Stand - Helmet Of Salvation Series

This doesn’t mean that we can live however we want to because we are saved. Because we are saved, we live our lives to the glory of God!

Satan’s lies

We must protect the heart and the head so Paul charges us to take up the helmet of salvation.

The mind is a battlefield that satan wants to make his playground. This is why we must renew our minds:

“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. (Rom 12:2)

You’ve messed up too badly. You can’t be saved.

You’re a good person. You don’t need to be saved.

Several years ago, a famous politician made a stunning statement as he reflected on his legacy at age 72.

He spoke about the initiatives he had spearheaded and listed several of his real and self-perceived successes.

The surprising part of his speech was the takeaway, in which he said,

“I’m telling you if there is a God, when I get to heaven I’m not stopping to be interviewed. I’m heading straight in. I’ve earned my place in heaven. It’s not even close.”

He also attacks us with fear.

Fear of the past.

You don’t have to be haunted by your past.

Have you ever done something that you truly regretted? Something that you would do anything to get a “do-over?”

I have a friend who knows that feeling. When he was eighteen years old, he was drinking with some friends and got in a car. He never heard or saw the train. The train struck the back end of the car and the two girls in the back seat were killed instantly.

He lived. He felt guilty that he had lived. He was angry with God for letting it happen. Most of all, he could not see his way out of the depression that gripped his soul.

He tried to cover it with alcohol but that made it worse. He decided he deserved to die and was planning on killing himself when someone shared the forgiveness found in a relationship with Jesus Christ.

His whole life changed. The trajectory of his life changed. Thirty years later, Dale Petre is a Christian counselor and one of the most Godly, grace-filled men I know.

Fear of the present.

Some of us listen to the lies of satan about our present -

“…you will never be good enough. God knows the real you. He knows those thoughts. He knows how many times you mess up. How crazy of you to think that God loves such a loser like you!”

When he hits you over the head with this frying pan accusation, our around a lob a Scripture grenade his way!

“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.” (Rom 8:1-2)

Imagine that you find out that you have a long-lost aunt named Bunny who died and left you ten billion dollars. Also, imagine a parking ticket that will cost you $50.

If you understood you would get the 10 billion dollars soon, would the parking ticket bother you as much? No.

That’s why Paul could say