Let us turn now to God's Word
directing your attention once again to that portion we've been
considering in Ephesians chapter 6 and I'll read from verse 13
Ephesians chapter 6 verse 13 following Wherefore take unto
you the whole armor of God that ye may be able to withstand in
the evil day, and having done all to stand. Stand therefore,
having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the
breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shod with the preparation
of the gospel of peace, above all taking the shield of faith,
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of
the wicked, and take the helmet of salvation. All these parts
of the believer's armor, the spiritual armor that we've just
read of, are of course for defense. And so we come at the beginning
of verse 17 to that final part of defensive armor,
the helmet of salvation. And then what follows at the
end of the verse, of course, is that one particular part that
is for offense. At the end of verse 17, we read
of the sword of the spirits, which is the word of God. The Lord willing, we'll come
to consider that of course in due course, but tonight we turn
to consider what is spoken of here at the beginning of this
17th verse, which is that final part of the defensive armour. and take the helmet of salvation. And so, let us, with the Lord's
help, consider the significance of this particular part, as we've
sought previously to consider something of those other parts
of the spiritual armour. The helmet, of course, is that
that affords protection to the head and immediately does it
not remind us that Satan will come time and again and seek
to attack us through our mind. In many ways that distinguishes
man from brute creation because when God made man creating his
body out of the dust of the earth, breathing into his nostril the
breath of life, man becoming a living soul. He was created
then as a rational being with the ability to think and how
the devil will seek to attack that part of man as God's creature
that distinguishes him from all the rest of creation. The devil comes and attacks man
through his mind and he does it of course by the way of temptations. How he will seek to implant in
man's mind thoughts that discount gods. We will come and seek to
implant those proud thoughts. And we see it of course right
at the beginning when the serpent as the devil's instrument assaults
the woman there in the garden of Eden and comes with those
words, ye shall be as gods. Oh yes, it's an assault of course
on faith, on belief, is the great sin that we see there in the
Garden of Eden. The temptation to discount the
Word of God, to disbelieve what God has said, to contradict the
Word of God, to believe the lie of the devil. But now that unbelief,
which is the root of all our sins, the sin which doth so easily
beset us, that unbelief is bound up with pride, ye shall be as
gods. What a temptation therefore to
partake of that fruit that God himself had forbidden, the fruit
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and we're told
how the woman partakes of the forbidden fruit and she gives
to her husband Adam and with open eyes he also partakes of
that that God had forbidden, thinking that they might be as
God. And we see it even today, of
course. Men deny God. Men have their proud thoughts.
They can explain all sorts of things. They know about origins.
They know about the age of the earth. The very idea of a Creator
is something that they so readily dismiss. All the proud thoughts
of men. But it's not those who are deniers
of God, who are beset with proud thoughts. Let us not imagine
for a moment that we're going to be free from such things.
We are those who are partakers of Adam and Eve's sin. We have
sinful natures, we have proud natures. And what an accursing
pride is! The Hymn writer says, Tis pride
accursed, pride that spirit by God abhors, do what we will,
it haunts us still and keeps us from the Lord. Now it comes
into our mind so often and it keeps us from God. We think that
we can manage it ourselves or we can some way or other conduct
our affairs without any recourse to God. How often we are so slow
to pray and to commit matters to the Lord and to seek to know
the Lord's will because in our pride we only want to do our
own will. It is an accursed thing this
pride. How the devil comes in and attacks
our mind. And those words of the hymn are
very searching, are they not? When Joseph Hart goes on to say
concerning pride, against its influence, pride, or against its influence,
preach, it prompts the speech, be silent, still it's there. Whatever we do, even in preaching,
we can find ourselves being beset by proud thoughts that we've
done something wonderful. or the accursed thing that pride
is. And it is, I say, that that comes
