The most important truth that we need to know about the Word of God is that Jesus is God’s Word, in the flesh, who literally came to earth and walked among man. He was sent from God to show us the way to live and more important, the way to God. Without Jesus and His redemptive work on the cross there is no remission of sin and therefore no means of restored relationship with God. This restored relationship includes His gift of eternal life in place of sin’s consequence of eternal damnation, in Hell. Both the Old Testament and the New Testament reveal Christ Jesus of Nazareth.
I am not saying that this means we should place our physical Bible before us and bow down to it in worship. God forbid! Instead, we should know that Jesus validates the written Word. This concept can probably only be truly comprehended by the believer who allows the indwelling Holy Spirit to bring revelation understanding of the relationship between the Bible and Jesus Christ. Let’s get that. A Christian must allow the Holy Spirit to impart revelation understanding of the literal relationship between the Holy Bible and Jesus Christ, Himself. When the believer really grasps this TRUTH, he or she should then be capable of experiencing seeing, with spirit eyes, the many truths of their Creator leap from His pages.
John 1:14 proclaims, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us … .” What an odd statement, if looking at it only in the natural realm! Then John, the Revelator, unfolds the events of the ending of time, as we know it, when he declares: “Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew expect Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God and He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.” Revelation 19: 11-16.
So here John says, “… and His name is called The Word of God.” And note that from “His mouth goes a sharp sword”. Recall that the armor of God, provided for each believer, includes the sword. This offensive weapon is none other than God’s Word, which will be discussed later.
Now in all of this we must remember that Jesus and God, the Father, are one. So the revelation of who Jesus is gives mankind a revelation of God, as well as the way to be reconciled to God. This reconciliation had been needed ever since Adam and Eve broke fellowship with God with their original sin, back in the garden. The Apostle John helps us pull these things together in the opening passages of his gospel. “In the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” John 1: 1-5. John is beautifully declaring the eternal cosmic significance of Christ Jesus and who He is and always has been, as He steps into the world to bring life and light to mankind.
