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devil. As the risen One He holds the keys of hades and death. He is the Son of God with
power.
Let us turn for a moment to the records of His life on earth, for there we shall find,
even in His humiliation, that His word was with power. When He said to two fishers,
"Follow Me", there was no hesitation, "they straightway left their nets and followed
Him" (Matt. 4: 19, 20); when the Lord had finished the "Sermon on the Mount" we are
told, "the people were astonished at His doctrine, for He taught as one having authority,
and not as the Scribes" (7: 28, 29). A leper came and worshipped Him, saying, "Lord, if
Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean, and Jesus put forth His hand and touched him,
saying, I will, be thou clean, and immediately his leprosy was cleansed" (7: 1-3). This
miracle is followed by one that even more clearly testifies to the power of His spoken
word. A centurion who sought the Lord on behalf of his sick servant said, "Speak a word
only, and my servant shall be healed. . . . and his servant was healed in the self-same
hour" (viii 5-13). Shortly after this the Lord and His disciples are found in a ship, and
upon a great tempest arising the disciples call upon the Lord to save them; He rebuked
the waves and a great calm follows, "but the men marveled, saying, What manner of man
is this, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?" (8: 24-27). The miracle of the
healing of the man sick of the palsy is a definite demonstration of the power of the Lord's
word. He had said, "Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee". The Lord,
answering the thought of those who heard these words, said, "for whether is easier, to
say, "Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise and walk? But that ye may know that the
Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins (He saith to the sick of the palsy),
Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house" (9: 1-8). So the record continues, His
word was then with power.
If this is the character of His word while in the form of the servant, what shall be the
character of His word as the risen Son of God with power? So Heb. 12: 25, 26
admonishes:--
"See that ye refuse not Him that speaketh, for if they escaped not who refused Him
that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from Him that
speaketh from heaven: whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised,
saying, yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven."
The O.T. furnished illustration of the Lord's Word of power, "And God said, Light be,
and light was" (Gen. 1: 3); "By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the
host of them by the breath of His mouth"; "For He spake and it was done, He
commandeth and it stood fast" (Psa. 33: 6, 9). Shall we not say that Psa. 29:, the
Psalm of the "Voice", looks forward to that happy day when the Son of God shall have
brought or carried all things on to the reign of peace?
"Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty,
Give unto the Lord glory and strength.
Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name;
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.
The voice of the Lord is upon the waters;
The God of glory thundereth:
The Lord is upon many waters.