The Word of The Word…
- White Stone
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God is revealed and experienced in the Word. And only the knowledge of His Word can lead a person to the truth of the knowledge of Him, and consequently His power. And God’s power is demonstrated by His ability to accomplish His will in every situation, both real and potential, through any means He chooses, in order to glorify Himself. God's power is centered on His will and His glory. His transformative power is the power of God poured out on the human heart. God's word is a standard against which all philosophies, ideas, and proposed solutions for our depraved condition can be measured for correctness. If God's word approves it, we can run with it; if the Word rejects it, nothing we can do will make it work, make it acceptable, or make it right. Search the scripture because God's word is the standard for comparison, not human notions. God's word, planted in human hearts, produces true faithful believers. God's Word is the bonding means between Himself and His people. It is our greatest and most precious reward. Death is not a surety in life. For not all will die. Eternal life is not a surety, for not all will be brought by Christ to the Father. There is however one for sure thing in life…the judgment. The word of God is the only source of
information that can help us prepare for this sure event in our lives. It has the power to do this because God, in His word, shows us how to prepare for the "great day" in our lives. We must be ready, ignorance and disbelief will not exempt any from the judgement. To experience the power of God we need to know and understand the word. We are to study the word, to respond in complete obedience to every word, sharing the word multiplies the power of God to enable others to enable others to do the same.
When you hear the phrase, “the Word of God”, do you think of the divine message given to humanity? The Word is a discrete “message from God,” a particular divine message given at a particular time for a particular purpose. Furthermore, while these few precious “words of God” have certainly been compiled together and written down, they are to be heard in the thoughts of God as an oral proclamation, as spoken messages. When we hear God’s thoughts in the word, we hear life, truth, grace, faith, salvation, here, and here, and here, and here…with a specific content of that which is affirmed and manifested. God has spoken many “words,” given many divine messages, commands, teachings, promises, and prophetic pronouncements. And Jesus is the “Word” of all those “words,” the Divine Message extraordinaire. And this ultimate Divine Message has been “made flesh and dwelt among us.” The eternal Word in all these divine words has become embodied in a particular human and divine person, Jesus. Every word of God finds its coherence, its fulfillment in the One, the clearest and most complete revelation of God and God’s will. Our seeing the eternal message of God embodied in Jesus’ life, teachings, death, and resurrection, empowers us to respond to the living Jesus with loving devotion and faithful allegiance. Christ is the titled name of the “anointed One”, the “chosen One”, the Son of the living God. Even the devils acknowledge this truth. He is Jesus the human, Christ the Divine. The Word says it in the bible.
Luke 4:41
John 1:1-4, 14
Jesus has extraordinary oratory abilities…he is the Word that reaches the upper heights of creative and transforming power conveying a moral and spiritual framework to live by. As we hear, as we study the word of God it not only broadens our inquiries into understanding, but it broadens the truth of the answers given. This is divinely and intentionally designed by God. It is known as verbal plenary inspiration. The word of God communicates exactly what He wanted us to understand beyond the written texts. His words reflect the quality of being “God-breathed.” Everything in scripture is there, not only in the written word, but also in the idea, the thought, the intent, the purpose, behind the written word of what God has decreed, has experienced so that if we are wise we will seek the higher wisdom to understand the moments, the events, and connect them with the character and purpose of God. We are not to lean upon our own understanding. We are to depend upon the faith given that God knows the whole picture. Ours is a pilgrimage of growing in conformity to Jesus Christ by the power of the Spirit through the word of God. We cannot ignore God’s creative ability to give us understanding according to His word as it is reasoned with the mind of Christ. Our approach to the word is to fix us forward to the day when we can and will see God face to face. Every word is to lead us toward and into the love of God as we are brought deeper into the life of Christ. This is not interpretation of scripture…it is a distinctively purposed union with the Holy Spirit to convince and to convict us of the authoritative nature of God to give us an exalted view precisely making Himself known more throughly, not just in His revelations but in the spiritual source of His revelations. And that spiritual source is the word of the Godhead in the Determinate Counsel. It is the one only source of revelation, namely, God the Father, through Jesus Christ the Son, in the Holy Ghost, the Spirit. It is by this source that God speaks divinely to us with human utterances.
