Obedience Archive

Obey God’s Voice 2 B. RELATIONSHIP – NOT FORMULA We need to realize that God’s life-giving word seldom comes in response to religious forms or formulas. Jesus healed one blind man by mixing dust and spittle, forming mud and applying it to the blind man’s eyes. The blind man was then sent to the pool of Siloam to wash the mud out of his eyes, and was healed (John 9). If I mixed dust and spit and put it in blind men’s eyes, probably all they would get is...

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Obey God’s Voice 1 ‘So then faith comes by hearing … the word (rhema) of God” (Rom 10:17). A. LOGOS AND RHEMA There are two Greek words translated as “word” in our English Bibles. “LOGOS” and  “RHEMA” (pronounced as ray-mah). Logos often refers to the written or inscriptured “word” Rhema often refers to the living or life-giving “word”. [Editor's note: The following examples are not meant as accurate or precise usage of these Greek words. They are given as examples of the idea the author seeks to explain related...

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