Only one word....

Recently I was reading a passage found in Matthew 12: 32, where Jesus stated that speaking against the Holy Ghost will not be forgiven in this world nor the world to come. I was impressed how just the saying of a singular word can have such a dramatic effect. This statement was made after Jesus had healed a man with a withered hand in a synagogue and giving sight to the blind and speech to the dumb, prompting the Pharisees to state Jesus had done these things by Beelzebub, the prince of the devils.  Jesus replying, went on to say that every idle word will require an answer for at the day of judgement. That by our words men will either be justified or condemned.

Upon pondering this, I was reminded of another time that only one word made a dramatic effect. The account can be found in Genesis 2: 16-17. God had instructed Adam that all trees that were in the Garden of Eden could be eaten of except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, “for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” In Genesis 3, the serpent, being the most subtil of all beast added only one word to what God had instructed Adam by telling Eve “ye shall NOT surely die.” Eve disbelieved the Word of God, excepting a perversion instead resulting in what? Bringing death to all living things.
 

We can see that this subject is so important that continuing all the way until the last verses of the last chapter of Revelation it is stated “For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plaques that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.” Rev. 22:18-19.
 

Seeing that from the beginning of time, on until Jesus’ ministry and continuing to the end, words are serious. In the Garden it brought physical death. Later we see it brings spiritual death.
 

My friends, every Word written in the Bible is of the divine inspiration of God. 2 Timothy 3:16. Penned by men, but from the lips of God to the hearing of chosen men, to the pages of the Bible. It’s not just tales to be told or stories to entertain by but literally spiritual life itself. If we reject or disbelieve that any of the written Word is not inspired by God then we reject Jesus Christ Himself for we can clearly see that Jesus Christ is the Word for “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us….” John 1:1 and 14. This Word is so precious that Jesus Himself stated that even though heaven and earth will pass away His Words shall never pass away.

Matthew 24:35.
 

We as Christians we must have something we… stake our claim in… our absolute if you will. Are we going to place our trust in a man-made doctrine or set of rules, a manual passed out by some general assembly of some denomination or in the eternal Word? What is your absolute?
 

Today friends lets take a stand. It’s the Word, all the Word or nothing.

God bless