All these utterances can be summarized in only one word, the divine Word. Jesus Christ is the original revelation of God. Through revelation, God unveils certain truths about Himself and His salvific plan for mankind. Some of these truths exceed all created intellect; others are accessible to the human mind by receiving the entrusted sacred deposit of wisdom when coming now to reason with He who patterned every sounding word of creation. We are to follow the pattern of the sound words which we have heard from God, in the faith and
love which are in Christ Jesus. We are to guard the truth that has been entrusted to us by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us.
II Timothy 1:13, 14; 2:1-3
The scripture and the word are “bound closely together, and communicate one with and for the other. For both of them, flowing out from the same divine well-spring, come together in some fashion to form one thing, and move us towards delving deeply into the divine mysteries revealed. Christ himself wanted his people to have a living teaching authority with the task of authentically interpreting the divine word, whether written or orally transmitted, exercising its authority in the name of Jesus Christ. This authority is not superior to the word of God, but is its servant. It teaches only what has been handed on to it. At the divine command it hears the devoted truths of God, guards them with dedication and expounds them faithfully. All that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed is to draw upon our single deposit of faith. In this supremely wise arrangement of God, scripture and the word are so connected and associated that one cannot stand without the other. Working together, each in its own way under the action of the one Holy Spirit, they contribute effectively to the salvation of souls. Thus, the Word is the only authentic interpreter of scripture.
Yes, we are to study the bible alone as individuals for ourselves. And yes, we should study the word as a community. We should be hearing others who are studying scripture, giving checks and balances to one another through the Spirit that we learn more of God. God is infinitely great, but our image of God, our conception of God, isn’t…it can’t be. The unifying thread running through the word is the importance of knowing God in the life, and of our faith in the word through which we form the image of the greatness of God. In our finite humanness, we cannot comprehend God’s immensity, cannot take in God’s greatness. What we do is to form an image in our minds encompassing as much of God’s greatness as we can handle, and that image is inevitably too small. So, God makes His Word more expansive than what our minds can conjure. We are jolted by how the word of God always moves our mind to more essential truths. God grows bigger. It is for those who choose not to reason with God that deaden the reality of truth. Our approach to the truth of the word of God is to enable sight. It is true that “seeing is believing”. But in reasoning with God “believing is seeing”. And we by faith see the effect of God invading time and space to show the revelation of His word both in the bible and in the experience. This cannot be grasped by the intellect alone. God came down to talk with Moses. And Moses had as intimate a communion with God as thinkable. God spoke face to face with Moses, yet Moses desired a deeper acquaintance. Moses wanted to “see” the Word of the Word. This is why we study scripture…to endeavor to preserve it and to improve upon our bearing the sight of it. It is not with bodily eyes that we see the Word until our Lord returns, but hearing the word fits us to assist our faith to know the earnest of His presence. And it is in our going from faith to faith in His word that lets us adore the height of what we do know of God, and the depth of what we do not. We are acutely conscious of the hiddenness of God, of the inexhaustible mystery of the Divine. But we have an eye to the evidences of the shadows that proves the
light of the mysteries of truths revealed.
Every word of Jesus has unique significance. They are rich and carefully chosen words to powerfully affect the final generation. His truth brings to view the ultimate fulfillment of all that was foreshadowed. Whatever it is that we are assigned to do is revealed in the masterpiece of his life. Every word of God converges together to communicate a beautiful truth. We intellectually get that there are many tragedies in the word, and though God condones no sin, He knew it was going to be, and so in the power of the word we see Him working out all things for good. This suggests that we give voice expressively to His word with the faith that recognizes His sovereignty. There is in the word of God distant concepts. Ideas and thoughts too far for human devising. We are to see the profoundness, the praises to be offered, the promises fulfilled, the hopes and the certainty of why and how the word of God declares Jesus to be The Word that became flesh. We could search the greatest minds of mankind, hear the highest ideals of every thought. We could probe the ponderings of every prominent philosopher that ever lived and the poetry of every artist and still find no idea higher than God, nor a more concise, yet expressive statement about Jesus, than the one the word makes in reciting the enfolding account describing this interactive invisible and yet visible relationship. We begin with an all-knowing, all-powerful, invisible God who is a Spirit and to be worshipped by His creation in spirit.
