You know when I first went to the army, I learned how to throw grenades. We underwent much training to be used in battle. Grenades have a safety handle. When you hold the handle together with the grenade and you remove the safety pin, it will not explode. Then you usually go, "One! Two! Toss!" And when you toss it, then the handle is released. The safety is completely released and it strikes the, the wick, the detonator. The detonator lights on fire. The fire goes all the way to the gun powder which takes about three seconds. And once it reaches three seconds, What happens?

The gun powder gets set on fire and then, "BOOM!" There's a big explosion. The metal strap breaks into little pieces and shoots everywhere, killing people.

A grenade with a safety pin on it, it's nothing, it's fine. And even though you toss it, if the pin is not removed, it's nothing. Sometimes, people are in such a rush that they throw the grenade in to battle without removing the pin. Then sometimes the enemy catches it removes the pin, tosses it back. and it kills you. For a grenade, once you remove the safety pin, it'll hit the detonator, and light it on fire.

The wick will go down for three seconds and then hit the gun powder and it'll blow up.

It is the same with the word of God. When the Bible is closed, it's just sitting there -it can't do anything. The word will not work. But when you take the Bible and open it up, and read it, and when you accept that word into your heart, amazing things happen.

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