Spiritual Identity Theft
Not wearing that helmet leads born-again believers to look, act and feel lost.
Every moment of every day, the world, our flesh, and the Devil are teamed up to try to steal our true identity by obscuring and clouding the hope of our salvation.
Paul told the saints at Thessalonica (1 Th. 5:8), the Helmet of Salvation is to protect our hope of salvation.
What exactly is the hope of salvation? It is the assurance of God’s promises to never condemn us. We can bolding come to His Throne of grace and mercy (Heb. 4:16), knowing that we have been completely cleansed and forgiven (Heb. 10:22).
Perhaps the best Scriptural declaration of what we have when we are saved is captured in Romans 8. As we open back to Romans 8 we just want to read just four verses from the start, middle, and end of this chapter.
Romans 8:1,28,38-39 (NKJV) There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Paul summarizes all the doctrines of salvation by explaining for all those in Christ there is:
NO condemnation v. 1 (because we are forgiven, justified, and reconciled); and
NO frustration v. 28 (because God steers everything to sanctify us into usefulness); and
NO separation from His great love v. 38-39. Wow, that’s the best news of all.
Pray
Never Condemned, Never Frustrated, Never Separated
Each facet of salvation defined by those seven great doctrines of salvation are the key to walking through life confidently.
The summary of the Helmet could be stated as a series of declarations of why we can’t really ever feel guilty, condemned, hopeless, useless, lonely, fearful, or frustrated again.
But this is only ours if we wear our Helmet of Salvation.
Wearing the Helmet of Salvation means
1. Because I am Forgiven, I never again have any reason to feel Guilty.
2. Because I am Justified, I will never again have any reason to feel Condemned.
3. Because I am Regenerated, I will never again have any reason to feel Hopeless.
4. Because I am Redeemed, I will never again have any reason to feel Useless.
5. Because I am Adopted, I will never again have any reason to feel Lonely.
6. Because I am Reconciled, I will never again have any reason to feel Fearful.
7. Because I am Sanctified, I will never again have any reason to feel Frustrated.
(SWS-28)
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