The Word Is Quick

  

 

I wonder sometimes

Whether we realize

That the life within the Word of God

Is not disguised.

 

I sometimes ask me

What does this mean

And I go to Hebrews 4:12 to observe

What can be seen.

 

The written Word

Is about the Living Word

And that this is the Lord Christ,

You have heard.

 

John in the Gospel

Starts out with this:

“In the beginning, was the Word.”

Sharp and crisp!

 

 

 

Explicit from the get-go

No need to interpret,

Take it just as it has been stated,

From eternity set.

 

A statement of fact

About the First Cause:

And that this necessary first cause

Had to be uncaused.

 

John echoed Moses,

It’s not a contradiction!

They both are citing the first cause

For all creation.

 

One singular causation

Definitely not two!

Go directly to John 1 and verse 1

And take in the view.

 

“The Word was God.”

Don’t you see it there?

Upon this fact hangs all that exists

Here and everywhere.

 

“In him was life”

There’s life in the Word!

Let that sink into your very being

Now you have heard.

 

 

 

In the beginning God

And so too, the Word,

Yet so many say this cannot be;

That it’s absurd.

 

The Word is quick:

Meaning that it is alive

And does not need one’s rhetoric

In order to survive.

 

Be careful not to add

Or even to subtract,

The Word needs no amendments:

It is eternal fact.

 

Be sure not to multiply

And definitely not divide

Unless we are using 2 Timothy 2:15

As our guide.

 

Study to shew thyself

Approved unto God,

A workman that needeth not to be ashamed,

Rightly dividing

The Word of Truth. 

 

The only dividing required

Is rightly dividing

And this one and only operation

Is the Spirit’s guiding.

 

 

 

Yes, the Word is quick

So, let us all stick to it

And let us also do like in Hollywood:

“Stick to the script”.

 

Stewart Russell © March 22, 2026

God Has Spoken

 

 

No new revelation

It’s all in the Word,

Be cautious, I warn you,

Don’t be absurd.

 

No new thing

God has done it all,

And He inspired Moses, Isaiah,

John and Paul.

 

There are more

That He did inspire,

I entreat you in His Word

To enquire.

 

 

By His prophets

God has spoken,

And through all the apostles

By Jesus chosen.

 

 

Be aware, I warn you,

Don’t be absurd,

All God wants us to know

Is in His Word.

 

By prophets/apostles

Did He speak

But by His Son, in these times,

Does he speak.

 

We have the Word

Both living and written

As well as the Holy Spirit-

God has spoken.

 

God has spoken:

Hence, our only revelation,

And God has also spoken

Via His inspiration.

 

Holy men wrote

Whom God made holy

And they wrote as God dictated

By inspiration only.

 

 

Not by brilliance

Or by their own choice

But by God-inspired direction

As they heard His voice.

 

God’s only revelation

By God’s inspiration

And thirdly we have come to

Holy Spirit’s illumination.

 

The Spirit of Truth

Has already come

And we need to trust him

And no other one.

 

For there’s one God

And one Christ who came

As well as the one Holy Spirit

Who speaks in Jesus’ name.

 

 

‘Tis he that enlightens

And illuminates

The pages of Holy Scripture

Of which we partake.

 

The bread of life

Which is Jesus, the Word,

By whom we have salvation.

Haven’t you heard?

 

Stewart Russell © December 15, 2024

 

Revelation and Reason

 

 

Revelation and reason

Which of the two came first?

Here I believe it is right

And not in the reverse.

 

Men change it around

So that reason comes first

But based on the Scriptures

Reason first is in reverse.

 

Humans reason about God

Without His Word,

Straight up as you can see

This is absurd.

 

Reason comes into play

Only because God has revealed

Some things about Himself

He chose not to conceal.

 

That which He has revealed

Is for our own understanding

And this is by no means

A result of our demanding.

 

Some believers will argue

They can command God

And they demand and declare

As though they were God.

 

 

 

However, it’s time we know

God cannot be wagged,

Neither does a tail wag a dog

As some will brag.

 

Revelation and reason-

Revelation came first,

God revealed himself to humans

Then came the curse.

 

Eve reasoned with the serpent

And she was deceived,

Satan was smarter than she

And got her to disbelieve.

 

It is not ours first to reason

But to believe what God reveals,

Anything less or anything more

And we will be deceived.

 

 

God’s revelation is truth

And His truth is Jesus Christ,

Satan’s truth is truly not truth at all

And is sugar coated to entice.

 

Jesus is the Living Word

And of him was the Word written,

Thus, all who believe in Jesus

Have their sins forgiven.

 

It is not ours first to reason

But ours first to believe,

Revelation precedes reasoning-

Reasoning does not reveal.

 

It matters not how brilliant

We cannot reason out God,

That Eve would become like God

Was created by King Fraud.

 

Her reasoning led to the Fall

And disinherited all mankind

But God in His mercy restored all-

A lamb was the first sign.

 

 

A ram was caught in a thicket

And the young Isaac was spared,

To the Lamb on that rugged cross

Of whom the Gospel is shared.

