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Bishop Hugh Daniel Smith teaching Spiritual Wrestling: Helmet of Salvation at Embassy Metro Detroit. Full sermon with transcript.

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I’m going to ask if you would turn into your Bibles to the book of Ephesians, chapter number 6. Ephesians, chapter number six, and we’re going to begin reading at verse number 10, picking up from where we left off prior to Mother’s Day. Ephesians chapter number six and verse number 10. The scripture says, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the ws of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13. Everybody, wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and have and having done all to stand, stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shaw God 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 and this is where we’re focused today and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God praying always with all prayers and supplications in the spirit and watching there unto with all preservation, perseverance and and supplication for all saints. All right, we’re going to continue our teaching on the subject of spiritual wrestling and today we want to focus on the helmet of salvation. again.

Lord, you know your people. You know what we need and you know what you planned and have determined to do. Help us agree with you. Help us come into an alignment. Give us a spirit of receptivity, ears to hear, a heart to receive that we might be all you’ve destined in Jesus name.

Amen. Spiritual wrestling. This is part three. The helmet of salvation. The satanic objective behind much of the spiritual and psychological warfare that many believers are experiencing today is intended to move the believer away from their unwavering stance.

Everybody say unwavering stance. move the believer from their unwavering stance in Christ and from perfect alignment with the will of God in the earth. The purpose of the assault from the demonic kingdom is to move us off of our spiritual square. This is not anything new to warfare. Even in the Vietnam War and many other battles, there were campaigns to create confusion and there were war tactics that were used to create fear. In Vietnam, there was what called an aerial campaign that the enemy uh that the goal was to get the enemy to retreat in psychologically first before they would move physically.

So there was war, there was psychological warfare used to overcome those that are good with uh fish the cuffs or whatever it may be any kind of battle. We’ve learned and many have learned that the battle is not always physical first. If you can defeat a person in their mind and defeat a person in their heart and in their spirit, then it’s not difficult to move them physically because the body follows all of these things. In Vietnam, they used a continual bombarding or dropping bombs to create confusion, fear, weakness, uh, and even to affect the political state in that nation.

And so, the enemy does everything in his power to move us away from our solid position. Everybody say solid position. Our stance for Christ and his word. our our our stance for what he says about family, our commitment to brotherhood or sisterhood, our commitment to preaching the gospel or winning the laws, our stance for the redemptive work of Christ. If he can get us to move off of these fundamental teachings, then he can spoil the house. Because after all the enemy is doing his best in this world to create a culture that is conducive for his agenda.

We wrestle not against we said what flesh and blood. But what are we wrestling against? Principalities. We taught in the first lesson that a principality spiritually speaking is a a fallen angel who has the power to create patterns in a society. demonic patterns of thought, ideology, and when those patterns are picked up by human beings, they can become something that eventually frames that society. The enemy is not just trying to fight you from an invisible point of view.

He’s attempting to create a culture that corrupts your children. A culture that actually is antithetical to the preaching of the gospel. He’s trying to close the minds and the ears of those that we’re trying to reach by the conditions that they live around or live within.

And so the reason why he attacks us is because those of you are in Christ, you become a disruptor. Everybody say a disruptor. You stand contrary to what he’s trying to accomplish. militarism, uh, moral relativism and other dark ideologies have been embedded in our culture. Even the halves and the have nots and the economic gap. And all of these challenges are designed to block people from God’s redemptive work.

But we who are disruptors say, “I am a disruptor. you become a prey. He won’t target those that are flowing with his culture, flowing with the status quo, but those who dare say God has another way and there is another king and there is eternal judgment and there is the blood of Jesus and it doesn’t matter who’s in charge. God can still meet your needs according to his riches in glory and through him we can overcome. The scriptures are very clear that he has overcome all things. And if you have a different message, then you’re targeted because the enemy wants to shut you down.

Let me look at it. Isaiah 59-14. Put this on the screen just for a moment. Isaiah 59:14. What does it say?

Read. and judgment is turned away backward and justice standeth a far off. For truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter. This was a very dark time in Israel where there was no justice.

But watch verse number 15. Read. Yeah. Truth faileth and he that departeth from evil in a day like this, what happens? He maketh himself a prey.

The Lord saw it and it displeased him that there was no judgment. So anytime that you depart from evil in an evil tie, then you become a disruptor to the status quo. You know how it is when everybody’s going a certain way and you got the nerve to speak up and you got the nerve to say, “Hey, hey, I’m not with it.” then either people are going to hear you or you will be targeted and and neutralized in some kind of way. This is part of the reason for the spiritual assault on your life. The devil wants you to be removed from your stance.

What do you do when you get bad news? This is part of the assault that someone in your family or you yourself is now has contracted or afflicted with a terminal disease. What do you do? What do you do when one of your children or somebody’s child you know loses their life unjustly prematurely? What do you do?

What do the saints do at times like that? What do you do when you lose a lot of money that you needed for your retirement? What do you do when stuff don’t go right in your life? When you experience tragedy and difficulty? What do you do if you’re a believer?

Ain’t nobody talking to me. I’m trying to figure out what are you supposed to do. I didn’t hear what nobody said. What do you do? I still can’t understand y’all.

There’s only one word I’m trying to hear. I didn’t say pray. You stand. That’s what you do. You got to stand when everything is going ary and you’ve already prayed.

Come on. Let’s bring Donnie McCirkland to the stand. You prayed and you fasted. What do you do when everything goes wrong in your life? Somebody shout you stand.

That that that there comes a time where there’s nothing else to do. And I’m sharing this because if you’re not there, there’s coming a time where you only have one recourse to deal with the threat that may be in your family, that may be in your company, that may be seemingly there to completely destroy your your work. You sometimes you just have to stand. Somebody shout stand. When when there’s nothing else to do, what do you do?

And this is what creates the wrestling. When you choose to stand, if you bow, then there is no match. But when the enemy assaults your life, sometimes you have to stand against him. That’s what we learned. To stand means to say, “I’m going to I’m not going to lose my ground.

I’m going to stay in my position. I’m going to continue doing what God called me to do. I’m going to keep preaching. I’m going to keep doing the business. I’m going to keep raising these children.

