MISSIONARY ENTERPRISES IN ASSOCIATION WITH NEW LIFE GLOBAL CHURCH PRESENTS — SPEAK THE WORD ONLY — (NOTES / VIDEO)
INTRODUCTION:
#1) KEY WORDS: EXEGESIS / EXEGETICAL
#2) IT IS A TERM THAT IS MORE POPULAR / WIDELY KNOWN AMONG DENOMINATIONAL CIRCLES SUCH AS “PENTECOSTALS, BAPTISTS, REFORMED FAITH, LUTHERAN” ETC., YET ALL OF THESE GREATLY LACK THE NEEDED REVELATION THEREFORE MAKING MOST OF IT “DRY/IRRELEVANT” !
#3) JOHN 1:18 / LUKE 24:35
#4) KEY DEFINITIONS:
- A) TO DECLARE FULLY & THOROUGHLY
- B) TO UNFOLD, TO REVEAL, TO MAKE KNOWN AS A TEACHER
- C) THE UNFOLDING INTERPRETATION THROUGH TEACHING OF SCRIPTURE
- D) TO MAKE CLEAR
- E) TO TELL AT LENGHT, TO RELATE IN FULL
#5) ANTONYM: TO HIDE, TO CONCEAL
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***** SPEAK THE WORD ONLY ***** (MAIN TEACHING)
MATT.8:8
GENESIS 1:1-4
MARK 11:14, 20-21, 22-24
JOHN 1:1,3
JOHN 5:17,19-20, 30
JOHN 8: 28-29
YOU WILL HAVE A NEW OR RENEWED APPRECIATION FOR YOUR “MOUTH”!
* N.T. GREEK WORDS FOR OUR ENGLISH WORDS: “WORD” & “SAY”! *
1) LOGOS : THE WRITTEN WORD
2) LEGO : THE WRITTEN WORD BEING SPOKEN, TO LAY FORTH, TO RELATE WORDS IN A SYSTEMATIC MANNER, SET DISCOURSE
3) RHEMA : AN UTTERANCE, GOD SPEAKING TO YOU DIRECTLY SPIRIT TO SPIRIT
4) RHEO : TO UTTER OR POUR FORTH
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** THE SAME “LAWS” FOUND IN THE O.T. / N.T. **
IN THE N.T., THIS WORD “LAW” IS THE GREEK WORD “NOMOS” = “THE IDEA OF PRESCRIPTIVE USAGE, A REGULATION, A PRINCIPLE”!
KEY REFERENCES:
#1) THE LAW OF SOWING & REAPING :
A – GAL.6:7-8 / SOWING TO THE SPIRIT VS. SOWING TO THE FLESH
B – THE PARABLES OF THE SOWER : MATT.13 / MARK 4 / LUKE 8 (SOWING/SPEAKING GOD’S WORD)! (SOWING THE WORD TO HAVE A HARVEST OF GOD’S WORD)!
#2) THE LAW OF CONFESSION : (HOMO[LOGIA] [LOGIO] [LOGOS]) (SAYING/ SPEAKING WHAT GOD SAYS/SPEAKS)!
A – HEB.4:14 / 10:23
#3) THE LAW OF FAITH : (BIBLICAL FAITH = BELIEVING WHAT GOD BELIEVES)
A – ROM.3:27
#4) THE LAW OF REPETITION : (THE WORD “SAY[S]” IN THE PRESENT TENSE = CONTINUALY/HABITUALY “SAY[S]”)
A – MARK 11:23 ETC!
#5) THE LAW OF MEDITATION :
A – JOSH.1:8
B – PS.1:1-3
C – JAMES 1:25
D – 1TIM.4:15
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*** THE FAITH OF GOD / THE WORD OF GOD *** (KEY POWER STATEMENTS)
#1) FAITH PUTS GOD TO WORK
#2 YOUR FAITH HAS A VOICE (AND SO DOES YOUR UNBELIEF / DOUBT)!
EX.: I DON’T BELIEVE THAT / I DOUBT THAT!
