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The sword Christ gave us:
>34Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
>36A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’i
>37Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me; 38and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.
Now what is the sword?
>17And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
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>12For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
We are to direct the sword Christ brought us, His word, against our family. That is we are to rebuke their sins and wickedness and make an effort of returning them onto the right path and not take part in their shemes and unrightousness. Like we are to first consider the beam in our own eye our next priority is our family, friend, then the neighborhood, city and nation as a whole. How can we tell a foreigner how to behave if our own people dont abide?
Likewise many will not relent from their sins, and so we are turned against members of our own household
So when we are to love God, that is truth, rightousnes and love itself, more than our family, lest we allow our family to transgrass God and work toward their own destruction, encouraging that even, and from this opposition inadvertedly division
