Not only is the Word of God living; it is also operative. "Living" points to its nature, while "operative" applies to its ability to fulfill the work on man. God's Word cannot return void ; it will prevail and accomplish its purpose. It is not mere word, but word that will so operate as to produce results.
What then does God's Word do for us? It penetrates and divides. It is sharper than any two-edged sword. Its sharpness is demonstrated in the "penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow." Note the analogy here : the two-edged sword against joints and marrow, and the Word of God against soul and spirit. Joints and marrow are embedded deeply in the human body. To separate the joints is to cut across the bones; to divide the marrow is to crack the bones. The two-edged sword is able to work thus in our mystical body.
Only two things are harder to be divided than the joints and marrow ; the soul and spirit. No sword, however sharp, can divide them. Even so we are wholly unable to distinguish between what is soul and what is spirit. Yet the Scripture tells us how the Living Word can do the job, for it is sharper than any two-edged sword. God's Word is living, operative, and able to penetrate and divide. It is the soul and spirit of man which are thus penetrated and divided.
A life separated into Christ awareness and in expectation of the continuous manifest of God in his temple the people foo God are one sir, despite what you see it will eon day mature to one Paul warned the infant foo to divide it's been 2,000 years we're still in need to mature, into one body praise God. , praying for those lost in the deep cults or those lost in world of drug addiction freedom in JESUS .
God is spirit, (read the scriptures) I use the kj3 I like it free form some of the Anglo Saxon hierarchal terms which are not in the Greek enjoy. Thanking the greens for doing so, long over due.
nw (spirit and truth)
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