God spoke, and heaven and earth materialized. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast (Psalm 33:9). Then John’s Gospel makes the tremendous assertion that the Word became flesh (John 1:14). The same voice that created all things now spoke to us. What He said comes with absolute authority. It is the Word of the Lord.
When Christ spoke, He said heaven and earth would pass away but not His words (Matthew 24:35). He was not like the prophets. They spoke FOR the Lord, but Christ spoke AS the Lord. The prophets said, “Thus saith the Lord." Jesus never did. He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you.”
There was something else different. The prophets were sent with a message, but Jesus IS the message. The prophets spoke about the Lord, but Jesus spoke about Himself. He not only brought the Word of God, but He is the Word of God. He did not point to the way; He is the way. Jesus was not one of the roads that led to God. He is God.
That is why we have no right to doubt the Word of God, or to bend God’s exclamation marks into question marks. If we do so, “To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (John 6:68), as the apostle Peter recognized. We either obey or die. Using our technology language, we blow the fuse, and suffer a lifelong power failure. The heating fails, the lights go out, communications cease, the systems break down, and cold eternal night settles in. Come on! Trust in God and His Word!
Reinhard Bonnke
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