THE WORD
THE WORD
Sunday, November 15, 2015, the Year of Our Lord
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries Church
I don’t have a “Word” with regard to the terror attacks in Paris. Our world as we know it just changed again. For the past 15 years, changes have been coming swiftly. The world appears to move blindly forward unmoved by the “shakings” of the divine economy of God’s dealings and actions with the world to bring about the salvation and redemption of the nations.
Ps. 147:15: “He sends forth His commandment upon the earth; His word runs very swiftly.”
It does appear that France is moving swiftly to root out all terrorists’ cells, arrest and deport suspicious people. I pray the Obama Administration does not interfere and dissuade President Hollande from responding to this attack as an “act of war”; and downgrading it to work place violence.
The G20 meeting scheduled for next week in Turkey will not be able to continue with the deception that Global Warming is the greatest threat to the national security of the United States and our allies.
The divine economy of God is inclusive of creation.
“He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.”(Jn. 1:10).
He is omnipresent in the world and sustains the world by His providence and care. He is the Creator. Thus by His divine economia, He silences the mouth of the beast, and the worship of global warming as a god.
Isa. 19:1: “…Behold the Lord rides upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt (the world); and the idols of Egypt (the world) shall be moved at His presence, and the heart of Egypt (the world) shall melt in the midst of it.”
Kim Clement posted this week that the spirit over the attack in France was “Baal-allah” (the god of Islam).
No longer can Christians, Americans and the world come into agreement with the heresy of separation of church and state. Our enemy who is attacking us, Christians in the Middle East, and other nations is the god of Islam.
In our study of Ezra, Zerubbabel was chosen by the Lord God as the governor of Jerusalem. He was the active political leader in Jerusalem under Tattenai the Persian military governor in Syria. Tattenai challenged Zerubbabel saying, “Who has commanded you to build this house and to make up this wall?” In other words by whose authority do you do this?
Joshua (or Jeshua) was the high priest who served as the principal religious figure.
Zerubbabel reveals the King principle and Jeshua the Priest principle; thus a King-Priest ministry builds the house. One is political with a civil and Kingdom authority. The Priest principle is a spiritual Kingdom authority.
The Lord God appoints civil rulers as well as spiritual rulers. In the divine economy of God, man does not have the authority to leave God out of the economies of the world.
There is a “call” for the “Elect” to arise from the confusion of worldly economies, governments, tradition, and apostasy. In the Divine Economy, the Lord is equipping a REMNANT with the authority of His Voice. All is underwritten by His government, His Word, and Kingdom of God!
Throughout the Holy Bible the words of God says, “And God said, and let there be...” This is the Divine Economy of creation.
Mark 10:6: “From the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.”
Man has transgressed against the Divine Economy of God’s dealings, creation and actions in the world. Now man is trying to change the Divine laws and seasons of God.
John 1: 1-2: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.”
God the Word was never separated from God the Father or God the Holy Spirit-- three persons sharing the divine nature.
In the created realm, “the word” is twofold. There is the latent word, the faculty of speech, which we possess even when we are not speaking. When we are silent, and even when we sleep, the power of word and speech is still within us.
There is also the outward word evident when we articulate with out lips the power of speech put into action.
The spoken word and the inner power of speech pertain to the physical world around us.
But neither aspect adequately describes the “Word” and “Voice” of the Son of God.
The supernatural revelation, power, and creativity of the “Word” is beyond nature.
Theophylact wrote of the Apostle John: “John was a fisherman and the son of a fisherman, not just ignorant of higher Greek and Judaic learning, but completely illiterate (Acts 4:13). John’s native town Bethsaida was lowly and obscure. Behold how a man like this---unlettered, unknown, and insignificant---acquired such spiritual power that he thundered forth revelations revealed by none of the other Apostles. Their gospels dealt with the life of Christ in the flesh and made no clear declaration of His existence before the ages…The Lord loved John more than any of the disciples, because of his simplicity, meekness and goodness; and especially because he was of a pure heart. It was on account of his purity that John was entrusted with the gift of revelation knowledge. John delighted in mysteries which most men do not perceive even today after millenniums of study.”
The Word “which was from the beginning” through the Holy Spirit spoke the words to John.
1 John 1:1: “’That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, when we have seen with out eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the Word of life.”
“That which was from the beginning” is repeated 7 times in 1 John.
“The Word” in John denotes Jesus Christ, the personal wisdom and power in union with God, his minister in creation and government of the universe, the cause of all the world’s life both physical and ethical, which for the procurement of man’s salvation put on human nature in the person of Jesus the Messiah, the second person in the Godhead, and shone forth conspicuously from His words and deeds” (Blue Letter Bible).
The Son is the messenger and Angel of the Lord of the Father’s will.
“All things were made by Him. And without Him was not anything made which was made.”
“The Word” is not like a spoken word which is uttered and then dies away in the air. “The Word” is the maker of everything, both what is perceived by the mind and by the senses.
When John says that all things were made by the Son, He (The Word) is One with equal power able to carry out the great command of the Father.
Heb. 1:10 and Ps. 102:25: “In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.”
Ps. 102: 20-21: “The Lord has looked upon the earth, to hear the groaning of them that are in fetters, to loose the sons of the slain, to declare in Sion, the name of the Lord.”
Jesus took this earthly flesh upon Himself and loosed us who were bound by our own sins; He freed us, the sons of the slain, and declared in Sion the name of the Lord. For He stood in the temple and taught concerning His Father and said, “I have manifested your name unto the men which you gave me, and they kept your Word.” (Jn. 17:6)
In Genesis by the revelation of “The Word” by the Holy Spirit, Moses described the visible creation. John was given revelation both visible and invisible. John first says that all things were made by the Son. Then to dispel any idea that the Son also created the Holy Spirit, he carefully defines the “all things”. Every part of the created nature was made by the Word. The Holy Spirit is not part of created nature, and therefore was not made by the Son. Without the power of the Word was not any thing made that was made.
Having proclaimed about the creation, that that all things were made by Him, John speaks of the providence and care the Word has for His creation. The Word did not simply create the world and then withdraw from it, but He sustains the life of everything created.
“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” The Lord Jesus sustains life of every living thing. He is light---not light perceived by the natural senses, but light that enlightens the soul that we may know Him in the Spirit in the realm of the supernatural.
“The light shines in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not”. The light of Jesus Christ shines amid death and deception. Even when He was dead, the Word of God so completely vanquished death that He compelled death to discharge those whom it had swallowed.
Likewise the power of the preaching of the Word shines today separate from the preacher. Neither death nor deception can overcome it, for this light, God the Word is unconquerable.
As we proclaim and declare the Divine Economy of God over all that is evil and wicked, the Word and the Blood has not lost it’s power.
The spirit of anti-christ does work and will work. We cannot be dismayed as gross darkness covers the earth. Every saint is indeed a light. We are not The Light, but a light by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. “Arise and shine for you light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.”
The Lord is shaking Heaven and earth. However, we are of a Kingdom which cannot be shaken.
The Voice of Him who created, sustains, redeems and conquers, will arise in an overcoming church.
Let us pray for France, for the families who lost loved ones, for our nation, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries Church
Scripture from K.J.V. – Ps. 102 from “The Psalter According to the Seventy”. I entered into the labors Theophylact 1050-1107. Comments and conclusions are my own and not meant to reflect the views of Blessed Theophylact.