THE POWER OF THE WORD 

On the night of His betrayal by Judas Iscariot, Jesus had gone into the Garden of Gethsemane with His other disciples. Judas entered the garden, bringing a great multitude with swords and staves to take Him.

Peter wanted to defend Jesus by the use of a sword, but Jesus told him, “Put up again thy sword into its place; for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech the Father and He shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels” (Matt. 26: 52). When we think of one angel of Jehovah (2 Kings 19:35), who killed one hundred and eighty five thousand in one night, think what “more than ten thousand” angels could do. Note what the writer of Hebrews tells us, “For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? Which having been first spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard...” (Heb. 2:2,3). When we take up “the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; ..with all supplication, praying, at all seasons in the Spirit...” as the apostle Paul instructs us, (Eph. 6:17, 18), we will win souls to Christ, and save our own if we abide by it. Through more than 65 years of preaching the word publicly and privately, I have found that the best way we are going to win souls to Christ is by “handling aright the Word of truth” (2 Tim. 2:15). And that more souls are being won by what we call personal evangelism than any other way (Acts 8:4). If we want to see the church grow today, we must go with the gospel as they did in New Testament times. We must go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15,16). The power to save souls for Christ is in the Word!

Love you, David V. Fultz