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Friends, we're turning this morning
in our Bibles to the book of Hebrews. We're going to read
from Hebrews chapter 4 today. The book of Hebrews chapter 4,
reading the Word of God together at the very first verse of this
chapter of God's Word. Hebrews chapter 4, verse number
1. The book of Hebrews in the New
Testament. We're reading today from chapter 4, and we'll read
all of the chapter together. Hebrews chapter 4, verse number
1. Word of God says, let us therefore
fear lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest.
Any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was
the gospel preached, as well as unto them. But the word preached
did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that
heard it. For we which have believed do
enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath.
If they shall enter into my rest, although the works were finished
from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place
of the seventh day, and this wise, And God did rest the seventh
day from all his works. And in this place again, if they
shall enter into my rest. Seeing therefore, it remaineth
that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first
preached entered not in because of unbelief. Again he limiteth
a certain day, saying unto David, Today, after so long a time,
as it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts. For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not
afterward have spoken of another day. There remaineth therefore
a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his
rest he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from
his. Let us labour therefore to enter
into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief. For the word of God is quick,
and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest
in his sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the
eyes of him with whom we have to do. Seeing, therefore, that
we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus
the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not
a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of
our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are,
yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find
grace to help in time of need. Amen. And we know that God himself
will add his own blessing to this public reading of his own
inspired and infallible word. Now I would invite you to turn
with me again please to the book of Hebrews. We're turning to
chapter 4. And I just want to leave one
verse with you and kind of use it as a bit of a springboard
to get on to the subject that I want to speak on this morning. It's Hebrews chapter 4, verse
number 12, where we believe it's the Apostle Paul who wrote the
epistle to the Hebrews. And the Word of God says, for
the Word of God, and that's speaking of the Bible, speaking of the
Scriptures, for the Word of God is quick, and that word quick
means living. The Word of God is quick and
powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. The Word of
God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. Over the last couple of Sundays,
the last couple of Lord's Days, we've been thinking about the
world's best seller, thinking about the Bible, the Word of
God. We've been thinking about its revelation, how God has revealed
Himself in Scripture. And last Lord's Day, we thought
about its inspiration, how the Lord inspired men to pen his
words, write them down in scripture. And over the next week or so,
we'll be looking at evidence of inspiration or its authentication,
how we know and why we believe the Bible is the Word of God.
I believe it's so important in these days that we get back to
the Scriptures, get back to the Bible, get back to the old paths. You ask people now, why do you
believe the Bible? How do we know the Bible is the
Word of God? And if we're absolutely honest, sometimes we're stuck
for an answer. That ought not to be the case.
We ought to be able to give a reason for the answer of the hope that
lieth in us, and we ought to be able to defend the Bible and
tell men and women why we believe the Bible is God's Word to a
fallen world. So we're looking today at the
world's bestseller again, and we're thinking about its authentication,
why we believe the Bible is God's inspired Word. But with these
thoughts before us, let's just still our hearts, calling upon
the name of the Lord. We realize that these things
are spiritually discerned, and so we need the ministry of the
Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God to come and to speak to your
hearts. Let's pray. Loving Father, Everlasting
God, we thank Thee today for the privilege of calling upon
Thee. We come now, O God, to Thee for
help. I ask, O God, for the anointing of the Holy Ghost. I pray, Father,
that Thou wilt anoint this earthen vessel with the power of heaven. I pray that thou wilt grant that
my name might perish and be forgotten. But may the name of thy Son be
engraved and written upon our very hearts. We pray today, O
Lord, that thou wilt come in all thy power. I ask, O God,
that thou wilt speak to every heart. And I pray, Father God,
that thou wilt reveal the things of God to us. Lord, we pray that
thou wilt bring us back to the Bible Lord, bring us back to
being men and women of one book. We pray, Father God, that you'll
give us that confidence in the Word of God. We pray today that
thou wilt speak mightily to every heart. Lord, answer prayer, because
we ask it in the Savior's precious and worthy name. Amen. Amen. You know, it always amazes me
today that whenever some celebrity professes to be a Christian,
the world or the church always seems to think that this is some
great thing. For example, if Cliff Richard
stands up and says that he's a Christian, largely speaking,
the church will run along with it and say, this is wonderful.
