Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Know Your Sword: The Gospels

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Christian soldiers are armed with spiritual tools to do their job. God doesn’t leave us without defenses in our spiritual battle. He not only gives us tools to protect ourselves, He gives us an offensive weapon as well, His word. The word is described as the sword of the spirit in Ephesians 6:17—the climactic component of the Christian soldier’s ensemble. 

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Table of Contents

Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 001

2 minutes
"For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 002

6 minutes
God the Father is eternal, having existed before creation. He is almighty and all-powerful, the divine and holy Being whom we should worship. All true...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 003

4 minutes
Jesus came to earth as a physical, mortal human being subject to death. With that background, we have a much more complete picture of the sacrifice of...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 004

4 minutes
Have you ever been inspired by a story of great courage and conviction? Or, stirred by an example of great personal sacrifice for the benefit of...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 005

6 minutes
Have you ever considered whether you’d want to know when, where and how you would die? Many have wondered about that over the years. For some, the...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 006

5 minutes
In 1 Corinthians 5:7 we learn that “Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.” What is the specific connection between the Passover and the...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 007

7 minutes
Jesus Christ, at His last meal with His disciples, commanded His friends and followers to remember Him in a specific way. Although He had earlier...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 008

6 minutes
Why did Jesus command His disciples to drink wine as a symbol of His blood? What meanings are wrapped up in this extraordinary analogy that are vital...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 009

4 minutes
Christ wants us to understand that His blood makes it possible for us to come before the very throne of God. Under the old covenant, only the priest...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 010

5 minutes
Few people realize that the Old Covenant was essentially a marriage covenant—by which God "was a husband" to Israel ( Jeremiah 31:32 ). In this...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 011

4 minutes
God’s festivals and Holy Days give us valuable insight, knowledge and understanding of what God is doing as He carries out His plan. They give us...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 012

5 minutes
In the last lesson, we discussed the fact that each of the festivals of the Bible teach us about Jesus Christ’s role in God’s plan to offer salvation...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 013

4 minutes
In today’s lesson we look at the annual Holy Day of the Feast of Pentecost. We will explore what this holy time teaches us about Jesus Christ’s role...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 014

3 minutes
In our Know Your Sword series, as we examine at what the biblical Holy Days teach us about Jesus Christ, we now come to the Feast of Trumpets...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 015

4 minutes
The Day of Atonement is impactful to all of us, as this day includes a commanded fast, where we do not eat or drink from sunset to sunset. This helps...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 016

4 minutes
The next biblical Feast that we will examine in the Know Your Sword series is the Feast of Tabernacles. In the Old Testament, it was kept to remind...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 017

4 minutes
Today we will continue the examination of Jesus Christ role in the annual Holy Days as part of the Know Your Sword Series.
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 018

4 minutes
The Know Your Sword series now begins a series of questions regarding the existence of Jesus Christ.
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 019

4 minutes
In the last Know Your Sword series lesson, we read what the Roman court official Seutonius wrote about the early followers of “Chrestus,” apparently a...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 020

3 minutes
In the last two lessons of the Know Your Sword series we examined how the records of three early Roman writers confirmed Jesus Christ’s existence. In...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 021

5 minutes
In this lesson we’ll look at what another non-Christian writer, the famous Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, wrote about Jesus Christ late in the...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 022

3 minutes
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is a foundation of the Christian faith. Without it, we have no Savior living in us to help us come out of sin, and no...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 023

3 minutes
Do we have valid historical evidence that Jesus Christ was indeed resurrected from the tomb? In the last lesson we examined two proofs that this was...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 024

5 minutes
In this part of the Know Your Sword series, we continue our exploration of a topic that is critical to understand and believe. Do we have valid...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 025

3 minutes
Before we actually begin reading the Gospels themselves, we need grasp some crucial background points to better understand what we’ll be reading.
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 026

3 minutes
Let’s now take a brief look at “the writings of Moses and all the prophets” to see passages that teach us more about who and what Jesus was and tell...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 027

3 minutes
In addition to hundreds of prophecies about Jesus Christ, the lives of a number of individual people in the Bible represented, or were a ‘type’ of...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 028

6 minutes
In addition to hundreds of prophecies about Jesus Christ, the lives of a number of individual people in the Bible represented aspects of Jesus’ life...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 029

4 minutes
In the last four lessons we’ve looked at the backgrounds of the four Gospels, covering who the writers were, their backgrounds, who their audience was...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 030

5 minutes
The Gospel of Matthew is the first book of the New Testament.
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 031

4 minutes
The Gospel of Mark is the shortest of the four Gospels at approximately half the length of the others. It presents a fast-paced, vivid account of...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 032

4 minutes
The Gospel of Luke presents an orderly account of the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 033

6 minutes
The Gospel of John offers a distinct portrayal of Jesus Christ. Unlike the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), John presents a highly...
Know Your Sword

Gospels Part 034

6 minutes
In today’s lesson we’ll address another question: When were the Gospels written?
Know Your Sword

Gospels Part 035

4 minutes
In our last lesson, we looked at how the best evidence and logic points to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke having most likely been written in...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 036

4 minutes
In our last lesson we discussed the logical reasons that several decades passed before Matthew, Mark, Luke and John wrote their Gospels. You can...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 037

6 minutes
Let's discuss how some of the differences between the Gospels set them apart from one another.
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 038

6 minutes
In our last lesson we covered some of the reasons why we see some differences between the way Matthew, Mark and Luke record the same events. In today...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 039

5 minutes
Let’s consider the fact again that we have not one, but four Gospels. In these four books we have four witnesses who are all in agreement with the...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 040

3 minutes
Who was Jesus Christ? What was Jesus Christ? Was He merely a kind and gentle person who went around saying kind and gentle things and who died for our...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 041

5 minutes
There are two important aspects of salvation through Jesus Christ.
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 042

4 minutes
In the last two lessons we covered the meaning of the name “Jesus” and that it means “God is salvation.” We also looked at how we are saved through...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 043

4 minutes
In the last lesson we covered that “Christ” means anointed, the same as the Hebrew word Messiah. We also covered that one of purposes for anointing...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 044

4 minutes
In the last two lessons we covered that “Christ” means anointed, the same as the Hebrew word Messiah. We discussed that one purpose for anointing was...
Know Your Sword: The Gospels

Gospels Part 045

6 minutes
In the last three lessons we covered that “Christ” means anointed , the same as the Hebrew word Messiah . We discussed that one purpose for anointing...