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We are going to get right into 
our our lesson today continuing 

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on in our Ephesians 6 study on 
the armor of God. 

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And this week we are, we are 
taking a look at the same verse 

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that we were on last week, 
Ephesians 617. 

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But specifically, we're moving 
on to another item 617 says and 

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take the helmet of salvation and
the sword of the Spirit, which 

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is the word of God. 
So let me just give a little 

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background on on the item in in 
question here. 

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The the Roman sword that we're 
talking about is called a 

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gladius. 
The gladius was at this time 

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when this was written in the 1st
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This was a relatively new at 
least in, in Rome, it was 

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borrowed from the the Greek 
Zephos sword. 

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It was a relatively new design, 
at least in large scale 

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production for like the military
and stuff, because it had a 

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double edge. 
Most swords would be on 

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one-on-one edge, while the other
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And so tactically, this, this 
changed the way that the, that 

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this sword was wielded and 
defended against because it 

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would, you know, both, both 
sides of the blade were, were, 

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were lethal. 
And so people defending against 

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this had to change the way that 
they, they fought. 

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So this is a big deal that it 
was, you know, that it was a, a 

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new thing for them. 
It was, it was the, the gladius 

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was useful in a chopping and 
swinging motion, but it was also

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very effective in a stabbing 
move like from the phalanx that 

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we, we talked about a couple 
weeks ago. 

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The, the formation that the 
soldiers would do with their, 

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with their Shields, they would, 
they'd hold the shield up and, 

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and stab the sword out. 
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usually only about 19 inches 
long, rarely longer than 27 

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inches, which was much shorter 
than previous swords of the 

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region. 
And this just the size of this 

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thing alone. 
The fact that it was a short 

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sword, it actually added to the 
reputation of the Roman 

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centurion because it suggested 
that he was extremely courageous

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or or brave by by going into a 
battle with this short sword. 

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So all of this background, all 
of this stuff to say the double 

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edged sword was designed with 
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It was extremely dangerous and 
effective in the hands of a well

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trained soldier. 
Now this sword was was worn 

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securely on the belt. 
In fact, the sword of the spirit

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was directly linked to the belt 
of truth, reminding us that the 

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word of God is intimately and 
eternally connected and, and 

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absolutely inseparable from 
truth. 

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And you guys have probably 
watched, you know, movies with 

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sword fights and, and certainly 
you've noticed in every sword 

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fight that you've ever seen that
the sword is used to block 

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attacks as well as to deliver 
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So the sword is really the only 
offensive and defensive weapon 

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in the armor of God arsenal that
that we're looking at. 

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And that's a concept that's very
important in our our study 

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today. 
So let's talk about it being a 

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defensive weapon first. 
So second Timothy 316 is a 

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package that we've all heard, 
you know, many times and it 

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testifies to the God breathed 
authority of the word of God. 

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It says all Scripture is 
breathed out by God and 

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profitable for teaching, for 
reproof, for correction and for 

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training and righteousness. 
Now you might sword that way, 

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but I think if you know, if, if 
you can imagine like a, a horse 

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with a a riding crop, using that
to, to correct and that horse, 

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it's a weapon, so to speak, 
right? 

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It's, it's, it's, you know, much
the same way with with the idea 

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here of the sword. 
So in Luke 4, when Jesus was 

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tempted in the wilderness by 
Satan, the only responses that 

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are recorded from Jesus are to 
quote Scripture. 

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Now, Jesus is omnipotent, right?
Jesus is, he's supremely 

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powerful and capable of 
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But his method of defense was 
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It was just it was to quote 
Scripture, which I think is is 

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is pretty, pretty interesting. 
In Revelation 116 we see this 

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this phrasing or this, you know,
talking about the double edged 

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sword. 
We see it several places, but I 

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just want to pull a couple of 
these out real briefly. 

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Revelation 116, it says in his 
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and coming out of his mouth was 
a sharp double edged sword. 

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Pretty specific there, right? 
And then in Revelation 212, I 

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got to use this cool font. 
I thought the the, the topic 

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here, I had a different 1 and I 
couldn't read it. 

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So I changed it so you guys can 
read it a little bit. 

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But now I can't read it back 
there because it's because it's 

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fancy. 
In Revelation 212, it says to 

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the Angel of the church in in 
Pergamum write these are the 

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words of him who has the sharp 
double edged sword. 