 

 

The Gospel of eternal salvation

Revealed to every man,

To the world and the whosoever

Sums up redemption’s plan.

 

For God so loved the world!

What a revelation!

That He gave His Son, Jesus!

What wonderful salvation!

 

Stewart Russell © August 16, 2023

Truth Transcends Time

 

 

If yesterday’s truth is today’s lie

Then truth must be relative,

Relative to what, I cannot say,

What answer can I give?

 

A little girl caught in a lie

Is required to tell the truth,

Such truth pertains to an incident:

On her is the burden of proof.

 

Did she do it or did she not?

Her response is one or the other,

One is the truth; the other is not;

Neither is a different matter.

 

Truth is not relative to a person-

Not the truth that is absolute,

Neither is it relative to time

As some are wont to dispute.

 

It is not determined by law

Or even established thereupon,

It is synonymous with the Word

 And also issues therefrom.

 

 

Jesus is the absolute truth

Not the “who-done-it” kind,

He is the truth that changes not-

Nor affected by man or time.

 

Truth is therefore a person

Unlike the dictionary’s definition,

It’s the person of Jesus Christ

In whom we have salvation.

 

Synonymous with the Living Word

And the Written Word of Him,

It’s the truth that points us to Jesus

And that saves us from our sin.

 

Today when one hears the truth

It’s often about someone,

And depending on that someone

It could stand or be quickly gone.

 

If an important other says it

Then it has to be the truth

But if an opponent is the source

He’d better come with proof.

 

That’s not the truth that matters;

Not the truth that is set in eternity,

Know the truth, the Bible says

And this truth shall make you free.

 

 

If the Son shall set you free,

You shall be free indeed,

He is the only truth that matters

Pertaining to your eternal need.

 

Stewart Russell © July 2020

 

This Same Jesus

He was a carpenter’s son

It’s written in the book

But he was far more than that

If you take more than just a look.

In the beginning was the Word

And the world was created by him,

This same Word gave up his life

To save mankind from sin.

It was not taken from him

As some may dare to believe

But he took on himself our death

That his life we may receive.

The fulfillment of the Law

And spoken of by the prophets

This same Jesus

Is the world’s most widely discussed topic.

Born of the Virgin Mary

In the little spoken of town,

This same Jesus whom angels worship

For us gave up his heavenly crown.

He led a life of poverty

Though all the world was his

And relinquished all in his Father’s care

And not a single step did he miss.

From heaven’s palatial splendor

To a world in which he had no home

Came this same Jesus

To rescue his sheep that roam.

His life was a perfect walk

Though many his teachings balked

Yet no man spoke as Jesus talked

Even though the Pharisees had him stalked.

Baptized in the muddy Jordan

By the Baptist we know as John

And right there in that same river

The world’s greatest ministry had dawned.

Next was his trek to the desert

By the devil to be tempted

For there is nothing that we face

From which he could have been exempted.

The devil would hit his hardest,

The three temptations were his best shots,

Over each Jesus was triumphant

Defeating all three of the devil’s plots.

He chose a motley group

The disciples he called his crew,

A selection that baffled the world

But in the end only one dropped through.

His miracles could not be disputed

They were authentic to say the least,

The last would be his ascension

The first was at a wedding feast.

He walked on water and fed thousands

And some followed for the bread and fish

But those that feasted on his words

He exceeded their greatest wish.

His teachings were unparalleled

And he taught as one having authority,

Not as the Scribes and the Pharisees

That advocated insularity.

His parables were soul searching

Of the earth but heavenly defined

And though the disciples oft didn’t grasp

He would explain their ultimate design.

Not a single book has he written

But he is the greatest co-author ever,

Sixty-six books of the written word

That the Holy Spirit has pulled together.

His lifestyle was simplicity

He cared not for the things of this world

Yet he traversed it with humility

As he walked as the Living Word.

He resigned to his Father’s will

Though life’s path was rugged and steep

And identified with hurting people

When at a tomb he would weep.

The beasts of the field had holes

The birds of the air had their nests

But this same Jesus creator of everything

Owned no place for his head to rest.

He slept often in the wild

Where to his heavenly Father he prayed,

Not my will he had resigned

When he viewed that horrid day.

 

  

In the garden of Gethsemane

His sweat seemed mingled with blood

As he mentally prepared himself

For the cross and our ultimate good.

The cross that beckoned from eternity

The cross on which his blood was spilt

The blood of the spotless Son of God

Shed to pardon us from sin and guilt.

A contemptuous miscarriage of justice

Fitted into Almighty God’s plan

As they sentenced him to crucifixion

The price for the redemption of man.

The creator crucified by his subjects

Their own lifeline they thought to sever

But glory hallelujah this same Jesus

Arose from the grave triumphant

And now is alive forever.

He will come again for his own

Those whom the Father has promised him,

Those that call to him for salvation

Those that have been saved from sin.

This same Jesus, yes, this same Jesus

Once dead but now alive forever

Will come again he assures us

To gather his redeemed together.

Are you ready?  Are you ready?

Are you ready for that day to come?

Are you ready?  Are you ready?

Are you ready for the return of God’s Son?

Stewart Russell © 2016