John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Yesterday we talked about the flaming sword keeping the way open to the tree of life. We also referenced scriptures that the Word of God was the Sword of Salvation. Here today we see that the Word is God.

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Jesus Christ is the Word. Jesus Christ is God. Jesus is the Way to the Tree of Life.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

He is that flaming sword that keeps the Way to the Tree of Life and none shall pass unless they enter thru Him. It is thru Christ and Christ alone that sins are kept out while we are allowed to enter in.

Psalm 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

The only question left unanswered at this moment is this: are you born of God?

John 3:3, 5-6 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Genesis 3:22-24 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

The statement in line 22 was made about Adam and Eve in the garden after they disobeyed God and ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Up until that time they were sinless and nothing they did was a problem for God. There was only one command, don’t eat that.

Notice carefully the issue presented, that they still had the ability to eat of the tree of life and become eternal beings in paradise. An eternal being with sin upon them would be a permanent risk of contaminating God’s holiness. In this one sense holiness means separation from that which is common.

In verse 24 the flaming sword kept the way to the tree of life. If you think it is to keep mankind from entering in to partake of the tree of life, you would be wrong. It is to keep the way open but to ensure that sin could not enter in to paradise. People are not the problem, sin is the problem.

Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The Word of God is the Sword of Salvation. Its primary task is to separate (divide) so that sin is not allowed entry to the tree of life.