We can read the entire Bible through and through and still fail to grasp its deepest purpose, not to mention the state of reinforced and persistent powerlessness to overcome evil in our daily life. Even to sincere Bible readers, there is a legitimate frustration that must be overcome. Few pitfalls deserve a close consideration.  

One, we benefit very little from a hasty and casual reading of the Bible. Perusing the pages of the Bible with no clear purpose could be destructive because we disconnect the salvation plan from its context to fit our personal agenda. Certainly, there are doctrinal teaching, historical and political lessons, as well as archeological evidences we could gather from reading the Scriptures. However, these legitimate concerns taken together out of context become destructive and meaningless. Heaping up heavy doctrinal teaching and biblical archeological evidences upon the believers amounts to a revised version of spiritual terrorism.  

Two, we can study the Scriptures as an ordinary book, to the point of knowing it by heart, and demonstrate its literary genres and text criticism and yet fail miserably to relate to the Word of God and encounter the living Word who is Christ. Theological studies and Biblical arguments are no certificate of knowledge of the Word. The only reward of such endeavor is the compiling of biblical information and the doctrinal principles we can draw from the Scriptures. Such short term gain always fails to transform personal lives and ends up in spiritual bankruptcy. It is simply a way of filling up the spiritual void with an intellectual and doctrinal fig leaf.  2 Timothy 3: 7 makes reference to the tragedy of those who are always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. By the end of the day, such people are still walking with their frustrations and carrying the load of their disillusion and deception because they have not been able to experience a victorious life despite being biblically literate.  

In Matthew 22: 29, Jesus addresses a body of theologically-savvy debating Sadducees in those terms: "You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God". Intellectual knowledge alone of the Scriptures is not genuine knowledge of the Word. It oftentimes resonates with gross ignorance of spiritual realties and theological misjudgment. Rightfully so, Jesus is calling the attention of the Sadducees to the fact that the Scriptures are not about persuasive arguments and mere intellectual talk. The Word of God is not about discursive eloquence and ramblings. It's not a dead scroll or a another piece of literature to study to feel smart. God's Word is intrinsically related to God's power and Spirit. If you know the Word, you know the power behind it. The power behind the Word is the Spirit. If you don't know the Spirit, you will be reading a dead letter and having frustration and confusion as your portion. 

GOD'S WORD MINUS THE SPIRIT EQUALS LITERATURE AND DEAD LETTER  

Functionally, the WORD and the SPIRIT are inseparable. The Word is pregnant with the Spirit. Those who receive the seed of the Word have life in them because the Spirit is in the Word. "The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life." John 6: 63

To avoid unnecessary confusion, let's bring some more light on the meaning behind the notion of Word. The Greek refers to the "word" as LOGOS. It means "the entire communication process". Apologetics, theological controversies or debates, hermeneutics, as well as text criticism simply deal with human communication process. They do not pretend to make a transition to the spiritual realm. The Bible uses human language and communication techniques to convey thoughts from the Spirit's world. One who invests time and energy studying the Logos alone will likely reach the conclusion that the Bible is not different from any other book about human knowledge and wisdom. The patterns of the Logos work within human language process and agreed universal linguistic convention. They are not meant to take us outside their prescribed linguistic objectives and purpose. 

One who spends time studying the Logos alone is not expected to become a believer in God. Many who invested a lifetime studying the Logos alone ended up spiritually bankrupt with a bountiful harvest of  intellectual confusion and madness. The Logos is the medium within the communication process, but the Logos is not equivalent to the messenger. For instance, an estimated 62 million people worldwide speak French as a foreign language. They have a solid knowledge about French history and culture, but they are not French, and certainly will never become. The only way to becoming French is by birth or adoption. Not all who speak good French are French. Again, it is estimated that 150 million people throughout the Middle East and Africa speak Arabic, the language of the Arabs. Yet, they are not Arabs and not all of them are muslims. Speaking and teaching Arabic and the Quran and being Arab or muslim are two different things all together. Not all who debate and teach the Quran are committed muslims.  

Consider for a moment the number of christians teaching the koran or studying islam in religious institutions. A handful of christian professors and scholars are teaching the koran. Yet, they are not muslims and have no business whatsoever with Allah as a spirit. They are teaching the koran as Logos - communication process - conveying thoughts and ideas about islam. Being muslim and teaching the koran are two different things all together. 

To lay to rest the fallacy of equating the intellectual by-products of Biblical knowledge to a genuine relationship and knowledge of God, let us stop for a while to Satan. Satan himself is well knowledgeable about the Scriptures as Logos. He was busy quoting the Bible to Jesus during his temptation in the wilderness. And in Genesis 3, Satan was dishing out hermeneutics seminars to Eve in the garden of Eden with pointed questions such as: "Did God really say that you must not eat from any tree in the garden..?" As far as the Logos comes into the intellectual equation, Satan himself is a theologian ! By banking on the study of the Bible as Logos alone, we are dealing with linguistic communication skills as the process by which we use linguistic conventions to strictly pursue communication goals. 

This is a clear demonstration that cognitive approach to the Bible as Logos alone can be instrumentalized as weapon against God and mislead many to their downfall.    

Similarly, studying the Bible as Logos or communication process does not make one a believer, nor qualifies one to hearing, listening, and obeying God. Many who fell in the seduction of studying the Logos alone become either religious prisoners or non believers. The Bible is the Logos of God or the Word of God and all are welcome to have their take on it.  

Besides the notion of Logos, the Greek translates "word" as RHEMA. The term rhema means "when words leave one's lips". When the Word becomes alive. When the author of the book himself comes to the scene to interact personally with you. The written words of the Bible become Rhema to us when we receive the grace to hear the Spirit's voice in our hearts and daily life. It becomes a personal relationship to walk with the Holy Spirit. He speaks to you daily, wherever you go, whatever you do. He leads, directs, counsels, etc...

In such case, the verses of the Bible are leaping off the pages, becoming a living reality and taking hold of our heart. We shift from the Logos to the Rhema. We are able to hear God's voice flowing in us through spontaneous thoughts that light upon our heart (John 7: 37-39). In the Rhema experience, the Bible knowledge that we receive becomes revelation knowledge and no longer head and dead knowledge. The transition from the Logos to the Rhema is the key to relating to the Bible. 

