Nothing without the Word of God

 Jn. 1:3 "All things were made by Him (the Word); and without Him was not anything made that was made." There is absolutely nothing God can ever do without the Word. The devil has the potential to do things without the Word; he can build temples or churches without the Word,

he can prophesy without the Word, he can perform miracles without the Word, he can give blessings without the Word, he can hold evangelistic crusades or campaigns without the Word, he can arrange night prayer or recollections for intercession and deliverance without the Word, etc. But with God, as we have just read, it is absolutely impossible and excluded for him to do anything out of the Word.

God had created the universe (Ge. 1:1-2) and the spirit of God moved upon the waters and all things remained on their own. But what was required for God to transform this pandemonium universe into habitable world as we enjoy today? - God spoke His Word every time "Let there be light ... Let there be an expanse between the waters ... Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let dry land appear. etc.. "(Read the story of creation in Ge. 1 and 2). God was transforming by his Word the universe he had created by his Word. God did not simply take to creating man, but the Word came first: "Let us make man in our image ..." God did not just give man a wife, but the Word came first: "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”

And the universe that God created and transformed by His Word, the same does he also uphold by his Word, He. 1:3 "And upholding all things by the Word of his power...".

We see that God creates, transforms and sustains through His Word. We who are born again and become a new creature, faith must be created in us by the Word of God, our lives must be transformed by the Word of God and our faith must be upheld by the Word of God. Prayer, miracles, etc. do not create a new life, not transform nor sustain faith, they are only the outcomes of the new life created, transformed and sustained by the Word of God. If the Word is falsified or replaced by human interpretation, there is spiritual illusion, but new life is not and will never be there.

How does God give us joy? - By His Word, Jn 15:11 "These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full", and not, I have prayed a lot for you, or I have shown you many miracles so that your joy might be full.

How does God give us peace? - By His Word, Ac. 10:36 “The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ ..." For their peace, God did not send democracy or a republican army, but his Word.

How do we receive the Holy Spirit? – still by keeping the word of Christ, Jn. 14:23 "If a man love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." He did not say if a man fasts and prays a lot ... Also, this scripture is showing us that loving God is not to mortify oneself (as did the prophets of Baal), but to keep His Word (as did Elijah on Mount Carmel). I hereby bet that many are wrong thinking they love God, but God will tell them on the last day that he never knew them. Why? - They were in religious organizations, but far from the Word of God.

How does God heal? – by His Word, Ps. 107:20 "He sent His Word and healed them ..." How are we delivered? – by the knowledge of the truth obtained by continuing in the Word of God, Jn 8:31-32 "If ye continue in my Word, then  are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free". How are demons cast out from us? - Using the word, Mt. 8:16 "And he cast out the spirits with his Word, and healed all that were sick." Instead, many prefer to organize retreats in the mountains or in the forest, chambers of prayer, deliverance and healing sessions (we are not against these things): but ignoring the Word, all this is vain and demoniacal. But to us God gives this command in 2Tim 4:2 "Preach the Word; be instant in season, out of season…"  in response to the question he asked himself in Je. 23:28-29: "What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. Is not my Word like a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?”

Well, who will answer back before the Lord that such devil, sin or disease has withstood this fire or this hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? Whatever he can do for us is already in the Word, and God trusts his Word, so he forbids us to mix it with chaff.

How are we made holy? – by the Word of God which is Truth, Jn. 17:17 "Sanctify them through thy truth: thy Word is truth." and, Ep. 5:26 “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word ." How are we cleansed? – through the Word of God, Jn. 15:3 "Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you". How are we born again? – by receiving the Word, Jn.1 12: "But as many as received Him (the Word made flesh), to them gave he power to become the sons, even to them that believe on his name..." Praying without being a child of God; it is idolatry, because prayer is addressed to other gods. However, to become children of God, you must receive the Word of God: that power is in the Word.

The Bible says in ICo. 6:2-3 that the saints shall judge the world and angels. We have already seen above that we become holy through the Word. And how shall the saints judge the world and angels? -  once again it is through the Word, Jn. 12:48 "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." Rejecting the Lord is the fact of not receiving His Word, and the saints who are to judge the world and angels have, themselves, to be the Word, nothing short.

How do we become gods? – by receiving the Word of God which came to us, Jn. 10:35 "If he called them gods, unto whom the Word of God came ..."

We could go further but could never end. Yet by this understand that without the genuine Word of God, there is nothing to get from God. Those who act without the genuine Word not mixed with chaff, they do on behalf of the enemy, however good the result may look, and despite their good faith. Jeremiah who understood the mystery of the power of the Word of God said, Je. 15:16 “Thy Words were found, and I did eat them; and thy Word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord of hosts.”

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