The Light of God's Word

God is love. God’s Word is food for His children. We have to eat what He has given us, whether sweet or bitter. Just as good parents wants the best for their children, it is important to understand that what God asks of us is for our good. The pain, in the long run, is far greater if we do not apply the Word of God in our lives. Here are a few things that are of great importance when we read His Word.

When we read the Bible, we are reading what God himself has said. We must not put stock in man’s opinion, only God’s. Some would say that the bible is nothing but man’s opinion because man is the one who has written it. This is simply not true. Yes – man wrote the words, but God was the voice behind the words. In 2 Timothy 3:16 the bible says, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God.” I have done exhaustive studies and have come to the staggering conclusion that the bible is the most supernatural book on the planet. The numerical aspect alone is beyond anything that man could possibly conceive (I recommend the book Number in Scripture by E.W. Bullinger). We must open up our hearts to the reality that God loved us so much that He gave us a very accessible road map into a relationship with Him. And this road map is the Word of God – the bible.

We cannot be under any other authority but that of God’s Word. When it comes right down to it, only what the Bible says really counts, and we must subject ourselves to it only. We cannot change God’s Word. The Word of God is not only designed to fill us full of God’s love and wisdom, but it discloses our destiny. It reveals what we will experience in God’s kingdom. We must pay attention to these issues, because sooner or later we will face them. If we pay attention, we will be careful how we live on earth today.

Only those who understand the truth can oppose heresies. Heresies are not pure, for heresy is to add wrong things to right things. Add a little of man’s thought to God’s thought, and you will have heresy.

Acts 4:12 “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

God’s Word gives us the ability to have victory over sins, and be cleansed by the blood of Jesus. In this way, we can rise above the constraints of our sin nature.

1 John 2:1 “My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.”

This verse refers to the children of God – people who have received Jesus as their Lord and Savior. The word advocate in the Greek is parakletos. Para means “alongside of” and is like railway tracks, and kletos means “helper.” A paracletos is someone who is alongside helping. You can run away, but wherever you run, the paracletos will be there also. Likewise He is there to help you understand. The Greeks used the word paracletos to refer to a defense lawyer in court. If you do not understand the law, and others accuse you, sue you or take advantage of you, you have a paracletos to answer for you. Others will charge that you have sinned, but the paracletos will say that you do not have sin.

Satan will never stop his accusations against Christians.

Revelation 12:10 “Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.”
1 John 2:1 says that Jesus Christ is “the righteous.” Jesus and the Father are one, and Jesus intermediates on our behalf before the Father. Jesus paid a debt for us that we couldn’t pay. Now we must accept Jesus as our Lord in order for His payment to be accepted by God in our behalf. If we will not love and exalt Jesus for what He has done, then the bible says that the Father will not accept us. The Father exalts the Son, and if we will not exalt the Son, then we are not one with the Father and we cannot enter into His love.

In John 14:21 Jesus said, “He who has My commandments, and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him.”

What should we do on our part? 1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” What does it mean to be “in the light”?

In the Old Testament (Exodus 26:33), God was shrouded in darkness. He was in the Holy of Holies, and man could not see Him. In the Holy Place there was a lamp, and in the outer court there was the sun, but in the Holy of Holies, there was no light at all. God was mysterious and unknown.

But when Jesus died on the cross, the bible says the curtain that separated the holy place from the holy of holies in the temple was torn from top to bottom. God did that to show humanity that now, through Jesus Christ, we can know Him. Mark 15:38 “Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.” God is now in the light, no longer in darkness. He is a known God, a revealed God. When the light of the gospel shines out, we see God. The word revelation is apocalypses in Greek. Apo means away, and calypsos means veil. So the word revelation means taking away of the veil, the opening up of the curtain. We can now walk in the light; we can see and know God through Jesus Christ who is the light. Jesus said in John 8:12 “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

Today we do not know God by way of conjecture, or guessing, as those in the Old Testament did. But today we can know God by the eating of His Word. Jeremiah 15:16 says, “Thy words were found and I did eat them and thy Word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by Thy name, oh Lord God of hosts.” One of the byproducts of revelation is joy and thanksgiving. A life of peace!