The Expressway of God

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. —Psalms 119:18

One of the essential truths that we must learn is this: Jesus Christ is the living breathing Word of God. Therefore the Word is a person: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). This Word is eternal; it never originates in the mind of man but it has always been. In this all powerful living Word of God is the beginning and the end: The end is just as sure as the beginning. Isaiah 46:9-10 states, “Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” As B.H. Clendennen says, “God never starts a thing until he finishes it!”

The church of Jesus Christ, in this eternal sense, was finished before the foundation of the world: “And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” (Revelation 13:8). Certainly this glorious church has been seen standing victorious outside of time in Revelation 19:7, “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.” This being true, beware of anyone who claims the Lord made the following statement: “The Lord simply said, I will change the understanding and expression of Christianity in one generation.” If you have never heard the devil quote his agenda, now you have. This is the ongoing ministry of the "lying spirits" found in 1 Kings 22:22: "And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so."

How can you change that which is unchangeable? To change the expression of Christianity would be to change the very person of Jesus Christ who is and ever will be the God that changeth not. To change the understanding of the church would be to change the written Word of God from Genesis to Revelation because the church is clearly seen in both. In the final analysis you could sooner change the ending to the movie “True Grit” starring John Wayne, before you could ever change one jot or tittle of the law. God has the ability to raise John Wayne from the dead and remake all of his movies, but there is one thing that even the Almighty can not do: God can not lie!!

May God open our eyes to the wonderful eternal truths of his Word. Within its pages is the living voice of the Lord bearing faithful witness to those things that are and those things which surly must be! We do not need a new expression of Christianity; we need to express the Christianity as revealed in the book of Acts. The "Expressway" of the written Word of God is the only way to avoid the latter day deception of false prophets.