an armed enemy without firing a single shot is to dominate their thoughts and disarm themselves.
Satan attacks our heads in order to dismantle the full armor of God we are armed with and make it useless.
Hearing false doctrines from heretics.
Unification Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, some kind of salvation prayer center...
Some saints do not give the money they are supposed to give to God, so the problem is not solved. Dedication, work... All these things he knows better than anyone.>
You only have to go once. Do you have to go by Wednesday or Friday? When you are busy , you only have to go once , will you go again ?
Young people whisper through their boyfriends or girlfriends. Whispers through the joys of the world. Let's go hiking this Sunday, where shall we go?
No, I have to go to church./ Do you really love me?/ I'm going with my female friends, is it okay if I go with another girl?
If you go to worship only once, how many times do you go? I don't have time, when will you meet me?
It brings the fog through loved ones, family and environment.
Sometimes it will remind you of past mistakes and say, “Your sins are so great that God cannot forgive them.
Do you know whose method is to change our thinking and make us sin?
This is Satan's method that came to Hwawa.
God clearly said, “Do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day you eat of it you will surely die.”
What did Satan come to Hwawa in the form of Bem and whisper sweet words?
Satan haze of doubt as the first step in the Word of God.
Genesis 3: 1 “...Did God really say to you that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?
If you look at the words in verse 3, you can see that the way you think about God's word has changed because of this influence.
Genesis 3:3 From the tree in the middle of the garden you shall not eat, according to the word of God.
Don't touch it, don't touch it, lest you die.
So, as the next step, Satan denied the word of God as the second step.
Genesis 3:4 The serpent said to the woman, You will never die.
The third step is to move and place your own words where they should be.
Genesis 3:5 In the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God.
God knows how to know good and evil.
The result was sin.
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw the tree, that it was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eye, and that it was wise,
It was a tree that was so desirable that the woman ate the fruit.
She gave it to her husband with her, and he also ate.
Satan loves us so much. Do you know why you like it? He likes to make God's children his minions. So, we try to change our thinking toward God by mobilizing all means and methods.
What do you do when something like this happens ?
What will you do when a fog comes to our minds?
How do you put on the helmet of salvation at this time?
What protects our heads, our thoughts from this mist of Satan's temptations?
2 Corinthians 11:3 As the serpent deceived him by his cunning, so your hearts
I fear that I may become corrupt from the truth and cleanliness toward Christ.
Faithfulness refers to one-sidedness.
What can we do to keep our thoughts toward God from fogging up and keep our thoughts single-minded and pure?
You must wear the helmet of the Word. It must be in the Word. This is the only way.
When Satan brought a fog of temptation to Jesus who fasted for 40 days, Jesus was victorious because he was wearing the helmet of the written Word of God.
Next, you must always be alert and sober.
If you are careless and put down the helmet of salvation, Satan will attack you.
We should always check our faith and love for God.
Next, you must always have hope.
Hope for God, hope for heaven, hope for love, hope that you will meet a good match that God has prepared and fulfill God's righteousness...
We must be able to protect our heads and our thoughts.
What are the causes of failure in spiritual warfare?
Is it because of persecution from outside? Is it because of the ordeal? We are obsessed with the wrong idea.
1 Thessalonians 5:8 Since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love,
Let's put on the helmet of hope of salvation