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So again here, that's another 
example of where we see this 

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phrase double edged sword. 
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when you when you look at the 
Greek double edged means, it's 

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the word diestomos, diestomos 
in, in Greek and it's a, it's a 

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it's weird because it's a 
combination of these two words 

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die meaning to and stomos or 
stomos meaning mouth. 

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So it actually is the actual 
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mouthed sword, which is pretty 
interesting. 

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We see indications of of 
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elsewhere to in in Isaiah 49, 
two says he made my mouth like a

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sharp sword. 
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there's several of them in 
Revelation, but in Revelation 

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19, it says from his mouth comes
a sharp sword with which to 

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strike down the nation's. 
Now those last two, the sharp 

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sword, it's not the same double 
edge, but it's still interesting

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that it's that that imagery of 
a, of a, a sword associated with

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the mouth. 
So even though it doesn't say 

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that double edge meaning double 
mouth, it's still both of them 

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are, are indicating and, and 
placing it coming out of, of the

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mouth. 
So that's a, that's a, a pretty 

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interesting concept that that we
have here. 

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Now the sharpened edge of the 
sword, this is this is a a very 

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specific description that we see
that it's double edged this way.

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And and so many commentaries as 
they as they work through this, 

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explain that that one sharpened 
edge of the sword came into 

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being when the word of God 
initially proceeded from the 

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mouth of God. 
The second edge of the sword is 

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is added when the word of God 
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So I'm not ascribing power to it
supernaturally when when we 

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speak it, but but but 
figuratively when we are able to

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speak God's word. 
There is power in that we we 

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know that because that's that's 
backed up in in Scripture, but 

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it must be properly wielded. 
If we again, if we go back and 

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we look at that passage in Luke 
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Jesus the first two times, he 
comes back with his third 

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attempt to to tempt him and he 
uses Scripture against Jesus 

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improperly, right? 
That's why this is important. 

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It does The sword has to be 
wielded properly. 

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Satan used the same weapon, but 
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And so this is how we know that 
the sword of the Spirit is 

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perfectly attached to the belt 
of truth because the misuse of 

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Scripture didn't have power, 
because Satan tried to swing it 

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untruthfully. 
We also see that the the sword 

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of the Spirit is an offensive 
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As we've already seen, the sword
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is in our, in our main passages 
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God. 
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word of God as Scripture, right?
God's as Scripture has God's 

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spoken Word and Jesus the 
Incarnate word we that laid out 

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clearly in in in John chapter 1.
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for the word of God is living 
and active, sharper than any 2 

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edged sword, piercing to the 
division of soul and of spirit, 

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of joints and of marrow and 
discerning the thoughts and 

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intentions of the heart. 
So the idea is that is that of 

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of of piercing and penetrating 
right the the word of God 

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reaches all the way to the 
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action, and it lays open the 
motives and the and the feelings

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of of of those that it touches. 
It discerns between what is good

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and what is bad. 
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develop our own opinions and our
own beliefs, some of them very 

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strongly, right? 
We all, we all have some beliefs

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that we hold onto very, very 
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And until we come to know Jesus 
rightly, many of those beliefs 

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that we hold onto so strongly 
are are simply wrong, right? 

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We we can all admit that, right?
We've we've held onto things in 

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our life that we thought were 
absolute, but but when we when 

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we come to know Jesus, often 
times we come to opinion we and 

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we start believing something 
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So God's word, this scalpel 
sharp blade can cut through the 

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joints in the marrow it and help
us to separate our wrong, 

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sinful, selfish opinions and 
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That's why in that passage from 
second Timothy where we read is 

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profitable for teaching, for 
reproof, for correction and for 

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training in, in righteousness. 
So certainly as you, as you 

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think about this idea of 
separating the, the, the, the 

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joint from the marrow, right or,
or whatever. 

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For me anyways, I, I was going 
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prepping, you know, meat away 
from the steak. 

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But it'd be one thing if it was 
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it was a steak, you might think 
it was some gross, gruesome, you

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know, Wharf picture or something
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So I didn't, I didn't put it up 
here, but I think you can 

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imagine that, right? 
If you've ever cut the, the, the

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meat away from a bone and, and 
you've tried to use a sharp 

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knife in order to, to do that 
and, and the sharper the knife, 

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the the better you can do that. 
Or, or hunters. 

