Contributor: Wale Abiona

INTRODUCTION
Last week’s study demonstrated to us that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the Word, the Word is life and spirit. The Word knows everything about the Father and reveals deep mysteries of God to us. By the Word we understand the Love of the Father, demonstrated through the Son. We concluded with the question “do you love the Word?”
In today’s study we want to show how Jesus Christ, the Word, and God are the same through biblical instances and see if “the Word” is an appropriate description of God.
John 1:1
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”

Jesus Christ, the Word, and God are the same.
The following scriptures quoted of God and spoken by Christ show that both are the same. They bear the same Name and have the same glory, the same wisdom and knowledge.

John 17:5 - And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

1 Corinthians 1:24 - but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Colossians 2:2-3 - that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Biblical Instances
In the following Bible passages, God appeared in Word-Form
1. In the burning bush Exodus 3:3-4
2. On mount Horeb 1 Kings 19:12-13
3. On the road to Damascus Acts 3:3-4

Is “the Word” an appropriate description of God?
There may be some, who consider “the Word” not to be an appropriate description of God. Indeed, the Word is an appropriate description of God.
• The Word is inexhaustible, and God is infinite. Romans 11:33
• The Word is visible, so is God. Hebrews 11:2-4
• The Word is a mystery and God is unsearchable. Job 11:7; Job 23:8-9.
• All great decisions are expressed or executed by the written or spoken Word, and God is the great Decider who created things by His spoken Word. Deut.32:39
• The word comes from the hidden parts of man and God knows even the hidden thoughts of man. 1 Chronicles 28:9
• The Word fills the world and still resides in man, so is God. Genesis 1:3-26; 2:7 Then God said, “Let there be light, a firmament, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered, Let the earth bring forth grass, Let the earth bring forth the living creature and Let Us make man in Our image. Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. John 15:4

CONCLUSION
Now that we have seen why God chose the title “the Word” there remains one pertinent question: how can we walk with an unseen friend?
Genesis 6:9 gives us the clue. Do you want to walk with God? Are you determined to live a perfect life? Let us talk to the “Word” about it.