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The Creative Word - The Living Word, Part 4

Sound of Faith / Sharon Hardy Knotts and R. G. Hardy
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May 21, 2021 8:00 am

The Creative Word - The Living Word, Part 4

Sound of Faith / Sharon Hardy Knotts and R. G. Hardy

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Greetings friends and new listeners shower not welcoming you to the sound of thing because we know Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.

Today's message as part of an in-depth study entitled the spoken word series, which includes teaching on the creative word of God because everything that's created, visible and invisible God spoke into being. Also, the living word.

The revelation of the two mouths sword of the Spirit which is the spoken word of God. When we speak what God has quickened to our spirits. This teaching is the culmination of my own personal journey from a place of deep despair to an authorized and dynamite is deputy of the spoken word of God. Last week we began our message on the spoken word of God, we had part one the creative word which was the foundation today in part two we will begin the living word which is the revelation and next session we will have part three which is application, but today I'm going to give you for Hallmark verses of Scripture, and these are each powerful on their own, and when we put them together they create the whole of the heart of this message, the living word and our first Hallmark verse is John 663 and this is Jesus speaking and we went to great length last session to talk about the fact that he is the word of God who existed in ages past, from everlasting to everlasting. We know him as Jesus Christ.

The word of God made flesh. Amen. That was the beginning of creation, but not the beginning of the word of God because we learned that in fact everything that's created, seen and unseen, visible and invisible, was created by the spoken word of God so we already have Jesus, having become flesh we learn that last time. So today we are good to read John 663. The whole chapter of John six is powerful.

It's a discourse between Jesus and the Pharisees and you understand I'm sure by history that the Pharisees and the scribes knew the old covenant. They knew the word of God really inside and out, and they were always trying to catch Jesus in his words, and they were always going back to the old covenant, but here we have a revelation that Jesus says in John 663. It is the spirit that quickness the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. Now last week I had to do a little exercise when we took the pronouns him and he any time they refer to the word of God. We replace them with the word of God to make it more emphatic in our spirit. I'm going to do that with this verse.

I'm going to take the pronouns and they and I'm going to put what the word is that stands for it is the words Jesus said the word so let's read it again is the spirit that we connect the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak unto you. The words are spirit, and the words are life. The work quickness there. You may know this, but I'll just tell you in case you don't is an old English word that means make a life it means to be alive to be animated to be breathing your heart is pumping so the spirit makes alive the flesh profits or benefits. Nothing spiritually speaking, the flesh profits nothing but Jesus said the words that I speak my words are spirit and my words are life. That means, literally, then from Genesis 11 to revelation 22, one the words of this Bible, especially the red letter words that we find in in Matthew Mark Luke and John.

In the first few chapters of Revelation. They are there. The actual words of Jesus Christ.

They are living because the author is living. The author is eternally alive and his life is in the words that he spoke. Now if you're like me you may have read many books I love to read them a voracious reader and I have read many books and I had been moved by books and I had been impacted by books and books have influenced me to change things in my life and I've had books that I still remember from when I read them in great but noble that I had ever read.

No book has ever given me life no matter how interesting that book may have been. There is no book that has life in it, but the words of Jesus Christ, the word of God in this Bible. Amen. Let slip over to John the 12 chapter real quick and read two verses there.

John 12 verse 49 and verse 54 I have not spoken of myself, but the father which set me he gave me a commandment.

What I should say and what I should speak and I know that his commandment is life everlasting whatsoever. I speak. Therefore, even as the father said unto me, so I speak. We can also add we can just tag right on to the end of this whatsoever.

I speak.

Therefore, it is life because we just read it that he said it's life everlasting. So, again bringing home the point that the word of God, the words especially that Jesus spoke they are life. So every time that you read in the Scriptures and you see the word speak or say or anyone of its synonyms, then you really need to pay attention because something is going to be released to something's going to be activated when Jesus says I say unto you, or when he just speaks. Amen.

He wants us to know how vital his words are because everything he spoke everything he said. He said I was given that of my father.

I was given a commandment by my father. Now we understand that Jesus knew the old law, inside and out just by virtue of the fact that as a human being.

He was a Jew and all Jewish boys. They have to learn the Pentateuch they have to learn the first five books of Moses. By the time they had their bar mitzvah at age 13. They have to be able to recite from the book of Moses.

Amen. And so he would have known the Scriptures just because he came as a Jewish boy but we have to understand that in addition to that, he said not everything I'm telling you now in this new covenant I received from my father.

