WORD OF GOD
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JESUS GIVES YOU THE ANSWER!
After Christ fed the five thousand people with five barley loaves and two fishes, there were twelve baskets of bread left over. Everyone had more than enough. Later that evening, Jesus departed on a boat with His disciples. When Christ returned to The City of Capernaum, the people who had been fed, rushed up to Him.
John 6:27-28 27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. 28Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Christ had just said to them: “27Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which endureth unto everlasting life” (John 6:27). Then the people asked Jesus what must be done to do The Work of God (John 6:27-28). This was a very simple, clear question they asked of Christ. Jesus, from His own lips, gives you The Biblical answer defining The Work of God. Biblically, no other answer is True, except what The Son of God tells you. Nothing else is The Work of God.
John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Jesus answered them with these words: “29…the work of God, [is] that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”
Christ said that The Work of God is To Believe on Him (Christ). Only through Jesus can you receive everlasting Life. Only Christ tells you the exact Path you must follow – which is The Work of God. The entire reason He fed the five thousand with twelve loaves and two fishes, was to show you that Christ is “that bread.” Christ performed this miracle to reveal God’s Work to you.
I Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and
to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
I Timothy 2:4 states that it is God’s Will that every human being would be Saved, and that His Will was first performed, by His Son, Jesus (John 5:30-36). How does God, through His Son, Save everyone? You can be Saved by believing on His Son, Jesus Christ. How can this be God’s Work if Christ is The One doing The Work? That is the critical question.
WORD OF GOD
Deuteronomy 21:17 concerns The Law that God gave to explain The Purpose of The Firstborn. In Romans 8:29, Paul said that Christ is The Firstborn Son of God, and that all the rest of mankind are destined to become Sons of God.
Deuteronomy 21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [wife] for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
By God’s Law of The Firstborn, Christ received a double portion from His Father (which was The Father’s strength) to do God’s Work (John 5:17, John 3:34). Jesus was the only One who spoke The Words of God by The Power of The Holy Spirit from God, which was given to Him without measure (actually a double portion).
Jesus said that The Work of God is to believe on Him whom God hath
sent. So, Jesus speaks only The Words of God, which will give you Eternal Life. This simply means that you must believe in Christ because He speaks God’s Word. God’s Word gives Everlasting Life, which is The Work that Christ does. Then, what is The Word of God?
RELIGION AND THE WORD OF GOD
Many Christian religions believe The Word of God is another “being” besides God. In fact, some religions believe God’s Holy Spirit is also another “being.” Therefore, they present The Word of God as a being, and The Holy Spirit as a being. They have three Gods. Is this Biblical?
Others believe that The Holy Spirit is not another God, but The Power of God. They think, in the beginning, only Christ was another being with God. Now you have two Gods, which are God, The Father, and The Word of God. Just how many Gods are there? Let The Bible tell you.
I Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
I Timothy 2:5 plainly states that there is only one God. Christ, as The Word of God, is just a Mediator between God and humanity. That is what The Bible presents to you.
Since Christ was given The Holy Spirit at birth (the same Holy Spirit made Mary pregnant), The Holy Spirit couldn’t be another “being” because Jesus would then be The Son of The Holy Spirit and not The Son of God, The Father. In Luke 1:35, The Angel answered Mary, and presented The Holy Spirit as being a Power, and not a separate individual being who came from God, The Father.
John 14:17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
The Bible states that Jesus is The Son of God; therefore, The Holy Spirit couldn’t have been another “being.” The Holy Spirit is “A Power” – “A Holy Power” – which comes from God. It leads everyone to The Truth. John 14:17 states that God’s Spirit dwells in you and reveals God’s Truth. Therefore, God’s Holy Spirit is “A Power” from God, which reveals God’s Truth to you (John 17:17). The Holy Spirit cannot be another “being,” but is the very Power from God Himself.
John 17:17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
What was The Word of God before Christ became The Word of God? Was Christ another “being” just like God? Only The Scriptures can reveal this Truth to you.
Before you study one of the critical Scriptures, which describes The Word of God, it is pertinent that you approach these verses as a little child. Remember, Christ said that you will not enter into God’s Kingdom unless you become as a little child. You cannot have pre-set ideas, opinions or assumptions. No human interpretations are allowed – Only Biblical facts and proof.
John 1:1-15 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 6There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 8He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 10He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 15John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
The Apostle John states, “1In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” What do you know about The Word at this point? This verse reveals The Word was from the beginning; and this Word was also with God, but this Word was also, God. It does not say this Word was another “being.” Since God is One (I Timothy 2:5), the best notion that anyone can state about this Word, is that it is an Element of God Himself. This is what The Bible tells you.
