The Bible Its Symbols – A Sword

The Bible is a sword.

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Heb 4:13Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

The Bible pierces to the heart of the matter.  It cuts thru and exposes the thoughts and intents of the heart.  God already sees it.  It does not need to be exposed to Him.  All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of God.  This piercing and dividing asunder is for our sake.  God already knows, but we often do not.  He sees it all, but quite often we cannot truly see our own hearts.

The problem is that we can very easily deceive ourselves.  The sword of the word of God is powerful and can pierce thru our self-deception and expose to us the thoughts and intents of our heart.  The Bible can cut away anything that needs to be cut to expose the truth to us.

I can personally testify on how the Word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  Listening to preaching and teaching since 1998 and reading the Bible and studying it.  I have had conviction come time and time again.  I have been corrected, I have had my thinking changed.  I have had what I thought was a good intent exposed by the word of God as, … well not as good as I thought it was.

The word of God is powerful and can cut right thru all of our excuses, and all of our hiding, and all of our covering up.  It can expose things we know about and it can expose things that were hidden to us about our thoughts and intents of the heart.

Sometimes people do know their true intents but are fooling others.  The word of God can also pierce thru and expose that to others.   In Hebrews 4:12 the word of God is a sword that pieces and exposes.

And this Sword is wielded by the Holy Spirit.

Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

Eph 6:17 is in the section of scripture telling us to take on the whole amour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day.  And we are to take the sword of the Spirit and then it defines that.  Which is the word of God.  Part of our armour is the Word of God.  Which is called the sword of the Spirit.

The Word of God is His Sword.  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.  It is His book.  He inspired it.  He used men, but He wrote it.  No one can wield this sword like He can.

We are to put it on as a part of our armour so we can stand for Him.  A sword is both a defensive and an offensive weapon.  We need the sword of the Spirit to defend against attacks on our faith, and we need to use the sword to advance.  It is thru the Word of God and the Spirits working that people get saved.

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The word of God is what God uses to open eyes, expose hearts, bring conviction, defend our faith from attacks, and save souls.  It is the sword of the Spirit and it is powerful.

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