Another excellent Spiritually summoned Scripture!
Let me suggest, though, a minor correction of major import to your contention: My Bible is not the Sword of the Spirit. It is just ink on paper. In Eph. 6:17 the Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God; the spoken Word of God, the "hrema," not the "graphe" -- though the graphe is very important to communicate words that can be spoken.
I believe that the Sword of the Spirit is the "graphe" memorized word by word, and wielded by the battler in Spirit, to slice through the words of a fibber and fool. It was exemplified exactly by Jesus in the Temptation when contending in the Spirit against the Tempter. Every word. That was not battling in the flesh. (The other offensive weapon is, of course, prayer, as you mentioned.)
Satan uses both tongues and twisted Scripture. However:
Jas 4:6-7 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Resist the Devil and false humility! Good for your comment!
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Having done all ---- stand! Praying for a victory --
It’s difficult to recall
any other similar perspective, or position that
gets so many things so right to near right
married to
so many things so horribly and outrageously WRONG.
Of course, when I speak of the Bible, or Holy Scripture, it is the Word of God, his revelation to man through the Apostles and prophets, the God-breathed truths and not necessarily a particular translation or version, copyrighted text that I mean. Thanks for clarifying that. Whenever Jesus disputed Satan, it was by speaking "it is written..." and the sword of the Spirit is the Word of God, His truth.
I agree with you about the Holy Spirit using the memorized Scriptures. In Bible college, we memorized verses and even chapters at a time and nearly EVERY class had some amount of memory verses that we were tested on. I am so grateful for that nearly forty years later especially as I engage here. I may not recall the exact location of a verse but I recall a word or phrase or concept, and I know it is in there so I use a number of on-line Bibles to seek and find the references. Another way the Holy Spirit works is in bringing to our remembrance the truths taught within the word as well as when we hear a certain doctrine, we have a sense that it is or is not Scriptural by what we have learned in the Word. And you are quite right, it is a lifelong process and there are no shortcuts. It is immersing ourselves in the Word that it becomes a part of us and a strong defense in the spiritual warfare we engage in.