Every Word

 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Matthew 4:4...."It takes all of the Word of God to make it the Word of God." A.W. Tozer

I've never had a problem with people who don't believe the Bible. They're unbelievers, and I was once one myself. Then He captured my heart, and my heart, eyes, and mind were made open to receive Him. Unbelievers are people who may one day become believers, and it's the job of those who are His to live a life witness and testimony to the truth of His Words before them, love them, pray for them, and trust in His grace to pursue them. There have always been and always will be those who refuse to believe. It's tragic, but their refusal to believe doesn't in the least take away from the reality of the Truth of His Word.

I do however, have great problems with those who profess to be His followers yet are now questioning just what within His Word is actual truth and what is not. There has always been a segment of the professing church from which the element spoke, but they were not large. That is changing. The full authority and truth of Scripture is not only being questioned today, it is under full frontal attack. The result is a growing division and yes, confusion within the Body and confusion is never of the Holy Spirit. It is of the spirit of the enemy. 

A great part of the problem is that as the culture changes, so does the way many look at His Word. They believe that it and our understanding of it must change as well. This despite the fact that His Word says that He does not change and the Words He speaks do not change either. Human rational thinking and logic are being applied in an attempt to explain and understand what is at root, supernatural and can only begin to be understood by the leading of His Holy Spirit. A Holy Spirit who was the One guiding and inspiring those who "wrote" the words found in Scripture. Paul said all Scripture is "God breathed." Now, we have those who believe they can decide which parts actually are, and which are not. How strange though that the Scriptures they are saying are not, are the same ones the culture seeks to dismiss as well.

This is a subject far greater than I can even begin to explore in a writing such as this. So, I'll just end by pointing to the quote from Tozer, found above. "It takes all the Word of God to make it the Word of God." God, through His Holy Spirit, has breathed His Word into what comprises the 66 books of the Bible over the course of four millenium. Both Old and New Testaments contain His fullness of truth. He said in Isaiah that this world would pass away, but that His words "would never pass away." We forget that to our great harm and destruction. In the end, what men say about it all matters not at all. Scripture says all things "hold together in Christ." Christ is the Living Word. I will live my life of faith on that foundation. How about you?

Blessings,
Pastor O