Book that goes inside and reads your heart

David writes in Psalm 119: [103] How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

[104] Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
[105] Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

These different terms all through God’s Word describe what the Bible does; what it provides, says Richard Jordan.

You need to know where your next foot’s going to land and that’s what a lamp’s for. You always know what to do next from God’s Word because there’s information in God’s Word to tell you how to do that.

But then you need the goal. Where am I going? If you’re on the path, you know where you’re going, so it’s a lamp. You have sure-footing. It’s light to point to a goal for you.

Then it’s described as fire. Jeremiah is rebuking the nation Israel at the point of Jeremiah 23:29: [29] Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

In other words, God’s Word will consume. A fire releases the energy that’s in the thing that’s burning. There’s a stored-up energy and it releases that energy. He says, “My Word is like energy that comes in and releases life in you and will consume you.”

It’s like a hammer that can break. God’s Word can convict you; it can bring conviction into your life in places you didn’t even know needed it and can bring you to submission.

The Bible’s described as food. That’s the one I like. I Peter 2: [1] Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
[2] As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
[3] If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

You start with simple stuff and you grow up to eat T-Bones and Porterhouse.

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Hebrews 4:12: [12] For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

God has given man a point of contact with Himself and that point of contact is the written Word of God. God’s design in inspiration is to make His Word equal to Himself, so that when you’re dealing with God, you’re dealing with His Word. And when you’re dealing with His Word, you’re dealing with God.

God’s design is to make the living Word and written Word equal with one another. That’s the authority of that Book. That’s why it’s called God’s Word.

The Word of God is quick, it’s alive--it’s living. Therefore, it can work in our lives. It produces things in our lives. You don’t have the Word of God in your heart and soul without it producing. It affects you. You know that.

It “works effectually,” Paul says, “in you that believe.” It’s living and powerful. It’s got energy; it’s got strength. It’s sharper than any two-edged sword with the ability to separate between the soul and the spirit.

Sometimes you and I can’t do that. We look at things, and boy I tell you, being able to separate between the soul and spirit without the Word of God—you wouldn’t know there was a difference between them.

It says it’s a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. That word “discerner”; it’s the idea of a critic. In other words, when you read the Bible, it reads you. Now, there isn’t any other book around like that. It’s a different kind of book.

You see, when you read the Word of God, God has given to His Word the attributes of God Himself. Therefore, the word can discern; it can READ you because God can! When you come to that Book, folks, the motive that you come to it with will find you out. And it will give you back just what you come for!

He says in verse 13, “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight.” That’s God’s sight. “But all things are naked and open.” That’s God. But the antecedent is the Word of God. You see, what He does is He personifies the Word of God, and so the reference there is to God and to God’s Word.

God’s design is that when you’re dealing with this Book, you’re not just dealing with any other book, you’re dealing with God’s Book, therefore it can go inside and read your heart. As they say out in the world, “It’ll read your meter.”

You notice He says the Word of God is “sharper than any two-edged sword.” Come with me to Revelation 19: [11] And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
[12] His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
[13] And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

The person is the Lord Jesus Christ, of course, and He had a name. The name is the Word of God. Jesus Christ is equal to the word. You say, “Why would John call Christ the Word of God?” The reason he does it is God’s design in His Word is that He’s equal to the Word, so John can use the terms interchangeably.

Revelation 19:15: 15] And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
[16] And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

You see, folks, when you’re facing the Lord Jesus Christ, as these people are, you know what you’re facing? It’s just like facing the Book.

Listen, when you sit and read that Book, that’s like God Almighty sitting across the table from you, talking to you. And when you read it, don’t you ever forget that!

Now, if you won’t forget that, you’ll fall in love with that book in a way you never did before. And it will consume you. It will pull and tug at you and you won’t ever want to get too far away from it.

But don’t you ever forget that when that Book begins to deal with you, that’s why it’s doing it. If God Almighty were to stand here tonight and say something to you and you’d do it because He stood here and said it to you, and you wouldn’t do it because that Book said it to you, there’s something wrong with you spiritually. It’s the same difference and that’s the design.