Here's a celebrity that has embraced Christianity, and it kind of
authenticates and proves that, well, Christianity isn't so foolish
after all. After all, here's a well-educated
man, here's a celebrity, here's a very rich man that's embraced
Christianity. It wasn't all that long ago,
whenever the triple jumper, Jonathan Edwards, was professing to be
a Christian, and the Christian church thought, well, this is
a great thing. Here's something that gives a little bit more
weight to what we believe. Here's a man that's done well
in life. Here's a man that's in the public eye, professing
to be a Christian. And well, this will really be
a wonderful testimony and this will authenticate Christianity.
So it was whenever the singer and songwriter Van Morrison said
that he was a Christian, many Christians thought that it was
a great thing and a wonderful thing. Here's a man that's done
well in life and now he says he's a Christian. This will really
bolster the cause and this will really push the thing along and
this will justify what we have been saying for years that Jesus
Christ is a reality. And it's so sad that the church
today seems to clutch at straws, clutch at all these things to
try and authenticate Christianity. But I believe, dear friends,
with all my heart this morning, that the only thing that makes
Christianity authentic is the Bible, the Word of God. We don't need anything else.
We don't need anything more than the Bible. We don't need anything
more than the Word of God. I'm glad today, as born-again
believers, we don't need the latest celebrity to come along,
whether it's Britney Spears or Cliff Richard or somebody else,
to say, I'm a Christian, and then we can just tell the world,
see, here's a man, here's a woman who's a Christian. That just
proves that we were right all along. Listen, it proves nothing.
The only thing that authenticates Christianity is this old book,
the Bible. But it's all very well to say
that the Bible's authentic. It's all very well for us to
say that the Bible is God's revelation to a fallen world. It's all very
well to come and say that the Word of God tells us that all
Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness. But the world immediately asks
the question, well, how do you know? that the Bible's inspired. How do you know that the Bible's
the Word of God? How can you be sure that a bunch
of men just didn't get together and write down what they thought
and wrote down their own beliefs and gave us this book? How can
you be sure? How can you know that the Bible
is the Word of God? Well, let me say something just
by way of introduction. If it wasn't for our sinful nature,
If it wasn't for our blinded minds, if it wasn't for our darkened
hearts, we would accept the Bible outright. The Bible doesn't have
to try and justify itself in the same way that God in heaven
doesn't have to try and prove His own existence. It's because
of the sinful, fallen heart of men and women that people today
are seeking for evidence that the Bible is God's inspired Word. If we could only see and take
the Bible at face value, it would prove itself. After all, does
the sun have to prove that it shines? You say, no it doesn't,
sure it's there, it gives light and it gives heat. Well, so it
is with the Bible. The Bible is God's words and
it shines in the darkened world. It gives light and it gives heat
and I believe the Bible is self-authenticating. But the Lord Jesus Christ said,
in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 18, verse number 16. And he was quoting from the Old
Testament, from the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 19 and verse 15. So the
Lord said, Matthew's Gospel, chapter 18, verse number 16.
