Hebrews chapter 4 is packed with meaning, especially verse 12. Each phrase is significant. Each word is full of riches. Let’s study it phrase by phrase, sensing its practical impact on our lives today. “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword” (NKJV). The Bible is the Written Word, and Jesus is the Living Word (John 1:1, 14). Jesus is the Word made flesh. If you want to see what the Word looks like lived out in human life, look at Jesus. His Word is living and imparts life. It is a creative Word (Ps. 33:6, 9). In the Word we meet the living Christ through His Spirit, and He transforms our lives. His Word is powerful. The Greek word for “powerful” is energes, from which we get the English word energy. As Ellen G. White so aptly states, “The creative energy that called the worlds into existence is in the word of God. This word imparts power; it begets life. Every command is a promise; accepted by the will, received into the soul, it brings with it the life of the Infinite One. It transforms the nature and re-creates the soul in the image of God.”—Education, p. 126. Re-creation requires the power of creation, and that power is found in God’s Word. Let us therefore study the Word of God
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