The energy force released by God to create, express, and reproduce Himself out of Himself into another dimension, this material dimension, is called the Word of God. Now the Word is God, just as your word is you, or of your and out of you. For out of the abundance of the heart, or essence of a man, the mouth speaks. We know by the definition of the word Logos that the Word is the very thought of God in expression. The Word who became flesh states it clearly: “I and the Father are one”; “when you have seen me you have seen the Father”. The Word in the flesh was the very nature and personality in expression of the invisible God. When in the beginning God spoke, the word of His power, the express energy of God went forth and resulted in that thought being given an express form; some thing material was created out of no material thing. We heard this week on the news how excited all the Evolutionists are because a key aspect of the Big Bang theory has been proven; a ripple in space resulting from the beginning of things. But they still have no answer for the cause of that effect. They still can’t explain where the energy came from that caused “the beginning”. “In the beginning, God said…”; the word of His power went forth and form was given to His thought and intention. Out of our God and Father came the expression of His spirit-self in a material dimension. Now when God spoke in the beginning, did He speak in Hebrew or English? No, God doesn’t have a mouth, lips, a tongue, or teeth. In times past, God spoke to the fathers and prophets in many ways. Sometimes for example, He spoke through thunder, and while many only heard thunder, some were given “ears to hear” within them the voice of God. I have heard the voice of God speaking audibly; or so it seemed in me. But He has always sounded just like me. Why? Because He is speaking in me, in my thoughts. And when by inspiration He speaks through me, He sounds just like me to another. But what we know is that when God chose to speak clearly and definitively to man, He spoke to us “in the person of the Son” (Heb. 1:3Darby). The Word of God didn’t become a language, or a book; the Word of God became flesh; Jesus the Christ. Jesus Himself is the language of God. Jesus spoke Aramaic, but God didn’t speak to humanity in Aramaic; He spoke to us in His Son. It was not what Jesus said or in what language he spoke that made Him the Logos, but Who and what He was: the Word become flesh. Jesus didn’t just speak the word of God, He was and is the Word of God. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory; the glory of the uniquely begotten son of God. “Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, they sent them Peter and John” (Acts 8:14). “And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the Word of God” (Acts 11:1 Darby). “And for this cause we also give thanks to God unceasingly that, having received the Word of God by us, ye accepted it not as mens word, but, even as it is truly, Gods Word, which effectually works in you who believe.” (1 Thess. 2:13). God’s word is creative, transformative, and as stated in the email below: the abiding Word of God is the seed of incorruptible life, through which we have born again and have become as He is in this world; Emmanuel: God with us, as us. And as we let the Word of God dwell richly within us, we take on all the riches of His nature, character, and authority; the Word having become flesh in us. To refute Gnostic doctrines, John was very explicit that the Word was in the beginning with God. In other words, the Word is not ‘from” the beginning, as is the devil who has been “a liar from the beginning.” No, the Word was in the beginning, “before the world was” (John 17:5), and was God. To complete John’s thought in this passage regarding how the world and all things came into being he states: “All things were made by Him; andwithout Him was not any thing made that was made… He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.” (John 1:3,10). To elaborate on the point I was making in the email below when I stated – The Christ is the Word of God and the words that He speaks are spirit and they are life! As the Word, Jesus could say, “Before Abraham was, I AM” (Jn. 8:58). But as the Son He receives the witness of the Father, “Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee” (Heb. 1:5) – the Bible doesn’t say that the Son was in the beginning with God, but that the Word was in the beginning and the Word became flesh, even the Son of God. Further, nowhere in the Bible is the term, “God the Son” found. Nor is it anywhere mentioned that the Son is of the Godhead, but that the Godhead is in the Son: “For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” And what is even more wonderful to us is the next verse: “and you are complete in Him” (Col. 2:9-10), or as it says in another version: “and through Him you too are filled with it,” meaning that both Jesus Christ and His conformed brothers – the Head and the body of Christ – are filled with the fullness of the Godhead. “There is… one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.” (Eph.4:6). Stated plainly the Word in His flesh says: “And now, O Father, glorify thou mewith thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” (John17:5). (Words from an email I got from a friend Danny Walters- not sure if Danny or someone else authored it...)
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:52:45 +0000
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