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You guys have certainly done the
same thing when you've prepped, 

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you know, game in the field to, 
to, you know, get the, the meat 

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to take home. 
And so the the sharp blade of 

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Scripture has the ability to 
separate those ugly things that 

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we cling to right in our hearts 
in our in our lives. 

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Second Corinthians 10 verses 4 
through 5 says for weapons of 

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our welfare are not of the 
flesh, but have divine power to 

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destroy strongholds. 
We destroy arguments and every 

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lofty opinion raised against the
knowledge of God and take every 

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thought captive to obey Christ. 
Well, think about what those 

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strongholds are in our in our 
life, right? 

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A sin. 
So when we read the Bible, when 

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we study Scripture and hear the 
heart of God, we're enlightened 

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to it, right? 
And it, it shines a light into 

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those recesses of our lives 
where we ignore our sins or, or,

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or really more to the point 
where we have where we have 

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hidden sin, right? 
It it brings them to light in 

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stark contrast to God's word and
to and and in doing that it 

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those strongholds are destroyed,
that safe and secure place where

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our guilty treasures of of sin, 
where stash are now vulnerable. 

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Well, what about every lofty 
opinion raised against the 

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knowledge of God? 
Our society has some pretty 

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crazy opinions that go directly 
against the knowledge of God 

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right. 
And and in this passage in 

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Second Corinthians, Paul is 
talking about people who have in

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this particular situation, 
people who have attacked his 

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ministry specific specifically 
suggesting that he's a coward 

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when he visits them. 
But he talks the in the, in the 

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letters that he writes. 
But our but, but we can use this

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throughout, right, because our 
weapons to fight those lofty 

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opinions of, of people of of 
critics of culture of just our, 

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our sinful world, though they 
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And we need to understand that 
we don't, we don't, you know, 

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there's no fistfights or Glocks 
needed in order to, to defend 

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the faith, right? 
Our weapon to defeat those lofty

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ideas is to share the word of 
God, and that's a very powerful 

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weapon. 
And just because the word of God

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is a weapon doesn't mean that we
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Truth alone, truth. 
Truth does hurt, right? 

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We can all understand that. 
Sometimes people hear truth and 

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they think that it's hate 
speech, but it's not Truth can 

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can hurt us. 
It's it's supposed to, it is 

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supposed to cut us deep when our
position on something goes 

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against it, goes against God's 
will. 

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In First Corinthians one, verse 
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cross is foolishness to those 
who are perishing, but to us who

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are being saved, it is the power
of God. 

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And so, no, sorry, I should have
used the sword of the Spirit. 

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Yeah, there's a lot of 
foolishness and, and hurtful 

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truth in the Bible for those who
choose sin, right? 

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I'm not saying it's foolishness,
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it comes across as foolishness 
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But we got to, you know, we need
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We don't, we don't wield it in 
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it knowing that it hurts. 
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We're, we shouldn't be afraid to
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that those who are perishing are
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and they're going to be 
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But we don't do it with the 
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share with them and let the, the
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cutting right. 
And soon that cutting away of, 

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of cancerous sin brings about 
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It, it does it in US, right? 
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people that we share the gospel 
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that made us sick, that held us 
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sinful path. 
It, it loses its, its power over

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us and something new and healthy
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And Ezekiel 3627, it says, and I
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and cause you to walk in my 
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my rules. 
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think that's on that same 
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Yeah, in verse, in verse 31, it 
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evil ways and your deeds that 
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loathe yourselves for your 
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abominations. 
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that this imagery can be helpful
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example, if you're, you know, 
the idea of surgery, the scalpel

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has to do damage in order to cut
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But but the sharper that scalpel
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in cutting where it needs to 
cut, right. 

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And so if we that, the more that
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it in in a proper way, the 
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the more that it's able to, to, 
to cut where it where it needs 

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to cut and not do additional 
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And what I mean by that, I hope 
I'm explaining this way or hope 

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I'm explaining this clearly. 
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we all know of times when people
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intentionally too hurt. 
They, they, they misuse it, 

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right? 
They, they try to cherry pick a 

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verse or a passage or an idea 
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to suggest something that, that 
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it is. 
And that can, that can do damage

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to people who, who don't, you 
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And I think we hear about that 
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that are that are critical of 
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they think that the gospel is is
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They think of it that people 
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that just smashes and does all 
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you call that extra damage? 
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What's that word? 
Collateral damage, Right. 