I’m gonna continue on high. I ain’t I’m gonna keep praising him, too. You think I You think I’mma come I’mma bring my praise meter down because of what’s going on, I’m going to stand. Stand means nothing changes. Status quo continues because you’re standing in your position.

And then he says, after you’ve done all the stand, you got to withstand. And when you withstand, now you’re resisting him in some kind of way. You literally are engaging spirituality to resist him. You’re not just going to keep doing what you were doing, but now you’re going to do more than what you were doing. You’re going to say, “I’m going on a fast, too.

I was just going to stand here, but since you smacked me, now I got to go on a fast.” And since that happened, now I’m going to call a 7-hour prayer. And I’m getting ready to do that in this house. I just been looking for a date on the calendar because there’s a lot of activity happening against people’s lives right in this church. And God says we have to ramp up our spiritual energy in the house. When you’ve stood and that ain’t working, well, it’s time to ramp it up now.

We going to have a 7hour prayer service and then we’re going to do good works. You keep messing with me, I’m going to go bless some people, too. You keep messing with me, devil, I’m going to give become very generous. You have to ramp up your spiritual activity while you are under pressure. This is typically the time that people pull back and lose their stance and the wrestling match is over.

But if you not only take your position and hold your ground, but you also ramp it up, now you’re applying pressure to the demonic kingdom. And the truth is, two powers cannot coexist in the same space permanently. One will give way to the other. And you got to make up in your mind, I’m not moving. I’m not moving anywhere.

I’m just going to keep ramping it up. I don’t know what else I need to do, but I’m going to do something else. And eventually, there’s going to be breakthrough in your life. And that’s what God told me to tell you. If you ramp it up, you will experience the breakthrough in your life because he can only hold out so long.

And once he sees you are committed and relentless and resilient and you know your God, he’ll back up off of you and try to find somebody else. I’m declaring grace to stand, grace to wrestle. That’s what wrestling is. I’m declaring grace to fight back spiritually in this season and not give up anything. Give no place to the devil.

You can’t have my toenail, devil, without paying a price. You take anything from me, I’m coming back with a hay maker. I’m not giving up any ground to any demonic entities in my life in this season. I’m wondering today, is there a church that’s willing to be the army of the Lord and that will stand against the ws of the devil? I declare that grace on this house now in the name of Yeshua.

Amen. And so that’s grace to wrestle. Everybody say grace to wrestle. Some things you have to wrestle with. That’s all I’m trying to say.

I know we live in an instant generation where people want to see things happen right away. But anybody who’s walked with God for a period of time, you’ve learned that some things you have to wrestle with. You got to wrestle with stuff to get it right. Just like a new pair of shoes. Sometimes you need to wear them for a while before they feel right.

Or something new you get, you got to break it in. Come on, somebody. And so I you have to wrestle with situations until you come out favorable.

And so today I’m going to continue the conversation on the subject of the spiritual armor. And I want to focus specifically on the helmet of salvation because you cannot wrestle him, we learn, without having on the whole armor of God. There’s no sense in you getting in the match and talking stuff if you haven’t dressed yourself appropriately for the battle.

And so he has provided for us uh an array of armor uh that gives us or let’s use a term that guarantees our victory in the battle. And so I’m going to I’m going to deal with this h of salvation. We’re going to make three points today and I’m going to try to get to all of them. I’ll be light on the last one, but but we’ll try to get to all three. The first point, we need to talk about the helmet of salvation.

Everybody say the helmet. Number two, we want to talk about peacemakers and three breakthrough. Now, I want to look at this the the helmet, the helmet of salvation. Um, specifically, let’s just start with the fact that the purpose of the helmet in this fist in this uh combat is to protect one’s head. That’s the purpose of a natural helmet to protect one’s head from uh injury from injury.

Whether you’re riding a motorcycle, you need on a in some states um but you might need one anyway. Or or uh you’re playing football now, they have the new helmets because of the frequent concussions that so many players have experienced. Um and so you have to protect your head uh at all costs because head injuries can become fatal. Uh they can paralyze the body. Uh the head injury can cause a person to go blind.

Uh head injuries are very destructive and the common effects of brain trauma, memory loss, confusion, difficult concentrating, uh mood instability, depression, anxiety, fear responses, irritability, all kinds of happen, sleep disorders come from head traumas, seizures, and you can the list goes on and on. And so whatever you do, you try to protect your head from what’s going on. and and and spiritual uh head trauma also creates deficits in the human uh experience. Loss of spiritual confidence is one of the indicators that someone may have had a head injury, spiritual head injury. Uh uh feeling distant from God. Uh fearbased spirituality.

These are all indicators. Loss of hope is a big one. Condemnation and guilt. Spiritual exhaustion. You’re just exhausted spiritually.

You said, “I just don’t feel like even praising God.” When you get to the place where spiritual exhaustion has taken place and you can’t bring yourself back from it, you probably could have suffered a spiritual head injury, uh, vulnerability to deception, isolation from healthy communities. You want to isolate yourself cuz you don’t want to be around the saints or nobody else. You say you feel more comfortable by yourself. You’re probably suffering from a spiritual head injury because the and if the enemy is coming after your head, he’s trying to completely wipe you out. And it’s because you are a threat to what he’s doing.

You you because if you cut a thing off at the head, you can get the body very easy. And so the fact that some of you may have spiritual head injuries is an indicator of how powerful you really are. And I just want to say this. I believe that God wants to heal head injuries today. I really believe it and I’m going to believe God for that.

Not just spiritual head injuries, but even natural head injuries because it is a phenomenon that seems to be increasing in the earth today that people are having all kind of distortions in their mind and in their head. And so I just want you to join me in prayer just for this moment. Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we pray that you would release a grace in the church to heal natural head trauma in the name of the Lord. Head injury, seizures, uh Alzheimer’s, dementia, all of those kinds of things, whatever it may be, we ask for healing in the name of the Lord. I need somebody to pull on God just for a few more moments.

God, we ask for healing. We pray that you would move in a special way and begin to heal the trauma that somebody suffered naturally. And not only that, now we want you to even heal those who have suffered from spiritual head injuries. They’re isolating themselves. They can’t remember any scriptures anymore.

