The Seed

Luke 8:11,

"Now the parable is this: The
seed is the word of God."

LUKE 8:11-15

It is through the reading of the Word and the
enlightenment of the Holy Spirit that we can

know Jesus.

What a privilege it is today to have God's

Word in our own language.

Six hundred years ago there was no English

translation of the whole Bible.

Thanks to the efforts of John Wycliffe (1384)

and William Tyndale (1523), we are able to

read and understand the writings of the

apostles for ourselves.

Men gave their lives to bring us God's Word.

We should take advantage of this wonderful
privilege.

The piece of armor known as the "sword of

the Spirit" is the only piece of armor that

has the ability to cut, wound, and hurt our

enemy, the devil.

It's not the Bible lying on your coffee table

that makes the enemy flee, but it is the Word

of God hidden in our hearts, activated by the

power of the Holy Spirit, and spoken in an
appropriate situation.

It's similar to what is spoken when Jesus said

in John 6:63, that "...the words that I speak

unto you, they are spirit and they are life."

The Word by itself doesn't make us free.

It is the Word we know and speak that will

deliver us (John. 8:32).
The Word is so effective because it is the
WORD of God.

It has authority, because it is the WORD of

God.

God's Word is the greater authority of the

church, of reason, of intellect, and even of
Satan himself.

It is the Holy Spirit that maintains the Word

as it is spoken in faith.

Speaking God's Word in faith brings the Holy

Spirit into action.

In Luke 4, when Jesus was tempted of the

devil for forty days, it was the Word of God,

that Jesus used to defeat the enemy in the

time of temptation.

Jesus constantly met temptation by quoting

from God's Word as He repeated the phrase,

"It is written."

The Christian soldier must helpl himself of

God's Word by placing it in his heart, so that

the Holy Spirit may bring it forth at the

appropriate time to accomplish a complete

victory.

It's ours!