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Yeah. 
So, but you know, in this, in 

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this passage, it's, it's 
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spirit, right? 
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purpose of the sword of the 
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us strong and, and able to 
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our enemies of Satan and, and 
his demons. 

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Matthew 10 verses 19 through 20 
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of us are probably familiar with
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Says when they deliver you over,
do not be anxious how you are to

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speak or what you are to say for
what you are for. 

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For what you are to say will be 
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For it is not you who speak, but
the Spirit of your Father 

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speaking through you. 
So the Word of God is to be 

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wielded like a sharp 2 edged 
sword in the mighty power of the

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Holy Spirit, both defensively 
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Swords were used to protect 
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enemy to overcome or or kill 
him. 

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And, and so and where we see 
Jesus uses the uses scripture to

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defend against Satan's attack. 
And also where we see we that 

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the Word of God penetrates into 
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carves us up. 
See how what I mean about it 

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being both offensive and 
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The Holy Spirit uses the power 
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through the conviction of sin 
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life, and then to give them 
spiritual strength to be a 

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mature, effective soldiers for 
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corrupt and evil world that we 
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In sharing the gospel with the 
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Not because God needs us to to 
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opportunity to do that. 
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In Romans 10 verses 14 and 15 it
says, How then will they call on

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him in whom they have not 
believed? 

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And how are they to believe in 
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have never heard? 
And how are they to hear without

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someone preaching? 
And how are they to preach 

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unless they are sent as it is 
written? 

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How beautiful are the feet of 
those who preach the good news 

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and that preach to word. 
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people, it is powerful. 
Isaiah 55 verse 11 says, So 

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shall my word be that goes out 
from my mouth. 

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It shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that 

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which I purpose and shall 
succeed in the thing for which I

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sent it. 
Now remember in that verse that 

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we read from First Corinthians 
chapter one said for the for the

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word of the cross as foolishness
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to us who are being saved, it is
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So while we read Isaiah and know
that God's Word does not return 

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empty or void in some of the 
translations, that same passage 

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says that it will accomplish 
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So, so think about this. 
We can struggle with our friends

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and loved ones who don't seem to
be responding to the gospel 

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where maybe, you know, we might 
think that God's word is 

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returning empty, but we need to 
remember that he does things 

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according to his will and 
purpose, not not according to 

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our plans or, or our calendars 
or our timelines or anything 

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like that. 1st Corinthians 211 
and 12 says so also, no one 

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comprehends the thoughts of God 
except the Spirit of God. 

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Now we have received not the 
spirit of the world, but the 

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Spirit who is from God that we 
might understand the things 

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freely given us by God. 
So the sword of the Spirit is 

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not just for defense, actively 
countering evil and resisting 

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temptation. 
It's it's used to to discern 

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right from wrong and to live in 
a way that is free from sin 

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might not always understand 
everything about it. 

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In fact, we will never fully 
understand, we'll never fully 

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understand everything about it, 
right? 

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But we can trust that though, 
the more that we read it, the 

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more that we study it, the more 
that we memorize it and that we 

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pray and, and, and share it and 
apply it, the more that we will 

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be surgically affected by it 
too. 

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It'll continue to cut into us 
and cut away those things. 

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And again, the more that we read
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other people as well, the more 
that it will that they will be 

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surgically affected by it on 
God's timing. 

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Not and it doesn't necessarily 
mean that they're going to hear 

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it and come to saving faith. 
We all know that, right? 

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But it might affect them in some
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Pebble effect that way, if that 
ripple effect might might reach 

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somebody, you know, down the 
line in a way that we can't even

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understand it. 
So there's no coincidence that 

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Scripture uses this imagery of 
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This double edged sword was 
designed with maximum lethality 

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in mind. 
It was it was extremely 

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dangerous and effective in the 
hands of a well trained soldier.

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Well, the word of God also has 
maximum lethality to sin. 

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It is dangerous and effective in
the hands of a well trained 

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soldier. 
So let's talk, Let's just let's 

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let's discuss a couple of things
here. 

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Let me here's a here's a here's 
a couple of questions. 

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I just like to maybe chat with 
you guys about how can we, how 

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can we use the sword of the 
spirit effectively in our daily 

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life? 
Sure. 

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Our actions. 
How how, how do we use the word 

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of God, the sword of the spirit?
How do we do that in our 

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actions? 
By living for God. 