#3) YOUR VOICE PUTS GOD TO WORK
A – PS.103:20
B – MARK 11:23 ([N]KJV)
#4) GOD WORKS ON THE EARTH WITH :
A – FAITH
B – WORDS
C – FAITH FILLED WORDS
D – WORDS FILLED WITH FAITH
#5) IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE WHAT YOU PRESENTLY HAVE / SEE, YOU MUST FIRST CHANGE WHAT YOU SAY / BELIEVE!
#6) WITH GOD YOU CAN “CHANGE” WHAT YOU :
A – SAY
B – BELIEVE
C – THINK
D – HAVE
E – SEE
**** COMMENTS – NOTES – OBSERVATIONS ****
#1) GOD THE WORD IS NOT ONLY THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, BUT HE IS ALSO THE CREATOR / ORIGINATOR OF WORDS!
#2) GOD THE CREATOR / WORD CAN ALSO BE REFERRED TO AS “THE CREATIVE WORD” BECAUSE EVERYTHING GOD CREATES OR DOES/PERFORMS BEGINS WITH WORDS BEING SPOKEN / BELIEVED! AND HE IS ALSO THE SOLE PERFORMER OF THOSE SAME WORDS (JER.1:9,12 / ROM.4:21)!
#3) IN GENESIS 1, GOD REVEALS HIMSELF TO MANKIND AS THE CREATOR BUT ALSO AS THE GOD WHO SPEAKS, MEANING HE IS THE GOD WHO SPEAKS WORDS! BUT HE SPEAKS / USES WORDS IN ORDER TO CREATE / BRINGS INTO EXISTENCE THINGS THAT DO NOT PRESENTLY EXIST!
#4) IN GENESIS 1:3 WE HAVE THE WORD “SAID” MEANING GOD “SPOKE WORDS / SAID SOMETHING” THAT HE WANTED TO SEE COME INTO EXISTENCE, & IN THIS CONTEXT IT WAS “LIGHT”! BUT THIS IS NOT RESTRICTED TO THE “GENESIS ACCOUNT”! THE “GENESIS ACCOUNT / BOOK OF BEGINNINGS” GIVES US GREAT INSIGHT INTO THE MIND OF GOD AS WELL AS HIS ABILITIES REGARDING WHAT HE HAS IN MIND FOR “WORDS” & THEIR USAGE! AND NOT ONLY “WORDS” ALL BY THEMSELVES BUT “SPOKEN WORDS”, & NOT ONLY “SPOKEN WORDS” BUT “BELIEVED WORDS” OR EVEN BETTER, “WORDS FILLED WITH FAITH”!
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****** KEY INSIGHTS INTO “THE PARABLES OF THE SOWER” (MARK 4: 1-41) ******
- THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER ITSELF STARTS/ENDS AT V.3-32
- NOTICE THE WORD “LAKE” IN VERSES 1,35
- VERSE 35 HAS THE WORD “SAID”! IN OTHER WORDS JESUS WAS TELLING HIS DISCIPLES NOT ONLY WHAT TO “DO” BUT ALSO WHAT TO “BELIEVE”! BECAUSE ALL OF GOD’S (SPOKEN) WORDS ARE MEANT TO BE “BELIEVED”! IT WAS A TYPE OF “RHEMA”!!
- VERSE 37 IS WHEN/WHERE THE WARFARE STARTED, MEANING THIS WAS NOT MERE “CIRCUMSTANCES” ETC. BECAUSE OF THIS WORD “AROSE” ALSO FOUND IN VERSE 17! (IT’S THE SAME GREEK WORD “GINOMAI” FOUND 3X IN JOHN 1:3, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER PLACES)
- VERSE 40 IS KEY TO UNDERSTANDING THIS WHOLE PARABLE WITH THE WORD “FAITH / NO FAITH”! THE PARABLES OF THE SOWER ARE ALL ABOUT BUILDING / GROWING STRONG FAITH BY SOWING THE WORD AS A SEED!
- VERSE 41 HAS THESE KEY WORDS ; “WIND & SEA OBEY YOU”! WE HAVE THE VERY SAME IDEA FOUND IN THE FOLLOWING VERSES:
A – LUKE 17:6 “MULBERRY TREE”
B – MARK 11:14, 20-21,23 “FIG TREE /MOUNTAIN”
C – MATT. 17:20 / 21:19-21 “MOUNTAIN”!
