![]() Literally, this is the word from which we get our word "dynamite." These weapons work. But, he declares, "the weapons of our warfare are mighty." They are powerful. They are not the thing upon which one depends for victory in these struggles and battles of life. It is not that some of these means might not ultimately be part of the working out of solutions, but they are not the primary thing. He sets them aside, not because they are basically wrong, but because they are essentially ineffective: They do not accomplish the task. You will find that he records exactly the same processes going on then as now.īut, in Second Corinthians, the Apostle Paul repudiates these as proper means for Christians to employ in attacking these strongholds. If you question that, I refer you to Will Durant's great volumes on The History of Civilization. These were exactly the same weapons that society used to confront the problems that were present in the Roman Empire when Paul wrote this letter. ![]() If you are a student of history at all you know that the world is unchanged, in this respect, from Paul's day. ![]() They are investigations, studies of all kinds, reports from committees, meetings, educational programs, demonstrations, boycotts, strikes, pressure blocs, new legislation, etc. The weapons by which the world (or society, if you prefer) seeks to attack the problems that are everywhere present in this world are very plain to us. In Second Corinthians 10 we are attempting to discover just what the Apostle Paul means when he says in Verses 3 and 4,įor though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
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