Matthew’s Gospel shows us how Jesus wielded the Spirit’s sword against Satan….Jesus deftly sliced through the mass of falsehood. In every temptation, He responded with, “It is written.”
Every day we are faced with attacks that come in the form of bamboozling tangles of truth and lies. Statements from the Bible serve like a sword to cut through these lies, revealing the difference between true and false, right and wrong.
Anyone who tries to push forward in the Christian life will inevitably feel something pushing back. This resistance might involve bad habits or negative influences, but there is always more than meets the eye. A spiritual campaign, involving countless individual battles, rages in the unseen realm. As the Apostle Paul teaches in Ephesians 6, “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against…spiritual forces in heavenly places.”
Among the pieces of armor we have is “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” But how is God’s word like a sword?
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