from the devil. He attacks the mind of men. And
not only with pride, of course, there's also those awful atheistic
thoughts that he will seek to implant in the minds of men,
so that men are brought even to deny that God is. And some
of the most gracious men have been beset with atheism. Interesting in reading something
of the account of the life of that most gracious man, Rabbi
Duncan, John Duncan, a Scots minister in the 19th century,
and how he speaks of how in his young days he was beset with
black atheism. He denied the very being of God,
and he speaks of how he was delivered from atheism. It wasn't that
he came to Satan in faith initially, but when he was brought to be
a theist, to believe that God is, he said, how he danced with
glee on the brink of death. because he had been delivered
from atheism. It was subsequently that he came
to real faith, saving faith. He came to trust in the Lord
Jesus Christ. There are those, you see, of
the godly. That was previous to his conversion,
but even some godly men have had awful black atheistic thoughts
after their conversion. The devil is such a subtle foe,
and he comes and he implants these things. or seeks to implant
them in the minds of God's children. There are those filthy thoughts
that he comes with. There are those bitter thoughts
that he sometimes seeks to bring into the minds of the people
of God. Bitter thoughts towards others. But all these sinful
thoughts, and we have to recognize that it is the devil himself
who is the agent of all of these things. Let no man say when he
is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with
evil, and God tempteth no man. It is the devil, I say again,
who is the agent of these things. He attacks the head, he comes
to the mind of men with these various thoughts and suggestions. and also contrary to God and
to the word of God and to the ways of God. But let us recognize
this also, that temptation itself is not sin. To be tempted is
not to sin. The Lord Jesus Christ himself,
the sinless one, that man who is holy and harmless and undefiled
and separate from sinners, even the Lord Jesus Christ himself
was tempted. And we're told that, are we not,
for our comfort. Paul, writing to the Hebrews,
several times makes the point concerning Christ, he says he
himself hath suffered being tempted. how he suffered under the assault
of satan and not just at the beginning of his public ministry
after his baptism but throughout his ministry when
he comes to the end of that ministry he says to his disciples ye are
they who have continued with me in my ministry oh yes the
devil comes and assaults him at the outset and then we're
told how the devil left him for a season only left Him for a
little season. He'll come again, and again,
and again. Again Paul says to the Hebrews
concerning Christ, in all points, tempted, like as we are, yet
without sin. He is tempted. The Prince of
this world cometh, says Christ, and hath nothing in me. There
is no sin there, and yet the Lord Jesus Christ himself is
that one who is tempted. How strange it is, there at the
beginning of his ministry, remember how he comes into the public
arena as it were, when he comes to the river Jordan and submits
to the baptism of John, and he's baptized there in the river,
And as he comes up out of the waters of baptism, the heavens
open, and the Spirit descends upon him in the form of a dove.
Oh, the Father, give us not the Spirit by measure unto him. It
was a glorious effusion of the Spirit that came upon him, anointing
him, as it were, for that ministry that he is about to exercise.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon him. And because he has anointed
me to preach the gospel to the poor, the words that Christ reads
there in the synagogue in Nazareth a little while later but not
only does the Spirit come upon him the Father speaks that word
from heaven this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased
there at his baptism we see all the persons of the Godhead Father,
Son and Holy Spirit at work And yet, the strange thing is, immediately
after, immediately after, is baptism. He's tempted. Is there not a lesson in it for
every believer? After those seasons when God
maybe has come and blessed us in a peculiar and a special fashion,
we are so vulnerable then to the assaults of Satan. The Father
had spoken from heaven. this is my beloved son and the
Spirit leads the Lord Jesus Christ into the wilderness to be tempted
and what is the temptation? well read there in the beginning
of Matthew chapter 4 if thou be the Son of God again the hymn
writer brings it out if thou art the Son of God oh what an
if was there The Father just acknowledged it. He is God. And yet here is Satan coming
and contradicting God just as he does in the Garden of Eden.
