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Matthew 4:4, “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
What does it mean to feed upon the Word?
To the Lord it meant having a living and fresh relationship with the written Scriptures.
For example, in Matthew 4:4 when the Lord said, “It is written,” He used the perfect tense in Greek, which can be literally translated “It stands written.”
He did not say, “It was written,” as though the Word was something merely recorded in the past without any present reality.
The force of the perfect tense, “It stands written,” indicates that the Lord’s attitude toward the Word was that it was God’s present speaking–living and fresh, not dead and old.
In fact, the written Scriptures were identified by Him as being the very word that “proceeds out through the mouth of God.”
In saying “proceeds,” the Lord again used a tense that reveals His attitude toward the written Scriptures.
“Proceeds” is a present participle which denotes that “every word” was presently proceeding out through the mouth of God.
He did not use the past tense “proceeded,” as though He was articulating a theory on the inspiration of Scripture.
He used the present tense “proceeds” to reveal that the written Scriptures are living and fresh, even proceeding “out through the mouth of God.”
This proceeding word, according to the Lord’s view, is good for man not only to study and read, but to feed upon as bread and to live by.
This was the Lord’s realization concerning the Scriptures.
Consequently, our relationship to the Scriptures should be characterized by feeding upon words that are presently proceeding out of God’s mouth.
Until Tomorrow
With A Shepherd’s Love,
Pastor Jackson
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