The Pure Word

WHAT IS THE PURE WORD?

The Pure Word is The LIFE;

the only real LIFE there is; LIFE that is eternal.

The Pure Word is the ALPHA and OMEGA;

the Beginning and the End of All Things.

The Pure Word is SPIRIT, for God is a Spirit.

The Pure Word came to earth and was manifested for all to see 
in the life of Jesus Christ, the first begotten Son of God;

the firstborn among many brethren.

Because we are still in these Adamic bodies, everything we receive is filtered through our mind.  Sometimes it is necessary to cover what something is Not… in order to dispel our misconceptions… that we might comprehend what it is.

The ‘Pure Word’ is not doctrine.  It is not interpretation.  It is not theology.  It is not works.  It cannot be studied and analyzed… it must be partaken of, spirit to spirit. 

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” John 1:1.

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth” John 1:14.

“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” John 3:6.   

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” John 6:63.  

“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you” John 6:53.

In many groups today we hear much talk about entering into the life in the spirit.  This is not a new thing reserved for believers in these last days, it has always been so through the ages.  Religion however, will keep us ever seeking yet never attaining that LIFE we are searching for.  We are waylaid on the path by all of the obstacles Religion has at her disposal; doctrines, knowledge, spiritual manifestations, forms and traditions, all of which feed the flesh. 

Jesus never once told us to become religious.  The Scribes and Pharisees were religious.  They had all of the pure word of God given to the people of Israel by God up to the time when Jesus came; yet they rejected, hated and crucified the Christ, the anointed one sent by God the Father.  Jesus Christ, HE WHO IS THE WORD, GOD (His nature; character), in the flesh.  They were greatly offended by His Words.   The people were greatly offended when He said, “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.”  They could not comprehend such a statement except by their carnal understanding.

We need to disassociate from our carnal thinking.   Carnal thinking conjures up images of something akin to cannibalism.  How can we possibly eat his flesh and drink his blood?  The very thought is disgusting to our flesh (our sensibilities).  We can only comprehend this, and all scripture, as the Spirit of God gives us understanding.  Our minds must be renewed…“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” Romans 12:2.

We err greatly when we see the PURE WORD as being anything other than the LIFE of GOD manifested.  Jesus said, if we do not partake of; if we fail to eat his flesh and drink his blood, we have no life in us.  That is a sobering thought.  Just as the natural body requires meat and drink to sustain itself; so our spiritual life within us requires sustenance to grow to full stature.  To eat his flesh and drink his blood, is to partake of his nature, to be conformed to His Image, to ‘be as HE IS in this world.’ 

“But the (spiritual) wisdom that is from above (from the first) is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy” James 3:17.  The pure word is not our head knowledge of scripture.  Little do we comprehend that our words and our actions manifest (clearly show, make evident) the spiritual wisdom we are actually in possession of.  How do we judge and treat others?  How honest are we? 

[Quote]… “Words mean things. If we are seeking to understand the concepts of Truth given to us in scripture, we must approach them from the standpoint of mental honesty…. It does not mean to remain ignorant of the Truth simply because it might conflict with what we have come to believe. Challenging ourselves to revisit why we believe what we do and where that belief comes from is the Way to Life (John 3:19-21). To simply say, "I believe" without a coherent understanding of what scripture says to believe and how to believe it, is to remain in ignorance of the Word of YHVH. That ignorance results in our destruction because it causes us to be separated from the Source of Life. The only thing Yeshua ever spoke of as being able to render the Word of YHVH ineffective was the tradition of men…[from Harold Smith in ‘The Word’; (found in the sidebar)].

It cannot be stressed enough – the pure word IS God – not our ideas about God.  The Pure Word is a Person – Jesus Christ – HE is The Way, The Truth and The Life.  All else is counterfeit; a false representation.

“Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment” 1 Corinthians 1:10.

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” Php 2:5.

“Who is there among you who is wise and intelligent? Then let him by his noble living show forth his [good] works with the [unobtrusive] humility [which is the proper attribute] of true wisdom.  But if you have bitter jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry, selfish ambition) in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus be in defiance of and false to the Truth.  This [superficial] wisdom is not such as comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual (animal), even devilish (demoniacal).  For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices.  But the wisdom from above is first of all pure (undefiled); then it is peace-loving, courteous (considerate, gentle). [It is willing to] yield to reason, full of compassion and good fruits; it is wholehearted and straightforward, impartial and unfeigned (free from doubts, wavering, and insincerity).  And the harvest of righteousness (of conformity to God's will in thought and deed) is [the fruit of the seed] sown in peace by those who work for and make peace [in themselves and in others, that peace which means concord, agreement, and harmony between individuals, with undisturbedness, in a peaceful mind free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts]” James 3:13-18 (Amplified).

What do we really believe?  On what grounds do we justify attacking others?  Did Jesus commend Peter for drawing his sword and cutting off the ear of the guard who came to arrest The Christ in the garden?  Then why should we imagine that we are somehow any different than Peter?  How are we pleasing God by our self-appointed defense of what we perceive to be the pure word?  We need to be careful that we do not allow our zeal for the things of God, take us beyond what the Spirit of God is doing, and we end up in our flesh.

Indeed, the time is at hand:

“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.  And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be” Rev 22:11-12.

We have a full time job keeping our own feet on the narrow path, without imagining that we have been called to pass judgment on anyone else.  The  following two things give evidence of just how much of the Pure Word is actually abiding within our hearts: 

our walk, 

and our love for others.

“He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked” 1 John 2:6.

“Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another” 1 John 4:11.

May God have mercy on us all.

Cathy Morris

5/28/2011