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Yeah. 
To to to conduct ourselves like 

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what we see in Scripture, maybe.
What else? 

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What else can we do in our daily
life that we can use the sword 

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of Spirit? 
Yeah. 

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Did you guys hear that? 
Yeah. 

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That's that's absolutely right. 
We should always be. 

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I don't know who it was that 
said that God's word is the 

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anvil with which we smashed our 
our opinions against something 

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like that. 
Some somebody smarter than me. 

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Did you? 
It was Spurgeon. 

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OK, Yeah. 
So. 

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So that's the idea. 
If if and the anvil is true, 

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right, it doesn't, it doesn't 
change. 

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That's the whole point of it. 
Everything else is malleable 

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based off of that. 
And that's how God's word is. 

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So if like what Leanna's saying,
if we, if we can do this and, 

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and apply it to ourselves as we 
read it on a daily basis and 

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whatever it is, whatever passage
that we're in, if we go, what do

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I learn in here that I can apply
to my life? 

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How do I need to maybe 
reposition myself to be in line 

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with with Scripture, right? 
Were you going to say something 

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fighting the enemy with it? 
So, so like Jesus, right, like 

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speaking it, right. 
I mean, there's lots of 

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discussion that we could have 
about about that. 

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But years ago, when my, when my 
dad was in the hospital, I, I 

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told my mom, I said, you know, 
I, I, I don't know that there's 

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anything to this or not, but, 
but you know, let's get some 

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hymns going in his room while 
he's unconscious and just let 

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him soak in that. 
I don't know what that, you 

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know, necessarily just to, to 
hear it all the time and let it,

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you know, penetrate into his 
heart and, and that kind of 

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thing. 
I think there is just something 

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wonderful about about hearing it
in our life on our on a regular 

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basis. 
You know, if if you hear 

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somebody quoting scripture, you 
might not even know what the 

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whole context of it is that 
they're talking about. 

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But there's even something 
wonderful in hearing somebody 

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speak it. 
What else? 

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Yeah. 
Kevin, to give a defense in 

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Peter with Peter. 
Yeah, always be prepared to give

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a defense. 
So that kind of goes to the same

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thing about I think kind of what
Toby's saying is as far as like 

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using it in conversations, 
right? 

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That's what we were talking 
about earlier with the lofty 

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opinions that the people have, 
these other these, these 

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unbiblical opinions that they 
might have. 

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And when, when, when it's it's 
helpful for us to go to 

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Scripture to be able to speak 
through that. 

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We don't have to have our our 
entire conversation or our 

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entire response be quoting 
Scripture, but that is a great 

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place for us to base ourselves. 
What else, anything else that we

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can do to effectively utilize 
the the the sort of spirit in 

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our in our daily life. 
How about just teaching, right? 

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I mean, just just sharing it 
not, and I don't, I don't mean I

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guess what we're all we're, you 
know, in defense, we're teaching

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somebody. 
Maybe I was thinking more like a

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conflictual kind of a kind of a 
dynamic. 

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But but what about our kids, 
right? 

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What about just sharing it with 
our with our kids or with our 

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spouse or with our neighbor and 
and just studying it with them 

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and proclaiming it, sharing it 
with them. 

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What are some practical steps 
for studying Scripture to be 

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prepared for spiritual attack? 
OK, Discipline as far as like 

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schedule, like regular, 
habitual. 

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Yeah. 
Yeah, absolutely. 

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It's got to be like this. 
What the base of your day is. 

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What were you going to say, 
Steve? 

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Yeah, kind of the same thing, 
right? 

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Like be diligent about it, 
intentional about it. 

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And I'll tell you what, like if 
you can't be diligent about it, 

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if you're struggling with that, 
like if you can't impassionately

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get involved in a, in a daily 
study, at least start with going

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through the motions of it, 
right? 

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At least start with, OK, I'm 
going to read some. 

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Even if you're not in a place 
where you can devote ample time 

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to the study, at least start 
there. 

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Because it's, I think it's 
amazing how much we will, we 

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00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:08,960
will read this, even if it's 
just something in passing or 

445
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,120
whatever. 
And it'll be with us later on in

446
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,280
the day and we'll be like, oh 
man, you know, I, I didn't 

447
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:17,920
really understand what that 
meant at the time, but you know,

448
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,000
Mallard said something in our 
study group and it, and that 

449
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,480
passage I read this morning came
back and, and it, and now I want

450
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,560
to know more about it. 
And it sparked something, right?

