#Word of god speek free

He says the same thing to Joshua, Isaiah, and others. We see throughout Scripture that God tells Moses to write his words down. God’s words in written formįinally, we see God’s Words in written form in the Bible. The prophets say, “Thus says the Lord…” and proceed to give God’s speech.

This is what happens when God raises up prophets in the Old Testament. This is the form of God speaking through human beings-through their lips, through their voice. Then there’s another form God’s words take. You can imagine how the people must have trembled and felt awe and reverence as God spoke to them with his own voice. It’s seen again in Exodus 20 when God speaks from Mount Sinai, and his voice thunders forth. It’s seen in the early chapters of Genesis when God spoke to Adam and Eve and walked with them in the Garden. We could call this God’s Word of personal address. There’s another form of the Word of God: the times when God speaks directly to people. The Word of God is so powerful that it carries along and sustains the entire universe. But Hebrews 1:3 tells us that this is exactly what is happening. We don’t see or hear or perceive Jesus’ powerful word carrying along the universe, sustaining it, or keeping it in existence. The Greek text here has the connotation of “carrying along.” This is what Jesus’ Word is doing with the entire universe-carrying it along. Hebrews 1:3, in talking about Jesus, says, “The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.” Our words don’t have that kind of power.Įven more, in some places the Bible talks about God’s word sustaining the universe and carrying it along. It’s so different from our experience: our words may have impact on people, but there’s never been someone who has the ability to say, “Let there be a rabbit,” and there’s a rabbit. So God’s words have so much power that through them he creates the world-the entire universe. In fact, Psalm 33:6 summarizes this: “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.” Or “Let the earth bring forth living creatures,” and there are living creatures. In Genesis 1:3, God says, “Let there be light,” and there was light. We see this in the first chapter of the Bible. That is, the words of God that cause something to happen. There’s the form of what we could call God’s decrees. Let’s take a look at some of these forms. So, although we recognize that in some cases the Word of God refers to Jesus, in many other cases, it refers to speech by God in different forms. Second, when the Bible talks about the Word of God it is almost always referring to other forms of the Word of God-particularly written forms.These are things we can know only from the Bible. It’s true that there’s some evidence for Jesus historically outside the Bible, but not a lot-just for his existence, and not for many of the specifics of his teaching, his life, his death and resurrection. First, we don’t know about Jesus except by reading what’s in the Bible.We’d rather talk about Jesus as the Word of God.Ī couple things can be said in answer to that. You may have found that when you talk about the Word of God as the Bible, people object: Wait a minute-we don’t want to spend as much time talking about the Bible as the Word of God. There’s also a portion of Revelation 19 that refers to Jesus as the Word of God. In the Gospel of John, we read: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” We find out later in the chapter that John is referring to Jesus Christ as the Word of God. Sometimes the phrase “the Word of God” refers to the person of Jesus Christ. The Word of God actually refers to several different things in the Bible.

#Word of god speek free

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