This is direct from heaven. This is from my father. And we know that Scripture tells us that Jesus rose up early in the morning, long before day long before he showed up in the temple to teach and a minister he had spent hours with his father and his father gave him what to say and what to do. I personally believe that by the time the Jesus reached Jerusalem and the temple. He already knew what was but it transpired that day. I believe he had already seen it before he left, where he was and wherever he was in his devotional time with the Lord.

Amen. I believe just like when he came to Lazarus.

Too many said I'm gonna pray this prayer but I'm not pregnant for me.

I already know what you're going to do are praying for the sick and those standing by. I believe he already knew that he saw already that he was to go to to their and and he was to say take me to the to take me to the place where he's buried. He was going to say Lazarus come forth, so he said everything that I speak I have received of my father. Amen. So the first homework first was John 663. The words I speak under the new they are spirit and they are a life. Now let's turn to second Timothy the third chapter, verses 16 and 17 and were going to see the next.

The second homework verse. This four verses I'm going to give you today so we will read in second Timothy 316 and 17 all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and it is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect and by the way, that's women to may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works, and the WordPerfect. There is explaining the definition is given right there in the Scripture, so don't be thinking perfect that your flawless and impeccable. It gives you what the meaning is your thoroughly furnished unto all good works. In other words, you're ready for anything.

The comics you're ready no matter what comes that you were comes to you. You are ready because you have no Scripture that you need, whether it's for doctrine, whether it's reproof, correction instruction righteousness you have it all in the word of God. So the word of God. The Scripture is given by inspiration the word inspiration is important in the Greek it is Theo new stops. Theo new stops and breaks down to God breathed. That's the best way to define it. God breathed God's breath is what it means. Amen. God did not just breathed into his word, but he breathed when he uses people like me are preachers and teachers and uses you even when you testify and all of a sudden this this anointing comes when you and the Scripture start coming out of you and sometimes you surprise yourself because there comes a Scripture that you really didn't know you knew that well and there's a rather the perfect one for this occasion. Did that come out of your brain.

It came out of your spirit, God brewery. His word in you. But here's the thing about it when God breathed his word. He actually literally breathed a part of himself in it. Amen. Just like we know that that when God created man, he formed a mini earth, and he was beautiful he was perfect.

He was just all this beautiful sculpture, but until God breathed into it.

It was just a beautiful in adamant sculpture but when he brewery into with the breath of life, and I've told you this before. I'm quoting from Genesis 2. Seven. Your Bible says life as in singular, but the Hebrew says lives, as in plural because he breathed in man, a double life, a natural physical life and spiritual life.

The problem was that when Adam sinned, the spiritual life became dead and that's why after that were all born dead were born dead spiritually dead in trespasses and sin. But when we become born again, then by the spirit of God. He breathes what was lost through Adam's sin, we regain amen we become born again. So God breathed a part of himself and I say this because even talking about the Scripture says in Job, Job 33 for the Almighty has created me the spirit of God has given me life so he breathed into us that when God breathed his word. This is what he did. He took his word got it upside down here now. My breath is in this balloon you may know that and you know that today with the wonders of science that they had found out that they can get some of your DNA from your breasts.

And I gotta tell you something, I practiced on this balloon because it was hard to blow it up. At first, so I blew it up a few times because I want to get in here and not blow up so I had to practice a few times and I guarantee you folks there some spit in this balloon you can blow up a balloon really that hard to blow up without some of your spirit getting released and I know for certain that they can get your DNA from your spit family know that's a scientific fact, social, and they know we were going now see when God breathed his knee. Some of this. Not in that word amen his day and he is in his word and that is is alive and active.

Amen. That's why it's alive why Jesus said the words I speak.do you they are spirit and they are the word is is in the word is in the word amen.

So when God breathes it into us and we speak it out. It is a living thing. It's not inanimate words on the paper. It is the breath of God and say something and that is why the Bible is not boring. It's not a dead letter. Amen to point out the idea that the Bible is boring. It's so tedious to read it so hard to read and you and you just can't you fall asleep when you read it and you've already got that thought in your mind so you fall asleep when you read it. Amen you you think here. Somehow I just can't read especially the King James version. I knows the reason thousand he's in ways that get me all mixed up. Well I will say this to you if that is true really have a hard time with the King James and I love the King James, I think it's poetic and there are some things in the King James. You will not see in other places those needs and end of the reason thousand that there are important because other versions are going to say you, you can mean just you or you can mean everybody sitting here you don't know you don't know if I mean, just her. You were all you you have to try to figure that out.

