You can scatter Christians.
You can shut down the church.
You can try to silence the preacher.
But you can’t stop God’s Word:
…the word of God increased and multiplied. (Acts 12:24)
Persecuting the church doesn’t slow the Word. It’s one of the ways God spreads it.
You can ban the Bible.
You can censor Biblical ideas.
You can burn and delete copies of it.
But you can’t stop God’s Word:
Now after the king had burned the scroll with the words that Baruch wrote at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: “Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned…” Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them. (Jeremiah 36:27-28, 32)
If you destroy a copy, God produces another. And he’ll work through weakness to multiply it.
You can ignore what God says.
You can mock him.
You can replace what’s revealed with your own truth.
But you can’t stop God’s Word:
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55:11)
God’s Word exercises power hidden in weakness. It still does what he sends it to do, as it always has.
You can outlive denominations and groups.
You can watch institutions and organisations fall.
You can see the world change completely around you.
But you can’t stop God’s Word:
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. (Matthew 24:35)
People will keep attacking the Word. Claiming it’s changed. Claiming it’s not relevant. Claiming it won’t last. But it’s more permanent than the universe. God’s Word isn’t going anywhere.
Congregations rise and fall. Denominations fade and erode. But God’s Word does not depend on his people: his people are created by his Word.
And it will keep doing that, until the last day, when every eye will see the Word who become flesh.
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