6. God Speaks with Enduring Words

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God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets has in these last days spoken unto us by His Son…

Hebrews 1:1

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Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” While we could debate the merits of his statement, there is one thing that is absolutely certain – God’s Word. Through all the changes around us, God’s Word abides forever. It cannot change because God is unchangeable. We can lie down at night believing it, build our life upon it, and die in peace comforted with it. The world’s ideas pass away quickly but God’s Word remains forever!

God’s Word Endures

Isaiah 40:8, The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of the Lord shall endure forever!

These famous words from Isaiah come just after the Lord told His prophet to speak comfortably to Jerusalem. What is so comforting about the grass withering when the grass is the people (40:7)? First, God’s enemies will wither and pass away. In a time when we are oppressed on every side by the world this is a tremendous comfort. Second, we will pass away. Initially, this seems less than comforting but when we remember that to live is Christ and to die is gain; when we look upon our flesh aging and slowly dying; when we look at the end of all things at hand and the promise of a new Heaven and a new Earth, we see there is comfort in this. Third, the Lord is comforting us by pointing us away from the temporal and to the eternal. He is pointing us away from the perishing to the enduring.

All men are fading away but one thing remains and endures, the Word of the living God. For assuredly I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle (iota – smallest greek letter) will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled (Matthew 5:18). It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one iota of the law to fail (Luke 16:17). Long after we depart, that which God spoke will endure. And there is more…

God’s Word is Living

How often do we read the Word of God recognizing that the Words which we are reading are as alive as the living God who spoke the Words? The Word of God is living. It is active. This was the great thing about Moses on Mount Sinai – He was with the Angel of the Lord, with Yahweh, with the living God. He who lives forever and ever delivered to Moses His living Word.

Stephen said of Moses that he received the living oracles to give to us, whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected (Acts 7:38b-39a). Why was their rejection so terrible? Because they rejected the living oracles, the living Word, of the living God.

Hebrews 4:12, For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

When the Faithful and True king rides upon the white horse in Revelation 19, destroying the wicked, delivering His children, this is His name, “The Word of God” (Rev. 19:13). The Lord lives and His Word is alive!

God’s Word is Powerful

Many things are alive but do very little on their own. They have little power. How powerful is the living Word? The Lord gives the answer in this way – it is very sharp. Sharper in fact than a two-edged sword. A two-edged sword can divide the body but God’s word can divide soul and spirit, joints and marrow! What sword or device of man can do that? I do not know any!

God’s Word and Spirit can make the foulest sinner clean. It brings the furthest from the kingdom directly into the banquet hall of the Lamb. It takes mouths full of cursing and blasphemy and gives them songs of praise to sing forevermore. God through His Word raises the dead, calms the storms, heals the sick, feeds the hungry, punishes the wicked, calls the sinners, and one day will end the present evil age.

With this enduring Word, unmatched in any other book in any other place, is it any wonder that as Jesus was transfigured on that mountain with Peter, James, and John standing by to witness, and Moses and Elijah, recipients of that living Word, standing and talking with Jesus, that the voice of God spoke from the cloud saying, This is My beloved Son, Hear Him!”

God’s Word endures, it is living, it is powerful. Let us Hear Him.

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