“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12
The authoritative, reliable, trustworthy Word of God comes on the wings of grace, love and mercy from the great heart of God to man. The Scriptures make it clear God's Word is alive and powerful. The Word proclaims clearly the message of eternal life in Christ (John 5:24).
The Word is dynamic in its effect upon the soul. It is miraculous and super-natural in its transforming potency to bring one from the bondage of death to the blessing of life, from darkness to light, from Satan's domain of ruinous evil to Christ's Kingdom of righteousness.
The effective ministry of the Holy Spirit endows the Word with powerful results. The Word of God brings salvation to the soul, refreshment to the spirit, encouragement to the heart, resolve to the will, uplift to the emotions, meaning and purpose to life.
The Word is described as “sharper” from Greek word which means cutting, keen, and sharp. The verbal form of this word means to cut keener and sharper. The “sharper” Word, as God has purposed, will always succeed where the Lord sends it (Isa. 55:11). The fading ideas, wild guesses and wishful dreams of man are no match against the revealed Word of God (II Tim. 3:16). Man's own fabricated philosophies often come back to haunt him in his greatest moment of need, as a sarcastic jester would tease a pauper with the promise of great riches. The Apostle Paul expressed the effective Word of God having free course to go in the path of power in the Lord's direction (II Thess 3:1).
The “sharper” Word cuts through hindrances as a two-edged sword. The sword-cutting Word is able to go beneath the outer-skin periphery of man's shame and hypocritical pretense to disturb his needy soul and arouse his twisted conscience to consider the issues of eternity. The cutting, probing Word, is able to whittle away the external facade of religious, self-righteousness of man to show his need as a sinner before God (Rom. 3:23).
The “sharper” Word pierces and divides the soul and the spirit of man, to announce to man God has provided deliverance from death, redemption from ruin, salvation from sin in Christ who died for all our sins. The “sharper” Word offers the gift of eternal life (John 17:3; Titus 1:2).
The “sharper” Word goes deeply into the essential substance and structure of the body, even to the joints and marrow, meaning the Word of God, is for the whole person, inside and out.
The “sharper” Word is a discerner of our words and knows the intents of the heart. The cutting Word is a keen “critic” of man's heart and ways. The word “critic” gives salient thrust to the Word of God.
Man thinks he sits in judgment on the Word of God. The truth of the matter is the Word of God, judges man, for, “And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account” (Heb. 4:13).
Divine revelation is better than man's doubtful reasoning. Arrogant atheism, boastful modernism, unfulfilling humanism, empty new-age, foolish agnosticism and deceiving secularism—all fall as wooden, toy soldiers before the “critic” of God's Word (2 Peter 1:20-21).
The “sharper” Word shows the sensible choice in leaving the unfounded and fruitless imaginations of man, (2 Cor. 10:5), for the more sure Word of God (II Pet. 1:19). The “sharper” Word cuts away human pride to proclaim to man that his puny opposition can't mitigate against the Word of God's truth anymore than a humming bird could divert the flight of an eagle,
The “sharper” Word tells of the divine supply of all man's needs now and offers hope now and for the future, declaring, “You make known to me the path of life; in your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (Psalm 16:11)
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