July 18, 2025 4:00 am
God's word is refined and purified in a spiritual furnace, leaving only the pure element, making it a perfect shield against the weapons of any foe, and a powerful tool for spiritual armor in the battle against evil.
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Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. The Pure Word. Every word of God is pure. He is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Proverbs 30, 5.
When the inspired writer of Proverbs testified here that God's word is pure, he did not use the usual word for say moral purity or metallic purity. Instead, he asserted in effect that every word of God has been refined and purified, as it were, in a spiritual furnace, so that any and all contaminants had been purged out, leaving only the pure element. Uh the same truth is found in the great psalm of the scriptures. Thy word is very pure, therefore thy servant loveth it. David used the same word in another Psalm where it is translated tried in the sense of tested for purity.
As for God, His way is perfect, the word of the Lord is tried. He is a buckler to all those that trust in Him. Psalm eighteen thirty. The word for buckler in this verse is the same word translated shield in our text. Thus God equips Christians with a perfect shield against the weapons of any foe, because His way is perfect, and every word in Scripture has been made pure before the Spirit of God approved its use by the human writer.
This surely tells us that the human writer of Scripture, that is, Moses or David or John or whomever, with all his human proneness to mistakes or other inadequacies, was so inspired by the Holy Spirit that whatever he actually wrote had been purged of any such deficiencies. Thus, his final written text was made perfectly pure, free from any defects. This control applies to every word, so that we can legitimately refer to the scripture as inspired and inerrant throughout. As the Apostle Paul stressed, our spiritual armor in the battle against evil is the shield of faith, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Ephesians six, sixteen and seventeen.
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