574 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 48 - The All Powerful Word of God - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 48 The All Powerful Word of God - Part 2 Hebrews 4:12-16 Alright, verse 12 of Hebrews 4. What’s the first word? Hebrews 12:4a "For…" Is that word there just to fill space? No! God had given the Canaanites 400 years to get the land ready and to come to the end of God’s patience with them. Unbelief! Unbelief is worse than anything you can think of, because it is in so many words, simply put, calling the Holy, Righteous, Almighty God a liar. The Word of God had told them, it’s there, so go in and take it. This unbelief we’ve been looking at was a turning against the Word of God. I suppose that’s another word for ‘for.’ ‘Because’ the Word of God. It doesn’t say, because God is quick, because that’s a given. But what most people don’t realize is that the Word of God, this Book, is alive! There are two ways we could look at the Word of God. Number one, we could look at all the times that God spoke and something happened. Let’s just go ahead to Hebrews chapter 11. This is one aspect of the Word of God. Hebrews 11:3a "Through faith (in other words again, by taking God at His Word) we understand that the worlds (that is the universe and all that’s in it) were framed (brought together) by (what?) the Word of God,…." See? God spoke the Word and the universe came into being!Now that’s one aspect of the Word of God and it is powerful. No, He spoke the Word, and Adam appeared. Over and over throughout Scripture we have instances where God spoke and things happened, and, He’s not through speaking. Always remember that this Book, from cover to cover, is the inspired Word of God. He used men to write it, but every writer of Scripture, as Peter puts it in his little epistle, "Were holy men of God who were moved by the Holy Spirit to write what they wrote." So, this part of the Word of God, which most people will cast aside, and let it collect dust, they’ll scorn it, and they’ll ridicule it, but I’ve got news for them. Now reading on in verse 12. Hebrews 4:12a "For the word of God is quick, and powerful,…" The Word of God is alive. The Word of God is not something that’s just asleep on the shelf, or something that is defunct. The Word of God is not only alive and living; it is active! The Word of God is still permeating hearts and lives of people. No, because the Living Word tells us that God is in total control. Hebrews 4:12a For the word of God is quick, and powerful,…" It’s energes from which we get the word energy. Again, you know what the original word was? This Book is beyond, again, human comprehension. Alright and so the Word of God is alive, and it’s powerful; it is beyond human comprehension. Hebrews 4:12a When God created man, He created us a three-part being. Now back to Hebrews chapter 4 again. The body of course, we can see, but the soul and spirit are both invisible and they were both placed within man at creation but God alone can separate them. And the Word of God also is able to draw a distinction then between the spirit of man and his soul. As we remember from our Genesis study, when Adam fell, when Adam disobeyed God, his spirit became inoperative. It lost fellowship with God and consequently the lost person has no concept of God, and has no communication with God. His spirit is defunct and so the soul then became a sin-natured part of man until salvation would regenerate the spirit and give a new nature opposite the old nature. Now, the only thing I want to point out here then is that the soul and spirit are discernable so far as God is concerned. The spirit is inoperative until God comes in with the power of Salvation and regenerates it. Alright now, I want to move on to the next part of the verse because here’s where I feel that the Word of God is so intrinsic. That the soul and spirit is compared to the joints and marrow. Hebrews 4:12a "…and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,…" I’ve lost you haven’t I? Our blood system. Dead people! The lost person, until that spirit is energized, is like someone who is functioning without any real energy. They are spiritually dead. Believers! A world full of dead people. Hebrews 4:12a "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edge sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow,…" Hebrews 4:12b The Word of God is able to tell us what we’re thinking. It convicts of everything that we do contrary to the Word of God because that’s its purpose. God doesn’t say I’ve had it with you. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible