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Jesus. You study Psalms to know Jesus. Every book in the Bible
reveals the Lord in a different way. The only way to know Him
personally is to see Him in the word of God.

Jesus gave a great word to Peter in Matthew 16:16&17, “And Simon
Peter answered and said, ‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living
God.’ And Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon
Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My
Father who is in heaven.’” And there He gave the secret to Peter,
“You didn’t give it; My Father gave it to you.” Paul prayed for
Christians in Ephesians 1:17&18, “That the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and
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