By Greg Laurie
“But let us who live in the light be clearheaded, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation.”
—1 Thessalonians 5:8
The apostle Paul spent a good deal of his life under house arrest, which meant that he was chained to Romans. The Bible tells us that even people in Caesar’s household came to faith (see Philippians 4:22). And we have to know that any Roman soldier chained to Paul would have heard the gospel.
Also, Paul would have had a lot of time to observe Roman armor. He wrote about the armor of God in Ephesians 6. But he also referred to it in 1 Thessalonians 5:8, where he wrote, “But let us who live in the light be clearheaded, protected by the armor of faith and love, and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation” (NLT).
