Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: The purpose of the helmet, of course, was to protect the head from injury, Cavalrymen of ancient times used to use a 3 feet long two edged sword and they would swing this sword when they were in battle to try to take people’s heads off. The fact that the helmet is related to salvation indicates that Satan’s blows are directed at the believer’s mind. Satan tries to plant seeds of doubt in the minds of Gods people. He tries to discourage us by pointing out our failures, our sins, our unresolved problems, our poor health, or to whatever else seems negative in our lives in order to make us lose confidence in the love and care of our heavenly Father. So we must have the helmet of Salvation on meaning we must know that we are redeemed through the blood of Christ and we must trust in his word and the promises his word brings to us whether it be bringing peace in our lives as well as healing, and so forth, salvation does not just mean to be saved from going to hell. Salvation is much broader than that. According to Strong’s concordance it means “welfare, prosperity, deliverance, preservation, salvation, and safety”. So with Salvation comes all of the above. The sword if the spirit is the word of god. We defeat Satan by the word of God, Every time the devil came up to tempt Jesus in the wilderness he just repeated it is written it is written, he quoted scripture to the devil, blow for blow punch for punch we in the flesh cannot beat the devil he will devour us every time that’s why Paul says to crucify the flesh. Unless we walk by the spirit and use the sword of the spirit which is the word of God against the enemy we will fall into the traps of the devil. , satan cannot stand up to the word of God. That’s why it’s important to be in the word every day and get it in your spirit, if you don’t have the word in you what are you going to fight the devil with? The word is spirit so if you don’t have the word in you the devil will make a play day out of you. Get in the word soak it up as the bible says “wash yourself with the water of the word’ The bible says the devil goes through dry places, if your soaked in the word of god which is the spirit of God the devil can’t touch you because you are not walking in dry places, but walking by the spirit.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 01:10:59 +0000
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