Jesus at the right hand of God, who loved me and died for me, now ever lives for me.
He was God’s answer to the universal cry of humanity.
He was God manifest to our physical senses. He was an intrusion into the physical sense realm.
He talked like God.
He acted like God.
He lived like God and on the cross he died like God.
He was not a philosopher searching for the truth. He was the truth.
He was not a magician. He was reality.
He was not an experimenter searching for reality.
He was not a reformer.
He was the recreator.
He was not a visionary. He was the light of the world.
He never wondered. He never reasoned. He knew.
He never sought the help of man. He was never in a hurry. He was never afraid. He never showed weakness. He never hesitated. He was always ready. He was sure. There was a sureness in all He did or said
He had no sense of sin or need of forgiveness.
He never sought or needed advice from man.
He knew why he came. He knew from where he came. He knew who he was. He knew the Father. He knew about heaven. He knew where he was going.
He knew what was inside man. He knew Satan.
He had no sense of lack. He had no sense of limitations.
From the arrest to the cross, he had no sense of fear. He had no anger, no sense of disappointment, no sense of being defeated or being forsaken. He had no sense of need of human sympathy.
He didn’t shrink from pain or brutal treatment.
He was master when they arrested him. He was the master at the trial. He ruled the scene and the unseen while he was on the cross.
He was almighty, yet a man. He died as the son of man. After the resurrection, he had no sense of revenge. He was love.
He was a revelation of a new kind of love. There were no dramatics. He said, “Go tell Peter, the weakest one”.
He died a lamb. He arose like a lion.
He acted like God. He spoke like God.
His resurrection had all the simplicity of God. He was God.
His words are spirit and life. Jesus knew the value and authority of his own words.
And he dared to say, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.
He knew that his words were living things. He knew that his words would give life and death.
You remember how he spoke to the barren fig tree and it died from the root up. He spoke to the widow’s son, and he became alive instantly. When the Holy Spirit speaks through Paul in Hebrews 4: 12, the logos of God is a living thing. The Spirit is simply repeating in different words what Jesus said.
The words that I speak are spirit, and they are life.
James 1:18 says We are begotten by the word, the word that recreates men and gives them life.
1 Peter 1:23 holds a peculiar place in the heart of deeply spiritual men, having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and abides forever.
Our birth into the spiritual realm, the thing that gave us eternal life and made us a branch of the vine, was the incorruptible word of God.
Psalms 107: 20. He sent his word and healed them. That word was his son.
That word we know by the name of Jesus. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. That is the word that brought eternal life to us.
Paul, saying goodbye to the Ephesian brethren, says in Acts 22:32, Now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.
This word is the faith-building word, the grace-revealing word, the word of assurance.
This word is our testimony- Romans 10:8, the word of faith, which we preach.
John 8:31-32 If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
We abide in the word, we live in it. Our home is in the word.
John 15:7 takes a step beyond, If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall demand your rights, and they will come into being for you.
The thought of the Greek is like something born, coming into being.
And so, he says the thing that you desire, if his words abide in you, will be given birth by God. It is a staggering thing, isn’t it?
There is absolutely no limit to the ability of God that is unveiled to us in his word.
The word is of God, our breathings of God, the mind of God, the will of God. It is God speaking. It is a part of God himself. It is a living thing. It abides forever.
The lord watches over his word to perform it. No word from God is void of power. God and his word are one.
This word can live in our heart. I will obey it. I will do it. I will enjoy it.
All the mighty achievements wrought by men and women of God have been accomplished by faith in the written word.
It was the word made flesh.
Jesus spoke the Word. He was the Word.
Now it is my faith in the Living Word, the written Word.
It is that Word in my lips that heals the sick, that breaks the power of demons over people.
I hold it in my hand. I have it in my heart. I have it in my mouth. I love it. It lives in me.
The Word is my healing, my strength. It is the bread of life to me. It is the strength, the very ability of God to me.
The Word is my confession; the Word is my light and my salvation.
The Word is my rest, my pillow. The Word gives me quietness in the midst of confusion, gives me victory in the midst of defeat, it gives me joy where misery reigns.
The Word in my mouth becomes the living, lifesaving, soul-inspiring voice of God.