Hebrews 4:12,
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
How does the sword work in a believers life? The word of God is for the believers to be able to separate their doing and his being. The sword of God or word of God is the only thing that can separate soul and spirit, according to the word of God. Why must soul and spirit be divided? very obvious without the dividing of soul and spirit it is impossible to separate my doing and his doing. His doing is a completed finished product, my doing is an on going process of growth. So you see one is soulish (spiritual growth), and the other is spirit completeness or completed in spirit by Christ in you.
I have labored long and hard over the fact we will recieve doer religion over spiritual completeness any day. I cannot figure out what motivated me to be so slow and stubborn to accept my completeness in Christ. But I did, I did not come skipping and jumping up and down for joy saying I'm complete I'm complete, it was quite the opposite. We like to do, we like to feel like we have a hand in all this. We will have a hard time admiting it but we like doing to be, instead of accepting the fact "I am all I will ever be right now in Christ," you may grow some in expression of who you are but that is soulish. But in time the patience of our Lord always prevails.
Some may feel a dress code or some other rule to live by brings them a form of godliness. All of Christianity through the years has had its movements, most were of the Lord until man figures out a way to get involved. That is just the way it is, man is weak, meaning fallible, but the plan and purpose of God has never ceased to be operating in an individuals life. If man could help himself there would have been no need for a cross.
To see what he has done, and to see what he is doing through me can only come by dividing. The believer properly trained to divide soul and spirit by the sword of God, brings the knowledge to grow up in him.
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
How does the sword work in a believers life? The word of God is for the believers to be able to separate their doing and his being. The sword of God or word of God is the only thing that can separate soul and spirit, according to the word of God. Why must soul and spirit be divided? very obvious without the dividing of soul and spirit it is impossible to separate my doing and his doing. His doing is a completed finished product, my doing is an on going process of growth. So you see one is soulish (spiritual growth), and the other is spirit completeness or completed in spirit by Christ in you.
I have labored long and hard over the fact we will recieve doer religion over spiritual completeness any day. I cannot figure out what motivated me to be so slow and stubborn to accept my completeness in Christ. But I did, I did not come skipping and jumping up and down for joy saying I'm complete I'm complete, it was quite the opposite. We like to do, we like to feel like we have a hand in all this. We will have a hard time admiting it but we like doing to be, instead of accepting the fact "I am all I will ever be right now in Christ," you may grow some in expression of who you are but that is soulish. But in time the patience of our Lord always prevails.
Some may feel a dress code or some other rule to live by brings them a form of godliness. All of Christianity through the years has had its movements, most were of the Lord until man figures out a way to get involved. That is just the way it is, man is weak, meaning fallible, but the plan and purpose of God has never ceased to be operating in an individuals life. If man could help himself there would have been no need for a cross.
To see what he has done, and to see what he is doing through me can only come by dividing. The believer properly trained to divide soul and spirit by the sword of God, brings the knowledge to grow up in him.