But when you say that now that singular. Amen when you say now I say and that's why the 10 Commandments are so powerful and say you shall not limit the scope, King James, and he shall not, he said, thou shall not, he brought it down the individual responsibility. So that's why I love the King James. However, having said that, if you truly, I say, will my brain just cannot get those right well I would say try it now think about that. Think about the fact that the and doubt whether it singular, poor you might actually start enjoying it.

But if you really do stumble over it like that because you quit reading your Bible, then don't get the new King James version and type these in the Dow's output.

The UN and closer than some of the other ones it's closer than the King James, they just modernize it. So far from being a chore to read or boring.

I'm telling you that the Bible is the most fascinating. The most interesting book I have ever read and it is so truthful and the thing about the Bible is it doesn't cover-up all the mistakes the people made if I was writing the Bible. I would have everybody perfect and I will tell you about the stuff they did tell you how. David messed up so bad I would leave that out of my book that you see because God has it all in there anything in the good the bad and the ugly because I'm telling you the truth, and it also points all the more greater to more greater that's wrong. Although it points even greater to the fact of redemption. Amen there in the me tell you, there's nothing outdated in this Bible. That's the next big lie. I wish you Christians would get your Bible and drag it into the 21st century. The Bible is not outdated.

You know why it's a living document.

It's living so it's not because it is it was when it was written and it is. It was written over a period of about I don't know if I don't if it's 1500 years of 2500 years. I do know is going say this, I would.

It's one of those by 40 different people. Some were shepherds and some were kings.

Amen. And so this word is living. It's just as appropriate now than ever now. There may not be a specific word about a specific sin that exist today because it didn't those particular circumstances did not exist back then. But there is a principal there is a plain simple amen principal that will cover that will answer that question, because God's word is a living document said Scripture somebody say all all founding of all leaves nothing out. It doesn't mean you get to skip over the part you don't want to read all Scripture is profitable. All Scripture is beneficial for you and for me now had an argument with the Lord about this one time because there was a period when I was just going right to the Bible Genesis to Revelation. Go back and start over again reading strength through the Lord had me do this because you before that I would just read a little here little there read here there and everywhere. But there was some parts of the Bible. I may not read for a couple years as I Bring the parts of I kept reading the parts that I liked. So someone that stuff was getting folding up here and and so I started disciplining myself to read all the way through, and I will say this I just throw it out anybody here are not here.

You may hear this later until you read the Bible all the way through do not have any right to argue any point do not come to me with some argument about any point until you read way through because you don't know some things in your something you got to know before you can know something. Amen. I guarantee you read it all the way through and you'll start did a lot of questions answered. Even in those parts that you think these are really boring and I you know you've heard me say this I don't. I didn't like the longer change that I didn't used to like to read the book of Leviticus because I thought to myself, Lord, why do I have to know how many screws and curtain hooks and how many cubits this and that is so boring and I don't see what that benefits me. So I'm going to skip over Leviticus next time around I'm just going to go. I like all I love Genesis my favorite Old Testament book of Genesis and I love the exit is.

I mean it's great but I can do without. Leviticus because it not only tells you how many screws and how many this is not a casual two times what I just said I would tell you everything all over her reading sometimes doing this.

Some of those things twice and I said, Lord, I don't see I don't see how that that I need to be reading that and he brought this verse to me.

All Scripture is profitable for you that you may be thoroughly furnished and all good works, and instead of just receiving that. Getting not Mozart ring Leviticus I said but Lord, I don't see how it profits me. I don't see how profits need to know about these silver hoax, etc. and he said to me that my spirit.

He said I'm a God of precision.

I'm a God of order and I want you to see that just like I demanded Chris vision and order down to the minute detail in that earthly tabernacle and you are the God how much more and I going to record your that you be orderly and precise and beautified.

He said to my spirit master craftsman things well and beautiful leg and not something to me. I remember growing up as a kid.

My mother and father say all he is a just a jack leg don't get in the do your work anymore. He just slaps it together and makes it look good in the falls apart and this doesn't work and that breaks down because the Exact Ln., God said I'm not a jack leg and I knew exactly what he meant.

Then, amen.

I don't do anything sloppy. I only use the best materials and what I do I do perfectly. So I got the message that God's word every part of that even the book of Leviticus profitable for me because the Bible is not the Book-of-the-Month. It's not the book of the year I made you see that they'll be coming up with the book of the year. Pretty soon it's the book of the ages because it's from seeing children entity is God's word. Men did not like the work on their own.

