What is the Sword of the Spirit?

   First off, the sword of the Spirit is NOT a weapon! From church history we should have learned from the Crusades how wrong that interpretation was. The killing of Jewish people and other non-Christian people groups, during the Crusades, may have resulted in a higher death toll than the Holocaust of Hitler’s time. Murder was committed in the name of Jesus. Militant idealism took precedent over Biblical truth. Let’s not go there again! 

   Most often this misconception is taken from the Ephesians 6:10-18 description of the armor of God and pictured as a King Arthur knight on a horse. There is not one aspect of the armor in this context that is a weapon or to be directed at people and used as some offensive weapon of physical or verbal warfare.  That idea came from Hollywood movies, yet it is used by some professing Christians to literally beat people with Bible verses. As Larry the Cable Guy would say “all in good Christian love.” 

   This Ephesians context IS directed at the individual believer. It is an invitation from God to allow Him to help the believer stand firm in the face of the devil’s schemes. I wrote a short book that details the mighty power of God that can and will come into our life if we will put on this PROTECTIVE suit of spiritual armor. I can’t rewrite my entire book in this article, but I will shorten parts of it up and encourage you to read my b ...

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