Summary: What and how God,s word has power in us.

THE POWER OF GODS HOLY WORD

Do people understand how much power there is in the Bible?

1 Thessalonians 2:13

For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.

1. It is Glass that shows our state.

James 1: 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

2. It is a sword that can pierce the heart.

Hebrews 4: 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.

3. A seed that will quicken the Soul.

1st Peter 1: 23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

4. A laver to cleanse the soul.

Ephesians 5: 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

5. A lamp unto my feet.

Psalms 119:105

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

John 12:36 | While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

1 John 1:7 |

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: