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verses. Is that enough words? I’ll give you 3,000,000 letters.
Is that enough?” I say, “Thank You, Lord. Now I have the
Bible.” I begin to study the history of the Bible and I study the
prophecies and I study the poetry and I study the gospels and I
study all of the redemptive history and I study the titles and
names of God and I say, “Thank You, Lord. You gave me the
word but it’s too much. ‘The Word became flesh.’ That helps
but it’s too much. Now I have a whole Bible. Thank You but
I still don’t know the Lord. I end up with theology. I end up
with creeds. I end up with philosophy. And we have
denominations that all comes from the Bible.”
I have a library with three thousand books, all based on the
Bible. Some people study the Bible and they end up in a cult.
I say, “Lord, like Abraham, don’t be angry. Let me ask You
one more time. I appreciate that You took the Word and the
Word became flesh. I appreciate that You took the Word and
turned it into words and I have it on paper; more than 3,000,000
words. Thank You. But Lord, I still don’t know You. Can you
help me one more time? I’m ashes and flesh. Please, don’t get
angry.”
God says, “Alright. I took the Word and the Word became
flesh. I took the Word of God and turned it into the word of
God.” John 16:13, “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He
will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His
own initiative, but whatever He hears, he will speak; and He
will disclose to you what is to come.” So, God says, “Here’s
what I’ll do. I’ll put My Spirit in your heart and He will take
the words from this book and He will explain that the Word
became flesh and you will know that the Word is God.” Do you
see God’s provision? We have the Holy Spirit to come to the
book to show us the Living Word.
1 Corinthians 2:11&12, “For who among men knows the
thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man, which is in him?
Even so, the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of
God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
