Isaiah 58:12 Podcast Harold Weikert

In the beginning was the Word and in Him was life and the life was the light of men.
The Word (Jesus Christ) was with God from the beginning of eternity and was a real personality not a thought or an idea.  He was the source of all creation.  He was the Word that expressed Gods power.  Nothing was created unless it came by the Word of God.

         "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God." John 1:1

           John starts his gospel with an evangelistic theme; "But these have been written (signs and wonders of Jesus) so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name."

The crowd cried out "crucify Him;" He prayed," Father forgive them."  I'd never know such agony; I'd known such loss.  I'd never known such love in any other eyes.

Yet He loved them. 

 Behold the Lamb that taketh away the sins of the world.

          How about you?  Are you a doer of the word or just a hearer.  Is reading the word just something to check of the list of things to do, or is it an experience with God?  We have a choice of building on the rock or sandy beach.  I don't want to be like the guy that looked in the mirror and walked away and forgot what he looked like, I want to walk in the power of the word of God and be able to stand on the rock in times of the stormy Gail.

         Nebuchadnezzar said bow to my god or die.  Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego refused to bow because they trusted their God to rescue them.  Then they said the most powerful statement of trust and faith; "But even if He does not."  It was okay if God did not save them, they would not bow to another God.  There was no, why me Lord, why didn't you answer my prayer.  They were prepared to trust the Lord, no matter what.
          How about you who do you trust?

        In the nineteen sixties we stopped worrying about what the Lord thought and started to lust after the things of the world.  It may be the lusting after the world of culture, education, science, or even religion.  In this world we created we made no room for God or His Son.  A world where the name of Christ is no longer welcomed and even forbidden except as an empty formality.  We allowed the gods of ancient days to breach the defensive walls and possess the land that God and our fathers gave to us.  Come Lord Jesus and forgive us.