That God said is the word that he puts to Eve, is it not? And so to the Lord Jesus Christ
himself. If thou be the Son of God. that
impious if he thus at God incarnate through no wonder if he cast
at us and make us feel it too. He will come to us you see with
ifs and buts. He will seek to undermine our
confidence in the word of God. He will fill our minds with these
doubts and these fears. This is the way of the devil. And yet, you know, we have to
remember this, that though he is such a fearful foe, and though
he comes and he will constantly seek to attack our minds, we
have to remember that he is not a free agent. The devil is not
a free agent. God is sovereign. God is sovereign
over all things. And nothing is outside of the
sovereignty of God. And do we not see that in the
book of Job? We see the devil there in Job
and Job's experience. But what do we read concerning
Satan in chapter 1? We have the setting for those
awful troubles that are going to come upon poor Job. Verse
6, Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves
before the Lord, and Satan came also among them. And the Lord
said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the
Lord, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from
walking up and down in it. And the Lord said unto Satan,
Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like
him in the earth? a perfect and an upright man,
one that feareth God and doeth evil. Then Satan answered the
Lord and said, Thou, Job, fear God for naught. Has not thou
made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all
that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of
his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But
put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he
will curse thee to thy face. And the Lord said unto Satan,
Behold, all that he hath is in thy power, only upon himself
put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the
presence of the Lord. Satan is not free to do as he
please, he must obtain leave from the Lord. And he is there
permitted to touch Job in his substance, but he cannot touch
him in his own person. Subsequently, in the beginning
of chapter 2, he comes again as the devil. He has to come,
you see. As I said, he's no free agent. The second time, when
he comes here at the beginning of the second chapter, we see
that he is there permitted to touch Job now in his own person,
as well as in his substance and in his family, but he cannot
take his life. He cannot destroy him. or the
devil is no free agent. Here is the mystery, God is sovereign.
But God is not the author of sin. Yet no man say when he is
tempted, I am tempted of God. God cannot be tempted with evil. God does not tempt any man. And yet we read, there has no
temptation taken you but such as is common with man. And God
will not permit you to be tempted above that you are able, but
with the temptation shall make a way of escape, that ye may
be able to bear it. God is sovereign. Oh, that's
our comfort, is it not? What a tremendous truth it is
that God is the one who reigns supreme. Our God is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever He pleased. temptation. It's real. The devil comes and he attacks
that noble part of man, attacks man in his mind, comes with his
insidious suggestions. But temptation, as I said, itself
is not sin. It becomes sin. becomes sin when
the mind dwells, dwells upon the matter, relishes the thought
of the sin. It takes the sin like some nice
morsel and rolls it around the mouth and enjoys the taste and
the pleasure of it. Then it's sin, you see. Every
man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed. And when life's doth conceive,
James says, it bringeth forth sin, and sin, when it is finished,
bringeth forth death. Oh, the head you see. Oh, the
devil will come and attack us here in our minds with his wicked
temptations. What are we to do? Resist the
devil. That's what the Scripture says. Resist the devil, and he
will flee from you. How are we to resist it? Well,
Paul gives some very practical instruction and direction. We
read just now, at the end of the first epistle to the Thessalonians,
that last chapter, and you will observe, or will have observed,
that at the very end we have all those exhortations, continuing prayer, and so on. Short verses, words of exhortation. And as you know Paul does that
time and again. It's a pattern really of his
writing in these various epistles. When we come to the concluding
part of the epistles we see how he gives very practical instruction. And so not surprisingly we have
this at the end of the letters of the Philippians, in Philippians
chapter 4. Verse 8 we read, Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any
virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Fill your
mind with good things. That's what he's saying. We have
to be careful what we take in. what we watch with our eyes,
what we read, what we read maybe in the newspapers, what books
we're reading, what are we filling our minds with. Paul tells us,
you see there, that we're to fill our minds with good things,
things that are true and profitable, not to fill our minds with nonsense.
