Meat for the Hungry

Ephesians 6:17 “And take the helmet of salvation…” Now that we understand the what – salvation   – we need to understand the why. As we learned last time, our salvation is only because of Jesus, for salvation belongs to the Lord (Ps. 3:8). Therefore, this helmet is His gift to us. It protects our mind, the area of our anatomy where we think, learn, and reason.  Our mind enables us to discern between truth and lies, fact and fiction. Fact:  If we have believed and received Jesus as Savior and Lord, we possess the gift of salvation. However, because of our sin nature or flesh and the enemy, called the devil and Satan, our mind needs protection. God created us with an intellect, but daily impure thoughts or bogus ideas invade. These can be thoughts about our origin, purpose or eternal destiny. They may sound good, but some are completely contrary to God’s truth.

Ephesians 6:17 “And take the helmet of salvation…” Our last piece of protective armor is a helmet called salvation. Before we answer why we need this helmet, we first must understand salvation. The Bible, God’s holy word, tells us sometime after the seven days of creation, the serpent deceived Eve, so she disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit. Eve then gave the fruit to Adam and he chose to disobey. With this sin or act of disobedience, a sin nature came to everyone born from Adam. Now all have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory and as God told Adam before He created Eve, the penalty would be death. This was not just physical death, but spiritual death or complete and eternal separation from God. However, because God so loved the world, prior to creation He had a plan in place to rescue mankind. Since the penalty of death or law was set in stone, any rescue would involve death. God’s plan:  A onetime substitute would die in our place. However, the blood spilt i...