Christ is the living Word of God who, as the breath that proceeds out of God’s mouth, is in our heart and in our mouth for us to inhale, breathe in, and be supplied and strengthened as we call on the name of the Lord. Hallelujah!
In Deut. 30:11-14 Moses speaks of the commandment, and Paul takes this portion and interprets it in Rom. 10:6-9 as applying to Christ as the Word of God, showing us how Christ went through a process to become the word of God in our mouth and in our heart.
God has passed through a long process so that He may not only become our life but our very breath; He breathed Himself out in His word (all Scripture is God-breathed, 2 Tim. 3:16), and we can breathe Him in and live because of Him (Matt. 4:4, man shall live by every word proceeding out of the mouth of God).
When we put Deut. 30:11-14 together with Rom. 10:6-9 we have a full picture concerning Christ; this is our basis that Christ is unveiled throughout the book of Deuteronomy.
Moses was burdened to re-speak the law, commandments, and ordinances to the new generation so that they may be perfected to enter into the good land and possess it.
This shows us that the respeaking of God’s word is for us to take in, breathe in, and be perfected and prepared to enter into the possession and enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ as the reality of the good land.
Hallelujah, Christ came down from the heavens to the earth to become a man, and He died on the cross for our sins, was buried and went to Hades, and was resurrected to become a life-giving Spirit who, as the breath, can come into us and be our very breath!
Praise the Lord, when we exercise our spirit to call on the name of the Lord and pray over His word, we breathe in the breathed out word of God, we are inwardly revived and supplied, and we can live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God!
May we have such a view of the entire Scriptures, realizing that they are the words of God that proceeded out of the mouth of God, and we who have a human spirit can exercise our spirit to breathe in what God has breathed out!
Whether it is in the Old Testament or in the New Testament, whether it is a word that we enjoy or not, and whether it is a portion of the word that we understand or not, the entire Bible is the word of God, what has come out of God’s mouth, and when we exercise our spirit, we can breathe God in through His word!
Christ was Incarnated, Crucified, Buried, and Resurrected to become the Living Word of God in our Mouth and in our Heart
In Romans 10:6-9 Paul applies the word spoken by Moses in Deuteronomy 30:11-14 to Christ; he indicates that the commandment – which is the word of God (vv. 11, 14) – is Christ as the Word (John 1:1; Rev. 19:13).
Christ as the Word of God is the breath of God proceeding out of God’s mouth (cf. Deut. 8:3; 2 Tim. 3:16), and He is in our heart and in our mouth.
In Deut. 30:12 the “it” refers to the commandment in v. 11; we shouldn’t say, Who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us to make us hear it and do it? This refers to Christ, and Paul applied the commandment to Christ, for Christ came down from the heaven to be incarnated as the Word of God.
Christ is the Word of God (John 1:1) who was incarnated to be a man, tabernacling among us, full of grace and reality (v. 14).
Seemingly this portion in Deuteronomy speaks of the commandment of God, but actually it speaks of the Word of God, which is Christ.
Christ is the unique word in the entire universe, and the speaking of any other word is a lie; He is the real word. To bring the word down is to bring Christ down; this took place through incarnation, and it was done by Christ Himself.
In Deut. 30 Moses continues to say, Nor is it across the sea that you should say, Who will go across the sea for us and bring it to us to make us hear it and do it? Paul applies this to Christ by saying, Or, Who will descend into the abyss? that is, to bring Christ up from the dead (Rom. 10:7).
This indicates Christ’s death and burial; He died and went into Hades, where the place of the dead is. He preached the gospel to those held there, and He declared God’s victory over death!
In Rev. 9 we see that Antichrist comes out of the abyss, and in Rev. 13 we see that he comes out of the sea; the sea is the mouth of the abyss.
In His resurrection Christ came up from the abyss – He came out from among the dead.
Praise the Lord, Christ died on the cross, He went to the abyss, to the region of death and of the satanic power of darkness, and He came forth in resurrection!
Even more, Deut. 30:14 says, But the word is very near to you, even in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it; Paul applies this in Rom. 10:8 by saying, “that is, the word of faith which we proclaim”.
So Christ as the Word of God came down through incarnation, went into the abyss and came out from the abyss through His resurrection, and now He is the very word that is near us – He is in our mouth and in our heart!
In His resurrection Christ became the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45) to be the very breath in our mouth and the word in our heart.
