Today we continue with our rehash of Sunday morning’s sermon at Cornerstone Church Winchendon MA entitled, “Paying the Asking Price.”

If you missed the first part of this share go to:

https://josephelonlillie.com/2015/01/04/pastor-wrinkles-paying-the-asking-price/

Today we begin discussing the difference between “rhema” and “logos”. If you get to the end and wonder how it all ties in don’t worry. I will wrap it all up in a neat package tomorrow.

As I enter 2015 God has led me to begin praying about His Rhema Word for this year of my life.

You know what a Rhema word is don’t you? The word Rhema means “word” and it is used in I Peter 1:23-25:

23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word (Logos) of God. 24 For,

“All people are like grass,

   and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;

the grass withers and the flowers fall,

   but the word (rhema) of the Lord endures forever” 

And this is the word (rhema) that was preached to you.

Now, there are two ways God speaks into a man’s life. He uses a lot of different methods but there remain but two types of “words” that God speaks into a man’s life. There is the “Logos Word” the unchanging word which is Scripture. From the logos, Scripture, we are to draw all of our right understanding of God, the way He operates in the world, His moral way and the strategy we are to live by on a day to day basis. The logos is the same for everyone because the Scripture is the same for everyone.

We cannot change it or say “This part of Scripture is for me while that part of Scripture is not for me.”

God is God, unchanging. His Word is His word, unchanging. The ten commandments, are my ten commandments and they are your ten commandments. Jesus sacrifice on the cross is my way to Heaven and it is your way to Heaven. The “logos word” applies to everyone.

But the “rhema word” is God’s present word for my life. It is the voice of His Holy Spirit telling me prophetically what my year is going to be about. The “rhema word” comes out of the “logos word.” The rhema never contradicts the logos. Further the logos tells me how I am to walk in the present word of God, the “rhema word” of God; But the “rhema word” can be different from person to person; So for instance God might be telling you that this year is going to be a year of celebration and restoration while he might be telling me this year is going to be a year of great battles and great victories. While he might be telling the sister across the room that this is a year of loss but sustaining grace. Different rhema words for each one of our situations but in the midst of all those different “words” the Bible tells us how to live each of them out. The way I live as a Christian is defined by Scripture whether I am walking in celebration, battle or sustaining grace. The rhema word tells me what is about to happen. The logos word tells me how I am to live in the midst of what is going to happen.

A few years ago the Lord told me I was going to go through a year of loss but He gave me Scriptures from the Bible about how I was to walk through that loss. He told me I was to “set my face like flint” from the book of Isaiah;

He was telling me “Don’t allow your emotions to take control.”

He also told me to, “walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death and refuse to be afraid.” Psalm 23

His Word assured me if I did I would find He was with me every step of the way.

The rhema told me what was going to happen the logos told me how I was supposed to live through it.

What is the present word of God for your life?