The Word of God & the Scriptures
Page 4: The Living Word!
How did the Word of God grow, increase, and multiply as the book of Acts just told us it did?
Look again at this verse:
The Word of God increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem. (Acts 6:7)
When the disciples multiply, God's Word grows!
The Word of God as a Seed
How is a disciple made? If you are an Evangelical, you must know that disciples are not so much made as born. "Ye must be born again," Jesus said.
How does this happen?
Of his own will he birthed us by the Word of Truth … receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. (James 1:18,21)
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of the incorruptible, by the Word of God, which lives and remains forever. (1 Peter 1:22)
We are born again by the Word, which is implanted inside of us like a seed. That seed, according to the book of Acts, can grow, increase, and multiply. It can do that in you, and it can do that out of you and into others, as we saw in Acts 6:7.
As the disciples multiply, God's Word increases!
But how, pray tell, does the Word of God make the leap from one person to the next.
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