What Saith the Scriptures by Dr. Peter S. Ruckman

Author:Dr. Peter S. Ruckman [Ruckman, Dr. Peter S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: BB Bookstore
Published: 2011-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

SECTION FIVE

What You Actually Hold

In Your Hand When

You Have the Holy Bible

I

Since men communicate to each other with WORDS, it is absolutely necessary for God to communicate with them through WORDS. This is why He called His own manifestation “in the flesh” (the Lord Jesus Christ; 1 Timothy 3:16), “the Word.” God’s greatest revelation of Himself, in trying to “communicate” with His fallen creation, was His Son. (Read Hebrews chapters 1 and 2.)

No man could ever really understand God, or even have fellowship with Him had He stayed in His “high and holy place” (see Isaiah 57:15), and not come down to a manger. Jesus Christ was “God...manifest in the flesh” (1 Timothy 3:16), so you could find a common ground for fellowship with Him. Buddha tried to make contact without dealing with his own “kind,” but if God had not become “flesh and blood” (see Hebrews 2:14) and suffered, resisted temptation, bled, and died, He could not have saved any of us permanently. Old Testament Saints were saved “on credit.” Their sins were not taken away (see Hebrews 10:4); they were not “cleared” (see Exodus 34:7); they were not spiritually circumcised (see Colossians 2:11); and they were not regenerated (compare Colossians 3:10 with Genesis 5:3).

How could sinners like you and I have “fellowship” and “enjoy the presence” of a Holy, Sinless, Perfect Sovereign God who “filled Heaven and earth”? Imagine living with someone who could create a solar furnace (the sun) of eight thousand degrees! You see, we need “bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh” (Hebrews 2:14). God did it. “The Word was God...and the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:1,14). Notice that this “Word” is a reference to the original Creator we mentioned under Section One. (Read John 1:3, 10 and Colossians 1:14–17.) He was the Creator. (Read Revelation 22:13.)

II

Jesus Christ is the INCARNATE WORD, and the Holy Bible is the CARNATE WORD. Notice the similarities:

1. Both the Bible and Jesus Christ have two natures: a human nature (“Son of Man,” “seed of David,” etc.), and a Divine nature (“Son of God,” “the everlasting Father,” etc.).

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