Because the devil is a subtle foe, and if our minds are filled
with the things of this world, he'll soon come and take advantage. He's the prince of the power
of the air. Our heads then need to be protected. And here we have the helmet,
you see, the helmet of salvation. But when we think of the way
in which Satan can come and take advantage of us, in our minds,
it's not only a matter of temptations. There's also the great danger
of what we might term simply a notional religion. The danger
of a mere intellectualism. A faith that is just an intellectual
faith. Sometimes it's called Sandemanian
faith. It was a Scots minister, Robert
Sandeman. and his teaching was that saving
faith is nothing more than giving a mental ascent to the truth. Faith only has to do with the
mind, that's what he said. It doesn't have to do with the
totality of a man, with his emotions. It's just intellectual, you have
to understand the body of truth, you have to understand what he
said in the scripture concerning man's condition as a sinner,
and that there is the provision of salvation in the person and
the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all you have to do is to
accept in that mental way what is said in Scripture. Now, we
know that a sound mind is of course very important. It is good to have our minds
filled with the good word of God. It's good to have some understanding
of the great biblical doctrines that are laid out before us on
the page of Holy Scripture. God has not given us the spirit
of fear, says Paul, but of love and of a sound mind. It's good
to have a healthy mind, a mind that is being fed with good doctrine
and so on. However, let us Recognize this
simple fact, friends, that faith is more than a sense with the
mind, opinions in the head. True faith as far excels, as
body differs from a shade, or kernels from the shells. We want something more than just
an intellectual faith. We want the fullness of that
salvation. that is spoken of here, the helmet
of salvation. And salvation is not just a matter
of doctrine, is it? Salvation is also a matter of
experience. It's a matter of practice. Salvation
is that that brings deliverance to the totality of the man's
being. It has to do with all that the
man is, not just intellectually but emotionally. Or there's a
wonderful fullness in salvation, it's more than words. No big
words of ready talkers, no dry doctrine will suffice. Broken
hearts and humble walkers, these are dear in Jesus' eyes, how
true it is to be broken hearted. over our sins, and to know what
it is to be those who are really trusting. Faith has that element
of trust, not just a matter of accepting it with the mind, it's
rolling the soul upon Christ, trusting in Him, and knowing
what it is to be a broken-hearted sinner, to grieve over our sins,
to feel some emotion then in our hearts. Well, we don't want
emotionalism, pure and simple, but we see that there is that
aspect to salvation, more than just the mind. And then also,
of course, we're to be those who would seek to be walking
these things out, desiring that our lives might more and more
conform to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. All we need to
be aware then of the devils, assaults in coming to us and
leaving us satisfied with a merely notion or idea of what faith
is. It's more, I say, than just assenting
to the truth of the mind. As we said before, there is a
great danger, of course, when it comes to the doctrines of
sovereign grace. That whole scheme of divinity
that we call Calvinism. because there is a wonderful
logic to that great system of doctrine that is set before us
in the word of God. It has a tremendous appeal to
the mind. I remember as a young man speaking with a minister
and how he said that there is great danger with these doctrines
because young men are attracted and they want to do some sort
of gymnastics with their minds. They want to wrestle with these
great truths and understand this whole scheme of salvation, a
tremendous intellectual appeal. But it's more than that. The
devil will come, you see, and he'll have us to be those who
are satisfied with nothing more than intellectualism. And what
we want is a living faith, and a real faith, and a true trusting
in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the head then. that needs
protection. And the Lord God in his wisdom
has made provision, there is a helmet, the helmet of salvation. Now interestingly the Lord Jesus
Christ himself was also armed, the great captain of salvation,
and he was armed also with the helmet of salvation. It's spoken of in prophecy there
in Isaiah chapter 59. In Isaiah chapter 59 and verses
16 and 17. Verse 17 in particular but look
at the context in verse 16 he saw that there was no man and
wondered that there was no intercessor therefore his arm brought salvation
onto him and his righteousness it sustained him and he put on
righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation upon
his head and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing and
was clad with zeal as a cloak Here is the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ as that one who will accomplish salvation for
his people. Oh, there is no man, there's
no deliverer, but here is that one who is the true man that
comes forward and how he is clad with all the armour that will
be necessary as he engages in this great warfare as he comes
to defeat sin and Satan. And he has on his head, we're
told, a helmet of salvation. Now what does he speak of? As
I said, the helmet speaks of the mind. And here we see the
mind of the Lord Jesus Christ, how resolute he is in his mind. as he comes to fulfill that work
that he's engaged to perform in the covenant. In Isaiah 50
and verse 7 he says, the Lord God will help me, therefore shall
I not be confounded, therefore have I set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be ashamed. Oh, how resolute, how
resolute we see the Lord Jesus is in His mind. His mind is set. Nothing at all is going to deflect
Him from this work that is undertaken. He has on His head a helmet of
salvation. He will accomplish salvation.