concerning the law of the land, he says, but if they will not
hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the
mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And over the next few weeks,
I'm going to call certain witnesses to the public stand. And I'm
going to ask these witnesses to testify for themselves. And I trust as the weeks go by
and all these witnesses come and give their own testimonies
and their own witnesses and speak for themselves, and as all these
witnesses come together, that you will come to the conclusion,
and rightly so, that the Bible is God's own inspired and infallible
word. And the first witness that I'm
going to call upon this morning is the witness of the Bible itself. I'm going to call the Word of
God this morning to come to the stand and to witness before judge,
before jury, and before the congregation this morning that the Bible claims
to be the Word of God. The word Bible, by the way, is
a Greek word. There it comes from two Greek
words, he Biblios, which quite simply means the book. And so
whenever you read in front of your Bible the words Holy Bible,
the word holy means sanctified. And so whenever you read the
words Holy Book or Holy Bible, we could just be reading the
sanctified book or the book that is set apart. The Lord Jesus
Christ often talked about Scripture. or Holy Scripture, and the word
Scripture comes again from a Greek root, the word graphe, from which
we get the word graphics and so on and so forth, and it just
denotes the written word. So very well, we're calling upon
the Bible. We're bringing the Bible to the
stand and we're asking today for the Bible to speak for itself. And I want to say something first
of all about the Bible's own testimony. How do we believe
the Bible is the Word of God? Why do we believe the Bible is
the Word of God? Well, first of all, because of the Bible's
own testimony. The Bible, quite simply, unapologetically
claims to be the very Word of God. Second, Timothy 3 verse
16, all Scripture is given by inspiration of God. So the Bible
immediately is claiming to be the Word of God. Oftentimes we
have the phrase in Scripture, God said, or thus saith the Lord,
or God speak. We have phrases like that in
Scripture, for example, 500 times in the first five books of the
Bible, the books of Moses. We have those phrases 300 times
in the historical books. We have those phrases 1,200 times
in the prophetical books. And 4,000 times throughout the
Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, we have phrases like, God said,
God speak, thus saith the Lord, the Lord speak unto Moses, the
Lord speak unto Samuel, and so on and so forth. Even in the
very first words of Scripture, Genesis chapter 1 verse 3 says,
And God said, Let there be light. And several times in the very
first chapter of the Bible, we read and hear about God speaking
and God saying. And so the Bible claims to be
the Word of God. And I put it to you this morning
that there are very few books on the face of the earth that
claims so categorically and so unapologetically to be the Word
of God. The Bible says it's God's Word.
And just as we make that statement that the Bible itself claims
to be the Word of God, I want to ask you a question this morning,
that question being this. The Bible claims to be the Word
of God. Why wouldn't it be? Why wouldn't it be? After all,
do we not believe today in the philosophy of innocent until
proven guilty? If a man comes along to a court
and stands and testifies for himself and gives his own testimony,
well, the law of the land says innocent until proven guilty.
We'll have to take this individual at his word until we can find
proof to the contrary that this man is telling lies and so it
is with the Word of God. If the Word of God claims to
be God's Word, well then the only way we can prove that it
isn't God's Word is to bring evidence to the contrary. But
the world, it's strange and sad to say that while they'll say
concerning people that are brought before the court of the land
innocent until proven guilty, Whenever it comes to the Word
of God and it comes to the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, well,
it's guilty until proven to be innocent. But any defendant has
the right to speak for himself. So what we're going to do today
is quite simply just let the Bible speak for itself. From between 4,000 And 2,000 years, speaking of
the Old Testament Scriptures and the New Testament Scriptures,
never once has any person been able to come to the public stand
and witness and testify against this book. In reality, there's
nothing in the world that can really be proven except mathematics
and so on and so forth. So whenever a man makes a statement,
You just have to correlate the evidence and bring the evidence
together and allow the weight of the evidence to come to an
accurate conclusion. Let me just illustrate by way
of example. How do we know this morning that
Abraham Lincoln was an American? How do we know that? Can anybody
stand up and categorically prove that Abraham Lincoln was an American?
What you do is you bring all the evidence together. You look
at the historical records, you bring them together. You look
at the man's life, you look at the man's testimony, you look
at the position that the man fulfilled in society. He was
the President of the United States and the law of the land says
that a President of the United States has to be an American.
And so you bring all the evidence together and you come to the
conclusion that, rightly so, Abraham Lincoln was an American. And so it is with the Bible.