Colossians 1:15
John 4:24
God wanted to display to His creation the life that He expected of them. The love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control. The sinlessness that He hoped His creation to possess in their lives but could not, thanks to an adverse situation and to show exactly what it means to sacrifice oneself for the benefit of others while being obedient to God. God knew then that He Himself must enter His creation in a visible, physical form, carrying His very image and Spirit. And He must experience and exhibit what it meant to actually be human, with the same temptations, challenges, hurts, emotions, ups and downs, and ins and outs, yet live with, and for God. That meant none could come born
of a woman and a man. Being born of a virgin by the Spirit was the only option. Instilling His image, having his own human form, into the womb of a woman who had never been known by any man. There was only one way; his visible, physical, earthly image would be the Son of God. God’s only begotten son. That distinction is made in the word begotten and that makes all the difference…with a but. The world seeks to diminish the Lord Jesus Christ’s special status as “begotten.” Why is “begotten” so important when referring to him? “Begat” means “to give life to.” If not known, we loose the truth of God’s Word and an aspect of Christ’s fulfillment decreed by God at Jesus’ resurrection. It was at the resurrection that the Father gave Jesus life. He became God’s “only begotten Son” at his resurrection in the tomb.
Psalms 2:7
Acts 13:33, 34
Hebrews 5:5
Revelation 1:5
Colossians 1:18
Do we hear and see the power of The Word of The Word in this truth. There is no other God than God and so Jesus is the unique, divine Son of God, and no other sons are like him. And he is relatable in so many ways; Emmanuel, that holy thing, son of David, Redeemer, Bread of life, the Light, King of the Jews, Son of man, Savior, the Lamb, the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee, the I Am, this is Jesus, the very Word of God. The infinite unsearchable God is made personal in the audience of Jesus Christ. The mystery is the Word. Always with God. Always is God. A relationship so beautiful and glorious, so complex and simple, must be admired. The word presents an awe-inspiring presentation of the Word and the many facets to be admired from every angle of truth. The Word is the
communication of the Father. He is the rational power, influence, and strength of Fatherly fulsomeness overflowing in infinite goodness. That Word was no impersonal object but a full person, with the Father in all things at the principal moment of all things. The Word was both with God and was God. Was and with. What God was, the Word was. The Word was God, and the Word was with God. Coequal, indistinguishable, yet distinct. The Word was closer than accompaniment, more present than association. The Word is the “Am” of the “I”.
We are to contemplate and meditate on this truth. We must repeat this report until they it is etched on our minds, then ponder them, study about them, and respond to them by worshiping the incomparable God that is The Word of The Word. Today, we are but vaguely familiar with what we must need know of God, but in the word, we have significant understanding that our overcoming is in the comprehended and understood meaning of how we are to prevail to rise to be sons of God. It is the word that articulates the divinity and eternality of Jesus as well as his distinguishability from the Father. And by the word we know that Jesus did not cease to be the Word when he became flesh. And as God dwelt in the tabernacle in the midst of the people of Israel in the wilderness, so the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. In Christ we have visible the invisible glory of God seen by those who are born of God. Born of the Holy Ghost. We are enabled to see the work of God in Christ.
Philippians 1:6
This is our great comfort. In the Word we have the evidence of being lifted above our hopes, knowing the greatness and goodness of God concerning our future prospect. In this word is heard our judgment of faith. It is God’s beginning. We could not begin this of ourselves. And it is to be applied to particular persons, and then the word speaks of the certain accomplishment of the work of grace wherever it is begun. Because God is doing a good work, a blessed work; for it makes us good, and is an earnest of good to us, it will make us like Jesus, and fit us for the witnessing of the Word of God. It was the Word declaring that “it is finished” that gives cause to God saying, “it is done”. The Word is in agency with all that is God. His word of forgiveness lacks no power.
I John 1:1-9
We must know the word that we might speak in the name of God with the eternal word of the transcendent Creator whom we represent. The identity of God is revealed in His self-communicative Word and self-giving sacrifice of Jesus. There is no God behind the back of Jesus. This eternal truth must be firmly impressed upon the hearts and minds who know the Oneness of God. God came to us in Jesus, showed His face to us, and poured out His love to us as our Savior.
