Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart
John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Comprehension is a vehicle of the Lord’s voice.
Because of this, it is important to know what it means to “comprehend” in the biblical sense.
The Greek word for comprehend is a compound word that means “putting things together in a way that causes you to grasp or understand something.”
For example, the disciples did not understand the Scriptures until the Lord opened their mind to comprehend them (Luke 24:27-32).
It was when He opened up the Old Testament, book by book, and unveiled Himself as its focus that they were able to comprehend the Scriptures.
At that point, they could put everything together.
They understood and comprehended the central meaning of the Scriptures.
To be able to put everything together and properly comprehend the Scriptures, we need to know that the focus of God’s speaking is Christ (Heb. 1:1-2).
Christ is the Word, the logos, God’s unique utterance embodied in one Person (John 1:1).
When we see Christ as all in all, then we truly begin to comprehend the Scriptures.
Furthermore, with this comprehension we are able to know the Lord’s speaking.
Our comprehension of the proper focus of the Scriptures becomes the factor of the Lord’s speaking, and this speaking automatically gives us discernment concerning all other voices and speakings which are not the Lord’s.
In Ephesians 3:2-11 the apostle Paul unveils that God’s speaking comes through the proper comprehension of His eternal purpose.
In verses 3-4 he says, “How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words, Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)”
Paul had a comprehension of the mystery of Christ, which is the central focus of God’s heart’s desire.
This was one of the main reasons that he had so much of the Lord’s speaking.
God’s desire, as Paul unfolds it in Ephesians 3, is centered in Christ being expressed through the church to display God’s manifold wisdom to the universe.
In verse 11 this is called “the eternal purpose,” or “the purpose of the ages.”
Comprehending or understanding this purpose constitutes the main subject of all the Lord’s speaking.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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