“3All things were made by him;...” All things were created by God, for that is what The Word has performed. This Element of God, The Word, has The Power to create. This Word has within it The Power to produce Life. Consequently, The Word of God can be defined as the very Words from God, The Father. This Word was put into Christ at His Birth (Deuteronomy 18:18).
John, The Baptist, states that he “8…was sent to bear witness of that Light.” John goes on and tells you that he, himself, is not that “light,” but rather, that “Light” was sent from God (The Word), which was the “Light.”
So, The Word of God was in the beginning. The Word also created everything, had The Power to give Life, and was The Light (Truth) of The World. Above all, The Word was God – not another being. Up to this point, this is all that anyone knows about The Word. No two beings – just One God. In summary, The Word of God:
1. Created all things;
2. Gives Life
3. Is The Light of The World revealing God’s Truth.
This is all that The Bible states about The Word of God, with no second “being.” Also, realize that The Word is God’s Word. Therefore, The Word of God has to be an Entity of God Himself, and not another “being.”
Read Genesis 1:1-2. It is God, by His Word, who created all things. God’s very Words had the power to create the entire universe. Clearly, at this time, God, not Jesus, created all things, The Almighty God Himself. God did it by His very Word.
When Jesus, at His physical birth had God’s very Word put in Him, then Christ, as The Word, created all things. Once Jesus, at His birth, had God, our Father’s Word in Him, Christ then became God’s Word or The Logos. By becoming God’s Word, Jesus was, therefore, the one who created all things because He, now, at His birth, became the very Word of God which created everything.
This Light or The Word “9…lighteth every man that cometh into the world” (showing Salvation for everyone). Those who received The Word will become The Sons of God. “14And the Word [Greek, “logos”] was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” This Word, which became flesh (a human being), had The Glory of God, The Father. Verse 14 defines what The Word of God is. The Word of God was God’s Glory, and not another being. God’s Glory, which was The Word, was of God, The Father. The Word of God was not Christ as another “being,” and not a God before that Word was made flesh. The Bible plainly states that The Word of God was The Glory of God, Himself. When checking the original Greek word for “logos,” in Strong’s Concordance #3056, the meaning includes the notion of: “the thought,” ”reasoning,” “the mental faculty,” and “the divine expression.” Therefore, God’s Glory as The Logos is God’s thought and divine expression by The Power of God’s Holy Spirit.
John 17:5-10 5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
Jesus explains what this Glory is in John 17:5-10. Christ asked God to give Him The Glory He had with God in the beginning. What was this Glory (The Word of God)? Verse 5 states that this Glory was from The Father Himself, not from another “being.” This Glory that Jesus had from the beginning was The Word of God that was given to Christ at His birth (John 3:34). Christ became The Word of God at His Birth by The Holy Spirit. In fact, this Glory (God’s Thought or God’s Message), which is from God, The Father, will, also, be in you, through Christ (John 17:10). Christ was The Rock that followed Israel because, before Jesus’ Birth, The Word of God, God’s Glory, was The Rock, which was to become Christ (I Corinthians 10:4). In the Hebrew, it is called “The Shekinah,” or “God’s very Presence” which includes “God’s Word” and “His Thoughts.”
GOD’S GLORY
In John 6:29, Jesus was asked the question about what is God’s Work? Jesus answered and said unto them, “29This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he [God] hath sent.” God had sent Christ to do The Father’s Work. Christ was not sent by another God “being” to do God’s Work. God Himself sent Christ to do His Work. This was God’s Glory, which is The Word of God. How was this done?
Deuteronomy 21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
“17But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [Wife] for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath [God has] for he is the beginning of his [God’s] strength; the right of the firstborn is his.”
Since Jesus is The Firstborn Son of God, The Law of Moses states that The Firstborn is to inherit a double portion of God’s Strength, or God’s Glory (which was The Word of God, and which was God). God gave a double portion of His Strength to Christ, so He could do The Father’s Work. Christ, before He was human, was in God’s Thoughts or Word, which became Jesus at His Birth. God’s Word was in Christ at His Birth, and Christ, therefore, became The Son of God. Since Jesus became, The Word, The Logos, at birth, Christ, therefore, created all things, since He now was God’s Devine Words and very Thoughts.
John, The Baptist explains what The Word of God is, and how Christ received The Firstborn’s Inheritance.