They lose hope. They have a fear-based mentality. They’re vulnerable to s deception. And they’ve lost all of their hope and their spiritual confidence. And they feel distant from God. and they don’t know what else to do.

God, if you touch us today, if you begin to heal the head injury, next time we’ll put on a helmet in the name of the Lord. Next time, we’ll protect our head from the fiery darts of the enemy. Just heal us one more time. Oh God, next time I’m not going to expose my head to the devil like that without the spiritual covering in the name of the Lord. In Jesus name.

Amen. And so spiritual head injuries can be healed. And also we can also prevent spiritual head injuries by wearing a helmet. By wearing a helmet. Um the scripture even says the god uh if if if the if anybody be lost they are lost because the god of this world has blinded their minds least the glorious light of this gospel will shine to them.

Spiritual head injury will blind people’s mind to the point where they can’t see God if he was right in front of them. But God can heal spiritual head injuries. And this is what I believe God wants to do in this season because there are people that you’re talking to and they’re not responding. You know why? Because their mind is blind.

They’ve suffered some type of head trauma in the battle of wrestling with the dark one. And so if God heals them, they’ll come around. Don’t think they’re just rebellious. They can’t see it. You know, you ever talk to anybody and they just can’t connect the dots.

You can spell it out for them. They just don’t get it. You can have your mind blinded because of the trauma that you have suffered.

And some of you are serving God with your whole heart. The enemy will go after your child and try to mess up their head and blind them so they can’t hear you. Are you listening to me?

And so we’ve got to pray. We got to intercede for this one. This is real stuff. Or you might have a dad that just can’t see it and he need he’s the head of the family and he’s blind and so he exposes the kid.

And so the Apostle Paul says one of the things that we must put on after we get healed and we must learn how to wear the helmet of salvation. Everybody say the helmet of salvation. The helmet of salvation. So it’s not just a helmet. The helmet is salvation.

That’s what I need you to see. The helmet is what? Soo. Soozo is the Greek word that we’re dealing with and it means to save. Soo means to rescue.

Soo says that God has come to rescue. God has come to deliver. God has come to heal. God has come to emancipate. He’s come to liberate.

He’s come to build structure. He’s come to pull us out of darkness into his marvelous light. Soozo is what that means. So when he comes to save us, he comes to pull us out of the evil, away from the dark stuff, and then he wants to build the proper life for us. It’s all a part of salvation.

All a part of salvation. And you know how it works. I’m just going to run through this really quick. You know, first, we are saved. Everybody say, “I’m saved.” That means he’s forgiven us of all of our sins because of his redemptive work at the cross.

He’s the propitionary sacrifice substituting his death for our life and because of that we have been acquitted of all charges. So we are justified. Say it. I’m justified. I am saved.

Positionally we are saved. But after that he doesn’t just stop there. What else does he do? We are being saved. Once he saves us now he has to sanctify us.

Sanctification has to do with now getting all the evil out of us. You can take the man out of the world, but now you got to get the world out of the the man. You got to take all that darkness out of us.

So, Holy Spirit will work with us for years doing sanctification, cleaning up our thinking, helping us align with God is what he does. It’s called sanctification. Sanctification is not uh a church that runs around and plays fast music. They say, “What kind of church is this?” A sanctified church. No, no.

That that’s just people who like fast music and they have the Holy Ghost. Sanctification is when your life is being transformed. Everybody say sanctification. Sanctification. It’s when God takes the old out and put the new in.

He works in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure. After you’ve been in the sanctified church for 3 and four years, you should not think the same. He transforms our minds about things that are important to him. It’s called sanctification.

And so he works on us. And that is a everybody say lifetime process. Some of us are at different stages. Some of us are more advanced than others.

But we’re all in the process. And then finally, the Bible says we shall be saved. So we have three stages. I’m saved. I’m being saved.

And I shall be meaning I shall be perfected before salvation is over. We will be perfect in him. Everything he dreamed will have come to pass. Stay with me. This is very important.

So salvation is the total work. Say it with me. The total work. It starts with justification. It ends with perfection.

We will be like him because we will see him as he is. We will be able to think at a very high level. Travel at the speed of thought with our new bodies. We will be able to do great works. Everything that he intended for man to do will be realized at the end of this salvation experience.

You will be more powerful than you ever dreamed you could be. If you think you bad now, man, you’re like a caterpillar versus a butterfly. A caterpillar versus a butterfly. you you are not uh any in any respect uh uh seeing yourself as you are. You’re far more powerful than what you could imagine. The caterpillar is crawling on the ground, but the butterfly has a different body is doing something totally different.

That’s the vast difference between where you are today and where you’re going in him. And so, watch this. So, what is the helmet of salvation? When you put the helmet on, you have hope that the end will always be happy. You know, everybody loves a happy ending to a story.

I don’t like to watch movies that don’t have happy endings. I really don’t. I’ve watched movies that ends bad. I said, I wasted my whole time sitting here watching this movie and it’s going to end like that. I’m very upset and I don’t want to watch it after that.

Because we have been wired for happy endings. I’m going somewhere with all of this. And so the Hammond of Salvation assures you, guarantees you that everything is going to end beautiful. It’s going to end right. I don’t care where you are in your journey today.

You might be laying flat on your back and maybe struggling in your walk with God. But if you keep the helmet on, if you just keep the helmet on and receive salvation, you’re going to get through where you are. You’re going to somehow you’re going to get up from that place and somehow you’re going to end up right where God said you would be. The key is you have to keep the helmet on. As long as you got the helmet on, you will get to your happy conclusion.

All things are beautiful in their time or in their season. And so you’re going to get there. And and then the helmet says, “I I have a happy ending coming. I have a beautiful ending coming. God’s going to do a wonderful thing in my life.

Everything is going to be is going to work together for good some kind of way. And and watch me now. As long as this helmet is on, I won’t get trapped with depression in a season of my life. I I won’t I won’t be deceived by a situation that looks permanent. And I’m not going to make some eternal decision on a temporary situation in my life because I know it’s bad today.

