Hebrews 4:12a
"For the word of God is quick, and powerful,…"
Now the word quick normally coming out of the Greek in our King James speaks of "alive," but now listen, this goes a lot further than that. The Word of God is alive. Christ Jesus is alive. The Holy Spirit is alive. They’re active, but you see the Word of God is not like that! The Word of God is not something that’s just asleep on the shelf, or something that is defunct. The Word of God is not only alive and living; it is active! The Word of God is still permeating hearts and lives of people. It/He is still convicting the lost and unbelieving people of their need, and He is still encouraging believers.
We don’t have to live in fear! We knew all these things were coming. So, do we run and hide? Do we go and build bunkers and live in some mountain someplace? No, because the Living Word tells us that God is in total control. He has promised never to leave us nor forsake us and we have that hope of Glory out in front of us that is beyond human imagination. And so, the Word indeed is living, and it’s active. And so, as we move on, the Word of God is not only actively living, it is what? He is in Us!
Hebrews 4:12a
For the word of God is quick, and powerful,…"
Now, we had to go and look up the Greek word for powerful. We thought it was going to be dynamos from which we get dynamics and so forth, but it wasn’t! It was ‘energy’! The Greek word is ‘e-n-e-r-g-e-s.’ It’s energes, from which we get the word energy. What do you do with energy? Hey, you get things done!
In fact, way back in Genesis chapter 2, where it says that God rested from all the work which He had done. Again, you know what the original word was? "All the energy that He had compiled." Now just look at the sun, and at the energy that it puts out every moment of every day, and has for as long as it’s been up there and will into the future. Now that’s power! We think of power in terms of electricity or even in terms of nuclear power and so forth, but listen none of that can compare to the power of this Book. Then energy in the Light which God called into being that passed through the earth and solar system. The Light when it passed through the darkness and chaos brought the ability of life to be produced in the earths dust or dirt. This Light John says this about it:
John 1:1-4
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In Him was Life; and the Life was the light of men." then
John 1:5
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." then
John 1:9-10
"That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not."
This Book is beyond, again, human comprehension. What little we understand and it’s only a particle, we take by trust His faith-full-ness. Yes, we believe it but there’s no way that we can comprehend it. As we've said, can you comprehend how that the Creator of the universe, the One Who spoke the Word and everything fell into place, that that same Person took on human flesh. Born as baby in Bethlehem. Lived a lowly life of a carpenter’s son in Nazareth. And then went the way of the Cross and purchased man’s redemption. We can’t comprehend that. We believe it. But, it is so far beyond human comprehension, that God would unit with us, again.
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