Significance Of The Bible 06-12-03

“The Significance of the Bible”

I.  God’s heart wanting to express himself to His man

A.  Isaiah 55:8-9 My ways are higher than your ways

                        1.  We must acknowledge his ways are higher

2.      We must think and speak his thoughts

B. Isaiah 59:21 – Isaiah 61:1 As for me, this is my covenant with them

1.      God’s words becoming man’s words

2.      His words are not to depart from our mouths

    II.  What is man that you are mindful of him?

A.  Psalm 8:2 His word in our mouth stills the enemy and the avenger (Satan)

            B. God wants to speak to and through His man

1.      Psalm 8:1 How excellent is your name, when we speak it

2.      Your glory is above the heavens, and now in us

   III. God wants to reveal Himself to us

            A. Before the fall as in Genesis 3:8 his voice and walking in the cool of the day

            B. Restored in Christ John 14:6 no other way to come

C. Heaven is now opened Revelation 11:19

                        1. God’s temple in heaven now opened

                        2. The ark of His Testament is now SEEN