451
00:30:29,720 --> 00:31:01,270
What else? 
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, 

452
00:31:17,330 --> 00:31:21,410
yeah, it does. 
It needs to be intentional that 

453
00:31:21,410 --> 00:31:22,770
we do. 
And we put it on the schedule, 

454
00:31:22,770 --> 00:31:25,090
right? 
But let me just tell you, maybe 

455
00:31:25,090 --> 00:31:29,160
maybe like, you know, you want 
to start going for a walk every 

456
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,480
every evening or whatever. 
And you, you tell somebody and 

457
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:36,160
you say, you know, hey, Oscar, 
I, I want to go for a walk every

458
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,080
night. 
Don't let me chicken out. 

459
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,760
Don't let me tell you my feet 
hurt. 

460
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,000
Don't let me tell you I'm too 
busy. 

461
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,400
Sometimes it's an 
accountability, you know, like 

462
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,360
their accountability is a big 
part of our walk. 

463
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,480
And so sometimes it's just a 
commitment to somebody that, 

464
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,000
hey, we're going to, we're going
to do this. 

465
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,120
In fact, my son and I just this 
morning I was telling him, let's

466
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,920
start doing this Bible study 
together every day. 

467
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,840
And I said, even if I for some 
reason come up with an excuse 

468
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,720
not to, you need to do it. 
Well, come and talk to me and 

469
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,080
let's do this together. 
We were just having this, you 

470
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,800
know, this talk this morning. 
We're going to start a new 

471
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,480
study. 
But, but that's that way on 

472
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,080
those days when I'm a little 
busy or I'm not feeling or 

473
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,800
whatever somebody else is going,
Hey, I, I need this though, 

474
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,240
right? 
I need to go read through this 

475
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,320
because my day will start off 
improperly as well. 

476
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,000
How are you practicing the use 
of God's Word so as to be 

477
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,360
prepared when you face 
temptation? 

478
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:37,480
Anybody utilizing scripture in a
way to to help them when they're

479
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,040
struggling with with being 
tempted somehow in in whatever? 

480
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,400
Together you try and memorize 
them together that way. 

481
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,400
Is there a tactic or a or a 
method to where you put them? 

482
00:33:22,630 --> 00:33:29,910
Yeah. 
To memorize, Yeah. 

483
00:33:30,510 --> 00:33:35,070
Yeah. 
Anybody have any other 

484
00:33:35,070 --> 00:33:40,110
methodologies for dealing with 
using Scripture for to, to deal 

485
00:33:40,110 --> 00:33:43,480
with temptation? 
I'll tell you an example of. 

486
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:57,070
Oh, go ahead. 
Yeah. 

487
00:33:58,910 --> 00:34:01,470
So you use it to help other 
people that way too? 

488
00:34:01,510 --> 00:34:05,070
Yeah. 
That's a yeah, right. 

489
00:34:06,870 --> 00:34:11,350
My mom was telling me the other 
day that in fact she just 

490
00:34:11,350 --> 00:34:15,350
reminded me of something that 
she's had at her house on her on

491
00:34:15,350 --> 00:34:17,719
her fridge for since I was a 
little kid. 

492
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:22,280
As a post it note that says says
nothing tastes as good as being 

493
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,239
thin feels right. 
She put that remember where her 

494
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:30,120
temptation was at the fridge. 
Sometimes if if if we're dealing

495
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,560
with something that's like 
whatever it is that we're 

496
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:36,800
worried about being tempted by 
scripture can work that way and 

497
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:41,199
be more even more. 
Would love if a specific area 

498
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:45,480
where I was struggling to be 
reminded of this, you know, 

499
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,040
perhaps even in that moment, 
maybe maybe it's something at 

500
00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:52,480
work, maybe I'm a different 
person at work. 

501
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,239
And I and I put up some 
reminders at work that way to 

502
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,560
remind me that way. 
So when I'm tempted to, to drift

503
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:03,600
into being somebody else, I'm 
reminded through scripture 

504
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:05,640
because I have those reminders 
there. 

505
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:08,640
I think that's why we get some 
of these, you know, stitched 

506
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,840
quilts and stuff like that. 
And it's a good right. 

