The Word Was
God
In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was
in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him
nothing was made that was made. John
1:1-3
I gave this message in church last
Sunday and decided to share it on my blog.
I pray that you will receive this message as a Word from God. I make sure that you can check out each
message on my blogs so it lines up with the Bible. If you find any errors, please contact me at writter484@charter.net.
In Exodus 20:18-19 when God gave
Moses the Ten Commandments, all the people witnessed the thundering, the
lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it they trembling and
stood far off. Then the people said to
Moses, “You speak with us and we will hear, but do not let God speak with us,
lest we die.
How
would you have liked to be in the presence of God on that day? Why was it that way? When God spoke he got their attention! His
Word is so powerful that when we speak the Word of God, we don’t really know
what we are saying. Proverbs 30:5 says, “Every Word of God is pure!” This means that the Word is fresh and
not evil or malicious in any way.
The
Word of God is life. In Matthew 4:4, it
says, "It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth
of God.' If
we don’t know what that means, we never will unless we read and study the
Bible. The fact is, we have to eat or be
nourished some way in order to live. If
we want eternal life, we must take the Word of God into our innermost
being. I have dined on the Word for many
years, but still find that when I read it for the 30th or 50th
time, it speaks something more to me. Let me show you.
Psalm 51:10-13: “Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence,
and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your
salvation, and uphold me by your
generous Spirit. Then I
will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners shall be converted to you.”
“Look at
that last sentence. It says THEN I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners shall
be converted to you. I read this for
years and then one day when I was reading this again, the Word ‘Then’ stood out at me and
I understood what it was really saying to me.
“Lord, keep my heart clean and help me stay near to your presence and
rely on the Holy Spirit, remembering the joy when I received my salvation. Only THEN will I be able to lead others to salvation
and become Christians.”
It isn’t
just the word, ‘then’, but the understanding that God gives to you when you are
hungry for him.
This is why we must accept Jesus as our Savior,
because when we follow Jesus, the Holy Spirit of God is present and gives us
understanding of the Word of God. Jesus
promised that when he left he would send us a Helper, who is the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit will help us in many ways and one is Understanding. Acts 1:18 tells us that, “You shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you”. You see, that power is given to the Believer by the Holy
Spirit.
Now,
catch this. When you curse and swear and
use the Lord’s name in vain, you are cursing God. How do you think that goes over with God?
God spoke this world into existence, in Genesis 1:1. In
the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Then in verse after verse, He tells how he
did it by saying “Then God said.” When
God finished he saw that everything was good and he blessed it. Do you believe God created the world and
everything in it????
Let us go back to God speaking to the people and them begging that God
not speak to them anymore. It was
terrifying even to Moses that he said, so terrifying was the sight
that Moses said, "I am exceedingly afraid and
trembling." Why do some of you not
believe that the Bible isn’t relevant to your everyday life? What holds you back from the Word of God?
There is so much power in this book. The more you read it, the more you can
understand it. Within these pages are the power of life and death.
God answers prayer, if you ask him and if you believe. He has given us, as
Believers, power to use
his Word, if you believe.
It used to be that when the Word of God was spoke, people would stand or
kneel for hours in the presence of God’s Word being spoken.
Times are coming when the only sure thing we have is
the Word of God. If I had time, I would share some things of the near future,
but perhaps another time, but now, today, you need to give your heart to Jesus
if you haven’t already done that. Then
ask God and the Holy Spirit help you to understand why it’s so important to
read the Word of God and understand it. Pray daily because God hears every word
you pray. It’s never too late to change
your heart. God never changes. He is the
same God as he was yesterday, today and tomorrow. He still loves you.
Now, don’t look at the Bible on your phone or
notebook. What will happen is that you
glance over it and go right on, not getting what it really says. You need to shut down the digital word, read
the Bible itself and sit a minute to think about what you just read.
I’m a very fast reader and can scan over a page or
paragraph in seconds and know what it said, but did I spiritually get anything
out of it? No. I challenge you to take
one verse from the Word of God and think about what it really is saying to
you. Open your heart and listen once
again for God to give you understanding.
“Help
us, O God, to turn our thoughts to you and give us understanding to know what
feels like to stand in your presence.
Help us to know that you are so powerful that all you have to do is
speak and it will become live. Let us be
aware of each word you have spoken and thank you for who you are. Amen!”
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