And so when we come to the Gospel, what do we read? Oh, we see this
determination in Christ. those words in Luke chapter 9
verse 51 when the time was come that he should be received up
he set his face to go to Jerusalem all his mind, his mind was made
up his face he set he will go to
Jerusalem and those words in Luke 9 introduce us to that final
journey that he makes from Galilee up to Jerusalem that final journey
to the city knowing full well what was to befall him there
he must needs go to Jerusalem he would go there of course only
to be betrayed by the Jews only to be delivered into the hands
of the Roman authorities, that he might die that cruel death
of the cross, rejected outside the walls of Jerusalem. But he has set his face. He has
set his face. He has on the helmet of salvation. What does it speak of then? It
speaks of that single-mindedness in the Lord Jesus Christ. He
would be obedient. He would accomplish all of the
Father's will, obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross. And friends, are we not to understand
here that His children, His children must also be marked by that same
single-mindedness. We are to be single-minded if
we are those who are truly the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at what James says concerning
a double-minded man. There in the opening chapter
of his epistle, verse 6 he says, let him ask
in faith, We're to ask in faith, are we
not? We lack wisdom. That's what he's speaking of
in the previous verses. Well, God gives. God gives liberally. But we're to ask in faith. Let
him ask in faith, not in wavering. For wavereth is like the wave
of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that
man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double-minded
man is unstable in all his ways. we're not to be double minded
or that blessed singleness of mind what does God say? you shall seek me and find me
when you shall search after me with all your heart do you desire
to be saved? do you desire to be saved? really desire to be saved? or
that single mindedness you shall find me when you shall seek after
me with all your heart It's the helmet of salvation, is it not? That singleness of mind, that
godly simplicity, that recognition that one thing is needful. And as there is that single-mindedness,
so there is that whole-heartedness, the affection set on things which
are above, where Christ is. Let us not be those who come
with half measures, in our dealings with God. Let us not be double-minded
men and women. We are to be single-minded. We
are to be like the Lord Jesus Christ. As He was set on the
accomplishment of His great work, so we are to be set in our desire
to know Him, to know Him as our God, to know Him as our salvation. Here is protection, I say, for
the head, for the mind. that rational part of a man.
Take the helmet of salvation. Now, we read, of course, there
at the end of 1 Thessalonians chapter 5, and we read that quite
deliberately because we're told something else further concerning
this helmet. There in chapter 5 and verse
8 of that epistle. We have those words, and for
a helmet, the hope of salvation not just salvation but the hope
of salvation and what a blessed fruit of the Spirit is Christian
hope and we sang of it in our opening
hymn what faith believes, good hope desires oh if we've got
faith, if we're believing we'll have desires That's the evidence
of Christian hope, is it not? We know that the devil himself
would come and he would seek to destroy the Christian. He
would destroy faith. He sets himself against that
brace of faith. Again, look at the language that
we have there in 1 Thessalonians, in chapter 3, verse 4, Paul writes, And do you know the significance
of that word, truly? It's the word Amen. So be it. It's lending a certain emphasis. We see it very much in the Lord's
own ministry, of course, in John. The verily, the double verily.
But here is Paul, for verily, when we were with you, we told
you before that we should suffer tribulation, even as he came
to pass, and you know, For this cause, when I could no longer
forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the
tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain." He knew
that the tempter was very active and seeking to destroy their
faith. That's what the devil is. He tempts, does he not? He
is the tempter. And we've spoken of temptations
earlier. But he's not only the tempter,
he's also the accuser. In Revelation chapter 12 he is
the accuser of the brethren who accuses them day and night before
God. Oh, he's such a wicked foe. So great is the hatred that he
bears towards men because man was made in God's image, created
after God's likeness. And so what does he do? He comes
and he tempts, and alas, and we fall, or we're prone to it,
or we're not. We cannot say with Christ that
the devil has nothing in us, he has much that he takes advantage
of. And we fall, and what does he do? He immediately turns tempter. immediately turns accuser. Having
tempted us, he will accuse us and accuse us before God. And
the Amicus feels so ashamed of our sin that we find it so hard
to come and to confess our sin. He'll seek to shut our mouths,
he'll confuse us. He seeks to get an advantage.
