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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: How the Coming of Jesus Brings a Sword into Our Lives
Description: “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” MATTHEW 10:34
Jesus never endorsed or promoted violence. When Peter used his sword against the armed guard who came to arrest Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus healed the man and said, “No more of this!” (Luke 22:51).
The gospel can never advance by violence or by conquest. “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD” (Zech. 4:6). So, what did Jesus mean when He said that He came to bring a sword?
Jesus had just warned His disciples that they would be persecute...