Cutting Two Ways

From the Pastor:  Dr. M. J. Seymour, Sr.

 

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Heb. 4:12) 

All things are laid bare before God because of the Word’s precision in dissecting righteousness from unrighteousness.  Therefore, every creature is manifested down to the precise thought and intent of the heart.  Many of the Scriptures of the Word are said to have two sharp edges; that is, as the passage cuts one way it lays bare the righteousness of the matter and as it cut in the opposite direction it lays bare the unrighteousness of the matter. Such is the case with the latter part of Genesis 3:16 – “Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.”  (Bro. David Hitt, Sr. helped spark this devotion.) 

The way of righteousness God mandated was that the wife’s “desire” shall be “to” her husband.  In the morally correct purpose of God it means for the wife to direct her desires to be pleasing and her lusts toward her own husband.  “For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:” (I Pet. 3:5) 

As the Sword dissects the other way to lay bare unrighteousness we shall find it concealed in the same words.  “Desire” in the negative can be used to signify the craving of a wild beast to devour its prey.  Rebellion is the sin of witchcraft, and to rebel against the righteousness of God is the result of having come under the spell of Satan’s witchcraft fighting against God.  When a wife seeks to devour her husband (love and authority), it unveils the truth that the thoughts and the intents of her heart are unrighteous and rebellious.  Thus, instead of the family unit being in holy harmony, it becomes a pack of fighting mongrels dysfunctional and void of righteousness.