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Plowshares and Swords

 Plowshares and Swords

 

This is from some things the Lord spoke to me on Sunday morning as the music was playing. 

The plowshare and the sword are most effective when they are sharp.

The plowshare pierces and cuts the ground so that it is turned over.  The sword pierces and cuts to defend.

The plowshare is thrust into the fallow ground to break up the hardness, to make it soft and ready to be planted and productive. It takes what is on top and turns it under.  That which is dead or not productive becomes a biomass that helps nourish the ground. That which brings life is brought to the top. The plowshare helps in bring forth a harvest.

The sword parries the attack of the enemy. It cuts things away that are not need or are harmful. The Sword of the Spirit cuts sin away from us and us away from sin. The Sword pierces to the heart.  Often it is said that the Sword of the Spirit is our only offensive weapon BUT really it is to be used mostly in defense against the attack of the enemy against us, and our brothers and sisters in Christ, Jesus has already won the victory we just need to stand and we definitely don’t need to use the Sword as a weapon against other believers.  The cutting and the piercing of the Sword of the Spirit is to cut away, like a surgeon’s scalpel, those things that are harmful or unproductive and the piercing is to pierce the hard hearts of unbelievers to let in the healing message of the gospel so that they can receive a new heart and a new life. 

 

Ephesians 6:11-14

11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

 

 

 

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