When we receive the seed of the Word in us, we become born again. “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God" 1Peter 1:23. However, we cannot live this new birth by our own human efforts, not alone in our flesh. The human flesh cannot accomplish what only the Spirit can. It's a life in the Spirit. That's why we need the Holy Spirit to help us live this new life. We are born again by the Word and yet born again by the Spirit. Jesus' nightly meeting with Nicodemus does not leave us another alternative to entering the Kingdom of God. “Verily, verily I say unto thee, except man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." John 3:5-8. 

The question becomes: How are we to read and meditate the Bible? Meditation is the practice of ruminating, chewing some portion of Scripture that we have already stored, read or been exposed to. Where does this process take place? In our heart and soul.

THE BIBLE IS MADE FOR MEDITATION, NOT FOR READING

READ THE WORD SLOWLY, REPEATEDLY, ATTENTIVELY

Read the Bible slowly, attentively, repeatedly, and meditate upon the Word in your heart, not in your brain. Every body can read, preach, and teach the Bible. Even Muslims read and teach the Bible. Make no mistake: atheists too, are excellent theologians! But not everyone can meditate the Bible and hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. That's where a clear spiritual distance separates us all. We need the Holy Spirit's help to meditate the Bible and move to revelation. Born again christians can meditate the Bible. Meditation is a business of the heart not of the mind that is always twisting and deceptive.  Proverbs 23:7 reminds us that we think with our heart - meaning our spirit - not with our mind: "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." Take time with a sentence, a passage of the Scriptures until you get the revelation and the light before moving. Don't be afraid even if you spend 2-3 months with the same passage of the Scriptures. Compare specific passage of the Bible with other passage of the Scriptures. Sharpen Bible verses with other Bible verses. A careless and casual seeker rarely finds hidden valuable and precious treasure. Always build a compass for biblical truth by applying the spiritual law of three witnesses. As 2 Corinthians 13:1 tells us, "in the mouth of two or three individuals shall every word be established." Test biblical truth by finding throughout the scriptures three biblical accounts that confirm the first occurrence of truth you encounter. 

ALL PLACES AND ALL HOURS ARE FOR MEDITATION

The Bible is given to be meditated on as Joshua 1:8 tells us: "Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful." The purpose of meditation is to guide us to take action. When we fail to act, the Book is not operative and effective. Psalm 119: 11 carefully reminds us that the Bible is to be treasured in our heart.  

Ephesians 5: 18 prompts us to meditate through singing in our hearts. Singing in our heart is a private, internal, and intimate form of relationship with the Lord.  “Be filled with the Spirit. Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord.” 

Fix the Word in your heart through meditation as you walk the streets, ride your car, do your jogging, do your daily job assignment, and sleep. Meditate upon the Word of God day and night until you find eternal life. As John 17:3 tells us, "And this is eternal life: to know You, the only true and real God, and to know Him Jesus Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah, whom You have sent". 

LOGOS AND RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS WITHOUT THE RHEMA ARE THE GRAVEYARD FOR RELIGIOUS FOOLS 

Biblical language uses symbols to show us signs. And biblical signs lead us to the Spirit. Many had comfortably settled with religious symbols. Thus, mistaking biblical symbolic language for biblical sign and a substitute to truth. Unfortunately, they had ended their journey, shutting the doors to the Spirit. In religious symbols alone they trust ! In the Logos alone they trust ! Here lies the graveyard of many who ambushed themselves and perished as jihadists for Biblical truth. Biblical literalism is a shortcut to spiritual suicide. It banks on unexamined assumptions, ready-made or quick fraudulent reading and interpretation of the Bible. It comfortably and lazily leans on simplistic and dogmatic religious formulas that would not tarry with the Word until the Holy Spirit connects you to revelation knowledge. Yet, there is nothing like pre-cooked knowledge when it comes to meditating the Word. The Bible always uses what you can visibly see, identify, and touch to connect you to the invisible world in the Spirit. Every symbol you can relate with in Biblical language is a sign or a journey taking you to the Rhema. This pattern never changes. Take for instance the case in Matthew 5: "If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." Biblical literalism has costed many a sexual organ in their approach to solving sexual sin.

Another tragic Biblical literalism comes from Mt 26:26. "And as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said: "take, eat, this is my body." Biblical literalism has ushered us all into a quick dogmatic sacramental cannibalism. Yet, you must curb your flesh eating disorder in order to handle the Rhema.

- He took the Bread and said: "Eat this Bread". When you hold the visible bread in your hands, you must shift to the invisible by asking this simple question. What bread are we talking about? One with common sense will immediately know that the issue is not the daily table bread we have been eating from childhood. You will make a fool of yourself to take a symbolic representation as a substitute to reality. The flag is the symbol of your nation. But your nation is not a flag. Your flag could burn in fire. But your country is still standing and not impaired by any smoke. The sign about "eating this bread" conveys a deeper meaning about a spiritual reality. Your question must be: what and how does one eat bread in the spiritual world?

- "This Bread is my body" or makes reference to my body. Again, do not touch Jesus' physical body in an attempt to do him harm because of symptoms of meat bulimia you have been struggling with for so long. Make a shift from the natural body to the invisible body. What is the body Jesus was making reference about? What is the Bread he was talking about? He was not speaking about the tangible bread that his disciples could see around the table. The case was being made for a spiritual bread. He was not promoting a carnivore diet club membership. He was addressing a spiritual body to possess, integrate or eat by way of assimilation. The wheat bread is symbolic of another invisible spiritual bread. The physical body of flesh is symbolic of a spiritual invisible body. For the past 2000 years, Yeshua would have had to grow flesh every day if eating his physical body  was the matter. By now, we must have recommended him a blood transfusion to replenish his loss of blood. Biblical literalism has sent many into psychiatric institutes with a costly recovery.

Every symbolic language has a sign. What is the sign of this Bread and this Body? This "body" refers to critical function that sustains the flow of divine life, not about his physical or natural body in the flesh. The Bread that we must eat to have divine life is the Word of God. Man does not live by bread alone, but of every word that comes from God's mouth. God's Word is the most crucial and valuable Bread that Man shall eat to have life. A serial murderer will not be transformed by eating daily consecrated bread, but by eating God's Word and applying it. Paul stopped being a murderer the day he received and heard God's Word on the road to Damascus. You do not become a better person by addiction to consecrated Italian wine. The day you receive an outpouring of the Holy Spirit you do not remain the same. Here is the uncomfortable question we fail to address. If God's Word has no power to transform, mature, and build you up, could your Sunday's divine raw flesh eating do any better ? Could you drink divine blood as substitute to the Holy Spirit and close your heart to his leading over your life by neglecting God's Word? 

Food intake or information is what you feed your children with, in order to develop their body by growing flesh and gaining physical strength. Likewise, on the spiritual level, God's Word is the Bread that feeds you, in order to develop, mature, and grow your spiritual body. The more you eat His Bread, the more you gain flesh and strength, the more visible your body. As you grow, you must readjust the level of your food intake and the size of your clothes to match the patterns of your growth. 

It makes sense that Luke 2:52 is keen to emphasize that, Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and the Word of God was found in Him. The spiritual body of Jesus was visible because of God's Word growing in Him. God's Word or wisdom activated in you, will manifest your spiritual body. The food you eat will manifest or reveal the stature of your body. The Word + the Spirit reveal the spiritual body of Yeshua. In Him, people saw God's power in words and in Spirit. That is the body they saw. On the physical level, Jesus' natural body was not different from any other young boy in his village. However, on the spiritual level, his spiritual body has a different stature. As such, you can never grow beyond the level of your food intake or what you can assimilate. God will not impose you food or information bread you cannot assimilate. Divine bread intake is gradual. God gives you first milk, then food. As you make progress, solid food is served. And finally bread goes with wine for the mature. Your spiritual body will be revealed. "Take and eat this bread" means this: let God's Word become yours, assimilate it, let it possess you and govern your life. Literally, become this Word as you partake it.

When a little child attempts to wear his/her father's shoes or clothes, the response is immediate: "you do not have the body to wear that size!" In other words, you do not have the necessary information or support structure that enables you to carry that much size. Jesus has the body it takes to stand against evil and do the will of His Father. Why the intimation to eat his body? Because God's Word was in Him, and God's Spirit was dwelling and operating in Him.

The DNA of Jesus' body = The Word + the Holy Spirit in action. When you hear "Body", think immediately of "Function". Yeshua functioned with this spiritual body. Thus, to eat Jesus' body = having the Word and the Spirit in you. In Acts 10:38, "you know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power." Therefore, you must eat this "body" if you want to have divine life flowing in you. The natural body is the physical structure of a person, the assemblage of parts, such as bones, flesh, and organs working together to achieve the necessary functions for life. What is the purpose of human body? Working to achieve the specific functions necessary to carry life.

The spiritual body of a person is the spiritual DNA or architecture informing, carrying, and maintaining the necessary flow of divine information to be manifested. It is not enough to claim to be eating the body and drinking the blood of Jesus. You must become what you eat. You must be influenced by what you drink. You must become the body of Jesus. You must become the blood of Jesus. You must become and be a demonstration of God's Word. And your calling is to be led and operating by the Holy Spirit. The eucharist has never been a call to do religion.

Focus more on the functionality of your body to appreciate why eating is imperative. Focus more on the functionality of God's Word to appreciate how much and why you must eat this flesh. Why is the Church being called the body of Christ? Because the Church has been given and entrusted with the Bread and the Wine: the Word and the Holy Spirit. Evangelists, prophets, priests or pastors, and apostles are called on mission to feed the Word to peoples and nations. As they serve this Bread, the Holy Spirit comes to do the job. Yeshua entrusted his Body to the Church to be given as Bread for people to mature and grow in their spiritual bodies and find life. Here is the hidden implication. Every individual member of the Church becomes the Body of Christ. Every believer is a carrier of the Holy Spirit working and operating through that person, and God's Word must be found and alive in that person.  

What do you get when you eat this Bread? When you eat God's Word, you mature in size and stature by way of righteousness, truth, love, justice, and peace in oder to stand against the waves of death and darkness brought about by evil and wickedness. In other words, by eating this bread, you get or assimilate God's nature in you to become a channel of life and righteousness. God's Word applied will protect you against the waves of evil. You become a governmental door that opens to life, standing to protect life and oppose death and darkness. Take it easy! Your consecrated bakery could not help you overcome the heavy cloud of darkness in your city. You need another kind of bread from heaven. This is the body we have been called to eat or assimilate and it is only found in God's Word.

What it means to "eat this Bread" is this. God's Word has to become part of us if we want to see God's power moving through us. Until the Word is operating, commanding, leading, ruling, and directing our daily lives, we are riding opposite to God's power and entering into collusion with death. There is no substitute to God's Word. Putting the Word of God in the tabernacle, keeping consecrated bread in the tabernacle, and carrying a piece of the Word in our pocket, speak all together about the same reality. We cannot escape God's Word becoming part of us when we want to stand against death and darkness. God's Word has to become part of us to see his Spirit being manifested through us.

It's not enough to parade with the Bible or a consecrated bread if God's Word is not inscribed within us and in our spirit-man. The Word has to take flesh within us and become a tangible manifestation through us. Therefore, we miss it all together when we celebrate the Word and fail to become people of the Word, living by the Word. We can never know God outside His Word. God so loved the world that He sent His Word to us. The greatest gift and most valuable asset God gave to Man is his Word as divine Bread information. Once you have received the body it takes to mature in God's character, God sent you wine.

God gives you who He is by His Word in order to make room for His Spirit to lead in your life. In Genesis 14:18, Melchizedek, the king of righteousness, came to meet Abraham with an offering of bread and wine. He was priest of the Most High God. God gives us the most valuable asset as Word to communicate his nature, power, and character to us. Once we know his character, He gives us the greatest of all gift, His Holy Spirit. Yeshua our high priest came to meet humanity. He brought Bread and Wine. What you drink influences you. When you drink alcohol, you are under the influence. When the Holy Spirit is poured out on you, you are under His influence. 

We are certainly familiar with the Holy Spirit coming in the form of fire to lead or to purify. Fire works for purification from sins. Notice that when the Holy Spirit came down on Jesus, there was no fire. Jesus was without sin. The Spirit was slowly and gracefully poured out on Him like the slow motion of a dove falling on someone. The symbol of pouring out wine speaks of strong influence over the one who drinks from it. "Take and drink this cup" means this: let this cup of wine influence, lead, or control you from now on. 

"Take and drink. This cup is the new covenant in my  blood." Wine is the sign of the Holy Spirit. When God restores us by His Word, He sends us the Holy Spirit to dwell with us and lead us. Wine is poured out in abundance. This is the sign of the Holy Spirit being poured out for us. What does wine has in common with the Holy Spirit? Total control, submission, obedience, and being under influence. When you are intoxicated with wine, you are no longer in control whatsoever. In the same way, when the Holy Spirit dwells in you, it is no longer "I who live, but Christ lives in me." Galatians 2:20. 

To drink the cup of wine is an invitation to receive and be led by the Holy Spirit. Wine is the blood of the new covenant or the new contract. What is the intake or the benefits when you enter into a marriage contract? The benefits of marriage are the children. What did Abraham gained in his covenant with God? The promise of offsprings, a land, and a universal blessing. What did we get in Jesus' blood sacrifice? The Holy Spirit is the distinctive outcome or benefit we receive from this new covenant. The Holy Spirit does not work outside the new covenant. He is sent to those who have been purchased by the blood of Jesus.

The Holy Spirit cannot work in us without the Word. And God's Word cannot operate in us without His Spirit. Yeshua our high priest came to meet humanity with Bread and Wine. And he said: Take, eat, this is my body. Take, drink from it. This is my blood in the new covenant! Any place and time the believers in Yeshua gather, they always put in place a festive celebration. Why? They remember with thanksgivings the divine greatest gifts to humanity: the Word came to them and has been received. And the Holy Spirit came, now dwelling within their hearts because of the blood sacrifice of Yeshua. They drink their wine and eat their cake in remembrance...

We may now dwell on the purpose of God's Word. By "purpose" we are seeking to bring out an understanding of the underlying reason, the goals behind the way the Word works. What does the Word aims at achieving? God's Word is pursuing an interest, or aims at solving a specific problem. What is it ? Purpose is different from function. We are not addressing here the function of God's Word, in terms of how it works. We are limiting our task to answering this question: why is God's Word working the way it is working?

SEVEN-FOLD PURPOSE OF THE WORD OF GOD

I. THE MOST VALUABLE ASSET GOD GAVE TO HUMANITY IS DIVINE INFORMATION AS BREAD. GOD'S WORD IS APPLIED   INFORMATION BREAD FOR MAN TO OPERATE 

The Word of God is the living Bread from heaven and the living Water that quenches our thirst. "Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink His blood, you have no life in you". In Hebrews 5: 12-14, the Word of God is food described as both milk and solid food to provide spiritual nutrients for our growth.

The first thing God gave to Adam and Eve right after creation is information. Without accurate information, Man always runs into a collusion course with death. The fall of Man and culture is a byproduct of toxic disruptive information. Divine information as critical bread is the most important valuable asset God gave to Man to operate on Earth.  Human DNA is often referred as the blueprint of life. As such, it contains the informational code or map directing how human life should be, look like, develop, grow, and survive. Divine Bread is heavenly information map, coding, and data flow directing the purpose and destiny of Man on Earth. It's the blueprint of life. Without food information, human body becomes dysfunctional and disconnected from the genetic code of life. Likewise, without divine bread or deactivated from the flow of divine information, human on Earth becomes dysfunctional for all intents and purposes God created Man to be. Man is translated from the Greek word Anthropos - ἄνθρωπος- meaning human being as male and female.

Divine bread is both functional and imperative information for Man to have life flowing from God's throne. Life is sustained and ultimately depends on the flow of divine information. Eating divine information is not optional. You eat or you die. Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every Word coming from the mouth of God. God's Word is the most important bread that Man shall eat to live. Tangible bread gives flesh to visible action (energy) in the physical body. Divine bread or information gives flesh to divine living character translated as righteousness, truth, justice, and love in action. We could quickly evaluate threefold function of the Word of God as bread. First, God's bread is critical information for government. Second, God's bread is strategic alignment of divine information to restore mankind. Third, God's bread is applied information for Man to operate by divine standards.   

Divine Food is Critical Information as Programmatic Language for  Government

Why in the world had God chosen to associate his Word to a piece of bread? For this simple reason. Food can alter the flow of genetic information in our cells. Most people have unfortunately missed this simple truth. Food or blood is critical information. They both carry relevant and consequential information for the past, the present, and the future. What we ate is who we are, and what we eat is what we become.

For instance, toxic food is information sent to the body, instructing it to stop functioning or mutate in the sequence away from the normal course. Obviously, our relationship with daily bread is fare more intimate than we could ever fathom. Forget for now the fact that we need food to maintain life, work, grow, fight diseases, and remain active. 

Food is relevant information, telling the body which action to perform and how to complete tasks. In a nutshell, food is information coding into our body. This coding refers to the set of instructions, rules, or system of rules, written in a specific programming language that our body understands. Food is programmatic language necessary for predictive behavior control and genetic accountability. Food is both imperative and functional information language. That's the reason why food is repetitive as an information, in order to accurately communicate with how the body is designed to respond.

When we eat bread, we provide biological instructions or information to our genome, directing the body how to function and operate. Because all food contains genes, eating is nutritional messages or instructions given to our cells. In Epigenetics, we learn that different biological signals affect genes expression. Our DNA carries information about us and how we function or operate. Our daily diet can change our DNA.

"You are what you eat" =  "what you eat is encoded in your DNA." 

What we eat can reprogram and affect our genes. It carries wider implications down the line for even generations of offsprings to come. Take the case of diseases. We are coming close to proving that all diseases have a genetic component via mutations inherited from parents or acquired mutation due to environmental exposure. 

Now, let us return to the Bible. Because Man ate from the tree of good and evil, it triggered genetic switches in human spiritual genome. Eating or assimilating forbidden food or knowledge means, information applied into man's spirit in order to introduce a mutation away from the original sequence or frequency.

In simple grammar without religious drama:

SIN IS INFORMATION KNOWLEDGE SENT TO STOP, DISRUPT AND REVERSE THE FLOW OF DIVINE COMMUNICATION PATTERNS BETWEEN GOD AND MAN. SIN IS PROGRAMMATIC LANGUAGE AS  INFORMATION WARFARE WEAPON.

