Underestimating Jesus 6 – By EW Kenyon

His Word Is Spirit and Life

Jesus knew the value and authority of His own words, and He dared to say, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.”. He knew that His words were living things. He knew His words would give life and death. You remember how He spoke to the barren fig tree and it died from the root up. You know that He spoke to the widow’s son, and he became alive instantly.

When the Holy Spirit speaks through Paul, Heb 4:12 The ‘logos’ of God is a living thing, the Spirit is simply repeating in different words what Jesus said: “The words that I speak are spirit and they are life.”

James 1:18 says we are begotten by the Word, the Word that recreates men and gives them life. 1Pet 1:23 holds a peculiar place in the heart of deeply spiritual men “Having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.” Our birth into the spiritual realm, the thing that gave us eternal life and made us a branch of the vine, was the incorruptible Word of God.

Psalm 107:20 “He sent His word and healed them.” That word was His Son. That word we know by the Name of Jesus: “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God”. That is the Word that brought Eternal life to us.

Paul, saying goodbye to the Ephesian brethren, says in Acts 20:32 “Now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.”

This Word is the faith-building Word, the grace-revealing Word, the Word of assurance. Continued next week…

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