“For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world” (John 6:33).
Jesus said to the devil, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God” (Luke 4:4). And what is ‘every Word of God’? All Scripture is every Word of God, because all came by the inspiration of God (see 2 Timothy 3:16).
The Word of God is the bread of God, which came out of the mouth of the Lord (see Deuteronomy 8:3). God created mankind to live by the Scripture, that is, we should receive the Scripture as the true Word of God.
When we study the Bible we are looking at the Word of God, which is Jesus Christ, the living bread of God. All Scripture is that bread of life whom Jesus Christ says He is (see John 6:35). Christ is the Word of God indeed.
God gave us the Bible so that we would not be empty of the truth of Christ, we should study the Scripture, “till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God” (Ephesians 4:13).
No word recorded in Scripture was ever thought up by the prophets or the apostles themselves. The Scripture resulted when the Holy Spirit prompted men and women to speak and to write God’s Word.
Peter wrote, “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit” (2 Peter 1:20-21).
We should no longer be like babies, forever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. The truth of God is the Scripture, which is Jesus Christ, that living bread that came down from heaven (see John 6:51).
It is the Scripture whom God, through the gospel, is preaching to us (see 1 Peter 1:25). That’s why Jesus says, “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me” (John 5:46).
Jesus is saying that the writing of Moses is the Word of God. That the words Moses wrote in Scripture are not the words of Moses, but the Word of God indeed, which is Jesus Christ, that eternal Word of God who abides forever (see Matthew 24:35).
The writing of Ezekiel in Scripture is the Word of God. The prophecy of Isaiah in the Bible is the living Word of God. The testimony of Jeremiah recorded in the Bible is that true Word of God, which is Jesus Christ.
In fact, all Scripture is the Word of God. The prophets and apostles wrote of Christ. Therefore Jesus says, “all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me” (Luke 24:44).
God wants us to eat the truth of the Bible that all Scripture is the Word of God. And that every Word in the Bible came from God, and He is the Christ. This is the first thing we must know and believe.
PRAYER
Heavenly Father, fill me with the truth of your Word, in Jesus name. Amen.
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