Acts 20:28
I Timothy 1:1; 4:10
There is this identity of being in this assertion of the simplicity and holy transcendence of the Deity. There is no nothing between the unbegotten Father and the begotten Son. It is by the Word that creation emerges out of nothing and includes it in the sharing in the Being
of God. The Being of God is not closed to itself, it is like a fountain overflowing with creativity. God is uncreated in the Father, and He is Creator in the Son. The Word stepped out of his anonymity and made himself known in the most concrete, tangible and unexpected way, in and through the particular human historical existence of the man Jesus. And in Christ Jesus the whole fulness of deity dwells bodily. And even in his self-revelation and enfleshment, God remains the incomprehensible divine mystery. At no point does the Divine Essence become an object of human perception and intellectual conceptualization whereby we could offer a description of explanation of such a Spirit Being. All things that are in the Father are beheld in the Son, and all things that are the Son’s are the Father’s; because the whole Son is in the Father and has all that the Father has in Himself. And so, the Person of the Son becomes as it were the Form and Face of the knowledge of the Father, and the Person of the Father is known in the Form of the Son. God is not one thing in Himself and another thing in Jesus Christ. What God is toward us in Jesus, He is inherently and eternally in Himself. They are a oneness in Being. What God is in eternity, Jesus Christ is in space and time, and what Jesus Christ is in space and time, God is in His eternity. There is an unbroken relation of “Being” and “A Thing Done” between the Son and the Father, and in Jesus Christ that relation has been embodied in our human existence once and for all. There is thus no God behind the back of Jesus Christ, but only this God whose face we see in the face of the Lord Jesus, the Word of the word. There is only the one God who has revealed Himself in Jesus Christ in such a way that there is perfect consistency and fidelity between what Jesus reveals of the Father and what the Father is in His unchangeable reality. The constancy of God in time and eternity has to do with the fact that God is in Jesus, for there is no other God than He who became man in Jesus and He whom God affirms Himself to be and always will be in Jesus.
The world attempts to dilute Christ as God to rationalize their disobedience, saying that Jesus died for their sins so that there is no guilt upon them, no condemnation. These share another gospel than does The Word. To these Jesus presents the triune question – “lovest thou me”? Jesus is asking this in real time. It is the rarity of loving Jesus that increases the probability of coming to a satisfying conclusion. The Word conveys a higher sense of meaningful love. It interchangeably is asked by Jesus as the divine omniscience is the witness that the Word knows us better than we know ourselves in the word usage. The distinctions of the love requires a broad understanding of the word of The Word.
We have as it is a deeper question. In the scriptures every single word has been meaningfully chosen for our instruction. Can we love who we don’t know? God’s word is to show us the harmonious nature of The Word that we might know Him in Spirit and in truth. How very much like the Word was Christ before and after his trial...he was God and with God. How unchanged was his disposition. There could be no altering in his character as a man any more than there could be in his attributes as God. He is the Word forever the same. We must probe the word being with a suspicion concerning our spiritual estate so we may suppose it asked of us this day that we may put it to our own hearts. Let us ask in the Savior's name, "lovest thou the Lord?” God is love and love is the very best evidence of reverence, faithfulness, holiness. These questions were to us that we take no cavalier attitude toward truth. That is, acting as though there were no such thing as truth, or as if it didn’t matter, when, in fact, truth matters at every point in life, it matters eternally. What
really is the measure of truth? Jesus demands that we take a stand for truth.
Matthew 21:23-27
There are some who will not stand for truth to avoid ridicule for not agreeing with the group…hypocrites. Then there are some who will not stand for truth fearing violence. Here is the way the depraved mind works. They are thinking carefully: if we say this then such and such will happen. And if we say that, then such and such will happen. They are reasoning carefully. Why? Because the truth is at stake? No, because their skin is at stake. And their ego. They don’t want to be harmed and they don’t want to be shamed. Truth doesn’t matter. These say, I matter. Jesus won’t deal with people that treat truth that way. Jesus abominates that kind of arrogant, cowardly prostituting of the precious reality of truth. The sum of the word is truth.
Exodus 30:12
Psalms 119:160
The sum total is truth. And not just the totality, but the individual citizens in this land of God’s word, every one of them, is accountable for truth. That’s why the second aspect draws out this individual nature of each judgment; “and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever.” So you have a summation in the first of the verses (“the sum of thy word is truth”), and an individualization in the second half of the verses (“and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever”).
