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of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your
heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope of
His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the
saints.” When we read the Bible we must ask the Lord to open our
eyes.

I would like to set this truth of revelation before your heart by
looking at Jesus as the Word of God. We know He is the Living
Word and we know this is the written word. We study the written
word to see the Living Word. Let me spend a few minutes talking
about the word. After we do that I want to take you to Peter’s
testimony just before he died. Peter looked back over his thirty years
of life and he said, “I remember this.” Let me begin with Jesus as
the word.

What is God communicating when He says, “The word?” The
prologue, the beginning, the introduction of John 1, “In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word
was God. He was in the beginning with God.” It begins with verse
1 and ends in verse 18, “No man has seen God at any time; the only
begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father. He has explained
Him.”

Words are for communication. John 1:1 says that He is the Word
and John 1:18 says that God has explained Him. I want to start very
simply with what is a word? It’s a sound that has a meaning and
you can’t understand it apart from its context. I can think a word in
my mind but you won’t know what I’m thinking. You might say, “I
can tell by the look on your face; you are surprised or you are angry
or you are discouraged or you are sad or you are happy or you are
hungry.” But unless I speak a word, you don’t know what I’m
thinking. Sometimes one word is not enough. Sometimes you need
a sentence. Sometimes you need a paragraph.

We have an expression, “In other words.” So, when Lillian wants
me to really know what she is saying, she will give me her command
and then she’ll say, “In other words,” and she’ll restate the same