Thread: To "preach the Bible", as some boast of doing, is nothing"
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To "preach the Bible", as some boast of doing, is nothing"
Posted : 24 Jan, 2020 12:35 AM
"To "preach the Bible", as some boast of doing, is nothing. Satan quoted Scripture to entrap Jesus. He had to quote the Scriptures, for he had no Word of God for Jesus. But ministers of God are called "ministers of the word" (Lk.1:2), and preaching is called the "ministry of the word" (Acts 6:4), because "He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God" (Jn.3:34). The man sent from God is not confined to the Words which other men have heard from God.
Do not they who esteem the Bible to be the Word of God, and say that it is infallible, understand that the Word of God can be corrupted (2Cor.2:17; 4:2)? It can be corrupted because they who have received communication from God can be influenced by money, fear of men, or other considerations, to communicate the Word incompletely or with respect of persons (1Kgs.22:13; 2Chron.18:12; Jer.23:28; 26:2). Faithful delivery of the Word can be hindered by religious traditions of men (Mk.7:13; 2Thess.3:1), and it is by those who teach that the Bible is the Word of God that the true Word of God is most frequently contradicted when it is revealed.
The notion that the Bible is the Word of God is a "slow-eating cancer". I say this because the effects of such a belief are to slowly dull the ear of man's heart to the true and living Word of God. It slowly but inexorably diminishes the role of the living God in the decisions that men make, because it has the effect of sending them to the Scriptures for guidance rather than to their knees, in faith communing with God. In time, such wrong thinking diminishes the fear of God in the human heart, dulls one's awareness that God is intimately concerned and involved in our lives, and diminishes the zeal for holiness that nothing but personal communion with the living God can produce. To say that the Bible is the Word of God is to say that the Bible was in the beginning with God and is God. And to do that it is to make an idol of what is only a tool of righteousness, a record written by holy men as testimony of the Word of God which came to them.
The Scriptures are not themselves the Word of God, and they can only be rightly understood by the person who has himself heard from God. God still speaks. He has spoken to me. And the Word of God which came to me opened my eyes to the meaning of the Scriptures. To understand the Bible requires the same revelation and anointing which was required to write it. Only He who inspired the writing of the Scriptures can possibly inspire a man to interpret them correctly. In comparison to the Word of the living God, the Bible is a dead letter which kills every soul which looks to it for life (2Cor.3:6).
Despite the reverence for God which appears to attend the somber declaration that the Bible is "the infallible Word of God", that declaration sprouts from the envious heart of Satan, who would rather glory in the works of men - even the Bible, the written work of righteous men - than to glory in the living power of God. It is Satan who inspired that unknown minister who first proclaimed the Bible to be God's Word. His evil purpose was to discourage fervent prayer, and to discourage men from expecting answers from God Himself; that is, to "read the Word" rather than humbly to prepare their hearts to receive it. That the Bible is the very Word of God is a wickedly cunning lie, the effects of which are discouragement, confusion, and death, even if its proponents boast of devotion to Christ and an ever closer walk with God - through the Scriptures, of course, rather than through experience with the power of God's Spirit. The Word of God is what God is saying this moment, not what He said two thousand years ago, or even what He said yesterday.
The Bible never claims for itself the lofty title of "Word of God"; yet, strangely, multiplied thousands insist that the Word of God is what the Bible is. Living fellowship with the living God can never be attained by merely reading the Bible. There must be a communication, a Word, from God to man in order for fellowship to exist. What Satan has accomplished is to have persuaded many of us to think that we have heard from God just because we have read the Bible. This persuasion robs us of our zeal for fervent prayer and devotion, the means of really obtaining a Word from the Lord. And if Satan thought he could convince some of us that there is no longer such a thing as God speaking to man, don't you think that He would try to do it? Not only has he tried, but he has in great measure succeeded, so that many thousands now regard any man's testimony of hearing directly from God as heresy. But though many more than this be persuaded to deny the reality of God's Word being heard today, the Word of God will still prevail, and all who hear and obey His Word are destined to prevail with it"
To "preach the Bible", as some boast of doing, is nothing"
Posted : 24 Jan, 2020 08:24 PM
Actually our Great God and Savior Jesus Christ told the holy spirit exactly what to inspire the 8 writers of the New Testament what to write. And so Jesus is the Author of the entire New Testament!!
Acts 26:15-18: Jesus said to Paul, "I have appeared to you as a servant and as a **WITNESS OF WHAT YOU HAVE SEE AND WILL SEE OF ME**. I am sending you to the Gentiles to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive **FORGIVENESS OF SINS ** and a place among those who are **SANCTIFIED BY FAITH IN ME**!!"
Acts 22:14,15: Ananias said to Paul "The God of our ancestors has chosen you to see the Righteous One and to **HEAR WORDS FROM HIS MOUTH**! You will be **HIS WITNESS TO ALL PEOPLE** of what you have seen and heard!!"
John 16:12-14: Jesus says, "I have much more to say to you, more that you can now bear. But when the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. He will **GLORIFY ME** because it is **FROM ME**that he will receive **WHAT HE WILL MAKE KNOWN TO YOU!"
Matthew 24:35: Jesus says, Heaven and earth will pass away, but **MY WORDS WILL NEVER PASS AWAY**!"
Hebrews 12:1,2: Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on **JESUS** the **AUTHOR** and **PERFECTER** of our faith!
Matthew 28:18-20: Jesus says, "**ALL AUTHORITY** on heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations... Teaching them to **OBEY EVERYTHING I HAVE COMMANDED!" {WHICH IS EVERY WORD IN THE NEW TESTAMENT**} And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age!"
To "preach the Bible", as some boast of doing, is nothing"
Posted : 24 Jan, 2020 08:46 PM
John 12:48: Jesus says, "There is a Judge for the one who does not accept My words; {Like every word in the NT} the very words I have spoken will **CONDEMN THEM** at the Last Day!"
2 Peter 3:15,16: Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as **OUR DEAR BROTHER PAUL** also wrote to you with the **WISDOM THAT GOD GAVE TO HIM**. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things which are hard to understand {By the unsaved}, which ignorant and unstable people distort {Like Chuckles and Quiznos}, as the do other Scriptures, to their own **DESTRUCTION**! {Eternal torment in Hell}
Revelation 22:16-10: "I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony **FOR THE CHURCHES**!.... I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone **ADDS** anything to them, God will add to them the plagues described in this book {Including eternal torment in hell as per Rev 14:9-11} And if anyone **TAKES WORDS AWAY** from this book {Like Chuckles and Quiznos} of prophecy God will take from them any share in the Tree of Life and in the Holy City {The eternal New Jerusalem} which are described in this book!"
And so Chuckles and Quiznos fully qualify for the **UNPARDONABLE SIN** as promised by our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. And since misery loves company they would both love you to join them in Hell!!