So, this figurative census taken by Moses is the headcount of God’s word. It discovers something about the sum and something about the individual members in the sum. The sum is truth, and every individual part endures forever, because they too are truth. Neither the whole nor the part will ever prove false; they will never need to be struck from the royal record. The population, so to speak, of the word of God is totally truth and truth in every part. So, to answer what is the sum of truth… it is the word of God, in its totality and all its parts. Or consider it this way…sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth. In other words, when the Father speaks, that is truth. If we want to know what truth is, we go to the Word of God.
Step back and ponder this for a moment. The reason God’s word is ultimate truth is because God is ultimate reality. The concept of truth depends on the concept of the real. For something to be true, something behind it must be real. And the truth is telling us what is real. God alone is ultimately real, ultimate reality. That is, no reality was before Him. He doesn’t depend on any other reality. All other reality is created by Him. So, by His being and by His creating He has determined and defined what is and what is real. And since what makes something true is that it corresponds to what is real, therefore, God determines and defines all truth. When God speaks, that is truth. The way the bible uses the word truth, and the way we are to use it, is to refer to a faithful representation of reality. If it is a true statement or proposition, that statement faithfully represents reality. If it’s a story, the story faithfully represents reality. Jesus is God’s Word and speaks God’s Words…he is the Word of the word. Jesus also says, “I am the truth”. The most fundamental reason he could say this is that he is God. Jesus enters the world as the ultimate divine reality and as the perfect spokesman for this reality, for God. This is God’s final and decisive way of saying to us that truth is not impossible to reach. It has come to us. He is not waiting for us to find it. Truth is pursuing us. Since he is God, and God’s Word, he speaks God’s words. So when we speak the words of God today, we mean all that Jesus has shown us it means: Himself, his words, the Old Testament, and the New Testament. This is the sum of God’s word, and it is truth.
God has not left us without the revelation of His will. He has not left us without wisdom. He has not left us without unfathomable knowledge, that none of us ever exhausts. He has not left us without a full and sufficient revelation of the way of salvation, the way of everlasting joy. He has not left us without a way to measure the truth claims of every life-shaping question we face. This is simply a priceless legacy left us in the word of the Word. This will prove our faith in the Word in the final days. We will have a conviction, so clear, and evident, and assuring, as to be sufficient to induce us, with boldness to sell all, confidently and fearlessly to run the venture of the loss of all things, and of enduring the most exquisite and long continued torments of suffering. We will so deeply treasure the word that we will build our whole lives on its truth, and be ready to risk everything for the glory of its story. It is the Word of God that tethers our mind to the truth.
Romans 15:14
Colossians 3:16
I Thessalonians 5:12
II Thessalonians 3:15
Hebrews 8:5
To admonish is to deposit truth into a person’s thoughts. It might take the form of discipline, encouragement, or affirmation. It may be commendation or correction. Above all, admonishment is truth spoken into a difficult circumstance. It’s like inserting a chlorine tablet of truth into the algae of difficulty.
This is the charge that Jesus spoke to us. Admonishment speaks up. Yes, we may have to hold the hand of one who is struggling. Yes, we bring water to the thirsty. And yes, yes, yes, we speak words of truth into moments of despair. Dare we sit idly by while Satan spreads his lies? By no means! The word of God is that Word who is Christ. Christ never began to exist, and he never will go out of existence. He exists at each moment in time. He exists at every turn in eternity. And when the word says he was the Word, he was with God, he was God, it is not referring to a time in the past, it is positioning our minds to form the concepts of expression that foundates Christ as the embodied Son. We, by the truth of the Word, are to always present the doctrine of the deity of Christ and affirm His co-eternal nature with God as Creator of the universe. The expression “the Word was with God” hides a vital truth about the relationship between God and Jesus. In the most intimate sense the Divine Word from all eternity was in a living, dynamic, co-equal relationship of close communion with the Father. Where God is the mind, Christ is the heart. This is the truth within the prayer of Jesus that we be one as they are one…and that we be one in them. It is the only way we can be made perfect…the Word of the Word’s prayer is answered.
