To that end, the writer turns our attention to God’s Word, examining its identity, its characteristics, its abilities, and its implications for us. We begin by zooming in on its identity as “the word of God” (4:12). Now most of us would immediately assume the author had what we call the Old Testament in mind—and we would be partly correct. But in Scripture itself, the phrase “word of God” can refer to several related things. First, it can refer to the written Word of God, Holy Scripture (John 10:35;