But we're to be those, says the Apostle, who are not ignorant
of his devices we're not ignorant of his devices but here we see
the importance of hope in dealing with this awful foe that solid
hope that the scripture speaks of so different to the common
concept people use the word hope simply in terms of a wish a desire
nothing more than that Oh, I hope I might be saved some time. They're
full of doubts and fears. They have no assurance at all
of faith. It's just a weak thing, hope. But that's not what we
read of in Scripture, is it? Look at how, when Paul writes
to the church at Rome, towards the end in chapter 15
and verse 13 he says now the God of hope the God of hope fill
you with all joy and peace in believing that ye may abound
in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost this hope is no
weak thing, this is a blessed fruit of the Holy Spirit and
we see it of course in Abraham Abraham who is the the father
of the faithful, the father of all them that believe and we're
told concerning Abraham who against hope believed in hope when he
was a hundred years old oh he believed that he could yet have
this son and and Sarah his wife she's well past the age of childbearing
but against hope he believes in hope and Sarah is with child
and Isaac is born hope you see it's a great grace
of the Spirit and remember what we're told again concerning Abraham
in Hebrews chapter 6 when God makes promise to Abraham because
he can swear by no greater he swears by himself that's what
it says God gives the promise, and God confirms the promise
with an oath. And Paul goes on to say that
by two immutable things, these two unchangeable things, God's
promise, God's hope, in which it was impossible for God to
lie, we might have a strong consolation, we were fled for refuge, to lay
hold upon the hope set before us, which hope we have as an
anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters
into that within the vial." What a blessed thing then. What a
blessed thing is this hope. Dr. Gill. I like Dr. Gill's remark concerning this
Christian hope. He said, it's an erector of the
heads, in difficulty. in affliction, in distress, all
this blessed hope, it raises the heads of the Christian soldier,
for and helm it, the hope, the hope of salvation. And we sang it, we're not just
now in the Metrical Psalm, from Psalm 27 and there in verse 6,
now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about
me." All the head is lifted up, you see, by this good hope, this
blessed hope that God has granted to his people. Here are the weapons,
you see. The weapons of our warfare, they're
not calm. They're mighty through God. to
the pulling down of the strongholds, even the strongholds of Satan. This is that armor that God has
provided. It's the armor of light. It's
the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left.
We're to understand this whole portion, of course, speaking
of armor in the spiritual senses. It's these various graces and
fruits of the Spirit. And here we have this blessed
hope of salvation that is to fill the mind of the people of
God. And how this hope is learned,
of course, in the experiences that the people of God are called
to pass through. And there's that experience of
tribulation. those words that we have in the
fifth chapter of Romans Paul says not only so but we glory
we glory in tribulations also knowing that tribulation worketh
patience or endurance and patience experience and experience hope
and hope make us not ashamed because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us."
Well, here is our comfort, you see. God teaches us, God instructs
us, God establishes us, and it's not just a matter of feeding
the minds, it's the experiences that the Christian soldier is
passing through, even those trials, those troubles, those tribulations
that come upon him. And then again in the The second epistle that Paul
writes to the Thessalonians and there at the end of the second
chapter he says, Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God
even our Father which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting
consolation and good hope through grace comfort your hearts and
establish you in every good word and work. This is Paul's desire,
this is Paul praying for them, that God would grant to them
that good hope, that good hope through grace. It's the helmet
of the hope of salvation. Now, God's children need that. Oh, how we need it, friends.
And the devil comes and assaults us in so many different ways,
attacks us in our minds. Even some of the godly have been
almost driven out of their wits by the wicked assaults of Satan,
but there is a helmet. Oh, it's the helmet of salvation.
It's the helmet of the hope of salvation. May the Lord grant
that we might be those who are well-armed against that wicked
adversary. Amen.