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Introduction:

I want you to pay special attention to the first part of Hebrews, chapter 3 and verse 1. "Wherefore holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus."

He's talking to you if you are a believer in Jesus Christ.

You are the holy brethren, you are the partaker of the heavenly calling.

Notice the title given to our Lord Jesus Christ in this verse.

He is called the High Priest of our profession.

That is, He is the High Priest of our confession.

Actually, the word "profession" and "confession" is exactly the same Greek word.

They both mean the same.

So He is saying that Jesus Christ is the High Priest of our confession.

Now I want you to think for just a moment about the fact that we live in a power filled universe.

We are told that there is enough latent power in one cubic foot of air to blow the largest city in the world off the face of the earth.

God has charged our physical universe with power all about us.

There is unreleased and untapped power all about us.

Now that power was intended by God for man's blessing and for God's glory.

That power was set in motion by words and that power can be controlled by words if we learn the secret of the power of the spoken word.

I want us to notice several principles about the power of words.

First of all, the world was made by words.

, verse 3 says, "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 not appear."

What is He saying here.

He is saying that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen are not made of things which do appear.

In other words, everything we see was made of things which are invisible.

Now when you read the creative account in the Book of Genesis, you are going to read statements like this.

And God said, "Let there be a firmament," and there was a firmament.

God said, "Let there be light" and there was light.

God said, "Let there be a moon and a stars."

God said and it was so.

God created a world with words so everything we see that is visible was made of something invisible and the invisible became visible by the power of the spoken word of God.

Now, God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass," and it did.

He said, "Let the earth bring forth trees," and it did.

So we know that here is a world made by words.

But not only that, the world was controlled by words.

When Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden, they were given power to subdue the earth.

I don't believe that Adam and Even subdued the earth with a hoe.

I don't think they subdued the Garden of Eden through hard labor.

I don't think they subdued the animals with a whip.

I think all they had to do was speak and all the earth was under their subjection.

They spoke and the animals did their bidding because they were controlling the world under the authority of God.

God had given them authority and they were living under God's authority and they were in subjection and perfect obedience to God's authority and because of that they had the same power with words that God had.

They could speak and it was so.

Notice .

"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."

So once the world was controlled by words.

Then the world fell because of words.

Now, Satan enters the picture and what happens?

Satan came and the devil introduced the first doubt.

He came to Eve and he said, "Hath God said that you cannot eat of every tree in the garden."

Then Satan introduced the first lie.

He said, "You will not surely die if you eat of the fruit of this tree."

Then he introduced the first criticism.

"For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."

() So when you get ready to criticize and say a bad confession, you might remember that the first criticism on this planet was introduced by the devil, himself.

You might just keep that in mind when you are tempted to criticize because the author of criticism was Satan and he gave the first criticism that ever took place on this planet.

For the first time, Adam and Eve spoke a word that was not in harmony with their creator.

When they spoke a word that was not in harmony with their creator, they fell from fellowship with God.

They accepted the word of the devil and as a result, chaos and confusion came upon this world and sin broke fellowship with God and confusion came upon this planet and they became separated from God.

The world fell.

Why? ?

Because of their words.

Their words were not in agreement with God and the world fell.

The forth principle is, the world was redeemed by words.

In , the Bible says, "In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God." Then in verse 14 we read, "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."

Now, he is talking about the Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ that the Father sent into this world.

Now, Jesus Christ was the Word of God.

He was the expression that all that God ever thought in human form.

Jesus, the living Word, was the expression of the written word.

All that God had ever though or said was capsulized in the person of Jesus Christ.

In Jesus Christ was the love of God, the wisdom of God, the power of God, the salvation of God, all of it dwelt in Jesus in His bodily form.

Paul said that in Christ dwells all the riches and all the knowledge of the triune God.

The scripture says that in Jesus Christ, we have the preeminence because in Jesus God dwelt bodily in Him.

So when God got ready to redeem this planet and to redeem you and me, He did it through the living word, the Lord Jesus Christ.

God wanted to make a statement so in , verse 1, it says that "God who in diverse times and manners has spoken to us through his servants the prophet hath in these last days spoken through his son, Jesus Christ, whom he has made the heir of all things."

He said that God has spoken in past times through prophets, that is through men who wrote down the Word of God but now God has spoken to us through the living Word, through Jesus Christ.

Now, a word is a thought crystallized.

Jesus Christ was all that God says, crystallized into a human form.

Now, Jesus accomplished His ministry through words.

The people said that neither a man spoke as this man spoke.

If you follow the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ, you see that what Jesus did, He did by the power of the spoken word.

Jesus said to a fig tree, "Be cursed and never bear figs again," and that's what happened.

Jesus said to a leper, "Be though cleansed," and the leper was made whole.

Jesus said to a blind man, "Receive your sight," and the man could see again.

Jesus said to a cripple man, "Take up your bed and walk," and immediately he took up his bed and he walked.

Jesus Christ spoke and it was so.

Jesus commanded demons to come out of a demon possessed man and they came out.

He commanded the demons to enter the swine and they did.

Jesus was in agreement and under the authority of the Heavenly Father, therefore, whatever He said came true.

Whatever He said, happened.

Just like whatever God the Father said happened in the creation.

Whatever Jesus said happened, because He was under the authority of the Father.

He did His ministry through the power of the spoken word.

So let's go back to our original verse.

Who is Jesus to us this morning?

Well, He's many things.

He's our Savior.

He's our Redeemer.

He's our Lord.

He's our King.

He's our High Priest.

He's the Alpha and Omega.

He's the Beginning and the End, but He is the High Priest of our confession.