I’m on the cross and I’m bleeding and I’m naked like Jesus, but I know uh uh it’s going to come a day where I’ll rise again. That’s the way it is. There’s always a happy moment in God.

And so I want to encourage every believer to keep your helmet on. See, one of the reasons why so many people give up in the midst of the storm is because they don’t have the helmet of salvation on and they think what happened to them is permanent and they making decisions based off of the pain that they’re experiencing in a moment. But if they just would have walked with God a little longer, they would have experienced his redemptive power that was going to bring them out. How many have walked with God long enough to know that no evil can live forever? No trouble can last forever.

No trauma can last forever. There’s more grace than there is sin. There’s more love than there is hatred. There’s more life than there is death. There’s more goodness than there is bad.

THERE’S More GOD than there is the devil. IF You Stick With GOD Long Enough, YOU’LL Have Your happy ending. So keep your helmet on. He’ll save you out of it is what I’m trying to get you to see. He’ll rescue you out of it.

He’ll deliver you out of it. HE’LL Bring You Out OF IT. All You Got TO DO IS SAY, “The Savior is at work in my life.

And somehow I’m going to make it. Someway, somehow I’m coming through. Someway, somehow I’m going to rise above. Somebody clap your hands for the savior right there.

So, come on, clap your hands for the savior. If you got your helmet on, I said if you got your helmet on right now and you know that it’s going to end right, what that does is it gives you hope. It gives you hope. Everybody, everybody say hope. Hope.

It gives you hope. Without that hope, then you would fade with the stuff we’re dealing with. Without the hope of redemption, you would fade. Joseph, or not Joseph, but Jacob described his life in Genesis 47. We talked about in the first service.

He described his life. He summed it up when he was 130 years old. He said my life was full of evil or pain is what he was saying. He his summation of his whole life was painful because he had experienced so much trauma. His kids two of his kids were mass murderers and and and his daughter Dina was raped and that’s why they killed some folks. and his firstborn son Reuben uh slept with his wife and that’s why he couldn’t prosper and they sold his favorite son into slavery and they lied to him for 15 17 years and said he was dead and he found out he was not dead and and his brother Esau threatened to kill him.

So he ran from his brother for many days. He ran into an angel and wrestled all night long. And he and the hollow of his thigh was put out of joint. He had a dislocated thigh. So he had to walk with a limp for the rest of his life.

But in the middle of that, he was worshiping. And in the middle of all that stuff, he was building altars. And in the middle of all that stuff, God was with him. And he was the third leg in the patriot.

But he described his life as painful because he was looking at it from an earth to heaven perspective. And if you tell the truth about your life, looking at it from an earthly perspective, you will describe the pain of your life. But if you check him out in Genesis 47:49, I think it was or 48, he has a different story. He says, “God has fed me all of these years.” And he talked about the redemptive hand of God. So what I need you to see is you got two perspectives of your life. an earthly perspective that describes your trouble.

But then when you grow up in God, you’ll look at it from another perspective and you’ll see what God did in the trouble and you’ll say, “He’s good.” Anyhow, and you might even say, “It was good that I was afflicted.” Because if I wasn’t afflicted, I would never know God like I know my God. Are you listening to me? When you walk with God and you get salvation, he literally works with all the bad stuff in your life and he works it together for the good, giving you a different perspective of your pilgrimage on this earth.

But those that don’t walk with God only know their earth experience and live with the trauma of it. And then they they’re they’re not convinced that God is good. But I promise you, if you walk with him a little longer, tell somebody, “Keep on walking. Keep on walking.” If you just walk with him a little longer, he’s going to make the darkness light before you. And what’sever wrong, he’s going to make it right.

Oh yes, he will. He’ll work it together for your good. You’ll know why he let this happen and why he allowed that to happen. And that wisdom will give you heavenly SUBSTANCE IN Your Heart that will make you different than everybody else on the planet. There’ll be an anointing on your life because you know God through your experience and he’s never failed you and you got a different kind of praise for your God.

Does anybody know Jesus like that? Two perspectives of the human experience. one from the earth, which is generally painful, and one from God’s salvation. So when salvation comes and you put on the helmet of salvation, you’re believing God to do his redemptive work with your earthly painful experience. If you have the helmet on, he’s always working in your stuff. Tell somebody, keep the helmet on.

Keep the helmet on. I promise you, if you got salvation working in you, he’s always doing something with your trauma, with your issues, that’s what this helmet is. And that’s why he says you got to put the helmet. You can’t be fighting the devil without the helmet of salvation on. He’ll trap you in a season of your life and convince you that God doesn’t love you.

But you put that helmet on, say, “Devil, I got my helmet on, and I know it looks bad today, but check me out. In three days, I’m getting up from here. He’s going to work it together for my good. Oh, he does that. That’s called the helmet of salvation.

The helmet of salvation. Soldiers who are in foxholes uh have a tendency to fight harder if the military has a culture that says no man is left behind. And generally the military does have that culture for this very reason. If they’re in trouble, they know somebody’s coming to rescue me.

And so they have hope and they try to stay alive because they know help is coming. But if there was no culture like that and if there was nobody coming and they had no expectation, they would probably give up in the battle. And salvation says somebody’s always coming. And I know people are saying nobody’s coming to help us.

But if you got that’s these are people that don’t have the helmet of salvation on. But those of you that got the helmet of salvation on, somebody’s always coming to rescue you. Jesus is sending somebody. Jesus is coming to pour you out because that’s what soozo mean. It means to rescue you.

And to have the helmet on is to believe That GOD Will Always Pull You Out. How many believe that today? That God will always say, “He will always come see about me.” Say, “HE Will Always Come See About ME.” Get it in your spirit, man. HE Will Always Come And See about me. You got to believe that.

If you don’t believe it, you don’t have the helmet on. And that’s why you fall apart because you don’t think nobody’s coming and you lose hope. Once a person has lost hope, that’s when you stop pushing. You stop wrestling. You stop fighting.

When there is no more hope, despair enters in. Without a vision, people perish. If I don’t have any vision for the fullness of my salvation, I will perish.

