Jesus the Word

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The purpose of this Bible Study is to enable you to activate the Word of God in your life. There is a difference between activation of the word and application of the Word. Activating the Word is like flipping on the light switch in your room which activates the electricity which is always available to your house. The light switch activates the light. When you pick up a book, you apply that light in the room so you can read.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water. And God said (God’s words), ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. Then God said, (God’s words), ‘Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters ..’ So God separated the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse. Then God said .. Then God said…” WHATEVER words God said, they became reality. Everything was created by His word. Although it was the beginning of His Creation, it was not the beginning of God. God is outside the realm of time and space. He dwells in eternity. Before He created the heavens and the earth, there was only the spiritual world. When God said, “Let there be light!”, those faith-filled words slung this universe into existence at the speed of light, from the idea that was inside God, His idea. Those words of creation were filled with power. Power that far exceeds any power we can comprehend. God and His Word are one. All powerful.

God’s ultimate creation was the creation of a human man and woman who were made in His image! God created Adam and Eve to have them as His family, to fellowship with them, to bless them. But when they fell for Satan’s ploy and purposely disobeyed God, God could no longer fellowship with them, nor call them His family. God the Father had to have another plan in order that these extraordinary creatures could become His family!

God then gave the Law and Commandments through Moses for people to follow in order to be righteous in His eyes. No amount of effort worked. It was impossible! No amount of sacrifice could take away the sin that entered human hearts when Adam and Eve took the bait of Satan. Prophets spoke and wrote down God’s word and will in order that the people would listen and follow God’s will for them. But this extraordinary human race, the epitome of God’s creation, went their own way, following their own thoughts, ideas and ideals.

BUT THE GREAT I AM HAD ANOTHER PLAN IN MIND! The Father turned to the WORD Who was also God the Son, and revealed His fool-proof plan. His plan was to send The Word to the earth in order to reveal His love for them, and to give them a way to become His very own people. His family. ENTER THE LIVING WORD OF GOD IN HUMAN FORM!

“Now the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth to a VIRGIN engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the descendants of David, and the virgin’s name was Mary. The angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David; and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.’… ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High God will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.’” Luke 2.

“And she gave birth to her first-born son, and she wrapped Him in cloths and laid Him in a cattle feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.” Unnoticed, born to a young Jewish virgin, God’s Spoken Word became part of a human family.

“And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:1-3.

Jesus, Who created all physical worlds, universes, stars, suns, moons, galaxies and all living creatures, entered the world He created. One hundred percent man, one hundred percent God the Son! The Word Who created every physical thing took on physical form and entered into and became part of that Creation. Think of this: God’s Spoken Word came to earth, and He interacted with human beings. This sounds like science fiction! But it’s not! This is what truly happened. The Word that God used to create the heavens and the earth came to the earth in human form. The Word that brought all creation into existence talked face to face with people around Him. Can you imagine the power in His words? Jesus the Word spoke words! These words came from the heart and mind of God Himself. It is no wonder that CROWDS followed Him everywhere He went. They surrounded Him constantly to hear Him speak, and to see Him heal the sick. They said about Him, “No one ever spoke like this man.” The Word of God in the form of a man stood among humans and spoke with them. The incarnation of Jesus brought to earth an awareness of who God is and what He is like. The words that Jesus spoke had the same power they had at Creation. Jesus is the Word because He was the means through which God brought all physical reality into existence and because He is the One Who represents the Father’s invisible nature and character to that creation.

Think of that reality: Whatever He spoke – and we read His words in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts and the Revelation – came from the Living Word that spoke at Creation! The Word that caused all physical things to appear, and all those physical things were created out of nothing that existed!

The entire Bible is filled with words that God Himself spoke or words He spoke through prophets and other human beings He created. The power of God is in every spoken word!

One purpose of Jesus’ coming to earth was to show people what God is like, and what He says and does. God, being invisible, could not come to earth Himself. Jesus, Who brought every physical thing into existence, became Himself a physical Being. The main purpose of His coming was to provide the only way available to become God’s child, to become part of His family, and to live with Him forever in eternity when we leave earth. Jesus plainly said, “I AM the Way. I AM the Truth. I AM the Life. No one comes to the Father except by Me.” At last, God the Father was able to connect with man, whom He put on the earth, through this ingenious plan. He had His Son become like one of us! The Word was personal, interactive and alive. The Word was sent by God to reveal God, yet spoke as God and was worthy of worship and praise as God. The Word could rightly be distinguished from God, but could just as rightly be said to be the One True God. And then, the greatest Plan within the Plan. God the Father sent God the Son – The Word – to earth to become the SACRIFICE to take away the sin of the world. Through His sacrificial death on a cross, He became sin in our place. Then after 3 days in a tomb, God the Father brought Him back to life again. By accepting His sacrifice for their own sin, the human race now had the opportunity to become God’s own family! His beloved children! The Gospel came to life!

If all the Word of God was so powerful, and it was, and made things happen, and it did, how can we then appropriate this Word for ourselves, for our situations, our families? If all of this Word is true, and It is, and if It is full of power, and It is, why do we not clasp It to ourselves, embrace It and speak It forth, expecting It to do what It says It will do? The promises of God? Knowledge of the Word is foremost. Knowledge of the Word is vital. But knowledge of the Word is not enough. When we speak that Word forth in faith that It will do what It says, God honors that. Is the Word true? Yes! Jesus Himself said that He (the Word) is the Truth. If the Word is true, then we cling to that Word, repeating that Word, expecting It to do what It says. Jeremiah 1:12 says, “I (God) watch over My word to perform it.” Does the Word accomplish what we pray for when we pray for it to do something? Not always. Faith in the Word comes by hearing and hearing and hearing and hearing the Word of God. Over and over and over and over again. The Word will take up residence in your heart when you repeat it again and again out loud to yourself. That’s the way it works. Many of us have had great disappointments when God didn’t answer when we wanted Him to and HOW we wanted Him to. This is the secret: It doesn’t matter what our past experiences have been, we still stand on God’s powerful Word. We stand and stand and stand. I have seen miracles happen immediately. This is my point: Jesus came to earth as the embodiment of the spoken Word of God. What I know is, God does not lie. His Word is true and He says to read it, meditate on it, and have it become part of you It then becomes easier to stand on His Word, expecting it to bring results, expecting it to work no matter what we see or hear or think or feel. You can get to the place that you stand on His Word no matter what. If your situation doesn’t work out the way you wanted it to, continue to stand, wearing the Armor of God. Stand in the Belt of the Truth of God’s Word, wearing the boots of the Gospel, wearing the Breastplate of Righteousness that comes from being born again, covering your mind with the Helmet of Salvation, carrying the Shield of FAITH (that’s important!), and wielding the Sword of the Spirit, the powerful Word of God. That’s when you truly experience His peace as you wait. Isaiah 55:10-11 – “For as the rain and snow come down from heaven and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout, furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so will My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty without accomplishing what I desire, and without accomplishing the purpose for which It was sent.”