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Note: Here is the entire outline for Week 2 if you’d like to have it or print it for your reference.

The Precious Word of God, Message Two
The Bible—God’s Breathing
Day 1

I. God’s breathing in creation

Genesis 2:7   Jehovah God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

Job 32:8   But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

II. God’s breathing in the new creation

John 20:22   And when He had said this, He breathed into them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit.

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with. Afterward, read the following portion, either in your morning time or sometime later in the day.

Reading portion:

The old creation of man came out of the breathing in Genesis 2:7. The new creation also came out of a breathing. In Genesis we can see only the breathing of a breath, not of the person of the Divine Trinity, for the creation of man as a part of the old creation. The breathing in John 20:22 took place after Christ had passed through the processes of incarnation, human living for thirty-three and a half years, crucifixion, and resurrection. Before His ascension, on the day of His resurrection, Christ came back to His disciples. He did not teach them, but He breathed something into them. What He breathed into them was the Holy Spirit, who is the life-giving Spirit whom Christ became. This Spirit who was breathed out by Christ was the ultimate consummation of the Triune God. When God breathed His breath into Adam to animate the man of clay with a human spirit, He consummated the old creation. But the breathing in John 20:22 was after Christ had accomplished His New Testament work.

The Old Testament work of God’s old creation was to create the physical things. But the New Testament work of Christ was not like that. Christ’s New Testament work was of four steps. First, He became a man in incarnation. Before His incarnation He was the only begotten Son of God (John 1:18) with divinity only, but through incarnation He put on blood and flesh (Heb. 2:14a) as His humanity. Then He lived with the disciples for three and a half years. This living was His working. After this He entered into an all-inclusive death, and then He entered into resurrection. His incarnation was to bring God into humanity; His crucifixion was to terminate that humanity; and His resurrection was to bring the crucified humanity into divinity, that is, to bring man into God. In His resurrection Christ’s humanity was “sonized,” and in His “sonized” humanity He was born to be the firstborn Son of God (Acts 13:33). Christ’s coming from God to become a man to bring God into humanity and His going through death and entering into resurrection to bring humanity into divinity was a blending, a mingling, a compounding of God with man and man with God. It was in such a condition that Christ came to the disciples and breathed Himself into them, to compound, mingle, and blend Himself with them.

When Peter, John, James, and the other disciples were meeting in that small room, they represented the entire Body of Christ. When the Head breathed into the Body and told the Body to receive the Holy Spirit, we were there also. After this breathing and receiving took place, the compounding, blending, and mingling of God with man was consummated. At the time of the incarnation there was only one God-man. After John 20:22, however, there were at least one hundred twenty God-men. Today this God-man has replenished the whole earth. Everywhere we can see God-men, who are the blending, the mingling, the compounding, of God with man. The realization that we are the blending of God with man should uplift our estimation of our worth. We are the blending, the compounding, of God with man. No words can tell how great a blessing this is. (The Central Line of the Divine Revelation, Chapter 10)

Spend some time this morning to open up to the Lord in prayer regarding what He touched you with during the previous six days. Review your notes and the outline points and verses. Ask the Lord what He would have you share with all the saints. Prepare a prophecy (1-2 minutes long) to share with the saints what you enjoyed this week.

Here is the whole outline for the week, for your reference. Or, you can download a PDF of this week’s outline here.

The Precious Word of God, Message One
The Bible—God’s Speaking

Day 1

I. The Bible is a wonderful book because it is God’s speaking—Matt. 22:31; Exo. 24:4; Mark 12:36; John 14:10, 26; 16:13; Acts 3:18; 28:25; Rom. 1:2; Heb. 10:15a

Exo. 34:27a   And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write these words….

2 Sam. 23:2   The Spirit of Jehovah spoke through me [David], And His word was on my tongue.

John 12:49–50   For I have not spoken from Myself; but the Father who sent Me, He Himself has given Me commandment, what to say and what to speak. 50 And I know that His commandment is eternal life. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.