Reader's digest: Information warfare is not a modern invention. It started out right in Eden when Satan mounted an information warfare campaign to disrupt the flow of divine information in Adam and Eve. When Satan comes to attack, he is always attacking and assaulting critical information encoded in Man. The algorithms of sin provide sets of instructions or information that tell humans how to perform specific behavior and take action to stop the flow of normal sequence of divine information or data. Genesis 2:16 specifically refers to this disruptive information warfare. When the data of divine information stop flowing in Man's spirit, it is called "death". Your spirit is disconnected from the network providing the data to operate in your body, soul, and environment. That's the Fall of Man! The Fall is intrinsically correlated with the information network operator. Your network operator controls and owns all the elements indispensable to deliver the services you need. The day you allow a rival party to operate and advertise his services on your given network, you will experience a complete shutdown or denial of heavenly services. Do not incorporate  a rival communication network = do not eat from the tree of good and evil. When you allow rival information on your network, your services are terminated. You have been disconnected here means, you have been kicked out of Eden. More than a geographical location, Eden describes the state of interconnectivity and information flow with heaven. Your phone is useless and dead when there is a network shutdown: "from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die." That's why the most important and first thing God gave to Man is Information. Without divine data accuracy and error-free information, Man will remain dysfunctional and unable to fulfill his divine assignment on earth.

Sin relies on four basic strategies as information warfare: deception and mimicry, denial of accurate information, destruction, and subversion of truth information. It aims at controlling and disrupting the adversary's information flow. The purpose of sin is to activate a network shutdown between heaven and earth. Sin disrupts divine frequencies by interfering, decoupling and preventing communication in a normal way. 

Let us be careful not to fall victim of deception. There is no such thing as "Artificial intelligence". There is always a spirit, a person, an engineer behind the flow and production of any given information. Information produced reflects the character, nature, and will of the person who conceived it. There is always an Editor-in-chief who determines the strategic alignment of information content to reach its goals to maintain editorial integrity. Behind God's Word stands the Personality called Holy Spirit who ensures strategic alignment with God's will and plans. Epigenetic editing technology is helpful today to fully grasp how much sin in human nature cannot be decoupled from information.

Artificial intelligence has understood the game by investing in communication technology that could alter human communication, behavior and control societies. Epigenetic editing is the process of making specific changes to the DNA information of an organism or a cell. It could alter, substitute, remove, or destroy genetic information in the genome. 

Epigenetic editing technologies have been lately receiving a close attention in scientific policies circles. The concluding red light is this. Man is stepping into God's domain in attempting to play God by manipulating genetic information in order to control human race and psychology. Sex reassignment surgery or gender-affirming surgery is a process of altering a person's physical appearance and sexual characteristics to affirm a gender identity choice via manipulation of genetic information encoded in the person. Before we can affix an artificial sexual organ on a candidate for sex change, science must be able to mutate information on the recipient. This information is as much important as the artificial sexual organ. This is called disruptive information brought to a person's genetic information by mutating hormone intelligence.

Sin likewise alters information by building on recursive or repetitive information sequence, understood as processed data in order to prevent normal communication between God and his children. The algorithms of sin provide sets of instructions that tell humans how to perform specific behavior and action to stop the flow of normal sequence of divine information. 

Sin is simply toxic satanic information technology marketed at man's table to orchestrate a network shutdown that  disconnects human from the original programming language. Human become dysfunctional.

Sin has unlocked and encoded in our spiritual DNA the genetic blueprint that gives information and instructions how we must react to evil. Man's spirit has been fed by the bread of sin. Sin is generational because this information patterns has been encoded in human DNA and passed on from generation to generation. Algorithms are sequences of rigorous instructions that we perform using data processing to achieve informed  decision-making practices or deduce valid interferences. God measures the level of our maturity by how we align our decision-making process and informed strategies with data provided in his Word to meet heavenly information code and protocols. When informed data found in his Word have become ingrained in us and utilized across all levels to inform strategies, insights and decision-making, we have eaten his Word.

How did God handle the crisis of corrupted information or communication between heaven and Man when Adam sinned?  Removing the junk? Refreshing and retrieving the damaged coding information? None of this quick fix. God chose a complete reset. God's Word is the architect in chief, writing programming language for human to operate on earth. That's divine reset. The RHEMA WORD is the rewriting of a new coding. This time, the information is encoded in Man's heart or spirit, not just in material or printed paper alone as help memory. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. - 2 Corinthians 5:17 -

God's Bread is Strategic Alignment of Information Content to Restore Human Integrity  

The Fall of Man came through toxic assimilated information. Our restoration or salvation will come through divine information. The Bread from heaven is encoded and encrypted spiritual genetic information in order to reprogram us as a new creation. It instructs us about critical communication protocols from above: what and how to do in order to operate according to the way we have been designed to operate on earth. There is no alternative to reprogram your spiritual genetic blueprint but to receive, download, and apply this Bread information in order to be restored (or saved). For this reason, Acts 4:12 tells us that, there is no salvation or restoration in any other information or coding protocols under the heaven for Man. There is no other programming language by which Man could be restored because only the designer knows his codes and intentional information plans. Man has been messed up for good by sin. Only the programmer could write a new language for Man to operate. The enemy only knows how to alter, corrupt, manipulate, and destroy the original DNA information. Satan is clueless how to create divine information.

God has to bring Bread from heaven to reprogram our DNA and restore us as his sons and daughters. Salvation in Greek refers to the notion of "SOZO", understood as being made whole in all human aspects. "SOZO" means, to escape destruction, to recover from damage and corruption. What had been destroyed in Man? It is actually the original divine information. This is the critical information indispensable to function accurately in our personality, health, finances, relationships, environment etc... Salvation is a complete information reset. Salvation has a name: Joshua or "Yehoshua", meaning, Yahweh is my deliverance or salvation. Simply stated, Joshua is another name for Yahweh, a descriptive action of his character and nature. That's why Jesus is a manifestation of Yahweh's character and power or His Word.

Salvation is a restoration program of divine communication network between God and Man, not an escape mission out of earth. Salvation is specific, qualitatively and quantifiably measurable. We can't stop growth in the spiritual realm. As your children grow, we adapt food information intake to match the level of their growth process. The Holy Spirit knows exactly the appropriate and specific food we need and the timing. For instance, one hears a preaching and immediately receives the Rhema Word, specifically bringing information or answers for what one has been looking for. One is on a bus and receives a Rhema word for a neighbor sitting next seat. This food is exactly what the neighbor has been waiting for to function accurately. The Rhema word is a divine information that resonates deep in your spirit with a sense of urgency and assurance. Your spirit becomes one with the Word = You eat this bread. Call it information that brings conviction to operate if you will. It boils down to this: this bread intimate knowledge or information found a frequency in you. You have been restored to a lost programmatic language:"I was lost and now I am found !"

