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This word is a living, powerful and efficacious word. It is spoken of in Scripture as a word of life, a word of righteousness, a word of wisdom, a word of knowledge, a word of salvation, a gracious word, a pure word, a holy word, etc. Glory be to His name for giving us this word of revelation. What
. the Word of God, i.e., in this word, the human word of prophets and apostles represents the Word of God Himself . . . the latter is . . . , mans word with God’s commission . . . behind it . . . man’s word which is acknowledged and accepted by God as good, man’s word in which God’s own language to
The Word accomplishes what God has planned without fail. It is an effective power due to the fact that the Word spoken proceeds from the divine being of God and, consequently, bears his character and perfection. Therefore, this effective power that continually brings into being the eternal will of G
God the Word. Now we've got to go back in the text and look at that phrase that appears three different times, the Word, the Word, the Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same, the Word was in the beginning with God. And when we look at that
The second point, the explanation of the divine word eternally with God. And then thirdly, the significance of the divine word eternally with God. First of all, the text sets before us this reality of a word, an eternal word, divine word that is with God. Now, obviously, the term the word is ve
Words have power! Think of the association brought to mind by such words as “liberty” and “victory.” Some words, in combination with other words, will have a telling effect on the hearers; as, for example, expressions like “iron curtain” and “cold war.” Words are powerful because ideas are conveyed
So it isn't as if the text is coming to us in verse 11 and saying, now, Now there's heaven, and you've got a lot of work to do for you to get into heaven. That's impossible, of course, because nobody can get into heaven by laboring. So that's not the idea. Labor to enter into heaven is not, you
The whole creation came into being when God spoke. He said, let there be light, and there was light. That tells us something about the powerful speech of God. But we can talk about that speech more broadly. The speech of God is shown to us in that first promise of the gospel. When God came to A
That word is the essence of each creature, and continually speaking that word, God upholds that creature in its being and moves that creature toward its goal. By his word God made all things and by the continual utterance of that word all things continue to exist and are brought to their appointed g
The efficacious word of God. The truth of the text is that when God sends out his word, he sends it out with power. It has a power to accomplish his purposes. That's what God declares in verse 11 when he says, so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto me void