John 17:11, 21
We are to go beyond the surface reading of scripture to reason the expressed deity of Jesus Christ and His inseparable oneness with God the Father. And the Holy Spirit has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. This word of truth was written by John after his experience on Patmos, after his being brought up hither. John saw the Word of faith evidenced. And by the word he signals the otherworldliness of Jesus right from the beginning.
The Word is only a partial reflection of this densely significant word. There is so much truth packed into the Word. We are to discover every truth in the word using reason and observation. From this we will gather clear and knowable principles that are constant. The Word is the total representation of all knowledge. The Word structured knowledge. He is the truth that exceeds all knowledge. This Word became personified. This Word is before the beginning of anything, he is the entity we know as God, who embodied, and created, the rational principle on which everything is founded. It is from this Spirit that everything material comes forth…celestial and terrestial. God is the Word. The Word was both with
God and also was God. When God spoke the Word what God spoke happened. Consider that truth. Jesus who is the Word, God in flesh is the full package. He carries in him the nature of God, the power of God, and the authority of God simply because he is God. This is the heart of our faith.
God has never attempted to hide who He is. He has been very clear in defining His character and His nature. To us, God shows that He is the one and only God.
Deuteronomy 6:4; 4:35
The Word is clearly the truth declaring there is only one God and there is no God beside Him. And too, the bible clearly identifies Jesus as God. And the Holy Spirit is shown to be God. Equal and eternal in nature and essence. This truth, this word accounts for how God relates to events, things, and people within the entire creation. The answers to our questions turn on God’s relationship in the sense that He is eternal and holds the dominant view of all things happening in a determined moment. We reason not of His timelessness, but rather of His everlastingness. We attribute our temporal existence as designated by God to bring us to the succession of the Word. We experience the events He has located in time. That is where the wonder of the Word and He who exceeds all wonders surpasses all understanding. God is that supernatural peace offered us in the midst of our trials. It is a peace that defies explanation and human logic because it is not based upon our circumstances. It is based upon the word of the Word. And the word of God not only defines faith in Christ; it is God's appointed means to create faith in Christ.
Isaiah 55:11
God’s presence is sequential and all at once. He is at any point in time, at every point in time, beyond time in His eternalness. There can be no temporality to God. He is omnitemporal. Amazingly the bible states that God the Father and God the Son abide in eternity.
Isaiah 57:15
Is eternity the place where God lives or is God where eternity lives? Let’s reason… eternity doesn’t consist of a succession of “moments”. Else it would be “time”. Can there be anything before God? No, then God is before even eternity. But that does not imply that God does not inhabit eternity. God, in His presence, in His glory abides in eternity as He dwells with His people. God can do anything that is possible to do for there is nothing that is impossible for God.
I Kings 8:27
Exodus 25:8
Revelation 21:3
This is God’s relational presence. The glory of God is the beauty of His spirit. It is not an aesthetic beauty or a material beauty, but it is the beauty that emanates from His character, from all that He is. And it was given to us in human flesh…in the Word…in Jesus Christ. The glory of God, which is manifested in all His attributes together, never passes away. It is eternal.
Isaiah 43:7
We beheld God’s glory in the Word.
John 1:14
We are the vessels which “contain” His glory. All the things we are able to do and to be, find their source in Him. The Word, God’s glory, is what connects us to God. In this way, God is able to reveal Himself to all men, no matter their race, heritage or location. The essence of who God is, is His glory.
God has an eternal voice. It is the Word. We should listen to that eternal voice. Our “time” of frustration here is because we are not of “here”.
I Chronicles 29:15
We are to know of our time. Because you and I were made to join Father, Son and Spirit in the joy of eternity. And when Jesus Christ stepped into time from eternity, he was making the way for us to return with him. God gave us His Son just as God gave us His spirit.
Job 33:4
Our spirit is in the same likeness of being that God is. God is a Spirit—it will never die. It is the part of us that has a relationship with God. God connects with, speaks to, and gives revelation to our spirit.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Proverbs 20:27
There is only one way for us to find out God…the Word of the Word. He is the only way for he is the only truth that gives the only life that can be eternal with God. No one can go between them. They are One. We must be “in” Christ for we can only go to the Father “by Jesus”.
God, in the Word, reveals something about Himself through His spoken word, which is ultimately and perfectly personified in His Son, Jesus Christ.