When Zacchaeus the tax collector welcomed the living Word in his house in Luke 19, his crooked and cheating disorder became straight: "If I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount !" His spirit vibrated with the same divine frequency or knowledge about how to live right because he opened up to the Word. Surely, God never sent you information about how to rob his children to get rich or secure a promotion. That day, salvation entered his heart. For God's Word comes to seek and rewrite what was lost. If you have no metrics of your salvation, it is a sign that the Word has not entered your house.

God's Bread is Applied Information to Accurately Operate by Divine Standards 

God's Word lived out, experientially applied in us, only intimately experienced has a transformative power in us. Here and there, we hear many believers voicing their frustration about their failure to restore fellowship with God through a victorious life despite the amount of years in religion. Religion, rituals, and heavy prayer sessions cannot change and transform the intrinsic character of Man. You need the divine GPS to navigate the unchangeable maps set by God. 

Character answers to accurate,  applied, and processed information. Your religion is not accountable to your character. Do not expect religion to fix you. Look, seek, and find the Word to apply it to your character in order to operate accurately. Only God's Word applied in us has the power to change lives, not doing religion. It's not enough to know a theory. As long as it remains a theory, it will never work for you. Moving from theoretical knowledge to practical knowledge gives flesh to visible application of the Word. The Word of God in us never takes flesh until it has been applied and practiced. Now, let us identify with clarity the sign behind the symbolic language of  "eating the bread or flesh". Revealing the truth to believers and concealing truth to non-believers has been dual purpose of Jesus' teaching. EVERY SYMBOL in any language IS A SIGN. 

The Symbol of the Bread is the Sign for Restoration Found Only in the WORD

Fellowship begins at table means shared information between interconnected bread-mates. One, the symbol of the Lord's table via the eucharist speaks or is the sign of restored fellowship with God. Each family taking the lamb in Egypt was the sign that broken relationship with God through exile and slavery has ended. 400 years of cries and prayers got answered when God manifested his presence by accurate answer. It's a family or covenant reunion. The sacrificial lamb is the divine response that ended slavery and brought a reunion between God and his peoples. Thanks to Jesus' death, the veil of separation between Man and God has been torn apart. Fellowship with the Father is restored. Why? The disruptive power of sin as toxic bread or information has been broken. The network has been restored. God speaks clearly now in his Rhema word.

Please, do not get mixed up in religious sentimentalism ! Eating consecrated bread does not change your character and certainly will never. Eat as much as you want and drink as much as you can till your cup is empty! Because, it's through word, teaching, and righteous information that fathers secure change in their children personality, not via heavy duty commercial carts overloaded with chicken, fresh bagels and vegetables. The Bread of life comes from another realm. 

The table of consecrated bread for the believers is the sign of restored fellowship with God. God is no longer showing up at your table means that communication is lost. You have no bread winner in your house means this: there is no one to connect you to relevant food information in order to meet your table and kitchen provisions. 

Lest we become amnesic of this family reunion, God instituted it as a perpetual memorial. This is the perpetual memorial that we must celebrate: a festive celebration of the family reunion between God and his children. Children are celebrating and dancing because their Father is no longer mad at them. God is no longer a permanent absentee Dad at home. The proof: when children call, speak or pray, the Father answers back. There is no greater joy in a family than a father who returned home after a long deployment abroad ! Though we must be mindful. It's not always fun when a father is present at home. Fathers always remind us of our responsibilities and duties...making sure all his children are rehabilitated by the flow of shared accurate information.

A good father prepares his children to mature and get ready to assume responsibility out of his house. Enjoying your father's company or presence is no excuse not to do your job far from home. Parading with holy bread is not a substitute to serving and laying down your life for others. Your devotion to consecrated bread does not exempt you from doing God's will on earth. You better take, eat this bread and take the ride on your growth journey. There is nothing more frustrating for parents than to see their grown up children parading in their house with  diapers, competing and excelling in home-made religiosity and rituals. When are they going to give up family rituals to take up responsibility for the nations ?

Two, eating together means this: whatever food information is flowing in you via bread is the same information flowing also in me. Therefore we have become one via shared data connectivity of information. Eating is for the journey: a divine information is flowing again for his Government. Israel eats the lamb because God is sending her out to a journey into the world to speak about the One who set them free, so that other nations may become free. God shares his network with Israel so that Israel could connect his data to others. God comes in Eden to speak about his Government policies on earth to Adam. He is not taking a bus tour to ride around the earth with Adam and Eve sitting in the back seat taking selfie. Eating the bread is the sign of agreement and becoming one with God's Mission and heart. That is now eating the Rhema Word, and only the Holy Spirit takes the initiative, not your ritual, not your religion, not your local religious bakery assembly !! You cannot behold this bread with your physical hands. Remember! "I have eaten" means: "I am now carrying food information in my body for a unified command post or action. Therefore, I have become one and transformed by this information."

The Spirit's bread from heaven is giving to Man's spirit. Eating God's Rhema Word is for his mission, action, government, in order to be and do like God on earth. This is the flow of immaterial information from heaven engraved in Man's heart or spirit. This is the only Bread that changes and transforms mankind. For this, you must be born again. It is pre-requisite to eating. Knowing God's Word is owning, possessing, intimately integrating it, to such an extent that we operate and live by it.  

Because Man must eat the Word to live, Satan also comes as "the eater of raw flesh" meaning, to fight against, oppose, and destroy the Word becoming effective in Man. Both Satan and Man eat the Word by all means. Man eats to receive Life. Satan eats to bring death. Cannibalism is eating to destroy  the information data flow that builds up a body. 

Here is the sophisticated deception in the eating approach of the "flesh". The serpent is cunning means that, Satan has the ability to reason and speak in order to undermine, suppress, and make the truth of God's Word of no effect when Man receives it. By introducing unproductive rational and relentless argumentative approach to  God's Word, Satan found the best way to nullify God's power in his Word when eaten "raw" by Man. It's eating the Word while rejecting and opposing the Spirit of God. It's eating to undermine the truth, to avoid assimilating or being transformed by the Word. 

