What is the word of God in the Bible?

His divine glory is the focus even of the very first verses of the Gospel. Christ is presented as "the Word", the expression of all God had to say, the full revelation. This Word has always existed, eternally ('in the beginning'). The Word is a person, distinct from God ('the word was with God') and yet the Word 'was God', the creator of the universe. Verse 14 shows us the mystery of the incarnation of this divine Word, God come in manhood.

In the Gospel by John the Spirit of God opens out to us the glories of the Word. As the Word, He is the universal Representative of all the mind and thoughts and ways of God, both in His own Person and by means of what He says and does. If at any time any revelation required, or requires, to be given of God's thoughts and plans and will, the revealing thereof took place, or will take place, through Him. We are to think of Him as the One adequate, and He alone, to fully disclose all that is in the mind of God, and to bring into being all that the mind of God has planned.

As to the meaning of the term, "the WORD," it brings before us the fact that "He is, and He is the expression of the whole mind that subsists in God." All that God is, is therefore revealed in Him; and hence it was said, "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him." (v. 18.) Only here, He who was the Word is spoken of as the only begotten Son. As the Word He is, and He is the expression of the whole mind of God; but as the Son, the eternal Son, He is, in incarnation, the revealer of the Father.

A designation of the Lord Jesus, employed by John in the opening of his gospel, and mentioned in Luke 1:2. The word is λόγος, which occurs constantly in the N.T. and is translated 'word, saying, speech,' etc. In John 1 it is 'the Word who is in view,' and what is stated asserts clearly three things concerning the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Gospel of John opens by presenting the divine glory of the Son of God as the Word in eternity. Men have taken the occasion of the incarnation to dishonour the Son of God, but the Holy Spirit, in such Scriptures as John 1 has shown how jealous God is of the honour of the Son. This Name of Jesus, “The Word,” presents Him as the One who is the expression of all that God is in His nature, His mind, His will, and all His thoughts; and it is in Him and through Him that we can learn what God is, whether it be God’s eternal power and divinity in creation, or His love and grace in the incarnation and death of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Accept this simple and obvious truth, and at once it becomes clear that the Word must be the everlasting Word. None can read the opening verses of the Gospel of John without seeing that it presents Christ in the personal glory of His Deity. As such He is entitled "the Word." As the Word He is the revealer of God — the Person in the Godhead who is in Himself the sum-total of the thoughts of God, as well as the One who, by His acts, and what He became, gives expression to those thoughts.

The Lord Jesus is "the Word". A word is the expression of a thought and so "the Word" is the expression of the mind of God. The Lord Jesus did not just say "Thus saith the Lord", He did not just tell forth the mind of God, but He Himself was the full expression of God; He is God. "The Word became flesh" and John was still enjoying the wonder of it, 'To think, He came here and lived! He dwelt among us! and we have contemplated His glory!"

John speaks of Christ as "the Word" before He speaks of Him as "the Son." "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God" (John 1:1-2). Just as some have dared to deny that Christ was the Son of God before coming into the world, so there are those who boldly assert that Christ became the Word. This is a flagrant insult to Scripture, and to the Lord Himself. Actually the Word had no beginning. He was "In the beginning." As far back as we can imagine, He was there. In other words, He is an eternal person. He was "with God," that is, He is a distinct person. "And the Word was God." He is a divine person. More than that, "He was in the beginning with God." He is an eternally distinct person. As "the Word" Christ is the perfect expression of all the thoughts of God. As "the Son" He is in the bosom of the Father; the One in whom the heart of the Father is perfectly manifested.

If the Name of Jesus brings before us the salvation secured by our blessed Lord, and the sweetness of the grace manifested in Him here below, the Spirit of God also delights to present Jesus in His glory to us as The Word. This blessed Name surely conveys to our hearts that all God is finds expression in the Person of the eternal Son of God. John’s Gospel opens majestically with “In the beginning was the Word,” calling attention to the existence of the Son of God before time was. However far the human mind can travel into the past, be it into eternity, the Word was then, for there was never a beginning to His existence.

— “His Name is called the Word of God.” Of the eight sacred writers of the New Testament, John is the only one who applies this title to Christ. As the Word He represents and expresses God in His Being, character, and works. He is ”The Word of Life” (1 John 1:1), as being in His Person and ways its living embodiment. He is termed “The Word of God,” as perfectly expressing Him in judgment. As the WORD He has personal, independent, eternal existence (John 1:1-2); and as the WORD He is the maker of all things (v. 3). He is the Revealer of God, the ONE Who makes Him known. Our words ought to be the exact expression of what we are; the words of Christ were the absolute expression of what He ever is (John 8:25). As the WORD He reveals God in His essential nature as light and love, and as the “only begotten Son” He declares the Father. The first without the second would have left a huge blank, for the heart craves for a known and enjoyed relationship. God is our Father.