The Scripture tells us in Skeeter that they work move by the Holy Spirit and that word actually means carried about now their physical body. I'm sure was sitting down at a table with paper parchment and pen, but their spirit was in heavenly places. They were up there and God was just dictating to their spirit, amen and we know that even now the God sometimes gives words of wisdom and words of knowledge and prophecy and tongues, and interpretation of tongues. We have that now in the body of Christ and that's very similar to what went on when and wrote the holy word of God. But we know it's done and it's finished. He said nothing to be taken away.

Nothing is to be added so there will not be a book of Sharon coming out anytime for a book of Margie Harding and if somebody does come out with one you need to be very suspicious. Amen. Now I will tell you that sometimes when I'm preparing my messages or preparing things even when I'm writing out cards to send to people I sit down with no premeditated thought in my mind. I just sit down and start off with something you know.

Please know the Lord put you in my heart today and from there on whatever comes I write whatever thought comes, whatever Scripture verse comes I write and that's it. I do think about what was going to say.

I put in the mail I sent it and I forgot about it and many times people come to me as a sister, Sharon, that Scripture was a confirmation to me and I'll be staying there thinking of the Lord.

What was the Scripture. I have no idea because once I release it's going and I'm thinking I hope they don't ask me BB to be specific here because I asked, what is it because I don't ever. Amen Vanessa time adjusting well I'm really glad that the Lord let me help you. And that's that.

Amen. Now where these things come from my brain.

No, they came from my spirit. Every word is out of the mouth of God. Remember what God told the children of Israel when they were coming to the end of their journey and Moses was getting ready to go to be with God and Moses said he spoke and he told them, I'll just refer you to a Deuteronomy threes and he mumbled you and suffered you to hunger, and he said you with manna which you did not know. Neither did your fathers know that he might make you to know that name does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.didn't give them a seed to plant it and give them a seed to grow a crop or harvest the grain or grind it or bake it is bread.

It came straight down from heaven already is bread God probably said, let there be bread, no B6 that he probably said be. Amen. And by the same token, God gave his word to Moses.

Moses wrote them down but they were his words. They were God's words and see what was the whole point in the manner what was the point of it just to feed them know the point was to show them shots like this bread came straight from heaven now had nothing to do with that man didn't plan to see man didn't grow a crop man didn't harvest the grain man did not put it in the debate.

This did not make this bread and God one that this young men were given to Moses now to give to you. I want you to understand this to you is not Moses is coming right from my mouth.

Just like the manna came from heaven.

These words came from heaven, and if you'd read all John six he had this big discourse with the Pharisees and they You know trying to revert back to the old covenant and they said what you need to show us a sign that you are who you say you are show as a sign because you know our fathers were in the wilderness and he gave them bread to eat from heaven and Jesus corrected them and said Moses didn't give you that bread my father in heaven gave you that bread and I want to tell you the bread, bread, shall have everlasting life. Amen. And Jesus said in John chapter 7 times that I am the true bread from heaven that gives life. So this word of God is alive. Amen. I really hope you're being blessed and spiritually enlightened by this teaching the spoken word series.

This revelation was forged in my spirit during a time of prolonged suffering in my body, which triggered emotional and mental anguish.

I had always had a strong spirit of faith. But after being homebound and bedridden. I despaired in my distress I bade God for a word to hold on to and he gave me.

John 15 seven if you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you will and it shall be done. Honestly, I was disappointed I wanted something more dramatic, but then I began to get this revelation of God spoken word and gradually as I put it into practice. I overcame the attacks of the adversary.

The foundation is the creative word. The word of God literally spoke everything into existence.

He framed the worlds and he upholds all things by the word of his power. The revelation is the authority that Jesus the word of God made flesh and dwelt amongst us had himself and gave to us to speak the word as a sharp two-edged sword against the enemy. The literal Greek says to mouth to sword one mouth is God's. And the second is mine or yours. When we speak forth the word that God quickens to our spirits.

This creates the one weapon against which Satan has no defense. Rhema is not a magical formula is the active living word of God. A word from the word that comes out of our mouth. The application is the illumination of Jesus own ministry by which he demonstrated faith in his own spoken word and its unlimited authority over time and distance when he sent his word and he healed them friends, I urge you to order the spoken word series. The complete set is a 3D set off for SK 136 that SK 136.

Please send a minimum gift of $15 to the sound of faith PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 or order online@saudefaith.org. You may also order one MP3 but to order the spoken word series by mail send your minimum love gift of $15 to PO Box 1744, Baltimore, MD 21203 request for SK 136. Till next time Sharon not saying Marinette