The eater of raw flesh is the Logos consumer who will never covenant with the Spirit of God. Always debating, arguing, coming into disagreement, and questioning the Word in order not to obey it. Eating to find justification not to abide by the Word of God. It's called today, the "deconstruction agenda" of the Word.

Why Satan is encouraging Man to "eat raw flesh"? He made the confession in Eden by his own mouth. The day Man will assimilate, function by, operate, and integrate the Word of God, Man will become like God himself. Satan meant this: Man will inherit God's character, power, nature, and be led by His Spirit, the day the Word takes root or rules over Man. That will be too  dangerous a Man on earth. Therefore, Satan has to launch a relentless sophisticated communication warfare to ensure Man never assimilates God's Word ! That's why Satan is much engaged, organizing, and working hard to promote a sophisticated world religion without the power of God operating by his Word. Religion is part of the ongoing information warfare. Watch out! Your religious denomination might just be "The eaters of raw flesh club "!

The most important question remains. How does your food affect your growth? Parents with common sense are worried when they feed their children and do not measure any change in their growth patterns. So it must be in the spiritual. If believers claim to be eating the bread from heaven during their gathering, religion must account for this question: how do we assess spiritual growth and change? How come the bread we eat does not match the spiritual growth patterns of the believers? Have we been feeding them with fake  bread from heaven? Why is it so that your weekly bread does not affect and change you? How come you drink divine blood, and yet, you're more miserable than my pagan ancestors? One thing is to be awestruck, dancing away our religious commotions when holy communion is shared in the assembly. Another is to eat the bread from heaven.

If what we eat goes into the stomach, that means, it has nothing to do with the bread from heaven. Heavenly bread has no correlation with your local bakery delivery, sanctified and blessed via a pious prayer. Heavenly bread is intangible food for the spirit of Man, and only given by the Spirit. It's not perishable bread. More strikingly, the Torah compares consumption of blood to murder and the covenant people remain hostile to such practice.

What are we really eating? Find the answer in Ezekiel 3:3:

 "Mortal man, eat this scroll that I give you, and go, speak to the house of Israel." What we eat is the Word. 

The scroll represents God sending his Word to the Prophet to be given to his covenant people for salvation. In Revelation 10:1, John is instructed to eat the scroll and deliver a pronouncement to all nations, languages, and kings. God's Word is sent to John to be given to every body. The greatest divine commission is this: go, deliver the Word as Food for all mankind to find salvation! The Word is commissioned to all nations and people on earth for salvation. In other word, for God to reconnect his people to his divine network, He has to send his divine information. People must go with divine information if we want to see others being reconnected and restored.

What does food eating stand for in the spirit's world? 

Those who eat food from the spirit's world are changed by the very food they partake. The Word of God changes us. We receive the ability to act like the Word, become like the Word, become intimately one with the Word. The Word is deeply engaging, personally invasive in essence. Fed by the Word and led by the Spirit, Jeremiah 20:9 shares his personal experience: "your Word in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones." Jeremiah is set in motion to fulfill God's will when the Word came to him. And food eating in the spirit realm abolishes the boundaries between heaven and earth. Data and information flow uninterrupted from heaven down to earth like under Jacob's ladder.

God's Bread is not given for religion but for Government. God's Bread works to Achieve Policies From his Throne. 

Food is not given or shared in family for the sake of entertainment or performance. Parents feed their children in order to ensure their physical growth, maturity, in order to prepare them for life mission and trials ahead of them. Home is a place where we are fed to accomplish a purpose. As in the natural, so in the spiritual. 

Spiritual food in God's Kingdom is  intrinsically connected with God's Throne. God's Bread is for divine Government and purpose on Earth. 

The eucharist is for heavenly Government. That's why, it has been entrusted to the "Ekklesia", God's governmental body on earth that carries divine government mandate till He returns. The sharing of bread could never be divorced from heavenly mandate and commission. This table fellowship is connected to God's salvation agenda and governmental purpose. 

As such, divorcing the eucharist from the Throne of God and the Covenant is a recipe for idle religious vagabondage. For the Jewish dinner table matches the Temple altar. The Bread of the Presence, לחם הפנים, in Exodus 25, is the bread of purpose and mission. The bread of the presence is the picture of the Word in us coming to carry God's agenda. God nourishes and feeds us, in our service to Him, to his Government, and for His mission on earth. That's why food provision has been given.

The tangible bread is made to represent the intangible Rhema Word of God, only brought to us by his Spirit. Man does not live by tangible bread alone, but by every Word that comes from God. The Israelites ate manna forty years in the desert. The tangible manna was a picture of an intangible food to come: the Word of God. 

For in John 6: 32, Jesus said to them: "it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." 

II. KNOWLEDGE COMES BY THE WORD AS THE TRUTH, THE WAY AND THE LIFE

Knowing God is always knowledge that transforms our being to become like Christ. It's moving out of darkness which is ignorance to light.  Knowing God always brings about creative and transforming power. If we are not changing according to the standards of God's image, we simply do not know God. Knowing God never happens outside God's Word. Jesus is the Word of God. Knowledge of God comes through meditation of His Word. What we meditate upon gives us spiritual character, substance, and the seeds of victory. Victory against evil comes by the Word and with the use of the Word as weapon. Jesus defeated satan in the wilderness by using the power of God's Word. God's Word is a powerful weapon against all attacks that come our way. In Matthew 4: 1-11, Jesus defeated satan by throwing against him the bullets of the Word: “It is written . . .It is written . . . .It is written!” We do not chase satan with religious rituals or by shouting on top of our lungs. We chase demons away by taking authority over them, but we resist satan with the Word of God.

III. READ THE WORD AND ALLOW THE WORD TO READ AND JUDGE YOU

As you read the Bible, allow the Word to be reading you. God's Word is active. As we meditate upon the Word, we experience that God's Word is incisive, operative, and penetrating. It is laying bare our hidden secrets and delusions. The Word is "sharper than two-edged sword". The Word cuts into the innermost hidden and concealed corners of human being, where no surgeon's scalpel would reach. The Word is piercing and nothing escapes its touch. Meditation brings revelation and moves us to another level of relationship with God. If we are not moving, we are not engaging the Word. We are still at the mental reading and processing level. Indeed, God's Word deals with the heart, the center of our personality. It does not entertain our intellect.