When we put together Deuteronomy 30:11-14 and Romans 10:6-9, we have a full picture concerning Christ; in this picture we see that Christ was incarnated, that He was crucified and buried, that He went to the abyss, that He arose from among the dead, and that in His resurrection He became the breath, the life-giving Spirit; this is our basis for saying that Christ is unveiled throughout the book of Deuteronomy (John 20:22; 1 Cor. 15:45b).
Hallelujah!
We praise You Lord for coming down as the Word of God to be incarnated, to die for us, be buried, and be brought out of the abyss in resurrection to be the life-giving Spirit! Hallelujah, the Word of God is not far from us – He as the life-giving Spirit has become our very breath in our mouth and He is the word in our heart! Thank You Lord for becoming so available to us; You are not far away from us but rather, You are like the air, ready to be breathed in and enjoyed by us. Amen, Lord, we breathe You in through Your word with the exercise of our spirit by calling on Your name!
Christ as the Living Word is in our Mouth and in our Heart for us to Breathe in by Calling on His Name
Christ has become the living Word, the Spirit; He as the Word of God went through a long process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection to become the breathable word of God.
Now He is not far away from us but rather, He is in our mouth and in our heart, just like the air, the breath, that can be taken into our being.
The Lord is no longer far and inaccessible – He is available for us to receive and breathe in to be our life supply, our strength, our riches, and our everything by calling on Him (Rom. 10:12-13).
In Deut. 8:3 it says that we can live out of everything that proceeds out through the mouth of God, and the Lord Himself quoted this in Matt. 4:4.
The Lord Jesus, when He was tempted in the wilderness by the devil, quoted mainly from the book of Deuteronomy; this shows that He was enjoying this book and He was breathing in God as He prayed over this book, so what came out of Him was the word of God, for He lived by the word of God.
We live not only by bread or food but by every word that proceeds out through the mouth of God, for all Scripture is God-breathed (2 Tim. 3:16).
So we need to receive the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, by means of all prayer and petition (Eph. 6:17), praying at every time in spirit.
The words that the Lord spoke to us are spirit and are life; the flesh profits nothing, and the improvement of the flesh amounts to zero, but the words that God speaks to us in a living way are spirit and are life.
After Paul speaks of the process Christ went through – incarnation (His coming down), death and burial and resurrection (Him being raised from the abyss), he talked about calling on the name of the Lord!
How can we enjoy God, receive God, and breathe in God? It is by calling on the name of the Lord. Christ as the living Word is in our mouth and in our heart for us to breathe in by calling on His name.
When we call on His name and exercise our spirit to pray over the word of God, we receive spirit and life, we are supplied and nourished, we are strengthened and enriched.
As the Word of God, the incarnated, crucified, and resurrected Christ – who has become the life-giving Spirit as the breath breathed out by the speaking God – is now the word of the law, including the commandments, statuses, and ordinances, given by Moses in Deuteronomy.
In the book of Deuteronomy expressions such as law, commandments, statuses, ordinances, and judgements are synonyms to Christ, and the Lord’s loving seekers in the Old Testament received the word of God in a living way and were infused with God as they came to the word.
May we be those who come to the Lord and to His word again and again with the exercise of our spirit to receive Christ as the living word by calling on the name of the Lord and pray-reading His word!
Thank You Lord Jesus for becoming the living Word of God, the Spirit, to be in our mouth and in our heart! Hallelujah, our God is near – He is available for us to receive as our life supply, our strength, and our everything by our calling on the name of the Lord! Amen, Lord, we call on Your name to be filled with You and to enjoy all Your riches! We pray over Your word to receive spirit and life. We praise You Lord for being the incarnated, crucified, and resurrected Christ who has become the life-giving Spirit to be the breath breathed out by the speaking God in our heart and in our mouth!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by bro. Ed Marks for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Deuteronomy, pp. 11-13 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Deuteronomy, week 1, on the topic of, The Intrinsic Significance of Deuteronomy — a Book concerning Christ.
- Hymns on this topic:
– Just to enjoy Thy word, / I come to Thee, dear Lord; / Spirit and life, I need to gain, / Through Thee, O living Word! … / Just to enjoy Thy Word; / He’s God expressed, defined; / My spirit with His Spirit joined, / God’s grace I’ll surely find. (Song on, Just to enjoy Thy word)
– All Scripture is the very breath of God, / And by His Spirit into words was breathed; / By godly men the words were written down, / With all God’s fulness unto man bequeathed. (Hymns #799)
– Lord, I would linger here, / Still seeking after Thee, / Continue in the Word and prayer / Till Thou dost flow thru me. (Hymns #812)
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