John 3:34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
Notice, Christ at His physical birth, received the Father’s Words, not His own words as pre-existing. John said that Christ only spoke God’s Word, and had received a double measure of God’s Spirit. That is how Christ inherited the double portion from His Father. God’s Holy Spirit was given to Christ at His Inception. God’s Holy Spirit caused Mary to become pregnant through God’s Spirit. God’s Holy Spirit gave The Word to Jesus; therefore, He could speak God’s Words. The Word of God as defined by “The Scriptures” represents God’s Personal Words from The Father’s Mind (God’s Thoughts – Psalms 40:5) concerning what wonderful things God is doing through His Son – who now is The Word of God.
CHRIST AND THE FATHER’S WORK
Jesus answered The Pharisees and The Sadducees after they complained about Him working on The Sabbath day when He healed someone.
John 5:17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Christ said that He and His Father Work. What type of Work is performed? Christ answered that question. In Matthew 18:11 Jesus said, “For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.”
I Corinthians 15:21-26 21For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 23But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 24Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Jesus is doing The Work by bringing every person to Salvation. Christ is Restoring The Tree of Life as it was in The Garden of Eden. Jesus will destroy death, which will be the last enemy. No one will remain dead. Ultimately, everyone is Saved. But every man must be Saved “…in his own order….” (I Corinthians 15:23). This is The Work that Jesus is doing through, and by God, by means of His Father’s Holy Spirit.
JESUS QUALIFIES
The Apostle Paul said that Jesus was being made perfect, and as a consequence, Jesus became The Author of Eternal Salvation. This means that Christ had to qualify first, as The Author of your Salvation (Hebrews 5:9). Also read Revelation 5.
Christ has to Restore Life to The Whole Human Race. How is this done? It begins by He, being made Perfect.
Hebrews 10:5-10 5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me), to do thy will, O God. 8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Paul quotes these Scriptures from Psalm 40. These texts prophesy The Christ coming to do God’s Will by offering His Body as a sacrifice for everyone. How does Christ perform The Father’s Will to become that sacrifice?
THE TEST
Jesus came to Save that which was lost in The Garden (The Tree of Life). He first had to destroy “the works of Satan.” Remember that Satan is the god of this world. So, by defeating Satan “Spiritually,” Christ proves that He is, indeed, your Savior and Redeemer. After Jesus was baptized by John, God, His Father, declared that this man is His Beloved Firstborn Son (Matthew 3:17). Afterward, Christ went into the wilderness to be tested by the devil. In the wilderness, Christ fasted for forty days and forty nights. Then, Jesus became ravenously hungry (Matthew 4:1-2). After forty days, one can only try to imagine the state of total exhaustion that Jesus, in the human flesh, felt without food and water. But Jesus had to fast in this manner, to prepare Himself to qualify, humanly, in order to win His contest with Satan. The Bible states that Jesus was “…an hungred.” (Matthew 4:2). This “an hungred” really means “to pine away,” or “to starve.”
There is an extremely important Spiritual point at this juncture. The test was whether or not Christ was The Word of God. Since Jesus was given God’s Spirit without measure, and spoke The Words of God (John 3:34), Christ was tested by Satan. Christ proved that He was truly The Word of God (God’s Son). Indeed, this was a universal test for all of God’s Creation (Romans 8:22). It is by The Word of God, literally God’s Words that were put into Christ, beginning at His birth, which, will ultimately happen to everyone (I Corinthians 15:28). God is reproducing Himself by His Words, The Word of God that will be in you, according to your growth, at your designated time frame. Christ, therefore, will be in you.
Since God is reproducing Himself to procreate Sons and Daughters, all who are Saved, including Jesus Christ, and the rest of mankind, must come from The Father, Almighty God Himself. The Word nor The Holy Spirit could not have been separate beings along with God, The Father.
For God to reproduce Himself by having Sons and Daughters, all mankind must come from God, The Father, directly just as Christ did, or you have nothing but confusion. That is what a family is.
HOW CHRIST Won OVER SATAN
What did Satan use as his weapon to attempt to defeat Christ? Satan used God’s Word, which is more powerful than a two-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12). Christ’s first test was over food! In that ordeal, Jesus purposely allowed Himself to become desperately hungry by abstaining from food and water for forty days and nights. He was prepared for the test.
What did Satan ask Christ?
Matthew 4:3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
What was Christ’s answer? In Matthew 4:4, Jesus said: “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
Jesus proved that The Word of God was in Him from birth. He truly was The Word of God. He was The Son of God. That was the test; and Jesus passed and qualified. Now with His ongoing Life, He had to live The Word of God and fulfill every Scripture written about Him (Mark 14:47-49). It’s God’s Devine Thoughts, The Logos, in Christ which proves He is The First Begotten Son of God.
