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INTRODUCTION:
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Each piece of the Armor of God is important.
A. The whole armor is needed to fight the spiritual war.
Eph
B. The Sword of the Spirit is an important part of the Armor of God.
Eph
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The rest of the armor protects you so that you can use the Sword, but the Sword both protects you and the ones whom it is your aim to protect.
A. If you are wearing the Armor of God, you are protected because God’s Armor is impenetrable and therefore, you should be bold to go into war and fight.
B. This is where the Sword comes into play, because the war needs to be fought.
1 Timothy
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There are those who need to be protected and those who need to be saved.
2. Pure and undefiled religion before God (paraphrasing): ‘Protect the ones who cannot protect themselves.’
C. Ask yourself three questions:
1. Do you have the Sword available to use?
A. In order to be able to use the Sword, you must know how to obtain the Sword.
B. In order to be able to obtain the Sword, one must understand and acknowledge it’s power.
C. In order to obtain the Sword, one must understand that he needs the Sword.
2. Do you know how to use the Sword?
A. Ask yourself three questions to determine if you know how to use the Sword.
1. Are you willing to learn how to use the Sword properly?
2. Are you willing to teach others to use the Sword properly?
3. Are you willing to be an example of how to use the Sword properly?
3. Will you survive the war?
D. The lesson will focus on question number two today.
D. Next Sunday, we will continue this discussion and ask the next question.
1. Are you willing to teach others to use the Sword properly?
BODY:
1. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO USE THE SWORD?
A. Are you willing to learn how to use the Sword properly?
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Every soldier must be willing to learn how to use their weapon properly.
A. The Word of God is a Sword.
Heb 5.12
B. Thus, the one using the Sword must know how to use it properly.
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If the Sword is not used properly, it can cause damage both to the one using it and the ones who are to be protected by it.
2. If the Sword is used properly, it will protect both the one using the Sword and and the ones who are to be protected by it.
1 Timothy
2. What does it mean to be willing to learn to use the Sword properly?
A. One must be willing to put in hours of diligent study.
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If it is impossible to please God without faith and faith comes from His Word, then one must put in hours of diligent study to diligently seek Him to have proper faith.
B. One must be willing to seek God with a whole heart.
Matt 22.36-
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The Psalmist continues is to tell the people how he sought God with his whole heart.
Ps 119.10-15
A. By not wandering from God’s commandments.
B. By hiding God’s Word in his heart.
Deut 6.4-
C. By being willing to listen to God’s Word.
Rev 2.29
D. By being willing to rejoice in God’s Word as much as in all of his riches.
E. By meditating on God’s precepts and contemplating God’s ways.
Isa 55.7-
F. By delighting himself in God’s statutes.
Isa 55.
Ps 1
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By not forgetting God’s Word.
CONCLUSION:
1. Do you know how to use the Sword?
A. Are you willing to learn how to use the Sword properly?
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If so, you will be willing to:
A. Put in hours of diligent study.
B. Seek God with a whole heart by:
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Not wandering from God’s Word.
2. Hiding God’s Word in your heart.
3. Listening to God.
4. Rejoicing in God’s Word.
5. Meditating on God’s Word.
6. Delighting in God’s Word.
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Not forgetting God’s Word.
B. If you can do all of these things, then you are on your way to knowing you can use the Sword properly.
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