Early in Hebrews chapter 4, Paul is talking about God’s rest and that we enter by faith. Faith comes by the hearing the Logos.
So, he writes Hebrews 4:12.
12 For the word (logos) of God is living (zoe) and powerful (energeo), and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division (distinction by purging the conscience) of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a (separator) discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The word “discerner” means critical. The root means to separate. The word or logos separates the real from the non-real, genuine from disingenuous and leaves grace and truth or itself, or nature. It changes motive and even thoughts!
Leave a Reply