LESSON FORTY-FOUR

THE EXPERIENCE AND ENJOYMENT OF THE SPIRIT AS THE CONSUMMATION OF THE DIVINE TRINITY IN THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TRIUNE GOD

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OUTLINE

2. Working in us, on us, and for us:
   28. As the sword for our fighting.
   29. Not to be grieved by us.
   30. Not to be quenched by us.
   31. Not to be insulted by us.
   32. As the means for us to pray.
   33. Helping us in our weakness.
   34. Interceding for us with groanings in us.
   35. Infusing His according-to-God mind into us in our prayer.
   36. As the means for us to guard the good deposit.
   37. Unto Him we sow and of Him we reap in our life.
   38. Confessing to us that Christ came in the flesh.
   39. Testifying together with the water and the blood that Christ is the Son of God.

TEXT

In this lesson we will continue to see the different aspects of the Spirit’s work within us.

28. As the Sword for Our Fighting

The Spirit is the sword for us to fight against our spiritual enemies, the power of darkness, and the evil things. In Ephesians 6:10-20, concerning the warfare that deals with the spiritual enemies by putting on the whole armor of God, Paul said that we need to receive “the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God” (v. 17). Among the six items of God’s armor, only the sword is for attacking the enemy. Here it shows us that the sword, the Spirit, and the word are one. The word is the Bible. But if this word is only printed letters, it is neither the Spirit nor the sword. When the constant word in the Bible becomes the instant word, this word is the Spirit, who is the sword for slaying the enemy. If we would enjoy the Spirit as the sword for fighting against the enemy, we must come to the word of the Bible, receiving the word of God by means of all prayer. By praying and taking the word of God in this way, we enjoy the Spirit as the sword for fighting to slay all the things that resist us.
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