God's Word is truly wonderful! That He should love His creatures, made in His image, enough to give us His Word in written form, is astounding.
God condescends to communicate with His creatures using ideas and words and speech and writing. How kind He is to delight to communicate and interact with such lowly creatures.
Paul teaches us that God's written word is "God breathed," or inspired by the Holy Ghost. He communicated it to faithful men whom He had chosen, strengthened, and raised up to record what He desires to tell us.
All that reminds us of the incident where wicked King Jehoiakim cut up and burned the book of Jeremiah, because God had promised destruction of his kingdom and the Babylonian captivity, because of Israel's great sin.
Here we see just one historical example of how God miraculously preserved His Word down to us today, and how much we profit from it.
The wicked king thought he had a solution: he cut up and burned Jeremiah's book, as it was being read to him!
At this point in the event, we should pause to think of all the beautiful Gospel hope and truth that the king destroyed. He destroyed not just the promises of God's judgment for the sin of Israel, but also the glorious promises of salvation and forgiveness that God had revealed to Jeremiah, and Jeremiah had recorded in his book.
Those words spoken to Jeremiah by the Holy Ghost, the king had just obliterated by his rebellious act.
These were words meant for our comfort and rescue by God! They were part of His revelation of how He would save us from our sin!
That wicked king destroyed those words.
But praise God, He did not permit His Word to be destroyed forever!
SERMON ACTIVITY
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
