and I wanna expand on this scripture
Heb 4:12 For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the [g] breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
The Bible is the Word of God
Joh 1:1 IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word ([a] Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.(A
Joh 1:14 And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth.(E)
Christ is the WORD of GOD
Christ's life was God speaking... everything about his life is important, and attempting to subtract,misuse, minimize anything about Christ is like directly doing it against the literal Voice of God himself....
Understand the scriptures above
Pro 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
For you to develop that deeper relationship (spiritual) (God is a spirit and we are to worship him in spirit and in truth) (Christ is the way, the truth, the life), we have to use the WORD of God as the STANDARD
Because we are part Spirit man and part Soulish man and part flesh(carnal)... our soul is subject to the influence of various spirits(spirits of light/truth or dark/deception/covering of truth)... it is the standard that is the word of God that decides what is of God and what is not of God... not ourselves... we are too human... and one of the definitions of being human is being susceptible to fragility of human nature... which means we HAVE to depend on God to save us from our own human nature of sin, because we are all born and shaped by a sinful world, but if you look above.... Yeshua means God saves....
God judges based upon the heart
Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Its the word of God that exposes the truth of whats on your heart, but see when you start reading the Word of God(Christ) there is a problem with your heart that automatically rejects it....
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Main Entry:deceitful
: having a tendency or disposition to deceive: a : not honest *a deceitful child* b : DECEPTIVE, MISLEADING *deceitful advertising*
synonyms see DISHONEST
Remember all those people telling you to follow your heart... my heart aint never lead me anywhere successful... its a damn liar....
Your heart doesn't want the full knowledge of God, because the things of God do not feed the flesh... which means it does not make a unclean, uncircumcised heart feel good, because God requires a pure heart to stand before him... so the first half of your heart requires you purging all of the lust and fascinations of the world, and centering it in on God so that you are honestly able to follow the first commandment... and by revelation of the hebrews scripture... you can see it is the Word of God that does this work... and when one instructions you to have faith, or build your faith... they are asking you to have trust... or build your trust in the things that the bible says as truth...
I'll stop here....