Acts 3:21   Whom heaven must indeed receive until the times of the restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets from of old.

Matt. 22:31   But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken to you by God, saying….

 Day 2

A. Our God is a speaking God—Matt. 22:31

Heb. 1:1–2   God, having spoken of old in many portions and in many ways to the fathers in the prophets, 2 Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He made the universe.

B. The source of all the speaking in the Bible is God—Exo. 24:4a; 2 Sam. 23:1–3 cf. 1 Cor. 10:4; Jer. 1:7; Ezek. 1:3; John 14:24; 1 Cor. 2:13

2 Pet. 1:20–21   Knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of one’s own interpretation; For no prophecy was ever borne by the will of man, but men spoke from God while being borne by the Holy Spirit.

C. Those who are of God hear God’s speaking—John 10:27

John 8:47   He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.

D. We need to hear God’s speaking every day—Zech. 7:7a

Day 3

II. God’s speaking (The Bible) is true—Num. 23:19; 2 Sam. 7:28; Psa. 119:160a; 2 Pet. 3:15–16

Num. 23:19 God is not a man, that He should lie, / Nor a son of man, that He should repent. / Has He said, and will He not do it? / Or has He spoken, and will He not establish it?

Psa. 119:160a   The sum of Your word is truth… (Your word is true from the beginning…)

2 Sam. 7:28   And now, O Lord Jehovah, You are God, and Your words are true….

Day 4

III. God’s speaking is of Christ and in Christ—1 Pet. 1:10–12; Acts 7:38; Psa. 40:7

A. The subject of the Bible is Christ, from beginning to end—Luke 24:44, 47

B. God speaks to us in the Son—Heb. 1:1–2; 1 Pet. 1:10–12; John 5:39

Luke 24:27   And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, He explained to them clearly in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

Luke 24:44   And He said to them, These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all the things written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and Psalms concerning Me must be fulfilled.

John 5:39–40   You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that testify concerning Me. 40 Yet you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

John 5:46   For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote concerning Me.

Heb. 10:7   Then I said, Behold, I have come (in the roll of the book it is written concerning Me) to do Your will, O God.”

Heb. 1:1–2 God, having spoken of old in many portions and in many ways to the fathers in the prophets, 2 Has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He made the universe.

Day 5

IV. The Bible makes us wise unto salvation—2 Tim. 3:15

2 Tim. 3:15  And that from a babe you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Heb. 4:12 For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Day 6

V. God’s speaking is complete—Deut. 12:32; Prov. 30:5–6; Rev. 22:18–19

Deut. 4:2   You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you.

VI. We have to read the Bible and hear God’s speaking—Heb. 4:12; Matt. 22:31; John 8:47a; Acts 17:11; Rev. 1:3; 2:29; Heb. 3:15; John 5:46–47; 2:22; 1 Thes. 2:13

John 8:47a He who is of God hears the words of God.

Rev. 1:3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things written in it, for the time is near.

 

The Precious Word of God, Message One
The Bible—God’s Speaking
Day 6

V. God’s speaking is complete—Deut. 12:32; Prov. 30:5–6; Rev. 22:18–19

Deut. 4:2   You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I am commanding you.

VI. We have to read the Bible and hear God’s speaking—Heb. 4:12; Matt. 22:31; John 8:47a; Acts 17:11; Rev. 1:3; 2:29; Heb. 3:15; John 5:46–47; 2:22; 1 Thes. 2:13

John 8:47a He who is of God hears the words of God.

Rev. 1:3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy and keep the things written in it, for the time is near.

Read over the outline points and verses above and use these for your prayer to spend time with the Lord in the Word in the morning. After your prayer time, jot down in your notebook one or two things that the Lord touched you with.

Later, listen to the following podcast sometime during the day. Use the first player if possible (you may need to click twice–click on it, then click Play). Use the second player if the first one does not work.

 

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