WORDS
I had a friend
the other day ask me; "Why did God change peoples' names in the Bible
"? So I proceeded to teach him what the Bible had to say about it and what
the words or names meant. I started with a point that I had taught before and
is contained in the study "In the
Name of Jesus" found on our website. In that teaching I emphasize that a
better translation of the word "name" in many places in the
Scriptures is the word "authority". In the example from that study I
used was the following verse:
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If the word "name" in this verse
meant a proper name like John or Bill then why didn't they name him Emmanuel
instead of Jesus
or actually Ya'shua. Because the
word name meant authority. What the writer was saying is - they shall
call his authority "God with us". And in fact the scripture bares
this out in that Christ came in the authority of "The Father".
Joh
Joh
Which brings us
back to the original question; Why that name? Why did
God change Abram's name to Abraham and Sari to Sara? What is this all about?
Here is how it
works. When we speak, the words we say are really like capsules or packets of
information that we release "into the air", or literally, "into
the invisible (realm)". The packets are filled with the authority those
words represent. When the word Abraham was spoken it released the authority
"father of many nations" into the spiritual realm. It is this
authority that is brought to pass. Everything that becomes manifest owes it's existence to the "invisible realm"
Heb 11:3
Through
faith we understand that the worlds
were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not
made of things which do appear.
Heb 11:1
Now
faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
When the name of
Ya'shua (what is translated in Greek, Jesus) is
spoken the authority, "God's Salvation" is released. The mechanics is
always the same. If we believe what is being said shall come to pass the
authority remains intact. If we don't believe what is being said than the
authority is undone.
In Rom 4:18-22 Who against
hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So
shall thy seed be And being not weak in faith, he considered not
his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the
deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered
not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving
glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able
also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
The authority
remains intact.
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Mar 6:5-6 And
he could there do no mighty work, save that
he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marvelled
because of their unbelief. And he went
round about the villages, teaching.
Even Christ's authority
is undone.
Here is an example
I use often to give people an idea of how it works. Let us say that you have
a dog you love very much. He is like family to you. And one day I call you
on the phone and say "I don't know how to tell you this but as I was
driving by your house I saw that your dog Skip had been run over by a truck.
Skippy is dead I am so sorry." With the hearing of these words immediately
you would become ill, your body would manifest the reality of your sorrow,
and you might begin to sob or cry. Now lets change
the scene I call you and say "I don't know how to tell you this but as
I was driving by your house I saw that your dog Skip had been run over by
a truck. Skippy is dead I am so sorry." But as I tell you this you look
out the window and see Skippy happily playing in the yard. What happens? Nothing,
even though the words are identical, there is no manifestation. The reason
is you didn't believe what you heard, unbelief took over. The authority
of the words of despair are undone.
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This principle
works in both directions. Whatever you allow is allowed. Whatever you don't
allow is not allowed.
Here we have a
father who wants a manifestation of healing for his son and realizes why he
hasn't gotten one yet.
Mar 9:24 And
straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I
believe; help thou mine unbelief.
It appears that
the power of the spoken word unobstructed in the invisible realm can manifest
quickly. However what many experience is that the believers
faith that is spoken is not the only force released into the invisible realm.
The scriptures say that words of faith war against other powers and princes.
Eph
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
(4) (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling
down of strong holds;) (5) Casting down
imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ;
1Ti 4:6
If
thou put the brethren in remembrance
of these things, thou shalt
be a good minister of Jesus
Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast
attained.
2Ti
Rom
Faith comes by
hearing because words of faith contain faith and specific authority to
accomplish what is the object of the faith.
Salvation is a
perfect example of the authority of the spoken word.
Romans 10:8-10
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy
mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; (9) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved. (10) For with
the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Because the
capsule of salvation contains the authority of God being released back to him,
it is like a missile
that goes straight into Heaven.
Isa 55:11 So shall my word
be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void,
but it shall accomplish that which
I please, and it shall prosper in
the thing whereto I sent it.
1Jo
God's will is
his Word.
So, let us look
at the "Big Picture". Words are capsules of authority that we release
all the time. They fly off into or through the invisible realm sometimes
referred to as "air". They are received by other people, spiritual
beings (good and bad), even God. They can be stopped by unbelief, doubt, and
fear. They can be aimed specifically towards the intended hearer or object. The
power that words contain ranges from creation to destruction. They can either
build or tear down the
One of the biggest
problems we have today with our children and society in general can be traced
to how society has chosen the inappropriateness of unacceptable words as "normal".
A curse has the same power as a blessing if it is accepted. We were warned
by Scripture to not use the cursing but society thought that that concept
was "trite" and "old fashioned". So now we have the manifestation
of curses everywhere we look. Depravity at every turn and all because the
authority for that is what was being released into the invisible realm through
song and speech. When words were gentile, society was gentile. When words
became profane society became profane.
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