Christ says Buy the Word Sword, first!
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2013-01-27

Wouldn't want the hawks to use Luke 22:38 as an excuse to just go beating people up, either; so in this last video on the verse, we look at the whole Chapter's context.

WORD SWORD FIRST.  The disciples didn't get His meaning in 22:38, so He face-palmed, and stopped the discussion.  There, they were too pacifist, but then after hearing Him talk, they go to the other end of misinterpretation, thinking they should just FIGHT FIERCELY HARVARD -- verses 49-50.  Clearly that's wrong too, for a slave is not a combatant, wasn't a threat, hadn't laid a hand on anyone.  So that wasn't a lawful use of the sword.  You don't fight against duly constituted authority, even when that authority is wrong.  So Christ said, 'all who take up the sword' (to rebel against their government, for example) 'shall perish by the sword'.

Dicey question, that:  at what point do you rise up against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them?  Well, rightly dividing the Machaira of Truth, Hebrews 4:12, means you do what King David did -- ASK GOD.  Not, just take it into your head that fighting is suddenly bad, and also not to deem it always good.  'Neither to the left, nor to the right'.  Yeah, right in the middle where the opposites meet, that thin Red Line of Truth Rightly Divided.

Time to fight, time to not fight.  It's our job to prepare, Luke 22:36;  and to not go off half-cocked like Peter did in Luke 22:50.  So that's the ultimate reason why Gun Control is bad.  Need weapons to train, else will be overrun, Judges 1:19, 1Sam13:19.