What is the helmet of salvation

3. Ephesians 6:17 17 Take the helmet of salvation… What does it mean?Why do we need it?

4. Guard your thoughts. What you’re feeling affects your doing. What you’re thinking affects your feeling. The battle is fought in our minds.

5. Take the helmetof salvation!

6. Romans 12:2 2 Do not conform any longer 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.

7. What does it mean?Why do we need it?

8. Purpose No. 1 To provide an identity

9. Ephesians 2:11-13 11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)…

10. Ephesians 2:11-13 …12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

11. Ephesians 2:11-13 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

12. Ephesians 2:19-20 19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.

13. Ephesians 2:18 18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit…

14. Luke 10:20 20 “However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” JESUS

15. Guard your thoughts. What you’re feeling affects your doing. What you’re thinking affects your feeling. The battle is fought in our minds.

16. Take the helmetof salvation!

18. Purpose No. 2 To provide encouragement

19. Hebrews 12:1 1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

20. Hebrews 12:2-3 2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

21. Hebrews 12:2-3 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

22. Guard your thoughts. What you’re feeling affects your doing. What you’re thinking affects your feeling. The battle is fought in our minds.

23. Take the helmetof salvation!

25. Purpose No. 3 To provide protection

26. Romans 12:2 2 Do not conform any longer 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.

27. Ephesians 2:3 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

28. Ephesians 4:22-24 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds…

29. Ephesians 4:22-24 …24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

30. Ephesians 5:15-16 15 Be very careful, then, how you live – not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

31. Guard your thoughts. What you’re feeling affects your doing. What you’re thinking affects your feeling. The battle is fought in our minds.

32. Take the helmetof salvation!

33. Application Don’t make decisions when you’re emotional. Examine the thoughts that are affecting your emotions. Guard your mind against negative thoughts. Fill your mind with the word of God. Memorize Scripture.

34. Discussion Do you agree that our thoughts affect our feelings, and our feelings affect our actions? Give some examples in your own life. How can we guard our own thoughts? Give some practical ways or examples. What would you do differently starting today as a result of what you have learned?