- Jun 29, 2019
- 651
- 169
- 60
- Country
- United States
- Faith
- Christian
- Marital Status
- Married
Does it really matter who preaches the Word of God? What is important is God’s Word, more than who preaches it. The Word of God prevails, as God Himself prevails. God is everlasting, as is His Word.
The opening Verses in Genesis tells us who God is: He created the heavens and the earth. subsequent Books in the Old Testament tell us of His Powers. The Bible says God is everlasting. Jeremiah 10:10 says “[T]he Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King.” As God is everlasting, so is His Word. John 1:1 says that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word, as is God, is with us for all time.
The Bible is the Breath of God. 2 Timothy 3:16 says that all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. Because of God’s Stature, His Word is the truth, and it is His Truth that holds.
It doesn’t matter whose mouth the Word of God comes from. Whoever utters it eventually passes on, but it is God’s word that stays. Isaiah 40:8 says, ‘The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” Whatever life that exists when His Word is spoken will pass on, but His Word remains on earth for all to hear, so long as someone who is alive can utter them or write them.
God’s Word, in its unadultered form, is just as truthful coming from the mouth of a drunkard propped up against a building on a city street as it is from a preacher or someone who is respectable in their striving for righteousness. We are not required to act as a person preaching the Word does, regardless of who they are. We need not respect them either, but God wants that when we hear His Word, we direct our faith toward Him and Him alone. When Lord Jesus was among us on earth, he made that point. Luke 11:27-28 tells of a woman who says to Jesus, after hearing the Word of God from him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” Jesus counters, saying “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
In a sense, whoever preaches the Word of God is like a woman giving birth. Just as under God, the stature of a person is not a function of the woman who gave birth to him/her, rather, it’s what the person becomes that matters, so is God Word coming out of any mouth and taking form in the ears of those who hear it, regardless of who utters those words.
So when Jesus in Matthew 23:1-3 says to disregard what the scribes and Pharisees do, but cherish the word of God they speak, those scribes and Pharisees are like the woman who gives birth. In the sense that who the woman is, is not taken into consideration when we first regard what the person she gave birth to becomes, what the scribes and Pharisees do is not to be taken into consideration, but the true Word of God that they preach is what matters.
God says through Isaiah 55:10. “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”
The opening Verses in Genesis tells us who God is: He created the heavens and the earth. subsequent Books in the Old Testament tell us of His Powers. The Bible says God is everlasting. Jeremiah 10:10 says “[T]he Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King.” As God is everlasting, so is His Word. John 1:1 says that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word, as is God, is with us for all time.
The Bible is the Breath of God. 2 Timothy 3:16 says that all Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness. Because of God’s Stature, His Word is the truth, and it is His Truth that holds.
It doesn’t matter whose mouth the Word of God comes from. Whoever utters it eventually passes on, but it is God’s word that stays. Isaiah 40:8 says, ‘The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” Whatever life that exists when His Word is spoken will pass on, but His Word remains on earth for all to hear, so long as someone who is alive can utter them or write them.
God’s Word, in its unadultered form, is just as truthful coming from the mouth of a drunkard propped up against a building on a city street as it is from a preacher or someone who is respectable in their striving for righteousness. We are not required to act as a person preaching the Word does, regardless of who they are. We need not respect them either, but God wants that when we hear His Word, we direct our faith toward Him and Him alone. When Lord Jesus was among us on earth, he made that point. Luke 11:27-28 tells of a woman who says to Jesus, after hearing the Word of God from him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” Jesus counters, saying “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
In a sense, whoever preaches the Word of God is like a woman giving birth. Just as under God, the stature of a person is not a function of the woman who gave birth to him/her, rather, it’s what the person becomes that matters, so is God Word coming out of any mouth and taking form in the ears of those who hear it, regardless of who utters those words.
So when Jesus in Matthew 23:1-3 says to disregard what the scribes and Pharisees do, but cherish the word of God they speak, those scribes and Pharisees are like the woman who gives birth. In the sense that who the woman is, is not taken into consideration when we first regard what the person she gave birth to becomes, what the scribes and Pharisees do is not to be taken into consideration, but the true Word of God that they preach is what matters.
God says through Isaiah 55:10. “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”
