エペソ人への手紙 6:17, 精霊の剣について読みました. 兵士は身を守るために適切な制服を着ることができる, but if a soldier enters the battlefield without a weapon or if the soldier is unskilled and doesn’t know how to use his weapon, the soldier shall not be able to fight and stand against the enemy and shall eventually lose the fight. Because as soon the enemy finds out that the soldier is unarmed or doesn’t know how to use his weapon, the enemy shall attack and gain the victory. A soldier without a weapon or a soldier, who is unskilled and doesn’t know how to use his weapon, can’t be victorious. This also applies to every Christian, who is born again in Christ and belongs to the holy army of God. Every soldier of Christ should know how to use the Sword of the Spirit in battle. What does the Bible say about the Sword of the Spirit? What does the Sword of the Spirit mean?
精霊の剣とは?
だから立つ, 真実で腰を締める, そして正義の胸当てを身に着けている; そしてあなたの足には平和の福音の備えが備わっています; 何よりも, 信仰の盾を取る, そうすれば、あなたは邪悪な者のすべての火の矢を消すことができるでしょう. そして、救いのヘルメットを取ります, そして霊の剣, それは神の言葉です (エペソ人への手紙 6:14-17)
The Sword of the Spirit is the only weapon and offensive element of the spiritual armor of God, by which you can attack the enemy and be victorious. The Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. Therefore you can only attack and overcome the devil and his minions through the Word of God.
残念ながら, during the past years, the devil has enlarged his territory and has gained a lot of spiritual ground, due to the ignorance of believers and a lack of knowledge of the Word of God; 真実.
Many have fed themselves with the opinions and the words of man coming from a carnal mind and have tried to fight the spiritual battles with their 誤った教義 and carnal methods and because of that many have lost spiritual battles and sometimes even have left God and His word and entered the way of the world.
私たちは血肉に対して戦うのではないからです
私たちは血肉に対して戦うのではないからです, しかし、公国に対して, 権力に対して, この世界の闇の支配者に対して, 高い場所での霊的な邪悪さに対して (エペソ人への手紙 6:12)
しかし、それは書かれているように, we don’t wrestle against flesh and blood, しかし、公国に対して, 力, この世の闇の支配者たち, 高い場所での霊的な邪悪さに対して. したがって, we can’t fight the spiritual battle and overcome the enemy from the flesh by using carnal words, natural means, とメソッド.
The only way to fight the spiritual battle and defeat the enemy and cause a change is from the Spirit, from your position in Christ using the Sword of the Spirit, それは神の言葉です.
The Word of God is the Truth and only with the Truth of God, ザ 新しい男 is able to discern, expose, 非難, and destroy the lies and the works of the devil and his kingdom.
イエスは御霊の剣で悪魔を倒した
また, the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world, そして彼らの栄光; And saith unto Him, All these things will I give Thee, if Thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, サタン: それは書かれているからです, あなたはあなたの神、主を崇拝しなければなりません, そしてあなたは彼だけに仕えるべきである. Then the devil leaveth Him, そして, 見よ, angels came and ministered unto Him (マシュー 4:8-11)
Jesus was en is the living Word of God and He knew the will and the nature of His Father. イエスが聖霊に導かれて荒野に行かれたとき, 悪魔はイエスを誘惑しようとした. 悪魔は自分の言葉を使わなかった, しかし彼は神の言葉を使った. しかし, the devil used the words of God in the wrong context.
悪魔はイエスを誘惑しようとした, by using the words of God for Himself and the lusts and desires of His flesh.
But Jesus knew the words and the will of His Father. Jesus knew the nature of His Father and He knew the nature of the devil. Therefore Jesus discerned the lies of the devil.
Jesus didn’t listen to the words of the devil and the will and the lusts and desires of the flesh and didn’t bow to the devil and His flesh, but Jesus stayed obedient to the will of His Father and used the words of God in the right context and said: “It is written….”
And so the two-edged Sword came out of His mouth and Jesus defeated the devil with the offensive weapon of the Spirit.
Jesus showed us, that this is the only way to expose the lies of the devil and to silence and defeat the devil
O hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. 悔い改める; さもなければ、私はすぐにあなたのところに行くでしょう, and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth (暴露 2:15-16)
And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God (暴露 19:15)
The two-edged Sword came out of the mouth of Jesus during His life on earth, after His life on earth, and shall always come out of His mouth.
