Salvation & the Sidwinder Missile

Many years ago when I was a boy, I can remember my father, an electrical engineer, coming home from work and telling me that he was working on a top secret project for the military. He couldn't share details about it but said it was a weapon that could shoot a plane out of the sky with a guided missile. Of course, as a young boy, I was amazed. Years later after the thing had been developed, tested and put into practical application he was able to tell me it was called a Sidewinder Missile that used a heat seeking guidance system to fly up the exhaust of a jet engine and blow up the plane.........wow........how ingenious.

I got to thinking about that time in my life and wondered what that had anything to do with what I am doing today. Then it hit me.......the Sidewinder Missile was designed to take out a target that could do some extensive damage to our military forces. That really has been the goal of wartime anyway.......to come up with ways to take out your enemy before he inflicts damage on you.

Now I want to tie all of this into SALVATION. The whole idea of spiritual warfare is to take out your enemy before he takes you out. Our enemy is Satan and his demonic forces. Any enemy that is worth their salt, so to speak, will develop ways to take out his enemy's major targets (as in the case of the Sidewinder Missile). The major target of Satan's war machine is TRUE SALVATION, because when TRUE SALVATION is put into play he loses some of his forces. Developing strategies to take out this target is what he does best, remember, he is a "crafty schemer". One of the best weapons he has developed is "pseudo salvation", to literally render the person useless in the spiritual war. The person is rendered useless because he or she can't fight a spiritual war without God's Holy Spirit inside of them. The enemy has no respect for your church attendance, or your musical ability on the worship team, or your PhD. in Religious Studies..........and on, and on, and on. He only respects one thing in a person's life.......God's power within.

It is really this simple. TRUE SALVATION is being regenerated through God's Holy Spirit, or Christ In You. PSEUDO SALVATION is simply a decision you (as an individual) make one day, and everything in your life is based on that DECISION. There is no regeneration in a decision, only when a person dies to him or herself and allows God's Holy Spirit within to take control. Without the Holy Spirit's power IN your life, you are cannon fodder for the enemy. If you would like a good, short, periodical to read about this DECISION vs TRUE SALVATION tactic, please send me an E-mail at cppinstitute@windstream.net and ask for it. I can send it to you as an attachment that you can download and read at your leisure. But........if you do nothing else.........please make sure you are operating your Christian walk with TRUE SALVATION......because just as sneaky as the Sidewinder Missile is.........so is your spiritual enemy. The missile blows up the whole plane, with all on board, in a fiery explosion.............PSEUDO SALVATION gives the false impression that you are truly saved.....and blows up your life in hell's fire.

Think about it.

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."

1 Pet 1:23 for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable but imperishable, {that is,} through the living and enduring word of God.

John 14:17 {that is} the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, {but} you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you. (emphasis added)