There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

(Heb. 4:12), or the carnal mind (the soulish realm) from the spirit man (the spiritual realm). The Word redeems, reconciles, renews, and repairs. WHICH LEVEL ARE YOU ON? Many years ago during a Main Event Camp meeting, I preached my first illustrated sermon, illustrating one of four levels of the Word of God in which the average believer is walking. I illustrated the message using four types of cutting instruments. T HE POCKETKNIFE LEVEL There is the pocketknife level of knowing God’s Word. Being from the mountains of West Virginia, every young boy in my day was given a pocketknife at an early age. It’s something you just carry around in the front pocket of your jeans. In reality, it was seldom used unless we became bored— it was something we pulled out in our spare time. So many believers have Bibles scattered in every room of their home, reminding them they are believers and to think about God , but too many only open up the Bible when they are bored with nothing else to do or occasionally in their spare time. When I was a kid, my pocketknife was used when I wanted to take a small tree branch and whittle away. These pocketknife believers will whittle you down to size if you teach something they disagree with, or they will spend time “whittling away” at things that are insignificant with little spiritual benefit. They view the Bible as a simple story book to help put the kids to sleep at night. Some “casual” Christians have a pocketknife