The written word of God is of vital importance to our wellbeing; every word in it should be clearly understood in order to correctly understand the true meaning.
There was a time when God spoke through the prophets, but now in these final days he has spoken to us through his Son. It was through the Son that he made the worlds and everything in it. He reflects God’s own glory and came to tell us all about him and pay a debt he did not owe because we owed a debt we could not pay.
The fact that Lord God the Son has spoken to us imposes the highest obligations for us to pay attention to what he has said.
The Messiah, what is his name: His name is Word for he is the one who expresses Lord God the Father to mankind; the Word is the medium of communication between Lord God Almighty Father and man. Jesus is the name given to him when he became flesh; Christ is his title of position, his office.
Lord God Almighty Word is the One holding the universe together and preserving it. He is the “atomic glue” that scientists talk about that mysteriously holds the atoms together to keep them from exploding in all directions. 37 words
Lord Christ preexisted before time itself; he preexisted as long as Lord God the Father and Lord God the Holy spirit existed. He existed before the beginning began.
A word is that by which we communicate our will, by which we convey our thoughts, or by which we issue commands; it is the medium of communication with others. The Son of God may be called “the Word,” because he is the medium by which Almighty God makes known his will, and issues his commandment. The name Logos, or Word, is given to Lord Christ in reference to his becoming the Teacher or Instructor of mankind.
The fact that the Son of God has spoken to us, imposes the highest obligations to attend to what he has said; he has an authority superior to all those who have spoken in past times; and that there will be peculiar guilt in refusing to attend to what he has spoken. He is equal with Lord God the Father and Lord God the Holy Spirit (John 1:1), and is himself called God.
Called God his own Father: the Jews recognized beyond any doubt what Lord Jesus meant by “My Father,” who, with a constant source of energy, never ceases to work. It was a claim which none other had ever made, that God was in a peculiar sense his own Father. The Jewish religious leaders felt it was a claim to divinity; making himself equal with God. When Jehovah rested on the seventh day it was the completion of the work of creation. It was not, it could not be, a cessation of divine work, or in the flow of divine energy, for in this respect, Jehovah never ceases to work.
He took upon himself all the attributes of a man. He assumed all the innocent infirmities or our nature. He appeared as other men do, was subjected to the necessity of food and raiment, like others, and was made liable to suffering, as other men are.
Becoming obedient even unto death: He subjected himself to the law of God, and wholly obeyed it. It was characteristic of the Redeemer that he yielded perfect obedience to the will of God. Should it be said that if he was Lord God himself he must have been himself the lawgiver, we may reply, that this rendered his obedience the more wonderful and the more meritorious. If a monarch should, for an important purpose, place himself in a position to obey his own laws, nothing could show in a more striking manner their importance in his view. The highest honor that has been shown to the law of God on earth was; that it was perfectly observed by him who made the law—the great Mediator. He obeyed even when obedience terminated in death. He placed himself in the condition of a servant to do the will of the Everlasting God, and then never shrank from what that condition involved.
The whole universe shall confess that he is Lord. They shall all acknowledge him as universal Lord; all will bow to his sovereign will; all are subject to his control; all will recognize him as Divine. The fallen and the lost will do this; for they will be constrained to yield an unwilling homage to him by submitting to the sentence from his lips that shall consign them to eternal damnation; and thus the whole universe shall acknowledge the exalted dignity of the Son of Most High God. But this does not mean that they will be saved, for the guilty and the lost may be compelled to acknowledge his power, and submit to his decree as the sovereign of the universe. There is the free and cheerful homage of the heart which they who worship him in heaven will render; and there is the constrained homage which they must yield who are compelled to acknowledge his authority.
1st John 5:10-12: He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in him: he that believes not God has made him a liar; because he has not believed in the witness that God has borne concerning his Son. And the witness is this: that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that has the life; he that has not the Son of God has not the life.