But if I have a vision that he’s going to get better, then I will come out by the hand of the Lord. This is what’s wrong, ladies and gentlemen, with uh many Gen Z, many of the Gen Z population. If you do the study, you’ll find out that many Jenzers uh are struggling with what we call belonging. Struggling with isolation, struggling struggling with meaning in life. Nothing means anything.

Struggling with emptiness, purposelessness, struggling with the ability to get established. struggling with doomsday scenarios that they hear on television day in and day out and they’re unsure whether or not the world is even going to be here or whether or not America is going to be here. And if you can’t see a future, if there is no vision, people cast off restraint. People stop pursuing. And when you see the suicide rate among Gen Z and you see the level of despair and depression among this population is an indicator that hope is being lost because they can’t see tomorrow. And we need salvation.

Somebody say salvation. If anybody we need to assure that they get the helmet of salvation on, it is this generation because they’re going to have to have some kind of hope. And looking at television, it steals the hope from you. listening to some prophetic uh words can steal the hope of if it’s all bad. Lord have mercy. Where is Jesus in some of that stuff?

Okay, let the whole world fall apart. But tell me that Jesus can build a new one or something. You never leave people in the kingdom without hope. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.

You have to keep hope alive or there is no reason to move forward. Working on this day doesn’t mean anything if tomorrow is not coming. If tomorrow’s not coming, why finish school? If tomorrow’s not coming, why treat my neighbor right? If tomorrow is not coming, why be a good citizen?

If tomorrow is not coming, why comb my hair? If tomorrow is not coming, who cares what my shoes look like? If tomorrow is not coming, there’s no hope. There’s no inspiration to do a number of things.

But if I believe that tomorrow is coming, IT GIVES ME The Strength TO Get Myself Together And to overcome my pain and my hurt and trust Jesus to make a difference in my life. And I want to announce to everybody, tomorrow is coming. I know we got trouble in the land, but our God is greater than the trouble that’s in the land. If America goes down, God still says, “I’ve got you in the hollow of my hand. You’ve been carved in the palm of my hand.

You’re the apple of my eye. I Got You. I Got You. The Blood Still Works. And You Must Have Hope Because GOD IS ON Our Side.

Somebody say, “Put the helmet on.” Put the helmet of salvation on. Says, “Help is always coming.” It’s always coming. It’s always coming. They’ll be here soon. They’re coming.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abedneo said, “If he if if if the devil if if if what what they say what they say? They say they say, “I ain’t going to bow. I regardless of what’s going on, we not going to bow. And if we have to go into the furnace, we’re not going to bow.” But I imagine when they got into the furnace, if you let me use my sanctified imagination, they said, “I know help’s going to be coming very, very, very soon.” Next thing you know, there’s a fourth man in the fire. He’s always going TO GET IN Your Stuff.

HELP. Salvation means rescue. It means deliverance. It means It means everything like that. It’s the full package.

And we have been saved. Shout, “I’m saved.” And the savior is working in my life. I’m the sav. He’s the savior. I don’t have to have the skill.

All I got to do is lay there. If I’m drowning, I need somebody to get me out of the water. And it’s their responsibility to save.

Now, now, so keep hope alive. keep hope alive. H I I want to I want to deal with one more thing here because I’m really running out of time today. Everybody say the helmet. The helmet gives you a perspective that protects your mind.

And so if everybody lose their mind, I promise you those with the helmet on will never lose their mind. You worried about losing your mind? Keep the helmet on and I guarantee you’ll never lose your mind. I will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on him. That’s what that mean.

Stayed on the salvation. He started with me. He that has begun a good work in me will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. and I will come forth perfected in him. And if that’s on your mind in the storm, you’ll get through it. My next point really quick, salvation is not exclusively saved, being saved, and shall be saved.

It is all of that. But the word salvation sotaria in the scripture actually means the person. Salvation is not just an event. It’s a person. Yeshua means Yahweh saves.

So when you speak of I got saved, people going home, I got saved today. What happened to you? I got saved. What you’re trying to say is you received Yeshua. You saw salvation.

You received salvation. Watch this. Salvation is not just uh the event, but it is the person. And I want you to go to Luke real quick. Luke 2 and verse 25.

I want you to see this. Luke 2 and 25. What does it say? Everybody read. He says, “Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon.” Read.

And the same man was just and devout waiting for the consolation of Israel. So he’s waiting for the consolation of the nation. Watch this. And the Holy Ghost was upon him. And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not see death before he has seen the Lord’s Christ.

Read. And he came to he came by the spirit into the temple. A lot of spiritual activity. And when his the parents brought in the child Jesus, Jesus was about eight days old to do for him after the custom of the law. Then took he him up in his arms and blessed God and said.

So he has Jesus in his arms. He said, ‘Lord, now let thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word.’ What does he say next? For my eyes have seen. To look at Jesus is to look at salvation because he embodies everything that we will become. He is our salvation experience.

And so as long as Jesus in is in your life and he’s operative, he will always be actively saving you and rescuing you. and bringing you into his original intent. He is salvation. Now, I want you to see this piece here, and then we’re going to try to bring it to a close if we can. Um, salvation then is not just what he brings me out of, but is also what he’s building in my life. He’s got to save us to get us to do the things he’s called us to do.

He has to save us to get us to think the way we’re supposed to. That’s still a need for salvation. He has to save us to renew our minds. And that’s the being saved process.

And so he comes and when you put the helmet on, it not only gives you hope that he preserves you, but it also gives you revelation concerning everything you’re supposed to be. If you get that helmet of salvation on, you’ll start seeing pictures of who you’re meant to be in God. And he’ll give you visions of the future that he intends for you to walk in. It’s like a a technology. You put it on, you start seeing stuff differently.

Because salvation is the complete picture of everything you were meant to be. When people say, “I don’t know what God is doing in my life.” I know they don’t have on the helmet. Because when you put that helmet on, you’re going to experience and he gives you visions and dreams. The day that the Lord saved my soul, this is a true story. The day that God saved my soul, soon as the Holy Ghost comes in and I put the helmet on, I knew I was supposed to be a minister.

