Called To Glory
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Called To Glory
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Welcome to “Called to Glory,” the cutting-edge weekly podcast dedicated to helping you know Christ, the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings.
In this series, we’re going to look at what the apostle Paul described in his epistle to the Ephesians as the sword of the Spirit. If you’ve been a believer for any length of time you’ll know exactly what I mean.
Almost everyone seems to assume that because Paul said the sword of the Spirit is the word of God he was referring to the Bible. And since the Bible is almost universally taught and understood to be the word of God, according to this reasoning it's also believed to be the sword of the Spirit. In other words, the sum total of what Paul meant in Ephesians 6:17 by taking up or wielding the sword of the Spirit is to read or quote Scripture, or perhaps stand on some biblical promise.
And virtually no one questions it.
But is that really what Paul meant when he wrote about the sword of the Spirit? Your first reaction may very well be of course it is! And given how this is generally taught and understood in Christian and Messianic circles, that would be perfectly understandable. As we’ll see, however, there are some major problems with this view.
Not the least of which is that it's a gross oversimplification of what he said and meant
Fortunately, God has not left us without clear guidance on this. And that’s exactly what we’re going to be looking at in this 3-part series.
Using the original biblical text, I will show beyond any reasonable doubt that Paul was in fact NOT referring to the Bible – at least not directly - when he exhorted the saints to “take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
And by the time we’re done, I believe you’ll be quite blown away. Not just at the shallowness of the modern understanding of the sword of the Spirit but also at the richness, power and importance of what Paul actually said and meant!
Soundtrack music:
"Awakening" by LNDÖ
"Mind Heart" by Tristan Barton
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
You can quote scripture or stand on some biblical promise all day long, but if God hasn't personally spoken it to you, it will not be the sword of the Spirit. It must be something God has spoken to you personally, and that's not all. You may find this hard to believe, but the fact is Satan is not afraid of the Bible. Not one bit. Perhaps it's his enormous hubris, but whatever the case may be, the truth of the matter is Satan does not fear the Bible. He not only knows it inside and out, he's very skilled at using it as a weapon when it suits his purposes. So then, whenever we're faced with some opposition to what we know to be God's will for us, we can, and in fact must take the Rhema word he has spoken to us and by faith take our stand on it. Whether used defensively against some lie of the devil or offensively to counter that lie with the power and truth of what God has said, this is what it means to take up the sword of the Spirit.