THE HOPE OF SALVATION –

THE BELIEVER’S THREEFOLD CORD ARMOR 4

“But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.”

1 Thessalonians 5:8 (KJV)

Apart from putting on the breastplate of faith and love, another important armor Apostle Paul mentioned was the hope of salvation as a helmet.

To the soldier, the helmet is an amour piece that protects his head. The head has the mouth, nose, face, skull, and brain. Both the breastplate and the helmet protect the most essential organs of the human body (though all the parts of the human body are important); the heart and the head (brain, eyes, mouth, face, ear) respectively.

To delve more into the subject matter, let me help you grasp this:

Most extensive studies in cardiology and neuroscience touch on the relationship between a man’s spirituality and his brain-heart connection (or neurocardiology).

In biblical language, the word “heart” means more than the cardiac organ of the human body. However, the cardiac organ and the encephalon (or brain) are the physical seats of the constitution of the heart.

The heart consists of the soul (mind, will, and emotions) and the spirit. These essential parts of man cannot be physically touched. However, their activities or functions can be felt through the brain-heart connection of the human body. Through neurocardiology, we can identify the influences of the innerman on the body.

If you are an avid reader of Machaira with Apostle Bennie, you can tell how countless times you will be reading an episode or listening to a teaching from our platforms, or be reading a Bible verse and your heart (cardiac organ) will literally be experiencing some sensations of joy.

What happens is that the aggregation of the divine thoughts or the ministration of the Spirit-word induces the illumination of your mind, which transmits light into your being. This transmits signals between your neuron and other bodily cells. It also sends electrical signals (impulses) which spread throughout the heart (cardiac organ) along its electrical pathways.

(NB: It is the reason one will be hearing the message and the fellow senses a vibration of power throughout the body, and may not be able to sit or stand and sometimes a person may fall with a burning sensation of fire, all through the body).

This also happens when one continuously exposes his or her mind to wrong information. It corrupts and crushes his inner being and literally affects the neurocardiac system.

Words carry spiritual influences which create some physical effects.

Your brain and heart (cardiac organ) are physical organs that also serve as the seats of your mind, will emotions, and spirit.

You don’t first find or experience the impulse of your will, emotions, and mind in your knee or leg. You experience the impulse of your emotions and thoughts, through your brain and heart (cardiac organ).

This gives a deep explanation as to why Paul the apostle will instruct the brethren to put on the breastplate of faith and love and a helmet of the hope of salvation.

The benefits of these armor pieces are not just spiritual. They are also physical. The spiritual always affects the physical (and the process recycles).

When your heart or inner man is saturated with the consciousness of faith, love, and the hope of salvation, you will walk through this world in sobriety. You will not live feeling discouraged, broken, and mentally drained. This is why a man who is fully influenced by the revelation of Jesus, will not live in anxiety, suffer from a “heart attack” or struggle with mental health.

The gospel is the dynamic ability of God which brings deliverance from darkness to light, safety, soundness of heart, wholeness of health, and eternal joy (Romans 1:16).

When the revelation of God’s salvation in Christ permeates your mind, you cannot live a sad life.