507
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:15,680
We they're a good reminder to 
have have this this passage that

508
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,000
reminds US of a of a biblical 
principle that we want to hold 

509
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,800
on to. 
And it's nice to have them, you 

510
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,440
know, at easy access in our in 
our lives. 

511
00:35:23,720 --> 00:35:36,580
And yeah, absolutely that's the 
idea. 

512
00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:41,260
And I mean, it's and it doesn't 
necessarily mean that we need to

513
00:35:41,260 --> 00:35:45,340
go write it on our front gate. 
It's but the concept of having 

514
00:35:45,340 --> 00:35:51,840
the reminders of of God and and 
his word throughout our life, it

515
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,000
helps us to deal with with these
things. 

516
00:35:54,240 --> 00:35:56,960
The way the reason why they they
wore those frontlets was so that

517
00:35:56,960 --> 00:36:00,760
it was in in front of them for 
that specific reason. 

518
00:36:09,540 --> 00:36:11,860
Yeah. 
It's that simple, huh? 

519
00:36:18,420 --> 00:36:27,480
Yeah. 
Yeah, absolutely. 

520
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,800
And now let's just you know, you
don't have to have the whole 

521
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,440
book memorized in order to be 
effective, right. 

522
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:39,720
But, but it is definitely, it is
definitely to our benefit and to

523
00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:42,720
our friends benefit. 
If when they come to me with 

524
00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:46,200
something, whether it's a 
critique or it's a complaint 

525
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,760
about scripture or a genuine 
question about it, or if it's 

526
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,960
just a life question about, hey,
I'm thinking about doing this 

527
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,200
thing in my life. 
You have any advice for me? 

528
00:36:55,640 --> 00:37:00,680
If we have the ability to come 
from a place of God's word in 

529
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:05,720
that, that is an effective way 
of, of discipling people. 

530
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:10,280
Because here's the thing, like 
sometimes when we see Jesus 

531
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,240
quoting the Bible in the Bible, 
he's not quoting the Bible. 

532
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,200
He's paraphrasing the Bible. 
He's not. 

533
00:37:16,240 --> 00:37:19,240
It's not necessarily a word for 
word quotation. 

534
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,400
He's going and he's paraphrasing
now. 

535
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,160
He, he understands that. 
It's not like he it's not 

536
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,920
because he didn't have it word 
for word. 

537
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,520
But I think we can take 
something from that and not be 

538
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:37,880
afraid to explain a point if we 
can't speak it verbatim, right? 

539
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,000
There's a place where but we got
to know this text in order to 

540
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,520
have the spirit of it. 
Go ahead, Toby. 

541
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:58,360
Yeah, yeah, because yeah, 
knowing it so that we can 

542
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,560
recognize what's not scripture 
is what you're saying. 

543
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,480
In our culture, we definitely 
have that right. 

544
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:09,160
We definitely have, sometimes we
have these, these theological 

545
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:15,240
religion based conversations 
and, and we can sometimes be 

546
00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:21,760
presented with something and, 
and go is that the Bible is 

547
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,840
being quoted or, or some other 
religious texts that I'm not 

548
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:29,040
familiar with. 
And so I mean, that can happen. 

549
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,400
There's a, you know, there's a 
lot of, there's a lot of words 

550
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,320
and a lot of sentences in, you 
know, in, in scripture. 

551
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:39,880
So we might not be able to to 
identify them immediately, but 

552
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,080
the more we read Scripture, the 
more we're going to be able to 

553
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,280
recognize something that is not 
actual scripture. 

554
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:48,360
Right. 
And then we could do again, 

555
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:52,200
similar to what Jesus did with 
Satan when he said that's not 

556
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,520
scripture. 
I mean, he didn't say that, but 

557
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,760
he, he countered it with 
truthful Scripture when when 

558
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:03,240
Satan misused it. 
We got a couple of minutes. 

559
00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:05,800
But how could you lean on the 
Holy Spirit's help in doing 

560
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,560
battle for the Kingdom of God 
each day? 

561
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,800
Say that again. 
Pray. 

562
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,240
Yeah. 
You ever pray the Bible? 

563
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,920
Yeah. 
It's there's something beautiful

564
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:27,120
about praying Scripture, praying
God's Word back to him. 

565
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,600
That's a that's an aspect of it.
What else can we do to lean on 

566
00:39:33,600 --> 00:40:13,880
the Holy Spirit's help? 
That's 

567
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:40,820
yeah, that's straight back to 
the to the second Timothy 316 

568
00:40:40,820 --> 00:40:44,700
passage about all scripture 
being God breathed right. 

