Jesus is the word
I am currently working on a series of posts contemplating who is Jesus and what does that mean for our identity. This post will focus on one title of Jesus - the Word.
This will not be a theological treatise on what does it mean that he use the word or how can Jesus be considered the word and the Bible also the word of God. I am not qualified to address those issues. Instead, I will share personal reflections on what that attribute of Jesus means to me.
The ability to communicate is essential. I think it is significant that Jesus has the title word of God because he represented the father and he has much to express to us. What follows is simply my thoughts on the important concepts that Jesus as the word reveals.
- Jesus came to be with us
In sending Jesus God the Father expressed that He is not aloof or distant. He sent the word to be with us to communicate who he is and how he cares for us.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
- Jesus Creative and life giving
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.
John 1:1
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
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”
John 10:10 NASB1995
(See also Genesis 1:1, 2Peter 3:5, 1 Peter 1:23)
- The Word brings healing
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Acts 10:38
“He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”
Psalms 107:20
- The Word an authoritative decree - a promise
“Forever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.”
Psalms 119:89 NASB1995
Jesus fulfilled the work he came to earth to do and proclaimed it is finished John 19:30
(See also John 6:63)
- Jesus the Word An expression or representation
Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
John 14:10
Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, Show us the Father?
John 14:8-9
Here is one pastors explanation of why Jesus is referred to as the word of God. He Proposes that because God is absolute holiness people chose not to even otter his name. One of the purposes for Jesus coming is to reveal who God is.
Michael Card The Final Word
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