2134 Sword School

About this episode

This episode discusses the importance of the word of God as a spiritual weapon in the battle against evil.

Now that we have all 5 pieces of our armor, the belt of truth around our waist, the breastplate of righteousness covering our heart, the shoes of peace for our ready feet, the shield of faith in one hand to protect us from the fiery arrows, and the helmet of salvation protecting our mind, we have one last thing to do … Ephesians 6:17, “Take the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.” We have been given a sword to fight this battle. That sword is the very word of God. That word is given to us by the Holy Spirit. Notice Paul says, “Take the sword of THE SPIRIT, which is the WORD OF GOD.” This is more than just having the Bible app on your phone. More than posting a few scriptures on your social when you’re having a bad day. This is the Holy Spirit giving you a literal weapon to use in the spiritual battle raging all around you. That weapon is a sword in the word of God. The Bible isn’t a book of magic words to repeat to get what we want. Speed reading it isn’t going to arm you, that’s just going to check a box. The ol’ “let me crack this puppy open and just see what scripture jumps out at me” isn’t a real sword for the battle against evil. Here’s what the Bible really is, it…

People in this episode

Host: Pamela Crim

Topics covered

• spiritual warfare
• armor of God
• Holy Spirit
• Bible study
• faith

Keywords

• sword of the Spirit
• word of God
• spiritual battle
• armor of God
• faith

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Ephesians 6:17, Bible

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