NUMBER ONE (1-2)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
0. Introduction
a) 1 is the number of unity and oneness of God. It is interesting to note what other mention(s) for 1 can be found in the Bible.
1. What were the FIRST words Jesus spoke when he began his ministry?
a) At His baptism (Matthew 3:13-17) He was anointed for His ministry, and immediately after we read: "THEN was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the Devil." For Forty days He fasted and was tempted. Not a word that escaped His lips during those Forty days is written down. But the very first recorded words of his ministry are: "It is written." Three times over: "It is written"; "It is written"' "It is written."
b) His official ministry closed with His High-Priestly prayer to the Father in John 17, for at its close He went out into the Garden of Gethsemane to His betrayal, and within a few hours His death. In those last words of His ministry there is the same threefold reference to the Word of God: 5:17, "Thy word is truth"; v. 14, "I have given them Thy word"; and v. 8, "I have given unto them the words which Thou gavest Me."
c) What does this fact say to us? If we have ears to hear, it says The beginning and end of all ministry is the Word of God. Yea, it is the number of ministerial testimony. The Lord thus exalted the Word of God, and by the power of His first ministerial words He impresses upon us this great lesson.
The End ...
0. Introductiona) 1 is the number of unity and oneness of God. It is interesting to note what other mention(s) for 1 can be found in the Bible.
1. What were the FIRST words Jesus spoke when he began his ministry?
a) At His baptism (Matthew 3:13-17) He was anointed for His ministry, and immediately after we read: "THEN was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the Devil." For Forty days He fasted and was tempted. Not a word that escaped His lips during those Forty days is written down. But the very first recorded words of his ministry are: "It is written." Three times over: "It is written"; "It is written"' "It is written."
b) His official ministry closed with His High-Priestly prayer to the Father in John 17, for at its close He went out into the Garden of Gethsemane to His betrayal, and within a few hours His death. In those last words of His ministry there is the same threefold reference to the Word of God: 5:17, "Thy word is truth"; v. 14, "I have given them Thy word"; and v. 8, "I have given unto them the words which Thou gavest Me."
c) What does this fact say to us? If we have ears to hear, it says The beginning and end of all ministry is the Word of God. Yea, it is the number of ministerial testimony. The Lord thus exalted the Word of God, and by the power of His first ministerial words He impresses upon us this great lesson.
The End ...
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