Time For The Church To Get Back To The Word!

THE WORD!

A couple of weeks ago, we had vacation bible school here at the church.  If you were here, you know how hungry these kids were for the Word of God.  For those of you who weren’t here, about 3 of those nights I spent time under a barrage of fire from every question imaginable.  Those kids asked questions that I honestly don’t remember answering for anyone EVER.  And please understand, this is not me trying to toot my own horn.  The answers I gave came straight through remembrance from the Holy Spirit.  That is a particular point that I will cover again in a few minutes.  No, this is just to make a point of how hungry these kids were for answers from the Word!  Do, I remember every book and verse location for each answer I gave??  Absolutely not!  Were there more qualified people here to answer those questions?? Absolutely yes!  But guess who was there and who got the job of answering them?? Me.  Finally, towards the end of Thursday night’s questioning, one of the kids asked me, “How do you know the answers to all of these questions??”  That was actually the easiest question I had answered the whole time.  Do you know what my answer was???  

Because that’s what the Bible says!  

Today, I want to start off by asking some questions.

Ok, how many of you Love Jesus? Easy right??

How many of you daily read the bible? Ooo….thats a little harder. How about at least the “verse of the day”? That makes it at least a little easier.

Now………   How many of you are as hungry for the word as those kids were last week???

I can honestly answer:  Yes, Most of the time, Almost every day, and I try to be.

But let that line of questions and answers simmer for a minute!

Wow!  Sometimes? Most of the time? I try???  

Ya, sometimes…….. and when I started preparing for this week, ………. that hurt.  That cut deeper than I was comfortable admitting.  It made me think and change some of my focus, and that is exactly what we are going to talk about today!

There are 783,137 words in the King James Version of this WORD. (Here’s a quick freebie, that is a prime number, which means that it is divisible by nothing, nothing except 1 and itself). That’s a lot of words and most of us have never read all of them.

So, Let’s start talking about THE WORD with the first verse that came to my mind. Oddly enough this verse was confined to me by the Holy Spirit last Sunday, because this was the VERSE OF THE DAY in the Bible app.  Now, Turn with me to this verse we should all be familiar with …… John 1:1-3  

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

So, what is the word?  Its not a WHAT at all, It’s a WHO, and HE IS Jesus Christ Himself!

We even get a great follow-up/similarity of this verse by Paul later on in Colossians 1:16-18

16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or [a]principalities or [b]powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

So, there we have it!  The WORD who is Jesus Christ was in the beginning with God and made absolutely everything we know in existence!  ……………

And we can’t spend some time with that person each day???

WOW!!!!!    

Now let me tell you how hard that hit me!

Where in that verse do I find my Sometimes, Most of the time, and I try????   Its not there!!!!

Think about this…..

God loves us sooooo much that before there was a beginning, He gave us His WORD.  That Jesus Christ was with Him.  The bible also says that Jesus THE WORD is the “Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.” (Revelation 13:8)

Where did we go wrong church?  Where did we lose sight of what is important????

Want to know why the world doesn’t act the way God told us to act, know the laws of God, and continually breaks them????  

Want to know Why we as a society are spinning down a toilet flush straight into the lake of fire?   …………..