In John 14:8, Philip, His disciple, said, “…shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.” Then Jesus answered:
John 14:9-11 9Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
Before Christ was taken to be crucified, He told Philip that he would know who The Father is by seeing Him (John 14:8-8). Why is this? Jesus said that He did not speak His “Words,” but rather that He spoke The Father’s Words – or The Word of God – which was in Christ from birth (John 3:34). This is how Jesus defeated Satan. It was by speaking The Words of God, and by doing the works of God’s Word. That is why Christ said that you must live by every Word of God. God’s Work is His Word, which is in His Son. Jesus Christ is The Word of God.
PROOF CHRIST WAS THE WORD
Many believe that Jesus came to give His Life for your sins. This is True. Jesus defeated Satan by proving that He was The Son of God. He was Living every Word, which proceeded from the mouth of God. He was The Word of God in The Flesh.
John 14:10 states that God’s Work is the same as God’s Word. Jesus said He did not speak His own Words, but He did speak everything that The Father told Him.
Christ said in John 14:11, “11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.” Watch how Christ Lives – so that you can believe His Works. What was Christ’s Work? His Work was to Live Every Word of God. Jesus said that the proof that The Father is in Him, is by watching Him Live Every Word of God.
To reveal Jesus was God’s Son, He had to live His Life according to The Scriptures. But He also had to Live and Experience every Scripture that was written about Him. At the time of Christ, The Old Testament was the only Scripture. In Psalms 40:7, David prophesied about Christ. David quoted from God’s Book written in God’s Thoughts. “Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me.” This refers to Christ in the Future as a “human being.” Apollos was a mighty Biblical Preacher. He publicly showed by means of The Scriptures that Jesus was The Christ (Acts 18:28).
Furthermore, Acts 13:29 Paul said when Christ was hung on the tree and crucified – that everything that was written in The Scriptures about Him was fulfilled. In His human Life, Christ fulfilled everything that was written about Him in The Word of God.
Remember, Jesus said that if you didn’t believe that He and The Father are One, then believe The Works that He does (John 14:11). What was His Work? Jesus lived by Every Word of God and thereby proved He was The Son of God – because when He died, He had fulfilled every Scripture written about Him. Jesus is The Son of God!
MOSES WITNESSES THE WORD OF GOD
It is evident that The Scriptures prove The Word of God is equated with God’s very Words. In Psalms 40:5-7, David states that God’s Words are written in The Bible from God’s Thoughts (verse 5). God’s Thoughts cover all of His Plans and Purpose about Christ and eventually – you.
Jesus said that Moses accused The Pharisees and The Sadducees of his day (John 5:45-47). Why was this? It was because Moses wrote about Christ and said that
John 5:45-47 45Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust. 46For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 47But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Read what Moses said about Christ.
Deuteronomy 18:15-18 15The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken; 16According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. 18I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
GOD IS THE WORD OF GOD
Who is The Word of God? God is. That is exactly what John 1:1 states. Moses clearly states that Christ is The Word of God and only spoke God’s Words (Deuteronomy 18:18). Genesis 1:1-2 also states God, The Father by His Word, created everything.
For Jesus to be The Son of God, He had to defeat Satan by Living Every Word of God that was written about Him. He had to be sinless, and finally offer His Body as a Sacrifice for your sins.
Jesus Christ is truly your Savior and Redeemer. But He is “The Author of Your Salvation” because He Lived Every Word that came from God. He, as The Word of God, is doing God’s Work as His Son. As The Firstborn, He is the beginning of God’s strength, which is God’s Word through The Power of The Holy Spirit.
The pre-existence of Jesus was not in the form of another “God being,” but as The Word of God, which was God’s Glory (John 1:14). God’s Glory is The Word of God as administered by God’s Holy Spirit, which became Christ, the human man. This “Shekinah” is God’s Presence in Thought, and is The Power of The Holy Spirit of God, The Father.
To deny The Word of God as God, The Father’s Words coming from God Himself, is to deny God is The One doing The Work. God, by His Word or Glory, works in His Son, Jesus, just as He works with each Christian, and eventually, all mankind. God will be “All and in All” (I Corinthians 15).
God gave to Christ, His Son, His Firstborn, His Holy Spirit, and His Word. The Apostle John warns that anyone who doesn’t believe Jesus came as a human being is anti-Christ (I John 4:1-3).
God’s Work is to reproduce Himself in everything (I Corinthians 15:28). God is reproducing Himself by His Son, Jesus. Jesus is God’s Firstborn Son receiving God’s very Words in Him by The Power of God’s Holy Spirit. This is The Work that God and His Son, Jesus, are doing. They are fulfilling The Very Words of God, for you to have Eternal Life.
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