Nobody told me. I had the technology in the helmet and I just saw, wait, hold up here. What is this? I’m supposed to be a preacher and I’m this is so far from me as the east is from the west. And I’ve I’ve learned over the years, every time I get that helmet on, I start seeing stuff.

I started seeing stuff. I started seeing that’s where I got the idea of of of of the human dignity center and the idea of us taking care of the uh home insecure uh people. I put the helmet on and I started seeing the stuff that God said we must do. I said, “Lord, how we going to do that?” He said, “Just keep the helmet on, son. Just keep the helmet on, son.

And and I’ll make a way out of nowhere. I’ll do things that nobody else can do. Just keep the helmet on.

Now, there’ll be people that ain’t going to believe what you’re saying cuz they don’t have the helmet on and they don’t have the technology that you are working with. That’s why when you put the helmet on and God shows you something, don’t you let somebody else that don’t have the helmet on talk you out of what God is showing you that’s a part of your salvation experience. Prophecy is a part of your salvation experience, ladies and gentlemen. And I just want to report real quick that our CDC has just successfully closed the acquisition on a 75 bed homeless shelter in the city of Pontiac. We got to get some money now.

We got to get some money. But we just closed that thing that God SHOWED US IN The Helmet OF Salvation And GOD Brought IT TO PASS. I said God brought it to pass. If he said it, he’ll perform it. Whatever he shows you when you put the helmet on, you believe God.

I I had my helmet on the other day. I sleep with my helmet, too, you know. Excuse me, Lisa. I had to sleep with my helmet on because at night he might start showing me some technology on some things. And you know, I got to have the helmet on all the time.

And and I have my helmet on. And I heard the Lord say this. You get the church is getting ready to move from the purge to the surge. Yes, Lord. He says you all were in the purge for a long time 2025 and many of you have lost many things and and God was refining us and God was taking away from us things and God was doing a tough work on the inside of us.

He says but now those that have finished the purge is getting ready to experience a surge in their life. And if I if you prophesied the purge and it came to pass, then you’re prophesying the surge, meaning it’s going to come to pass, too. What is the surge? It it the surge has to do with God breaking forth in your life. And he told me that the sign, he told me before it happened, he said, “The sign of the surge is when you get that acquisition done.” And when I saw the acquisition get done, God said, “You see the sign now?

Tell the saints that they’re getting ready to move from the purge to the surge. God’s about to break out in your life. If you’ve gone through the purge, he’s going to shoot forward in the name of the Lord. He’s going to break out on the north, the south, the east, and the west. If you can believe him and just do the right things, I want you to clap your hands and give the Lord a praise for the serve. in between there’s a spiritual warfare battle that we have to fight because anytime you leave one season and go into another season, there’s always warfare in the middle.

So, if you would just fight for a little while, God says when you overcome that devil, you’re about to experience his hand at your back and breakthrough is going to happen in your life in many. And I know that sounds cliché, but I’m a prophet. If I if I am a prophet of God, then mark my word right now. Those that win the spiritual battle, God’s going to BE AT Your Back And he’s getting ready to push you forward into everything that you saw in the helmet. SO Keep The Helmet OF SALVATION ON SO You Can Know What GOD IS ABOUT TO DO IN Your Life.

IF You Believe Your GOD, Clap Your Hands And Give GOD a shout. Now go tell three people from the purge to the surge. From the purge to the surge. I promise you it’s going to happen. If I If it don’t happen, I’m not a man of God.

God said purge to serve. Come on, somebody. But you can’t see it if you don’t have your helmet on. The helmet preserves you, but it also reveals everything God’s trying to do in your salvation experience. And the Bible says we got to put on or it says take the helmet.

Take it. Come on. Take the helmet of salvation. What does that mean? You have to receive the truth.

You have to receive the fact that you’re saved, that you’re being saved, that you shall be perfected, and that everything in salvation is a person that can reveal every part of your salvation experience. Take that right now. And if you can believe that right now, you got the helmet on. Glory to God. I get into prayer sometimes and I feel that cloak come over me like that and all of a sudden the technology start working.

I said, “My God, I got the helmet on right now.” And God can show you 10 years into the future when you get your helmet on. You ain’t trying to figure out God. The technology is in salvation. Everything he’s going to do to you is through the salvation experience. It’s through the blood of Jesus.

It’s through the resurrection power of Jesus. It’s through the death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus. If you focus on redemption, you get everything that God has for your life. I want you to stand there. And I want to make a point before I pray.

Watch this. Please catch this. So salvation is bringing me out and keeping and keeping hope alive.

But salvation is also taking me in. When we speak of salvation taking us in, we’re talking about the reconciliation of all things. Can you say that? Reconciliation of all things. What does that mean?

What does that mean? First, he’s reconciling us to God. We get saved and he just keeps reconciling us and we’re coming into an agreement with God. Watch this. And the more you reconciled to God, more parts of you are reconciled to God, the more peace you have, the more peace you have.

How do you reconcile? Reconciliation requires righteousness. What did God say is right? If I do that right thing or align up with what he said is right, then I experience balance. And balance is justice.

I experience balance. Every time I reconcile something to God, I I I’m more balanced out now. And balance brings peace. So anytime you feel that you’re losing peace, you have a conversation with somebody and you feel peace left, that means something wasn’t right. It’s almost like balancing a ledger, a balance sheet or something, an account, and you have to make sure everything balance out so you can know your financial position and so you can make projections.

Salvation is reconciling to God which gives you peace and also reconciling with everybody around you. Watch this. The more you reconcile, the greater your peace will be. The more you reconcile, the greater your peace will be. Psalms 89 and 14.

Put it on the screen. Psalms 89 and 14. It says justice and judgment. Justice there is righteousness saddaka in the Hebrew judgment. The right decrees.

The right judgments are what? The habitation of God’s throne. I want you to see his throne. His throne is built upon what? Just or righteous actions and righteous judgments or just judgments.

Because what do they do? They bring balance. Every time God moves, he’s trying to bring balance. He’s reconciling everything. And once things are reconciled, you have peace.

And the greater your peace is, the greater your throne is. Did you hear me? If I have peace with God, I have authority. I have a throne. I’m at peace with God.