You bring all the evidence together and they have to ultimately come
to the conclusion that this book is the Word of God. But man's
problem is this. Man doesn't want to accept the
Bible as God's Word. despite all the evidence that
is brought together. And so it is true that there
is none so blind as those who do not want to see. So the Bible
makes a testimony unapologetically that it is the Word of God. So
we see today the Bible's own testimony. But I want to mention
something as well about the Bible's unity. Sixty-six books. Two sections, the Old Testament
and the New Testament, separated by a period of 400 years. A book that is penned by some
40 different men, written at different periods, different
times, and in different places. Thousands of different subjects,
thousands of different topics, many different doctrines, and
yet it all comes together as a unity. You think, for example,
about the different styles of writing. You've got historical
books. You've got poetical books. You've
got prophetical books. You've got different letters.
You've got a conversational style of writing. You've got a dogmatic
style of writing. You've got a very picturesque
and typological style of writing, if that's a word. Typology comes
together in Scripture. And so you've got all these different
styles of books and styles of writings, and yet from Genesis
to Revelation, there's one theme, and that's Jesus Christ. The
Word of God was written in many different places. It was written
in Israel, it was written from Judah, it was written from Babylon,
it was written from Rome, it was written from Asia Minor,
from the Isle of Patmos, from all these different places. And
it was written of course at different times over a period of some 1600
years. And from Moses penned the first
five books of the Bible. Until the apostle Paul wrote
his epistles, those two men were separated by a period of 1,500
years. Isn't it amazing that most books
that we have in our bookshelves today only take several months
or perhaps two or three years to write? But here we have a
book in our hands this morning that was written over a period
of something like 1,600 years by different authors. You can
think of Moses. You can think of David. You can
think of Isaiah, Jeremiah, the prophets. You can think of Matthew,
Mark, Luke, John, the Apostle Paul, Peter, John, and so on
and so forth. And yet all these different men,
some 40 authors, come from different places at different times and
they've brought this book together. And yet whenever you think of
what the Bible teaches about man, what the Bible teaches about
eternity, what the Bible teaches about sin, what the Bible teaches
about God, what the Bible teaches about Jesus Christ, what the
Bible teaches about the last things, what the Bible teaches
about creation, what the Bible teaches about science, what the
Bible says about history, all these different witnesses come
together and they agree. on all these different subjects
and on all these different doctrines. And you know as well as I do
how difficult it is to get even just five men to agree on one
thing. If I was to select two people from the gallery and somebody
from this aisle, somebody from this aisle, and somebody from
this aisle, and I was to shut you together into a room, and
I was to say to you, well, I want you to write me a book of some
1,000 pages, and I want you to write about religion, I want
you to write about politics, and I want you to write about
morality. I tell you within a very short space of time there would
be a row as big as a fight. Because you try and get five
individuals, five people that are different to agree on even
one thing. It never happens. And yet here
you've got 40 different authors coming together, writing about
many, many different subjects and all these witnesses and all
these testimonies come together in agreement. So you see the
Bible's own testimony. It claims to be God's Word. You
see, the Bible's unity. Different times, different places,
different authors, and yet one theme. I also see in Scripture
the Bible's consistency. Consistency is a great characteristic
of the truth. That's why if several men are
lifted for a crime that has been committed, and they are brought
into an inquiry room, and different police officers and detectives
come in and interview those men individually. That they can,
in a very short space of time, discern whether they're telling
the truth or not. It just comes to mind about a
friend that I had that was at university. And one day at university,
there were four young men in the same class that didn't turn
up to do one of their exams. And the lecturer, well, he came
and says, well, what happened? Why didn't you turn up? And they
says, well, we were coming to the lecture and we got a flat
tire. And so what the man did was, he didn't ask any more questions. And he took those four men and
says, well, you can sit your examination today. And they put
one in this corner of the room, one in this corner of the room,
one in the far corner, and one in this corner. And whenever
they lifted their exam paper and they turned to the first
question, the first question was this, which tire was flat?
