December 30 - The Word of God

December 30 – The Word of God

Revelation 1:8 - He is the Alpha and the Omega – or the first and the last.

Think about how cool that is.  The Alpha and the Omega.  They’re letters.  And when you combine letters, what do you get?  You get words.  God makes it so clear to us.  He keeps giving us hints and we’re so dense sometimes.  Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh.  God is the Alpha and the Omega.  He created words with those letters!  He is the Word! 

In Ephesians 6:17, we find the passage about putting on the full armor of God.  Paul tells us to take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the WORD of God.  The Alpha and the Omega.  The beginning and the end – and all of the words in between.

Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living and active.”

Jesus Christ is living and active.  He is the Word of God!

People are continually looking … searching for Jesus Christ in the Old Testament.  What they don’t realize is that the Word of God, the law, the prophets, the poetry, the history - in all of this we find Jesus.

Psalm 1:1-2  “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.  But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.”

The law was the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law.; the original covenant between God and mankind.  These were the original spoken words given to guide the Israelites as they learned about the relationship that they would have with God and why He chose them.

Deuteronomy 8:3b, “…man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.”

In John 6:32-33, Jesus follows up this teaching from Deuteronomy with some intense information about Himself:

“Jesus said to them, ‘I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.  For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.’”

His disciples had to have remembered the scripture passage from Deuteronomy:  “man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.” But they did not understand what Jesus was telling them.

Going on in verse 34:

“Sir,’ they said, ‘from now on give us this bread.’”

Isn’t that so like us?  We want it, we just don’t know what it is that we want!  Oh, they wanted that bread … the true bread from heaven … they wanted the Word of God and it was right in front of them.

Verse 35: “Then Jesus declared, ‘I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.  But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.’”

The Word of God – Jesus, the active, alive powerful Word of God.

Isaiah 40:8. “The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands forever.”

Matthew 5:18. “I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”

Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”

Jeremiah 15:16 “When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, O Lord God Almighty.”

Romans 10:8. “But what does it say?  ‘The word is near you, it is in your mouth and in your heart,’ that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming.”

Jesus Christ is the living, active Word of God.