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not even be peace in your own home. You will

see conflict; you will see hostility, because the

Gospel divides humanity; it divides them up

into two groups, and there are sides that are

taken. When we get saved, we swear allegiance

to the Lord Jesus Christ, and our loyalty is to

Him and to Him only. Those who reject Christ,

their loyalty is not to the Savior, so there's the

hostility. It's the opposition from the outside;

it is opposition from those who reject Jesus

Christ. I'm going to give you some examples of

that in a moment.

Now, we see here, then, that the sword

represents spiritual warfare because the

Gospel divides between the sheep and the

goats. The Gospel will separate those who are

true believers from those who are not. So we

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