इफ़ीसीयो 6:17 .....और आत्मा की तलवार जो परमेश्वर का वचन है, ले लो।Ephesians 6:17 KJ.....and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
6. The Sword of the Spirit: An Offensive Armour for Victory
"LET SATAN CUT YOU, BLEED THE WORD OF GOD"
Sword is an offensive as well as defensive weapon of war. Defensive in terms of blocking enemy's attack. First battle in human history was over God's word. When God commanded Adam and Eve, "Do this and don't do that" Satan said, "Did God really say that"? Causing doubt and forgetfulness about the word of God.
Satan's first war is against the word of God; though be it written or oral and it's same today. As long as Adam and Eve had the sword of the Spirit Satan could do nothing. So he wanted to take that away. That's called surrender. And Satan succeeded in Edenic war. Enemy had his way in Adam's life because they doubted and forgot what God SAID. From then on man is constantly loosing battle with the forces of darkness.
Evident triumph could be witnessed across the globe; of lies over truth, darkness over light, fear over faith, hatred over love, pride over humility, deception over faithfulness, corruption over justice, partiality over equity, selfishness over benevolence, tyranny over mercy and what not.
Today in postmodern culture, the war is against absolute. Bible's claim to be an absolute truth is an abomination to a postmodernist. In this ever changing world of ideas and fleeting emotions, if something that's desperately needed is but the Unchanging Word of Truth.
In any war, when you put down your offensive weapon, it simply means you have surrendered. Satan wants us to surrender ourselves to him by forgetting and forsaking word of God. And that's true with many Christians today. We are ministers and face this issues a number of times. When the Bible is opened our eyes are closed.
When life goes hard, one of two things people do. Either they draw close to God or backslide. I remember one incident, o was preaching in a church about mediating word of God. After service was over, one lady came front and told my mother that, "I had almost stopped reading the Bible because I had been going through something worse in my life but now I'll resume my Bible reading".
She had dropped her most powerful weapon before the challenges of life.
This what enemy wants you to do, just surrender.
When it comes to learning the art of using this sword of the spirit Jesus Christ is the master. When Satan attacks Him with tempting questions and doubts, Jesus does nothings but shoves the unadulterated sword of the Spirit which is the plain word of God and defeats him right away. The lesson here one can learn is the remembering or memorising the Word of God. Jesus remembered what He had learned from His childhood and used it appropriately. Today, we need to learn and memorise the the Word of God, only then we withstand enemy's attack.
Now you use it to attack enemy. When you release it in the form of the gospel, attacking the strongholds of darkness. And Bible says word of God never turns back without accomplishing its purpose.
Heb 4:12 To cut the hearts of the people. Acts 2:36-37 Many a times, misusing the sword, we cut hearts of the people with our words just as Peter did, when he cut the ear of Malchus but use word of God for sewing broken hearts and cutting sinful hearts. Remember Jesus, when Satan came to tempt Him, He used nothing to counter him but word. And He didn't open the physical scriptures there but it was in His heart. Be victorious in Jesus' name.
"Take care of the Word of God and the Word of God will take care of you".
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