It took more than written revelation for us to know God. It took faith in the Word. It took the Spirit of God to teach us of the hidden depths of God’s nature, His love and how the Godhead so exhaustively works together in thought, word, and deed to save us.
God is a speaking God or, simply put, God is the Word. This Word is eternally with Him, and this Word is His very nature. Be clear in your understanding that God’s Word of revelation is supreme authority over all things. The Word is the witness of the divine things of God. We may conclude that the Spirit, the Blood and the Word of God work together to accomplish great things for God. The blood of Jesus and the spirit of God are completely united in the spiritual Word. In the born again experience everything we have been taught by faith becomes real, and we develop a direct and personal relationship with God. In His word we give up our will and our way and follow the will of God. We learn His will by studying the Word, praying, meditating and teaching the true word of God, not by ministers or preachers that stand up and give their own commentaries, but exactly by a ‘thus saith the Lord’. The Spirit of God leads us where we are to be. It leads us to life in Christ.
John 3:5
I John 5:8
Notice that the spirit, the blood and the water are in great agreement and united in their work. Yet, the Word spoke of his life, his blood, but the hearer did not reason with the Word and understood not.
John 3:6-21
Ephesians 5:26
The water there speaks of the word of God. It can be seen that the spirit, the word and the blood give life. This we find in our reasoning.
Luke 4:4
John 6:54, 63
Now hear what the word says…
Ephesians 2:13, 18
The blood of the Word, of Jesus, in the believer’s life, the importance of the Holy Spirit, and the water of cleansing, of baptism bring us closer to God. That’s why these three witness on earth. In other words they are inseparable.
How much better do we know the Word when we know of the blood. Think of the power of the Word of God…now think of the power in the blood of the Word. We are overcomers because of the blood and the word.
Revelation 12:11
As our revelation in the power of the blood increases, so will the power of the word of Christ increase. The Word must be continuously and persistently necessary in our lives. When we plead the blood of Jesus, the blood contends and protects us from the powers of darkness. It speaks on our behalf. It speaks better things than did Abel's blood. Jesus’ blood speaks of our rights in Christ – our right to be forgiven of sins, our right to be made righteous. Study the Word to learn what the blood foreshadows for our life.
Ephesians 1:7
Hebrews 9:12-26; 10:1-20
I Peter 1:18-25
There is no wisdom to be gained by the Word unless we reasonably likewise come to the knowledge to ascribe the power of the blood by which we are saved. The sacrifice of life was never an intention of God even though it was His plan. For eternal life to be made possible it would require a perfect offering of life for the vindication of the perfect law of God. God needed the blood of Deity as the bestowal of life for sacrificial worship. And for our understanding, the blood of the Word suggests the thought of life, dedicated, offered, transformed, and open to our spiritual adoption. Our faith, that comes by the hearing of the word, is that faith in the blood representing the human life of Christ suffering, dying and sacrificing himself upon earth, which cleanses us in our repentance desiring forgiveness. This faith in the word of God releases our life to present ourselves to God as a living sacrifice. Christ’s dying was not unto death but unto life for others. What prominence is "the Word of God" upon his return?
Revelation 19:13
This title clearly identifies the rider on a white horse here as Jesus, who came to earth the first time as God in the flesh but was rejected by the world. Here the question and the answer.
Isaiah 63:2, 3
It sounds as though this rider is returning from a bloody engagement. But reason with the entire content of the context. This is when our salvation was wrought upon the cross. None showed any boldness of spirit for Christ on the cross. None joined with him against his oppressors. Among the children of men no one could. It was determined that what the Word said on the cross had to be sounded in aloneness. But now, in his fury, in his omnipotence, will those who forsook the right to life offered by God, see the white robe of Christ stained by their blood.
In God’s Word is God’s will for our life. For as in the beginning was the Word, so in the ending will be the Word. It is by the Word that we are being finished. The born again experience is the new beginning of life turned over to the Holy Spirit for transformation. And one might have to see death, yet faithfully knowing the spirit returns to God. But what of the soul?
