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Ephesians 6:17
Ephesians 6:17
It’s not enough for the Christian soldier to be wearing the armor. That’s good protection for defense, but what about offense? How do we fight against the strategy of the devil? Well, Ephesians 6:17 tells us, “Taking the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.” That’s interesting. “Taking the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.” Now he also mentions “the helmet of salvation.” That covers the mind and helps us to think the way God wants us to think. But we take that “sword of the Spirit” because we have to fight against the devil. It’s not enough just to have defense. You’ll never make any progress that way! You also have to have the “sword of the Spirit.” Hebrews 4:12 tells us that “the Word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, it pierces down within the inner person” (paraphrase).
The “sword of the Spirit” is not like a material sword. The Roman soldier carried a sword with which to hack away at his enemy. We have a spiritual sword. Peter one night tried to use a material sword to fight a spiritual battle, and he got into trouble. In Acts chapter 2 Peter used instead the spiritual sword, the Word of God, and he won 3,000 people to the Lord Jesus. You see, our sword is not like a material sword. The “sword of the Spirit” has life in it. A sword made of metal does not have life. Somebody has to pick it up and use it. We have the Holy Spirit living within us. He wrote the Word of God, and He can help us to use the Word of God against the wicked one. A material sword gets dull, but God’s spiritual sword doesn’t get dull, it gets sharper and sharper as we use it in the power of the Spirit and it always overcomes the devil.
This is how Jesus won the victory in His temptation, Matthew chapter 4. He simply said to Satan “It is written, it is written, it is written,” and those three thrusts from the spiritual sword vanquished the wicked one. That’s why it’s important today that we read the Bible, study the Bible, understand the Bible, memorize the Word of God and have that sword ready when Satan comes to attack.
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It’s not enough for the Christian soldier to be wearing the armor. That’s good protection for defense, but what about offense? How do we fight against the strategy of the devil? Well, Ephesians 6:17 tells us, “Taking the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.” That’s interesting. “Taking the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.” Now he also mentions “the helmet of salvation.” That covers the mind and helps us to think the way God wants us to think. But we take that “sword of the Spirit” because we have to fight against the devil. It’s not enough just to have defense. You’ll never make any progress that way! You also have to have the “sword of the Spirit.” Hebrews 4:12 tells us that “the Word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, it pierces down within the inner person” (paraphrase).
The “sword of the Spirit” is not like a material sword. The Roman soldier carried a sword with which to hack away at his enemy. We have a spiritual sword. Peter one night tried to use a material sword to fight a spiritual battle, and he got into trouble. In Acts chapter 2 Peter used instead the spiritual sword, the Word of God, and he won 3,000 people to the Lord Jesus. You see, our sword is not like a material sword. The “sword of the Spirit” has life in it. A sword made of metal does not have life. Somebody has to pick it up and use it. We have the Holy Spirit living within us. He wrote the Word of God, and He can help us to use the Word of God against the wicked one. A material sword gets dull, but God’s spiritual sword doesn’t get dull, it gets sharper and sharper as we use it in the power of the Spirit and it always overcomes the devil.
This is how Jesus won the victory in His temptation, Matthew chapter 4. He simply said to Satan “It is written, it is written, it is written,” and those three thrusts from the spiritual sword vanquished the wicked one. That’s why it’s important today that we read the Bible, study the Bible, understand the Bible, memorize the Word of God and have that sword ready when Satan comes to attack.