![]() The unfolding history of redemption is also the unfolding history of revelation. The one is perfect and complete at every stage of its unfolding the other is the result of much trial and error by way of inventive effort. This is the organic perfection of the rose and not the mechanical perfection of, say, the internal-combustion engine. On the one hand, God's Word is perfectly complete. Believers discover with Martin Luther that "the Bible is alive, it speaks to me it has feet, it runs after me it has hands, it lays hold on me. Because the Word of God "liveth and abideth forever" (1 Peter 1:23), its vitality and potency remain both unexhausted and undiminished through time. As living seed, God's Word has power to bring forth fruit in the lives of believers, as described in the parable of the sower, where "the seed is the word of God" (Luke 8:11). The life of God's Word is ordered and applied to the accomplishment of His purposes: "My word … shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it" (Isa. This life is also power or energy, power harnessed for work. God's Word is quick and powerful.īy quick is meant "living or imbued with life." This life of the Word is no less than the life of God Himself, for as God is, so must His Word be. From Psalm 19:7–9, we learn that God's Word is perfect and sure right, pure, and clean true and righteous altogether. From Hebrews 4:12, we learn that God's Word is quick and powerful. He has called us a royal priesthood, but friend He has also called for the destruction of this world.What are the particular traits or characteristics of God's Word that render it so useful a tool and so powerful a weapon in the hand of the Holy Spirit? Hebrews 4:12 and Psalm 19:7–9 address this question directly. God’s Word has power to call things into being. The Word of God that reached my heart and broke it when I was lost and in sin is the same Word that came in and saved and healed my broken heart. The promise that saved Noah and his family condemned the rest of the world. ![]() The Word that convicts you is the same Word that saves. God spoke and the sun stood still for JoshuaĪll physical law must obey spiritual law, because spiritual law was first. Jesus spoke to the wind and the sea and they obeyed His Word. Power over nature, because God’s Word created nature. The Bible tells us that He is upholding all things by the Word of His power, Hebrews 1:3. The earth and all that we know of is here because God said. Ten times at least you will see the phrase God said. When the elders anoint with oil and pray for the sick, it works because it is God’s Word being manifested. He uses people, but it is still the Word working through them. God’s Word is powerful, or you could say, full of power. We are bombarded by the word of the world.įaith is grown from the seed of God’s Word. We must choose whose or what word we will sow. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing from the Word of God. The life is in the Word, but it is up to us as to what we do with it, or whether we attend to it.įaith is grown from the seed of the Word. Verse 22 says, For they are life unto those that find them and health to all their flesh. Proverbs 4:20 says, My son attend to my words, incline thine ear to my sayings. It’s the one who plants, waters, and cares for the seed that will see the increase. You know I can give you a seed, but if you neglect your seed, you won’t see any increase from it. The plow goes first, then the miracle follows the plow. For increase to come, the seed must be planted.Ĭan I tell you something? A miracle always follows the plow. The one who neglects the seed never sees the increase. In the parable of the grain of mustard seed, the man planted it in his garden, and it grew. How many know, what you get from a seed depends upon what you do with it. Mark 4 says as soon as they heard the Word, Satan came to steal it. Jesus taught the parable of the sower in Luke 8:11. If I cut them into the live feeling part. You know like I cut my fingernails into the quick. That means it’s alive, that doesn’t mean it’s fast. Our first scripture says: For the Word of God is quick. I want to talk about the fact that God’s Word is Alive, that it is Powerful, and that God’s Word prevails. Everything God can do, His Word can do, because He and His Word are One. The Word that convicts you is also the Word that saves you. For the Word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.īeing born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.
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