Permanency of God's Word -- Chapter 1

By: Grandma Peg

THE PERMANENCY OF GOD'S WORD

God’s Word was both written and spoken. God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ), and God the Holy Spirit all worked together through the prophets and apostles to write the Scriptures we have today. Jesus said that His words will not pass away [Luke 21:33]. Holy men (prophets and apostles) spoke as moved by the Spirit [2 Peter 1:21]. All Scripture (both the Old and New Testaments) is God-breathed [2 Timothy 3:16].

THE SPOKEN WORD

Christ Himself was called “The Word” [John 1:1, 14; 1 John 1:1; Revelation 19:13]. You may have heard the Greek word for “Word” is logos. This is a noun. The verb form means “to speak.”

Wherever Jesus said in the gospels, “it is said,” followed by an Old Testament quotation, “said” is always in the perfect tense. Jesus emphasized something that was said in the past, and right now, it still applies. It is permanently on record.

After His resurrection, Jesus continued to speak to the apostle Paul to help him in his ministry. When Paul wrote to the Corinthians, he told them that Jesus “… said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you’.”[2 Corinthians 12:9]. What Jesus said stayed in Paul’s mind as a permanent reminder.

THE WRITTEN WORD

God’s written Word is also permanent. The Greek word grapho means “to write, record, or to engrave.” You can see this in our English words, like photograph. Here are three ways this word is used in Scripture:

1. Christ said to Satan, “it is written ” [Matthew 4:4]. Jesus was quoting Old Testament Scripture by saying, “it has been written with the result that it stands written, permanently.”

2. The apostle Paul used the word grapho ten times in 1 Corinthians [1 Corinthians 1:19, 31; 2:9; 3:19; 4:6; 9:9; 10:7; 14:21; 15:45, 54]. He did this to prove the point that all ministry should be based on God’s Word, which is permanent.

3. Jesus told His disciples to rejoice because their “names are recorded in heaven” [Luke 10:20]. You can be sure, because Jesus said it, that at the moment of salvation, your name was written in the Book of Life, and it remains permanently written, forever.

THE WORD IS PERMANENT

Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever [Hebrews 13:8]. His words will not pass away [Matthew 24:35]. God’s Word stands forever [Isaiah 40:8]. Jesus is God, and all Scripture is God-breathed. God’s words are Christ’s words. Christ is the Word, and His words are permanent.

The apostle Paul was fastened with chains when in jail. So when he wrote to Timothy, he said that “the Word of God is not imprisoned ” [2 Timothy 2:9]. By using the perfect tense, Paul was making the strong point that God’s Word has never been in chains, with the continuing result that it currently is not, and it never will be in the future. Even in today’s world, no matter what anyone does to stop it, God’s Word moves on freely. It is unbreakable [John 10:35], unfailing Romans 9:6], living and active [Hebrews 4:12; 1 Peter 1:23], and and it is permanent.

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