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The Portrait And The Person #RTTBROS #Nightlight
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- Jun 29, 2026
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The Portrait And The Person #RTTBROS #Nightlight I had the privilege of preaching this past Sunday at Twin Falls Church of the Nazarene, and I want to share something with you that I think could change the way you read your Bible. We were in Hebrews chapter 4, and the big idea is this - the Bible is not the destination. It is the road. The written Word of God is like a letter from someone you love deeply. You read it slowly, you feel them in every word, and it is a precious thing. But the letter is not the person. It was made to point you to the Person. The Bible is the portrait. Jesus is the Person. And the whole point of the portrait is to make you want the Person so badly you cannot stay away from Him. Now, Hebrews 4:12 tells us that the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. That word "quick" does not mean fast. It means alive. And here is what Pastor James helped me see when John opens his gospel and says "in the beginning was the Word," that is the same Greek word used right here in Hebrews. The written Word and the living Word are connected. And the sword of verse 12 belongs to a Person because verse 13 makes the shift from "it" to "Him." He sees everything. The thoughts, the intents, the fear underneath the anger, the wound underneath the performance. Nothing is managed or hidden before Him. And most people, when they hear that, want to get up and leave. But Hebrews does not stop there. What the writer does next is one of the most beautiful pivots in all of Scripture. The terror of verse 13 is immediately answered by the mercy of verse 14. We have a great High Priest. Jesus did not study our weakness from a distance - He inhabited it. He moved into the full weight of human experience. In t…