And I There are sins of commission, but there are also sins of omission. Sometimes God is saying, “Go out and do that righteous act. Do that righteous act. And if I don’t do it, I feel empty that day.” So, oh, what is that? Why do I feel so empty?

You’ve committed a sin of omission, son. I told you to do that. Now, you don’t have peace with me in that area. If you’re sensitive to your spirit, you can tell when peace is coming and peace is going. Sometimes I in the middle of the day I said, I just don’t feel the peace like I need to.

So I have to stop and I have to lift my hands and increase the spiritual activity. And then God reminds me of what I was supposed to do and I go do it and the peace returns. That means my books are balanced on the inside. Is anybody hearing me? And when the books are balanced, you have spiritual authority.

Your throne becomes operative. But if I if I can have a conversation with you and it doesn’t go well and I walk away with less peace and I just say that’s just how it is. I say it is what it is. that I’m conditioning myself to weaken my throne.

Now, now I I used to have this kind of weight in my throne. Now I’ve lost 30% of its power. Then I got some relationships over here that are not at peace. Now I’ve lost another 15 20% of it. The more unbalanced relationships you have, the greater the loss will be in your throne to function because his throne is established in justice and or balance.

So I’m living I I I’m living what I call a life of peace. That’s why Paul said, “As much as it lies within you, be at peace with because the more peace you have, the stronger your grace will be.” Kings rule from peace. So if I have a conversation with a kid and I walk away and I know I said something wrong, how do you know what’s right and wrong? your peace. Measure that. You feel a little empty.

Go back and say, “Hey, hey, three-year-old, get over here.” Now, you know, my tone was wrong. I’m sorry. And you walk away peace restored. You can’t be like, “You’re just a three-year-old. It don’t matter.” To God, it does.

He can be a a criminal. If you’re supposed to do something that God said do and you choose not to do it, you lose peace. Salvation, the helmet of salvation is not just what he delivers us from. It’s what he’s taking us to and it’s what he’s building in reconciliation in our life. Say, “I’m being saved.” That’s when you really start growing in the Lord.

When all of this stuff means something to you, lift those hands to him for a moment and worship him. You can’t leave stuff raggedy and be at peace. You just can’t do it. When his throne is established in justice and judgment, it just can’t be done.

So, let’s worship him just for a moment right there. When people talk like that to me, I know they don’t know the Lord. I said, “You don’t know the Lord.” You You know a little bit about him, but you don’t know him. You don’t You can’t. Oh God, I worship you.

Help me establish my throne in my heart. Your throne in my heart. Help me establish your throne of justice and judgment in my heart so I can be at peace and I can rule from this place. Reconciled to God, reconciled to man. Reconciled to God, reconciled to man.

Reconciliation. The gospel is about reconciliation. Salvation is about reconciliation. When you put the helmet on, it’s about reconciliation. And then you can fight the devil.

When you’re reconciled like this, when you think like this, you can drive the devil back. You can wrestle against him. But if your stuff is raggedy, man, he’s going to poke fun at all the stuff that he sees that’s out of order. And it gives him an advantage in the wrestling match. We talk about closing doors is more than devil doors.

Relationships, sins of omission. Father, I pray in your name that we would put on the helmet today. We got to wrestle. We have to wrestle. We got spiritual warfare taking place.

We got a surge coming. We got to wrestle. We can’t leave stuff raggedy and be trying to wrestle against the enemy. We have to wrestle. God, help us get dressed.

We put on the breastplate two weeks ago. Now, help us put on the helmet today. Oh, God. Rabosa, it guarantees. It guarantees our victory.

It guarantees our victory in our wrestling match against the enemy. No one will LOSE IF You Dress Properly. People are losing because they’re fighting naked. They have head injuries, trauma, because they don’t have hope. They don’t believe the gospel.

They don’t trust the gospel for what it really is. But today, God is making a difference. You’re believing the gospel. And a surge is coming. A surge is coming for everybody that believes the gospel.

A surge is coming for everybody that really trusts this word. A surge is coming. I promise you, if you believe this gospel, just as my name is Hugh Smith, a surge is coming. You believe this gospel? God is faithful and he will do what he said he will do.

Trust him, saints. Trust him with all of your heart. Believe him with all of your heart. Worship him with all of your might. Be present in his presence.

Give him glory that’s due unto his name. Don’t let the devil deceive you. Keep your helmet on. Glory to his name. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. I’m saved by his power divine. I’m saved to new life supply. Life now is sweet and my joy is complete because I’m saved. You don’t have to promise me anything.

I’m saved. The Savior will do everything. I’m saved. You don’t have to encourage me to do it because of what you going to give me. GIVE ME The Savior.

THAT’S ALL I need. Give me the Savior and he’ll DO The Rest IN my life. I’m safe. When I came to him, I was weary. I was worn.

I was sad. But I found in him a resting place. Now he has made my soul glad. He has MADE ME GLAD. HE Has Made ME GLAD.

I Will Rejoice Because HE Has Made ME GLAD. How many love the savior? There is a name I love to hear. I love to sing his worth. Sounds like music in my ear.

The Sweetest Name I KNOW. OH, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Because he first loved me. Oh, somebody help me.

Give him glory. If you love him, give him glory. If you really love the Savior, give him glory. If you’re saved, give him glory. If you’re being sanctified, give him glory.

If you know you’re going to end right, give him glory. If you GOT A Vision For Your Life, Give Him Glory. If you’re here today and you want this savior, if you’re stuck in the journey and you need to get the helmet on because you’re questioning his love or You’re fighting and you feel like you’re not winning, you need to get up to this altar right now. You want prayer for anything, come on up to this altar. You want to give your life to Jesus, come on to this altar right now.

I know there are people here that need to come up right now. Come on. Whatever it is, whatever it is, you come. You can come for prayer. You can come to rededicate your life to the Lord.

You can come cuz you’re stuck in some area. You can come because you want to join this church. You can come because you need salvation. Come.

Today is your day. Right now is the accepted time. The day you hear his voice, harden not your heart. Come and be saved. Somebody say, “Come, I want to be saved.” Tell me what I must do to be saved.

