God Has A Message For You Series

God has a message for you. Trust it. It will help you.

A life trusting the message causes the message to step from the pages of a book or from words traveling through the air into a life. That is the message going from all things to life. That is the second step. Back up one step and we have the message going from with God to all things. This is:

4. Step One – The Message Became a Physical Body

John 1:14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Step one – moving from with God, in the beginning, to all things. The message became flesh, a physical body. That is what flesh is in the Bible, a physical body. Whenever you see flesh in the Bible, this is what it means. It does not mean a sinful nature. The message did not become a sinful nature. Jesus did not have a sinful nature. He did not sin. He had a flesh, but He did not have a sinful nature. The message became a physical body and made its dwelling among us. Jesus was that physical body.

What did Jesus do while He was here on earth? He taught. What did He teach? He taught us the message of God, the things that God wants us to know. How are we going to know those things if we don't read what He said, what He taught? How will we know the message if we don't meditate on the words of Jesus? If we don't do them?

I know it is easy to say, “I already know it all.” Those who were raised in church often think this. But they are wrong. Sure, they spent hours upon hours sitting through boring Bible lessons, but what they learned is nothing compared to the enormity of the scope of the Message. The real learning starts when they leave the church building, when they go home and open their own Bibles each day, when they read Jesus' words for themselves, when they meditate on them, when they do them. It is only then that a person can start learning the intermediate and advanced parts of the message.

Early on a Wednesday evening, a young man came to my church in Ellsworth. His wife was leaving him and she was going to be there that evening. He was trying to get her back. So he came to church that one time. He told me (this was before church, no one was there), “Tell me what you’ll be teaching tonight. I know that I already know it.” I told him the topic and he had never heard of it. We were going through the Old Testament. I was familiar with this young man's upbringing. I knew his father. He was raised in a church that taught and preached a handful of topics over and over and over again. He had heard those lessons and sermons many, many times. He was sure that that was all the Bible had to say. He never opened his Bible to find out if that were true. He didn’t have to. He had heard it all. So he did not go to church. He didn't need to.

Under my ministry you will hear a lot of the message of God. But you have to put that into your life before you can really learn it. That is why the message became a physical body. It was more than just words. It was a person, Jesus, living with other people, having a relationship with them, showing them the unspeakable parts of the message, forcing people to live His message. He was moving the message from being with God to all things. I want to do the same thing. We all should want to do the same thing.