Jesus is the "Word".
The Bible is the "word".
The BIBLE says, that "God exalts His "word"....above His NAME".
Really - the Bible is the word?
The Greek word for the Scriptures is Graphe and it is not translated "word" in your Bible!
Now if someone says a word, that of course can be considered their "word". However the Bible has words from Satan, and so taking the view as 'Behold' does in the above quote now creates Satan with saying words from God!!
And of course, we read all sorts of other people saying and writing things in the Bible.
And what I find even more interesting is the Jesus Christ Himself, who is the Word of God by name (see Rev 19:13) calls the writings of Moses (those first five books of your Bible) the writings of Moses!! And then Jesus Christ, the Word of God, goes on to make a clear distinction between Moses's writings and His words!!!
Jn 5:46,47 “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
“But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”
So clearly 'Behold' is wrong according to the very writings 'Behold' calls the "word".
Now I would think that since he puts such high regard on the Scriptures, he would have read some of this and understood - except for one thing. The Bible explains that understanding comes from His mouth not His book!!
Prov 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
So obviously he is not getting understanding from the Lord's mouth but from his leaning on his own understanding.
From His mouth to me, our Lord Jesus Christ once to me personally:
"Understanding is understanding that I Am Understanding; understand?"
And we need to know Him not only as our Teacher, who personally teaches us things, but also as our friend, or did you not even read:
Prov 7:4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” And call understanding your intimate friend;
If indeed Jesus Christ, as understanding, was your friend you would understand what I am writing, simply because you and He would talk back and forth. Then you might even be able to, and would testify to what you hear. But it is written, and so it is:
Jn 3:11 “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
But I have explained the need for actually knowing Jesus Christ personally, meaning that you and Him need to talk, and you still do not have that testimony coming from in you.
Have you not read:
Is 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the LORD speaks,
“Sons I have reared and brought up,
But they have revolted against Me.
or
Is 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD,
You rulers of Sodom;
Give ear to the instruction of our God,
You people of Gomorrah.
or
Is 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the LORD,
“Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool.
If you would just seek Him and His words personally spoken to you through His Holy Spirit to your spirit you would have understanding (Him) in your life. You would then reason together (talk back and forth) with Him. You would then know that His voice is not the writings, but that He sends His Holy Spirit with His words personally for you. So you would find the word of God we are preaching in your heart, or in your mouth if you don't pay enough attention to what His Holy Spirit says to your spirit so that His words in you heart are not found until they come out your mouth.
That is why it is written:
Rom 10: 8 But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
Yet I think even I have explain all this to you before, using the Scriptures to reprove you accordingly, but you do not accept our (those like me who are trying to get people hooked up with our Lord Jesus Christ personally) testimony!!! Just like it is written and explained above on this post.
I was just wondering if you are ever going to seek Jesus Christ and His words that come to us via His Holy Spirit or not? Have you not even read:
Jn 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
and
Jn 6:64 “But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.
Frankly, if a person starts lifting up the Bible as Him, our Saviour, they are betraying Him, The Lord, who speaks, just like Isaiah explained. And Isaiah used a combination of his words and words that he got and testified to from the Lord, or do you still not understand? Let me break down just that one verse for you:
Is 1:2 Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth;
For the LORD speaks,
“Sons I have reared and brought up,
But they have revolted against Me.
The first part of that verse 'Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth; For the LORD speaks' is Isaiah's personal testimony that the Lord speaks. Isaiah testifies to that because Isaiah personally heard from the Lord.
And then Isaiah, gives and example of what he personally is specifically hearing in the second part of the same verse:
“Sons I have reared and brought up, But they have revolted against Me." - and that is what Isaiah personally heard and is giving as a testimony as to what he heard.
But from 'Behold we read things like:
Every time we open the NT, we are hearing from Jesus.
Reading what someone else heard and wrote down is not you personally hearing from Jesus!!!!!!!!!
That doesn't mean that He won't personally talk to you about the New Testament! But if He talks to you about it He then sound like a teacher in a class room who has you read a chapter in the textbook and goes over it in class!! A teacher does not just get up and read the chapter he asks you to read, and so neither does the Teacher just start reading the "NT", or any other part of the Bible to you, because He asks you to read and then reasons with you about it!
He tells you things like the following, which He personally told me:
WHAT TEACHER DOESN’T PUT A BOOK IN FRONT OF HIS STUDENTS TODAY; YET NOT JUST A BOOK BUT OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCIES, VISUALS, AND OTHER MATERIAL? FOR I TELL YOU TRULY, IF THEY ARE NOT LISTENING TO ME THEY ARE NOT MY PUPIL, THEY ARE NOT MY STUDENT; I TELL YOU TRULY, THEY ARE NOT MY DISCIPLE UNLESS THEY ARE HEARING FROM ME. SO DON’T TELL THEM TO READ THE BOOK, THEM TO TAKE THE CLASS!”
Therefore when and if you listen to Him personally, you then come to know Him as your Teacher, and realize that you are His, pupil, student, and disciple. And you know that He will talk to you about all things because all things came into existence through Him! Indeed, He will talk to you about His Kingdom. He will talk to you about those we battle with. He will point out those who are not attending His class but are trying to get to heaven by leaning on their own understanding of the Text Book (The Bible).
He once told me "Quad god, Quad god, Quad god!", then "Karl, they are making it Father, Son, Spirit, and Holy Bible! Thereby making and idol out of their Bible."
Another time He told me:
THE SCRIPTURES ARE RIGHT, BUT THEY ARE NOT RIGHTEOUS. THEY HAVE NO ABILITY TO ACT. THEY ARE NOT ALIVE, BUT THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE AND ACTIVE.
If a person is saying that their reading the Scriptures (which are writings and not a person) is God talking to them, it is because they don't know Him, the Son of God who is the KING OF KINGS and whose name is called "The Word of God." Apparently that has not yet been revealed to them!
So we His sheep are asked to preach The Word, meaning He will and wants to talk to people. We are expected to help Him with His work, which is that all men might come to know Him. We are expected to be patient, because they are a stubborn people. So it is written:
2 Tim 4:1-4 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,
and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.
They desire to lean on their own understanding, so they don't desire to hear from The Living Word of God, Jesus Christ! So they get themselves teachers who say their reading the Bible is hearing from the Lord, so did they not read where Jesus rebuked the Jews, saying:
Jn 5:39 -42 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
“I do not receive glory from men;
but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
There is nothing new under the Sun. Still some are searching the Scriptures for eternal life, claiming that reading them is hearing from Him. That is wrong and that mistake is covered in the Bible (even the NT), but that did not stop them from making it!
