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The Word of God
A little boy found in a dark closet the family Bible, covered with dust.
“Mama, whose book is this?” he asked.
“That’s God’s book,” she replied.
“Well, Mama,” the little fellow said, “don’t you think we had better give back to God then?
We never use it.”
When Stanley started across the continent of Africa in search of Mr. Livingstone, he carried with him seventy’three books.
As the days and weeks passed, he obliged to throw away those books one by one until there were all gone except his Bible.
He didn’t throw that one away, he treasured his bible.
He read it through 3 times on that remarkable trip.
Once a librarian at the University of Edinburgh asked a professor to pick out from the library all the books on his subject that were no longer needed.
He replied, “Take away every book over ten years old, except the Bible.”
Unlike humanity’s literature, that becomes obsolete after a few years, the Bible has stood the test of relevancy for centrueies.
It is the one book that lives through the ages.
It has stood the test of time.
How many people have you talked to that say the Bible is just to difficult to understand and is too boring.
When the fact is they’ve never opened the book and have thus cheated themselves of real joy, comfort, peace, and eternal salvation.
Jesus said
Jesus found the Scriptures helpful in resisting the devil in knowing and following His Father’s will.
We can do the same.
Points to Ponder
Let’s consider some points that it would be well to remember:
The Bible is the best-selling and most read book in the world.
Why?
It answers our most deepest longing of our human hearts - to be loved, and to belong
Christians believe that the Bible is inspired.
Why? Peoples’ lives are changed through it’s influence It’s prophecies come true It has God’s answer to the most vexing human problems.
It shows how sinners can be saved.
Through the centuries people have been willing to die for this Bible.
Why?
Because the Bible reveals God’s love for the human race, and this love is manifest in Jesus.
Because of this love Christians want to show their love and loyalty to Him.
Peace and contentment come from being with Him.
Many have no interest in even reading the Bible.
Why?
They feel trapped, with to many demands on their time.
They would rather devote their time to having “fun” in their own way.
So many people feel that “religion” would only interfere with their plans.
The Bible invites, Ps 34 8.
Without that experience, they are the losers.
People study the Bible a great deal.
Just like Jeremiah these people have discovered that the Bible becomes the joy and rejoicing of their hearts.
The more you study the more satisfying and fascinating it becomes until nothing else brings you as much pleasure as spending time with the author of the Word.
But isn’t that way with anything.
The more time you spend with something or someone the more you know them better.
You can’t develop a relationship with your spouse or your girl friend or fiance unless you spend time with can you?
We come to know the Lord from the study of His Word and you then can become as wise as the mountain goat.
A mountaineer, hiking in dangerous mountains above the timberline, was crossing the snow crust of a glacier.
Using his ice axe and ropes, he carefully edged along the steep slope.
Suddenly, he noticed what indicated to be a puff of smoke rising from the hanging wall just below him.
Past experience indicated that this was the first signal of an avalanche!
At that moment he saw a mountain goat feeding on a nearby ridge.
The animal stopped, tensed, and the big humped back quivered under it’s whit fur.
It too recognized danger in time to run.
Instantly, it bounced to an ice wall, sized it up, and sprinted out of sight.
The mountaineer new that wild goats know their mountains.
His only chance of safety was to follow that goat.
If there was a way of escape that goat would know it.
Running to the ice wall, he slammed his axe into the marks the goat had made with his hooves, and heaved his body up the route the goat had taken.
Ledges and hand grips he never expected appeared.
Struggling, he rolled onto solid rock just as he hard the terrible roar of the avalanche covering the trail he had left a few moments before.
The alert wisdom of the mountain goat that knew these high mountains saved both their lives.
As we get to know our Bibles and that knowledge improves, God will send us messages for every emergency enabling us to escape Satan’s temptations.
So let’s look at some verses to see what messages we can find.
Nuts and Bolts
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What can Bible study do for a person?
I like the way that the New Living Translation puts this.
It talks about childhood here, but the idea is the same.
If we study fill our minds with the Bible, we will receive wisdom and salvation because we have gotten to know and trust Jesus.
The essential purpose of the Bible is not merely to record history, nor even to describe the nature of God.
The Bible was written to show men how they may be saved from their sins.
When we understand that, then we can go to Jesus trusting that we can find pardon in Him and what he did for us at the cross.
2. What consistent reports do Bible writers give as to the real source of their writings?
These all acknowledge that the Spirit of the Lord generated the words spoken by the prophets.
If you read on there in Acts Paul actually goes on to quote what Isaiah said.
The Bible is full of the directions given directly from the Lord to man.
Moses time after time went to God and came back with direct answers from His mouth.
Matthew and John gave us actual words from Jesus’ lips - again words from God.
3. Based on his own experience and study, what did Paul conclude concerning Scripture usage?
It’s a little easier to understand if read from the NLT,
4. How did God communicate with Bible writers?
Vision, dreams, direct communication - God has multiple means letting us know the words he wants us to understand.
We have the written word for our own personal revelations for what the Lord would have us do and learn.
5. What examples of prophecy found in Isaiah were fulfilled in the life of Christ?
What is a definition of prophecy?
PROPHECY An oral, divine message mediated through an individual that is directed at a person or people group and intended to elicit a specific response.
Everything that Isaiah talked about was fulfilled in Jesus’ life.
Jesus life and death is an explanation of many parts of and fulfillment of the Old Testament.
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What three words did Jesus repeatedly say that show He accepted the Bible as the authority?
Did anyone see the answer in there?
It is written.
7. Which was more important to the Jews of Christ’s day?
Tradition or the authority of the scripture?
Your answer?
Definitely tradition.
The entire Talmud in standard print is over 6200 pages long.
The Talmud is the basis for all codes of Jewish law.
Talmud literally means instruction in Hebrew.
8. How did Jesus describe those who didn’t accept the word of the prophets?
Would you have Jesus describe you that way?
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