The Integrity of the Word

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.
    When you know that the Word of God is absolutely true, you will have no more diseases, for the instant that any disease lays its hold on you, you will remember Isaiah 53:3-5. “Surely he hath borne our diseases and carried our sicknesses…” then He climaxes it with, “and with his stripes we are healed.”
    In the final analysis every real healing is by the Word. It is the Word working in us.
    If the Word does not work in you, then faith will not dominate you.
    It is the Word working, by the Spirit in your thought life and heart life, that develops a faith walk.
    You who walk by faith are walking by the Word. You who are trusting God, are trusting the Word.
    When you take the Word into your lips and use it, it becomes a living thing.
    The Word has no vitality or power until we act on it.
    We are no longer deceiving ourselves by the theories about the Word, and the integrity of the Word as a historical document.
    We are now living in the Word, and the Word is living in us.
    We know John 15:7 guarantees an absolute fellowship with the Father in the carrying out of His will on earth. “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”
    In Thessalonians we read that the Word worked effectually in them. It had gained the ascendency. It dominated, it ruled them.
    The Lordship of Jesus is the Lordship of His Word. The Lordship of His Word will mean the Lordship of the love life and the author of the Word.
    God is love, and God is the author of the Word. It will be a love life, a love dominance.
    Now study to show yourself approved before the Father in this Word. Take Bible courses and go beyond them in your own studies, making this Word to become a living thing in your life.

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