TOS021: The Helmet of Salvation

Published: June 21, 2018, 8 a.m.

The Helmet of Salvation is the final piece of armor presented in the series on the Truth of the Spirit Armor of God. Rick Brunner joins Patti Brunner as speaker. The Helmet of Salvation is a family heirloom passed down through the generations to recall the salvation given by Jesus through the cross, death and resurrection.  It is a gift given at Baptism for us to wear for the rest of our lives.  It helps us to think more clearly and recognize God.  The enemy tries to penetrate the helmet not by hitting us over the head but by getting under it with thoughts and memories of failure and temptations.  But the strength of the Helmet of Salvation is that it has been worn by all those who came before you.  Each saint, each holy man and woman have their memories to share.  The Helmet of Salvation was worn—indeed it was forged—by Christ himself.  He continues to wear it with you and thus your strength comes from this.  “Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.”1 John 4:4.  The Helmet of Salvation becomes your birthright as you are born again in Baptism through water and the Spirit.  Sin cannot stand against salvation.  It can never conquer salvation.  Only rejection by our freewill removes it.  Take strength in your salvation.  As the Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph #1994 says, this act of salvation is greater than the creation of the universe and everything in it.