Comments on: Ephesians 6:17

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:00:43 +0000

Completely unrelated to the post, but Beth and I watched your magic show at camp last night. We were impressed.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:00:03 +0000

Just thought I would check and see if your site was in fact working again.

By: Tim T.

Tim T. — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:32:40 +0000

Concerning the Sword of the Spirit. This is an offensive part of the armor. Remember, our job is to knock down the gates of Hell and lead captives to freedom in Christ. Another part of our job is to pray for them that persecute us — or conspire to. We are to take the battle to the kingdom of hell to expand the kingdom of God.

A Roman soldier put on his armor to keep himself out of harms way and to project the Roman Empire with safety and confidence. When attacked, did he pile on the armor to make sure his attacker couldn’t hurt him? No. For too long, Satan misled the Christians into only being spiritually defensive. A defense is a no-win tactic: You either hold your own or you lose. You can’t win!

Out on my website I teach defense, how to scripturally take the battle to the enemy and even how to hide when things got really tough. (In the Bible, Jesus hid when he had to.)

The main difference between Jesus and ourselves is that we started out as children of Adam and opened all sort of backdoors into our soul that need to be closed. All Jesus had to do was disagree with Satan’s lies.

see: orderofsaintpatrick.org for a major education in this stuff.

By: Tim T.

Tim T. — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:14:22 +0000

The Logos of God is the general will of God as exhibited in Jesus His son. The Rhema of God is His specific word to each of us for the moment. Since it is the same Holy Spirit, the Logos of God and the Rhema of God don’t contradict.

In John 1:1, Jesus is referred to as the “Logos of God”, referring to the general will of God. Jesus called himself “the truth” in John 14:6. He and His Message were intertwined. “He who has seen me has seen the Father.” “… as my Father taught me, I speak these things.”

I think Satan tried to get the Christians off track by saying the Bible was entirely the Word of God because it contained the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Half true. Then Satan could say that it IS the word of God and therefore, you don’t need the Holy Spirit anymore. Wrong. Considering all the account of Bibles being destroyed, God is not in the business of defending Bibles! A lot of brethren get off track following their own understanding of the Bible. They think it safe to do so because it is the Word of God. “It will not return void, but shall accomplish whatsoever it purposeth.” Wrong. We are people of the Holy Spirit, not people of a book!

Now the Bible is good, because the Holy Spirit authored it. The Word that is in it will wash you, if you let it. (I became a Christian entirely out of Bible reading with no Christians around.)

For divine guidance, we need the Rhema-word. That’s what the knowledge gifts of the Holy Spirit are for. Satan is a genius and has been around for centuries. No mere Human can outsmart the devil. Only God can — and has!