There are so many things we can learn from God’s Word about His Word and what His Word does and reveals that it would take a lifetime and more to discover every facet. To cut a very long story short, let’s examine just one more claim that wraps up every part of this book’s remarkable nature and its power to transform lives as a divine/human book.

The Bible has been described as “the manifestation of God in another form”. If this is true, then we must realise that God and His Word are inseparable. He is both who He is and what He says.

However, even more amazing is that this Book, this Word came here as a person, God’s Word living as a human on this earth.

This truth can be, for us, just a philosophical idea or a life-changing reality, depending on how we receive it. If we regard what John wrote about the Word being a Person as an application of the Greek philosophical idea of the “logos” rather than God speaking to us by His Son, we will miss the whole point of what John was saying.

Again, let the Bible speak for itself.

Genesis 1:1 NIV
[1] “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”

Hidden in this Hebrew sentence are the latters “aleph tov”, the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Although untranslatable, Jesus revealed their significance in the last chapter of Revelation.

Revelation 22:13 NIV
[13] “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

“He (the Word) was with God in the beginning.”

Genesis 1:3 NIV
[3] “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.”

John unpacks Jesus’ role in creation…

John 1:1-3 NIV
[1] “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. [2] He was with God in the beginning. [3] Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.”

… and in the world…

John 1:4-5 NIV
[4] In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. [5] The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”

Can you see how, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, John understood that the Jesus who came from the Father is God and that He was the agent through whom creation happened and through whom God speaks.

Our limited human minds grapple with this revelation but, like all God’s truth, we must receive it by faith or reject it according to our attitude to revealed truth.

Point one, then…Jesus is God in human form and He is the one who partnered with the Father to create the universe, God’s spoken word through whom the universe came into being.

Point two, Jesus is the incarnation of God’s final message to the world. Throughout the history of Israel under the Old Covenant, God spoke to His people through His prophets. However, His message was completed in the life and death of His own Son.

Hebrews 1:1, 3 NIV
[1] “In the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways,
[2] but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. [3] The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.”

Jesus not only spoke God’s Word, He came as the God’s Word itself. In other words, what Jesus did and said was not in His personal capacity as God in human form but rather as God’s Word doing and speaking. He could nevar speak or act outside of His unity with the Father because He was the Father’s voice to the world.

Consider His words…

John 12:47-50 NIV
[47] “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. [48] There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last day. [49] For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. [50] I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”

Jesus, the Word, is the standard by which God will judge humanity.

Whatever Jesus said was the Father speaking! It’s that simple! Hence, as a man, Jesus had all authority because He was God’s message to earth.

Jesus told His disciples clearly that His life, as the embodiment of the Torah, God’s instructions to His people, was not to do away with His law but to fulfil every detail in the way the Father intended.

Matthew 5:17-18 NIV
[17] “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. [18] For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.”

It was only because Jesus lived in perfect obedience to the whole law, fulfilling every detail, that He could be the perfect sacrifice to atone for all humanity’s failure to achieve God’s perfect standard of righteousness.

In view of all we have considered concerning the Bible and what it has to say about itself, those who refuse to take it at face value and believe what is written must carry the burden and the consequences of their unbelief. Those who put their faith in what is written and live by its instructions will experience all the benefits and blessing of what God has promised because God has spoken His final Word in Jesus and has nothing more to say. To reject the Bible, then, is to reject Jesus because He is the Word in human form.