The Integrity of the Word by EW Kenyon
The whole superstructure of Christianity rests upon the integrity
of the Word.
The whole problem of the prayer life, of healing, of finances, is a
problem of the integrity of the Word.
When you know that "No Word from God can ever be broken"
that God is back of every Word that is spoken, that His very throne
is the Surety of the fulfillment of His Word, then there will come
to you a quiet assurance that will make you surmount every
obstacle and difficulty.
It has taken us a long time to find out that God and His
Word are one, that God is actually a part of all He has
spoken.
Creation came into being by His Word. This
staggers Sense Knowledge and challenges everything
in us. It stands as the very truth itself.
When God could swear by none greater, He
swore by Himself. He became the surety of the old
Covenant. His throne was back of it. God's integrity
is wrapped up in His Word. If His Word failed, His throne
would be shaken.
If His Word could fail, the universe would go into chaos. There
would be no sure foundation for anything.
Jesus is the Surety of the New Covenant. Every Word from
Matthew to Revelation is impregnated with His very being.
He is called in the Gospel of John, the "Word".
He declares, "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us."
The Word created all that is seen.
If every Word was impregnated then with the ability of God,
it is today.
He stands back of every sentence that we call a promise.
He is part and parcel of every Word that is written in that Book.
When He said, "I am the vine and ye are the branches," it is a
declarative statement of fact.
When He declared, "Greater is He that is in you than he that is
in the world," that was a declaration of eternal fact.
When He said, "Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world, and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our
faith," He was laying down the principle of the absolute supremacy
of the New Creation over the Old.
The Word that is given to us in His Will, and His will in specific
cases can be found
in His Word, so it is imperative that we know the Word in order to
find His will for
these problems of life. Jesus came to reveal the will of God.
That Revelation is given to us in the Word. If you let the Word soak
into you,
dominate you, then His will becomes clear to you.
But as long as the theories of men and Sense Knowledge hold the
supremacy in
your life, you will not know His will.
Recognize the Lordship of His Word.
That will mean the Lordship of Jesus, Who is the Word.
This will mean the Lordship of Love, because the Lordship of Love is
the
Lordship of Christ.
The Lordship of Christ is the Lordship of the Word.
So you feed on the Word, you meditate on the Word, you pore over the
Word until
the Word becomes a part of you.
"If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye
will and it shall
be done unto you." Why? Because that
Word has made you wise as to what His will is.
"Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly."
That means that the Word dominates your life. Your meditating in it
causes it to
"dwell in you richly."
"Thy Words have I hidden in my heart that I might not sin against
thee."
Our chiefest sin is not doing something bad, but it is letting our
hearts depart from
the Word into Sense Knowledge – turning away from the Word of God to
the word
of man, getting people's opinion on this thought or that, rather than
finding what
the Word teaches us.
It is not His will that any should perish.
1 Tim. 2:3-4, "This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our
Saviour who would
have all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth."
Some, perhaps, who are reading this article, never have really known
that they are children of God.
They have had no clear evidence that they have passed from death unto
Life.
The Word is the only evidence that we need. It is the ground out of
which faith
grows.
You know that Isa. 53:6 is true, "All we like sheep have gone astray,
we have turned
everyone to his own way and the Lord hath laid upon Him the iniquity
of us all."
Your sins were laid upon Jesus, and Jesus put those sins away.
With joy you confess that He is your Saviour and your Lord, and
because He
is your Saviour and Lord, you know that you are in God's family.
Take your place as a child of God.
Tell your loved ones that you know that
God is your Father and that you are His
Child. You are in His family.
Feed on His Word so that you may grow in grace and the knowledge of
His Will. .
E. W. Kenyon