James 1:21
We are to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. Our soul needs to be saved. The soul is often defined as the mind, the will and the emotions. Each of these areas needs salvation. According to the bible, this is done by the Word of God. This is the sanctification…bringing the whole man into God’s perfect will. It is a process not dependent upon time, but rather upon transforming the mind. An immediate union with Christ on the cross is an instant transforming of the mind. We must become more determined than ever to make the Word of God a priority in our lives. The enemy hates and fears the Word of God. Have you ever been in study and witnessed the enemy stealing the word? He will do anything possible to prevent us from learning God’s Word. How was it that Jesus discerned the thoughts of those opposed to truth? He is the Word. It is shown in our relationship with the word the deepest part of our nature. Every presentation of the truth of the word exposes and sifts and analyzes and judges the very thoughts and purposes of the heart. These will show in the words spoken. Hear with the ear. The word will divide things for us; it begins separating truth from lies. As a result, we begin to realize what is of the Spirit and what is of the soul. Soon we know what actions are approved of God and what actions are not. The Word exposes wrong motives, wrong thoughts and wrong words.
Spiritual strength is drawn from the Spirit. And that which the Spirit wields is that which is the Word of God. God’s Word arms God’s consecrated people with defensive armor. And as in any warfare there is need also for offensive weaponry.
Ephesians 6:10-17
II Corinthians 10:3-6
This warfare is with spiritual enemies and for spiritual purposes. In this warfare there is no design to please the flesh: this must be crucified with its affections and lusts; it must be mortified and kept under. The principles and disciplines of the gospel are the weapons of this warfare. There is no outward force but rather strong persuasions, by the power of truth and the meekness of wisdom. Conscience is accountable to God only. The evidence of truth is convincing and cogent. This indeed is through the Word of God. It is our owing to Him, because the Word is His institution, and accompanied with His blessing, which makes all opposition to fall before His victorious reasoning on the word of the Word. Be discerning of proud conceits, in others. Let the Word of God reveal the richness of our character, the keeping of our faith, the gaining of our obedience, the efficient cause of our grace and power. Know that it is in our desire for the conversion of others that the enemy is conquered. But understand the readiness we must stand in to censure error. We must know and believe that the Holy Spirit knows exactly what scripture to give us in every situation. We are to stand for the Word in the spiritual realm. The power of the Word of God is the true knowledge of Him and His ways and character. Strongholds are wrongs thought to be true.
Jesus is God’s final word to us. And why is he called The Word? The things that came out of his mouth as the truth of God and the person of Jesus, as the truth of God, in such a unified way that Jesus himself, in his coming, working, teaching, dying, and rising, was the final decisive message from God…he is the Word from God. It was not just the words he spoke, but also who Jesus was and what he did. That is what God had to say to us. Jesus’ words clarify himself in his work, but his self in his work were the main truth that God was revealing. It was the witness of his life coming together as one great message from God. We come together when we, as the Word says, abide in him.
John 15:4-7, 10
John called Jesus “The Word” because he watched this man be truth. The Spirit impressed John with the best thing he could call him from eternity - God’s Word - God’s message to us. We are so unified in God’s intention for Jesus that He called him The Word of God. In the Word of God we have this view of all the revelation, all the truth, every witness, the glory, the light, and the works that came from Jesus, that Jesus was, in his living, in his teaching, in his dying, in his rising, the sum of all that can be said…The Word is God and that’s what the word of God says…
Let us come now to reason the truth of the revelation of The Word.
Psalms 138:2
God has made Himself known to us in many ways in creation and providence, but most clearly by His word. The judgments of His mouth are magnified by His Word. What is discovered of God by revelation of The Word is much greater than what is discovered by reason. We understand this to be of Christ, the essential Word, and of the episodic narrative of the words and endeavors of Jesus, culminating in his trial and death and concluding with his appearance after his resurrection. He is the Word which is magnified above all the discoveries God had before created, even His law, even His sanctuary. The Word is the communion in the Godhead.
Ephesians 1:13, 14
James 1:12
God’s word is the truth of His promise of our inheritance.
His Word. His name. The Word is God, the Word is Jesus, and there is none other name under heaven given…
We make God’s name our refuge. And we can be saved by none other than Jesus, the Word. And here is what lifts thy word above thy name…
II Corinthians 1:18-21
The Word of the Word invokes the promise echoed throughout the word of God. The intricate history of God’s initial promise realized is the fulfillment of God’s word of the promised Seed. And that Seed is Jesus, who is “The Word”.
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