“It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).
Jesus says God’s Word is living, that the spoken and written words of God are spirit and they are life: “For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself” (John 5:26).
God gave birth to all Scripture, which is that everlasting Son of God. The Holy Scripture is God’s culminating self-expression of Himself. The Bible is the true Word of God, and the real person of Jesus Christ.
All Scripture is God’s inspired and infallible revelation of Himself. That’s why Jesus says, “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him” (John 14:7).
Without the Bible, we would be dealing with imaginations. The Bible is the Word of God embodied as a spiritual person, which is Jesus Christ. Paul wrote, “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily” (Colossians 2:9).
It is through the Scripture that we learn of God’s love toward mankind and His purpose to save them. Through the Word of God we know what God is like. That’s why Jesus says, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” (John 14:9).
Scripture is the Word of life that was with the Father in eternity before ever the world was made, as it is written: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1).
In the Old Testament God revealed His Word through the prophets while in the New Testament God revealed His Word through the Scripture, which is Jesus Christ, the express image of the person of God (see Hebrews 1:1-3).
The truth of the written and spoken Word of God was personified in Jesus Christ. The Scripture that God revealed through the prophets during the Old Testament period was made human in Christ. Hence the Word became flesh (see John 1:14).
In Christ the Scripture was manifested as a living person. John wrote, “The life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us” (1 John 1:2).
Scripture is that eternal Word of life that became flesh, which is Jesus Christ, the true Creator that created all things in the beginning: “All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:3).
God gave all authority to the Scripture to give eternal life. The Word of God has power to raise the dead. Jesus says, “For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will” (John 5:21).
The Word of God is that Son of God who gives life, which is Jesus Christ, the life-giving Spirit. “And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit” (1 Corinthians 15:45).
Scripture is that Word of life, which is Jesus Christ, the resurrection and the life-giving Spirit. Therefore Jesus says, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live” (John 11:25).
PRAYER:
Dear heavenly Father, fill me with your Word so that Christ the living Word of God will dwell in my heart richly, in Jesus name. Amen.
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