the whole Bible is full of Swords the sayings of God so in order for us to be effective we need to know the difference between those two words when Paul wrote to the Ephesians that they were to take the sword of the spirit which is the Rama of God he was not saying take hold of the Bible he was saying take hold of the sayings which are in the Bible the Bible is an Armory of heavenly weapons it’s a laboratory of in infallible medicines it’s a mine of exhaustless wealth it’s a guide book for every road a chart for every sea a medicine for

every malady a bomb for every wound it is the armory in which you find the swords of the spirit when Paul wrote this letter to the Ephesians he used a word for sword that everyone would have understood he wasn’t talking about the Broad Sword he was talking about a little dagger the word in the Greek language is the word macaros it’s a little 6 to 18in dagger that was carried in a Scabbard on the on the Soldier’s hip and it was used for hand toand combat it was the sword that was used when the soldiers came to

arrest Jesus in the garden it was the sword that was used when Peter cut off the ear of the high priest slave the sword of the spirit therefore is not a sword that you flail around trying to hit something with it is a very uh very precision oriented instrument it is used in hand-to-hand combat only useful if you find the vulnerable spot to inflict the wound so the Bible says that we have been given a weapon that is like a sword a short Sword and the Bible calls it the sword of the spirit which is the word of

God now let me explain to you how critical it is that we get this right let’s talk about the explanation of the sword of the spirit the there are two words in the language in which the New Testament was written the Greek language there are two words that are translated by our English word word w r d those two words from the Greek language are first of all the word logos most of us have heard that word along the way if you live in some kind of spiritual environment someone’s going to use that word to name a Sunday school

class or a software program or something the word logos is the word that is used in John 1:1 where we’re told in the beginning was the word the logos and the Word was with God and the Word was God that as you know is speaking about Jesus Christ who is God’s last word to man the Bible says that Jesus Christ is God’s word to us so that we won’t miss the message that word logos is also used to describe this book The Bible over in Hebrews we’re told that we are to honor those who speak to us the word of God there he’s talking about the scripture