Christ As The Word Of God

by Scotchbrook, A. J. | Category: General | Jun 1994

The Lord Jesus has many and various names, each of which tell us something more about His Person and His character. When the apostle John saw the heaven opened in Revelation 19 he saw the Lord Jesus "arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and His Name is called The Word of God" (verse 13). The Greeks had three words for "word" and one of them was "Logos", which is one of the Lord's names. The word is not easily translatable into English, but it combines the thought of expression and wisdom and embodies a concept or idea.

The apostle John uses the same word in the opening of his Gospel in those five declarations of truth concerning the Son of God. He declares:

His eternity, "In the beginning was the Word";

His fellowship with the Father, "the Word was with God";

His deity, "and the Word was God";

His work in creation, "all things were made by Him";

His incarnation, "the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us".

As the Word of God, Christ has become the means of communication between God and man. Through Christ God speaks to us in a new and living language, the language of life in Christ. "God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets ... hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in His Son" (Heb. 1:1,2).

A word reveals the thought or concept in the mind of another. As the Word of God the Lord Jesus reveals to us the mind and heart of God. The almighty God in all His magnificence and majesty is revealed to our hearts through the Lord Jesus as the Word. God has become audible and visible through His Son. But not without sacrifice. When the Word became flesh and dwelt among us it was with a view to His death upon the Cross, where divine justice and love were supremely manifested.

Scotchbrook, A. J. | Jun 1994
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