Fighting without the Sword of the Spirit
悪魔は知っている, that a believer can’t fight the spiritual warfare without the Sword of the Spirit, nor fight without knowing how to use the Sword of the Spirit. したがって, the devil tries to distract born again believers and keep them far away from the Word, so that they stay ignorant and he’ll be able to mislead and tempt them with his lies.
The devil also knows, that he doesn’t have to worry about carnal people, who have a lot of knowledge about the Bible, でも生まれ変わらない. Since he knows, these carnal people are unspiritual and sense-ruled and are not able to walk by faith and apply the words of God in their lives.
Therefore all this knowledge of the Bible shall not do anything, but shall only puff them up. So that they walk in pride and exalt themselves above others.
彼らは自然な人たちです, who don’t have the Holy Spirit and don’t see the spiritual warfare between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness.
Although they have a lot of carnal knowledge about the Sword of the Spirit, they lack spiritual understanding and don’t know how to use the Sword of the Spirit, and don’t do anything with it. そのための, they are no threat to the devil and his kingdom (こちらもお読みください: 悪魔の作品ではなく神の作品を破壊する)
And so there are many people, who have attended church for years and have a lot of knowledge about the Bible and visit seminars and follow all the latest ‘faith trends’ and are always learning, without coming to the knowledge of the Truth (2 ティモシー 3:7).
Take the Sword of the Spirit
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. 神の言葉は迅速です, そして強力, そしてどんな両刃の剣よりも鋭い, 魂と精神の分裂にさえピアス, そして、ジョイントと骨髄の, そして、心の思考と意図の弟子です. 神の目に現れない生き物もいない: しかし、すべては裸であり、私たちがしなければならない神の目には開かれている (ヘブライ人への手紙 4:11-13)
Many believers beg God to take away the spiritual battles from them, but God will never do that. He will be with you, guide you and protect you, but you have to take the Sword of the Spirit, それは神の言葉です, and fight the battle with the Word of God, イエスのように.
あなたがイエス・キリストの内に留まる限り、; 言葉, you shall be clothed with the spiritual armor of God. By faith in the Word and doing the Word, you shall be protected and with the two-edged Sword, you shall be able to attack the enemy and be an overcomer.
Therefore it’s important to know the Word. Because if you don’t read and study the Word of God by the Holy Spirit, you shall stay ignorant about the truth of God and His will and you shall not be able to fight the fight of faith, let alone to stand by faith during the fight and be victorious.
御言葉を通してのみ, you shall get to know the Father and His will and by applying the words of God in your life you shall be able to resist and defeat the devil and be victorious.
The ongoing spiritual warfare
今、神に感謝します, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, そしてあらゆる場所で私たちによって神の知識の味わいを明らかにします. なぜなら、私たちは神にとってキリストの甘い香りだからです。, 救われたそれらの中で, そして滅びる彼らの中で: その者にとって、我々は死ぬまでの死の味である; そしてもう一人には人生の味わいを (2 コリント人への手紙 2:14-16)
神から生まれたものはすべて世界に勝つからです: そしてこれが世界を克服する勝利だ, 私たちの信仰さえも. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? (1 ジョン 5:4-5)
そして天国でこう言う大きな声が聞こえた, 今が救いの到来だ, そして強さ, and the kingdom of our God, そして彼のキリストの力: 私たちの同胞を告発した者は失脚したからである, 彼らは昼も夜も私たちの神の前で彼らを告発した. そして彼らは小羊の血によって彼を打ち負かした, そして彼らの証言の言葉によって; そして彼らは死ぬまで自分の命を愛さなかった (暴露 12:11)
私はアルファとオメガです, 始まりと終わり. 私は命の水の泉を渇望する者に惜しみなく与えよう. 克服する彼はすべてのものを継承しなければならない; そして、私は彼の神になります, そして彼は私の息子になります (暴露 21:6-7)
Life is an ongoing spiritual warfare. Sometimes a certain battle may be overcome quickly and sometimes it may take a little bit longer. しかし、1つ確かです, if you stay in Jesus Christ and fight from your position in Christ by the Spirit, standing by faith on the Word and don’t give up, and take the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God and use it the right way, then you shall be victorious and be an overcomer.
That’s the promise of God, the Word testifies of.
‘Be the Salt of the earth’
