God could have re­vealed him­self to mankind as a ‘Her­cules’ or a ‘Su­per­man,’ but sim­ply iden­ti­fies as the Word. He spoke, and the world was cre­at­ed, or­dered, and pre­served by the word of his pow­er.

His word to us be­comes wis­dom, knowl­edge, un­der­stand­ing and dis­cre­tion. God’s spo­ken word al­ways ac­com­plish­es that which he pur­pos­es and suc­ceeds in the thing for which it is sent (Isa­iah 55:11). In Eden’s gar­den, God’s word to man was very spe­cif­ic to his en­vi­ron­ment and dai­ly re­al­i­ty: He told Adam that if he ate of the tree of the knowl­edge of good and evil, he would sure­ly die. Adam ate, and he died.

God’s word is the law that is de­signed to help us to be­come in­stru­ments of jus­tice and judge­ment. It de­fines the prin­ci­ples by which we are to live and in­forms us about what is ac­cept­able or un­ac­cept­able ac­tion, first­ly to­ward God, our­selves, our fel­low­men, and our en­vi­ron­ment. The ob­jec­tive of the law is char­i­ty out of a pure heart.

God’s word be­came flesh - a per­son - Je­sus by name. He dwelt among us with a grace and truth that gen­er­at­ed life and light. His teach­ings and lifestyle un­veiled a lev­el of ex­is­tence that ex­ceed­ed that which em­anat­ed from the mere ob­ser­vance of the let­ter of the law.

God’s word is grace. Grace does not fo­cus on re­wards and pun­ish­ment, but on mer­cy and truth. This fa­cil­i­ty en­sures that we don’t have to func­tion in our own strength, but God works in us both to de­sire and to ex­e­cute his good pur­pose (Philip­pi­ans 2:13).

De­spite our best en­deav­our, we failed mis­er­ably at try­ing to sat­is­fy the just ex­pec­ta­tions of the law, so by part­ner­ing with us, Je­sus em­pow­ers us to ful­fil all right­eous­ness, and his blood cleans­es us from all sins. To this end, Paul writes, “I can do all things through Christ who strength­ens me” (Philip­pi­ans 4:13).

We func­tion like our Cre­ator, and the abil­i­ty to use words is a tremen­dous re­spon­si­bil­i­ty on our part.

Death and life are in the pow­er of the tongue, and those who love to speak must al­so ac­cept the con­se­quences of their words (Proverbs 18:21). Paul urges, “No foul or abu­sive lan­guage should come out of your mouths, but on­ly what is good for ed­i­fy­ing some­one in need” (Colos­sians 4:29).

God speaks all of earth’s lan­guages (over 7000). When the Holy Spir­it fell up­on the dis­ci­ples of Christ on the day of Pen­te­cost, they be­gan de­clar­ing the won­ders of God in oth­er lan­guages as the Holy Spir­it gave them this abil­i­ty. Each per­son among the in­ter­na­tion­al crowd gath­ered in Jerusalem to cel­e­brate Pen­te­cost was amazed to hear them speak in their own tongue.

By God’s de­sign, it is through our words that we ac­cess sal­va­tion, for with the heart man be­lieves un­to right­eous­ness, and with the mouth con­fes­sion is made un­to sal­va­tion.

So, con­fess with your mouth that Je­sus is Lord and be­lieve in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and you will be saved.