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| Sheila Walsh: Faith Through the Storm | 5 Minutes With Jesus | June 25, 2026
- Salvation is more than future.
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- Benefits is supposed
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- To impact our present life every single day.
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- That beautiful greek word for salvation, sozo
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- Means so much more than just for that moment
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- When we realize our desperate need for christ.
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- It is a daily, ongoing saving, healing.
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- We have been saved.
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- We are being saved.
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- We will eternally be saved.
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- For 20 years i was part of a women's
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- Conference called women of faith.
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- I remember when i was asked
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- To join the speaking team, i didn't think i would fit in.
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- My idea of women of faith, for those who had
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- Never struggled with life, who had never wavered or doubted
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- Or been through like a dark night of the soul.
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- And so initially, i thanked them and i said, no.
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- Well, then i was asked if i'd be willing
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- To meet with the other speakers and hear their stories.
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- And i said yes to that.
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- Well, i remember sitting with these five women that day
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- And listened as each one told me a little something
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- About their lives and their hearts.
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- And one thing became crystal clear.
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- Christ was the hero of every story.
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- These were not stories of perfect women.
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- They were stories of women who had found a perfect savior.
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- And so i said, okay, i'm in.
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- I always thought of those
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- With great faith as being like super christians.
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- But i began to see that real faith is placing your trust in
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- An unfailing god, and standing on the promises of his word.
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- Paul wrote about the shield of faith
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- In his letter to the ephesians.
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- Chapter six verse 16 says, in addition to all of these,
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- Hold up the shield of faith
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- To stop the fiery arrows of the devil.
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- The shield of faith illustrates how our trust in
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- God's character protects us from the lies of the evil one.
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- One of the most dangerous weapons in ancient warfare
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- Was the fiery dart.
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- In roman times, fiery darts for arrows dipped in oil
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- That would be set on fire
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- Before being launched to their opponent.
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- This visual illustrates how the enemy attacks us.
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- Except that the fiery darts we experience aren't
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- Physical, but spiritual, mental and emotional.
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- The shield
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- A roman soldier used in battle was quite an impressive sight.
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- It was a large oval door like shield,
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- Four feet long by 2.5ft wide.
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- It let nothing through.
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- This is what we're called to hold up when life is hard.
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- Paul was chained to a roman guard as he wrote this letter.
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- The picture would be very vivid in his mind.
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- He knew the dangers of those darts,
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- But he also knew that when that heavy roman shield was held up,
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- The dart was immediately extinguished.
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- And that's what you and i are called to do.
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- We have not been left defenseless, but gifted with
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- Faith.
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- We stand strong and say, i believe.
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- I believe.
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- Hebrews 11, the great faith chapter
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- Of the new testament begins this way.
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- Now faith is confidence and what we hope for.
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- An assurance about what we do not see.
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- You and i are going to go
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- Through tough things that make no sense but faith.
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- Faith worships in the darkness, knowing that god is good.
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- So where does that faith come from?
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- It comes from that moment when we are saved
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- And put on the helmet of salvation.
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- In roman times, the helmet had various shapes,
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- But it generally was made of bronze,
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- Fitted over an iron skullcap lined with leather or cloth.
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- It would be hard and very uncomfortable,
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- And only put on when the soldier sensed danger
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- With his head protected.
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- The soldier feel safe in the midst of a fierce battle
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- Of believers.
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- The battlefield often takes place in the mind to where
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- The helmet of salvation means to live every day,
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- Focused on christ, on eternity and the promised future we have.
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- It changes the way we live.
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- Salvation is more than future.
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- Benefits is supposed
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- To impact our present life every single day.
- 00:04:16.346 --> 00:04:19.816
- That beautiful greek word for salvation, sozo
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- Means so much more than just for that moment
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- When we realize our desperate need for christ.
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- It is a daily, ongoing saving, healing.
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- We have been saved.
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- We are being saved.
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- We will eternally be saved.
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- So remember this one.
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- God's got you.
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- Stand strong during hard times.
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- Trust in the lord.
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- Number two. protect your mind.
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- Focus on christ and your promised future.
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- It will honestly change the way you live.
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- Let's pray
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- For jesus.
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- Where do we ever find words to thank you for our salvation?
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- In a world that was so lost
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- And so broken, and so far away from god,
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- You were willing to leave everything.
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- The worship of the angels and the beauty of heaven
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- To come and die for us so that we could live with you.
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- Lord, teach us how to hold up that shield of faith.
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- And thank you that salvation is an ongoing process in our life.
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- Help us to rest in the truth that you are the victor.
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- That the battle has been won in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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