569
00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:50,020
That's that's there is where the
authority of Scripture comes as 

570
00:40:50,020 --> 00:40:54,320
it is literally the breath of 
God-given to us and maintained 

571
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:58,560
and and and passed down through 
the the generations for us to be

572
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,760
able to go and look at right 
like this. 

573
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:07,560
The the same that the same 
Canon, the same word of God that

574
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:13,640
was available to, you know, the 
the 1st century Christians as 

575
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,600
they were trying to figure out 
their way is the same thing that

576
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:16,600
we've got. 
We have them. 

577
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:21,720
We get to we get to quote God 
Almighty and go straight to his 

578
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:26,640
heart to understand how we then 
manipulate ourselves to align 

579
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,040
with him and how we look at the 
the world. 

580
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,000
What else? 
What else can we lean on the 

581
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,800
holy? 
Or how else can we lean on the 

582
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:58,040
Holy Spirit's help? 
Yeah, right. 

583
00:42:07,250 --> 00:42:10,210
Absolutely. 
The Great Commission is just as 

584
00:42:10,570 --> 00:42:13,850
in place for us as it was for 
the 1st century Christians, 

585
00:42:13,850 --> 00:42:16,810
right. 
And the amazing thing is that 

586
00:42:16,810 --> 00:42:21,250
they didn't, they didn't all 
have God's word in their in 

587
00:42:21,250 --> 00:42:23,570
their phones, right? 
Most of those guys 2000 years 

588
00:42:23,570 --> 00:42:28,370
ago didn't even carry phones, 
but but they didn't have that 

589
00:42:28,370 --> 00:42:32,880
but, but they, but they still 
relied on God's word as preached

590
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:38,000
to them and as as memorized and 
carried then to the to all the 

591
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,880
all of the nations and tribes 
and tongues. 

592
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:47,480
OK, anything else but it it's 10
next week we're going to do a 

593
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:51,080
summation of this series and 
then we'll get into a another 

594
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,720
series following that which we 
will get into the the attributes

595
00:42:54,720 --> 00:42:58,240
of of God. 
But unless there's anything 

596
00:42:58,240 --> 00:43:01,400
else, let me just pray yes, out 
and into the rest of our day. 

597
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,200
Lord God, I thank you. 
I thank you for the sword of the

598
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:07,800
spirit. 
I thank you that we have 

599
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:13,960
something like this that defends
us from the attacks because in 

600
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:19,400
our humanity, attacks from from 
Satan can can seem daunting and 

601
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,960
overwhelming. 
And yet, Lord, we know that 

602
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,680
there is victory in your word. 
We know that you have ultimate 

603
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,760
victory. 
And so it's, it's a, it's a joy 

604
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:33,320
and it's a, it's a peace. 
And it gives us hope to have 

605
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:37,120
your word that we can rely on, 
that we can lean on and then be 

606
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:40,960
empowered through the Holy 
Spirit as that, as that same 

607
00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:47,440
word that defended us then is 
turned inward in US, Lord, in 

608
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:52,480
our lives, in our hearts, and is
used to surgically cut out those

609
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,680
things. 
They go against you that we know

610
00:43:55,680 --> 00:44:00,800
all of us in this room know that
we have that that we as much as 

611
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,760
we don't want to admit it, 
there's places that sometimes we

612
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,440
try to hide. 
And Lord, I'm thankful that your

613
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:11,080
word cut so sharply into those 
recesses of our heart to get 

614
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,840
those things out of there so 
that we can be more in line with

615
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,280
you. 
Because as much as we hold on to

616
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:20,360
those, those sins that we think 
that we, we, we like or even 

617
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:24,560
love, Lord, we love you more. 
We want to, we want to be closer

618
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,840
to you than we are to that sin. 
And so we're grateful that we 

619
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,360
have that to root out, to cut it
out of our life. 

620
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,800
And we, we just hope that today 
with the, as we continue on with

621
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,280
our service with the song word 
and the preached word, that it 

622
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:42,680
will continue to, to cut that, 
that cancerous junk out of our 

623
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,320
life, Lord, and, and help us to 
be more in line with you. 

624
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,680
And we give the service to you 
in Jesus name, Amen. 

625
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:49,200
Thanks guys.