God's Word judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.  “For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.” Hebrews 4:12 

As you go for a medical check up, allow the medical doctor to reveal to you sickness and dysfunction you are not necessary aware of and be ready to receive treatment from your ailments. The Word judges, (kritikos), meaning, it divides and separates. It judges the intentions and motivations behind our mind and heart. It uncovers the secrets sins lurking behind our motivations to bring conviction so that we can submit to the truth. Only the Word has the unique ability to open our hearts to the truth by revelation. Ultimately we are to be judged by the Word and not the Word being judged by us. 

John 12: 47-48 points out that the Word has the final say and delivers the verdict on the day of judgment: “He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day". We do not carry judgment outside the law. Equally noteworthy, God will never judge us outside His unchanging Word. The Word has the final verdict for all.

IV. THE WORD, THE WATER, AND THE SPIRIT: THE MIRACULOUS POWER OF A NEW BIRTH  

John 6: 63 tells us that, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." The water, the Word, and the Holy Spirit are functionally inseparable in order to achieve a new birth and salvation for our lives. As Ephesians 2: 1 tells us, we are all born spiritually dead in our sins and iniquity. Because of the state of our spiritual death, we are unable to be fulfilled and know God despite our sincere efforts. This inherited spiritual defect has left us with the legacy of the flesh and religion as means of self-fulfillment. We do religion and yet we are not Spirit-led and Spirit- filled. We are religious but not genuine christians. Religion leaves us with a certain attendant dissatisfaction. Christians are those who are Spirit- led and Spirit-filled. Genuine children of God or Christians are regenerate and live a supernatural life. To be regenerate means becoming a new creation. 

In 2 Corinthians 5:17, Paul expounds what it means to be regenerate. "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things have passed away and all things have become new." Thus, because of this new birth, from now on we do not recognize people according to the flesh. New creation refers to the notion of creation from nothing or a "founding as in a new city". A brand new city of God has been built in us after the destruction of the old city within us. There is nothing comparable between the former and the new city. 

The washing of regeneration is not an improved version of the old self but the miracle of the birth of a totally new person in Christ by the power of the Spirit. The new creation takes place by the Word, the water, and the Spirit.

V. THE WORD HAS A CLEANSING POWER

God's Word is not a mere literary genre. It has the power to cleanse our spiritual filth and iniquity. In Psalm 51: 7, David the king after he committed a murder and raped a married woman, pleaded God to "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow". Only the Word of God can cleanse us from our sins and spiritual corruption when we take a step of repentance. Isaiah 1: 18 emphasizes that, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. "

Psalm 119: 9 gives us a clue to the cleansing power of God's Word. "How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your Word." Obedience and faith in the Word has the power to cleanse us of all our wrongs. Jesus in John 15: 3 gives assurance to his disciples that they are already clean because of the Word they received and believed in. "You are already clean because of the Word which I have spoken to you" .

In Ezekiel 36: 25, the Lord said, "Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols." 

The Word is the means of salvation from what has costed us our downfall from spiritual cleanse to our state of spiritual pollution. James 1: 21 firmly advises the believers to get rid of all the filth and evil in their lives, and humbly accept the Word God has planted in their hearts, for it has the power to save their souls. God's Word has a purification power or cleansing power to restore us to our original nature. We are made " holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word.” Ephesians 5: 26.

VI. THE WORD RENEWS THE MINDS

In Romans 12: 2, Paul firmly pleads with the believers to shift their way of thinking into godly patterns of thinking.  "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God."

We cannot change our heart until we accept to change our mind. Repentance means simply to "have a change of mind". The difference between unbelievers and Christians lies mostly in the way of thinking. Once we repented and received Jesus as Lord and Savior, a new mind comes along a new heart. Now, stopping the old patterns of thinking remains the biggest battlefield. The only way we can be kept in slavery and dominion to evil power is through the mind. We become what we think. Spiritual warfare mainly takes place on the arena of mind control to direct the thinking. There is a raging battle within us between following our sinful nature or following the Spirit. As Paul tells us in Romans 8: 5-8, "Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will. That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. " 

God's Word teaches us that, to have a godly living we must have a godly thinking or mind. That's why it is imperative for us to renew our mind through the Word of God. Renewal of the mind comes to us when we fix our mind on the Word of God through meditation 24 hours.

"And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise." Philippians 4: 8

If we do not fix our mind on godly thinking, we are still in bondage of sin. That's why the Word teaches us: Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think" …

"Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception." Ephesians 4: 21-23 

It will never be enough to emphasize that the power to overcome the sinful nature in us is not our making and does not come through our personal efforts or sacrifices. If we have the Spirit of God living in us, the same Spirit has power to take all control through us. The power to overcome evil is not ours. By our own effort, we can never overcome evil. Victory over sin is the work of the Spirit. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. Philippians 2:13 reminds us that,  ‘For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.’

7) THE WORD CREATES AND BRINGS LIFE

The word of God is active. The Greek word is "energes" from which we get our word energy. It is powerful, dynamic, full of energy. The Greek makes it boldly clear: God's Word is energy (energes), meaning that the Word is active, full of vitality, living. The Word of God is dynamic, energizing, moving, powerful. It is not a dead corpse that cannot move a mountain. The Word of God is the power of God. The Word is able to touch and carry task no human can accomplish. God's Word is a powerful weapon. The essential mark of God's Word is its dynamic efficacy and inexhaustible life.

GOD'S WORD IS INEXHAUSTIBLE ENERGY AND A POWER TRIP

It's only when our words become God's words and in harmony with God's Word that they are not void. When our words agree with God's words, they have dominion and power. In Jeremiah 1: 12, God said " I will hasten to my Word to perform it ". And in Mark 16: 20, the disciples went in agreement with the words of Jesus, and "the Lord working with them and confirming the Word by miraculous signs following." God's Word on human lips when we speak in faith is as creative and powerful as God's own Word coming from His mouth. Matthew 10:20 indicates that when we stand in agreement with the Spirit in speaking, "it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaks in you".

God has been looking for a legislative governmental body to rewrite decrees in order to reverse cycles of death, poverty, and stagnation and create life on earth. God is looking for people who know how to use His Word to create things and matter out of nothing. God is looking for people who produce life by His Word and create things out of nothing. We have to be carrier of His light and life-giving Word into the world.

Narcisse Jean Alcide Nana