I want to get saved and I want to walk with him in this way. Come on. He’ll bring it to pass. Everything that is wrapped up in salvation, he’ll bring it to pass. It’s a part of the redemptive work.

He’ll bring it to pass. Renew your conviction for the fact that you’re saved. All you got to do is believe the gospel. Believe the gospel. Believe the gospel.

Believe the gospel. He died for your sins. He paid the price for us to be saved. Then let’s get saved. Come on.

Let’s get saved. Somebody say, “I got saved some more.” That’s That’s good, too. Let’s get saved some more. That’s called sanctification. Come and get saved some more.

Then get that helmet on. It’ll blow you where you think those innoculous things are great. Put the helmet of salvation on. You see all kind of stuff. It’s the greatest technology I know.

Elor, shout and light will manifest himself. Oh yon will manifest himself to Yahe Elohim I don’t show up show up for Yahe sing will manifest himself. Yeah. Now your way manifest himself. All you got to do is trust in him.

Sing your way. I found at all that will manifest itself will show up. He’ll show up on top. Yahe. My father he will manifest himself.

Show up on time. He will show up on time. He’s your way. You’re my salvation. my father and you’re my healer. You’re the God who I need.

You must shut down sh Elimin. I know he everything we need you to be. You are my provider. Now you’re see Oh he You must die. See, manifest himself.

My love, it is the most beautiful among thousands. and thousands. My beloved, it is the most beautiful among thousands and thousands Yeshua. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Oh yeah. My beloved, my beloved, the most beautiful amongst thousands and thousands and thousands. It’s your most beautiful, the most beautiful among thousand. You must be the most beautiful, the most beautiful of most and thous. You’re beautiful.

You’re beautiful. Yes, you are. We love you. We love you. We love you.

Someone who can stand against my true. You’re my belove. You’re my love. Yes. I love you.

I love you. I love you. Yes, it’s true. It’s true. We call this great.

It’s true. It’s true. It’s true. We love you. We love you.

It’s true. My salvation. My salvation. My salvation. My salvation.

My salvation. My salvation. My salvation. My salvation is my salvation. You’re my redeemer.

Hallelujah. You’re my redeemer. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

We call your name. We call on your name. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We love you. We adore you. The first one, the preeminent one. The only holy God, the only atonement that would appear. It’s you, Jesus.

It’s you, Jesus. Thank Thank you team. Thank you. Oh, yes. You are Yes.

I want you to prepare yourself to give your offerings today. Some of you will be given electronically. Some of you will bring the offerings up to the front. Right after that, we’ll dismiss you and then we’ll have a baby dedication. Thank you, Father.

How many got something out of the word today? anything. Basic message, salvation, just have to have it on as a helmet. It’ll protect you. It’ll protect you. Hold those given devices up.

Whatever you’re giving with either either the envelope or your actual device. Those of you by liveream, if you would like to participate with this, we certainly would appreciate it. you can and give to this ministry the work that’s happening here. We talked about we’re going to we have a shelter now and we have to uh raise funds for his operation budget and all of that full shelter but it’s a lot of work that’s it involves and so at some point we’ll be making a formal presentation on what it is we’re doing and how you can participate. Father, thank you for all the good things that you’ve connected to salvation. Everything that’s in that big bucket.

Thank you for being the savior. And you are the one doing the work. You work in us both to will and do of your good pleasure. I pray you would bless every giver in this house. Give back to them 100fold.

Let them learn your ways of economics. teach them your ways so they can have experience with you. I command blessing on their children’s children in Jesus name. Amen. This time you’re in the hands of the ushers. Please bring those gifts.

My God is big. He’s so strong and so mighty. My God’s plans for me goes beyond my wildest dreams. Can you say my God? My God is good.

It’s good. So good. So good to me. To me. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So good to me. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. More than ever. Yeah. Yeah. So good to me.

Yeah. My God. My God is big. Is big. He’s so strong.

So strong and so mighty. Say my God. My God’s plans for me. For me goes beyond. beyond the wildest dream. Say, “My God is good. is good.

Is good. He’s so good. So good to me.” To me. Everybody lift it up and say, “Yeah.” Yeah. Yeah.

So good. So good to me. Yeah. Yeah. Say, “Yeah.” Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. So good. So good to me. Yeah.

Yeah. I want to thank everybody for joining us today. Those of you watching by live stream, the Lord bless you. If you’re not going to stay for the baby dedication, we want to dismiss you at this time informally. normally have a formal dismissal, but if you’re not standing for the baby dedication, we’re going to ask that you be dismissed at this time. Everybody else, we want you to stay come up front for the baby dedication.

On behalf of Bishop Hugh, Pastor Letha, and your Embassy Covenant Church International family, happy birthday to all those born in April. Apologetics training continues. This training will happen weekly on Wednesdays at 700 p.m. It began Wednesday, April 15th, and will continue through Wednesday, May 6th. See the midweek email for additional details.

Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 10th, and we are honoring our mothers this year with the honorable Mother’s Day awards. We invite you to join us in honoring your mother by sending in your Mother’s Day tribute. We are asking all who are interested to record themselves on their mobile devices in landscaped or horizontal wishing your mother a happy Mother’s Day. All Mother’s Day tribute videos must be submitted by Monday, May 4th. Then on Mother’s Day, every mother will have an opportunity to take a professional photo here at the church with her family.

So come dressed in your Mother’s Day best. For additional Mother’s Day details, see your midweek email. As we approach Mother’s Day, we recognize that this can be a difficult time for many. If Mother’s Day brings mixed emotions, you are not alone. We invite you to stop by the Hope for Hurting Hearts table to find thoughtful resources and support for navigating complicated parent relationships, unresolved grief, and infertility journeys.

Our heart is to walk with you, offering hope for the journey, and hope for your heart. Attention all Embassy Metro Detroit members. Missions and outreach evangelism training is coming up. If you feel called to make an impact beyond the church walls, or whether you’re interested in joining the missions and outreach team or looking for hands-on evangelism training, this training is for you. Saturday, May 16th, 11:00 a.m. here in the Embassy Metro Detroit Sanctuary.

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