And of course none of them had talked about that. And so it
was very unlikely that they were all going to say it was the same
tar. And so in the mouths of two or three witnesses shall
a matter be established. And yet whenever you think about
the consistency of the Bible, it's so consistent. Because of
the testimonies of the people that have spoken in it. And so
often times, whenever a person is lifted today for a crime,
as we have heard on the radio and the televisions recently,
they'll sit in the interview and they'll say absolutely nothing.
Because consistency is a characteristic of the truth. And whenever you
think about the consistency of the Bible, you can think about
the consistency of its theme. What does the Bible speak about?
What is the primary subject and theme in Scripture? Well, John
chapter 5, verses 39, the Lord Jesus Christ says, search the
Scriptures. For in them ye think that ye
have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me. And he was speaking, of course,
about the Old Testament. John 5, verse 46, he says to
the people of his day, For had ye believed Moses, ye would have
believed me, for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his
writings, how shall ye believe my words? And then in the Gospel
of Luke, chapter number 24, verses 25 through 27, the Lord said
to the people of his day again, O fools, and slow of heart to
believe all that the prophets have spoken. Ought not Christ
to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?
And beginning at Moses, They're getting at the book of Genesis.
They're getting at Moses. Going through the law then going
through all the prophets he expounded on to them and all the scriptures
all things concerning himself and so the subject and the theme
of scripture from Genesis chapter 1 to Revelation chapter 22 The
subject of scripture is the person and the work of Jesus Christ
and as you read the Word of God There's no contradiction concerning
the theme of scripture. It's Jesus Christ I also see
as well the consistency between the Old Testament and the New
Testament. And again, we just reiterate
the fact that they were separated by some 400 years. And yet the
New Testament directly quotes the Old Testament no less than
180 times. And it's the same God that's
in the Old Testament that is the same God that is spoken of
in the New. The higher critics will come
along today and they will say, well, it's a different God in
the Old Testament because the God of the Old Testament is a
God of wrath, a God of judgment, a God of anger, a God of justice,
but well, the God of the New Testament they'll say is entirely
different. As if the Old Testament never speaks about the love of
God. It speaks so many times about the love of God. God says
in the Old Testament, I have loved you with an everlasting
love. God says in the Old Testament, I will love them freely. God
says that from everlasting to everlasting in the Old Testament,
He loved His people and He brought them and He drew them unto Himself.
It speaks about the goodness of God. And then we come to the
New Testament and the Lord Jesus Christ spoke more about the wrath
of God, about the anger of God, about the justice of God, about
God's judgment day, about hell, more than any other prophet in
the Old Testament spoke. Jesus Christ spoke about God's
wrath. He revealed God's love. And you'll
see if you study it honestly and concisely that the God of
the Old Testament is the God of the New, and the Old Testament
and the New Testament fit together hand in glove. It's like Stephen
Alford said, the old is by the new revealed. And the new is
in the old concealed, I think as well, about the consistency
of the symbolism of the Bible. You take the law of the Old Testament,
you take the moral law, you take the civil law, you take the ceremonial
law, and you study it out, what do you see? You see Christ. And
the book of Galatians in the New Testament says that the law
is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. You think about
the law. Think about the Levitical system. Think about the tabernacle.
Speaks of Christ. Think of the high priest garments.
Speaks about Christ. Think of the sacrifices that
were offered. Speaks about Christ. Think of
the feasts that were held. Speaks about Christ. Think about
the lamb in Scripture. From the blood of the lamb was
slain at Eden's gates. From the lamb was offered on
Mount Moriah by Abraham, from the lamb was typified throughout
the Old Testament sacrifices, and the lamb was prophesied in
the book of Isaiah, until the lamb was personified. In John
1 verse 29 we see the consistency, and the lamb spoken of typified
the Lord Jesus Christ. Lamb without blemish and the
lamb without spot. Consider the book of Daniel in
the Old Testament, come to the New Testament and look at the
book of Revelation and they fit together again, hand in glove.
Read the book of Numbers, the book of Leviticus, then come
to the book of Hebrews and they fit together again. Just imagine
it, 40 different men, each asked to go away and say, for example,
make a part for a wristwatch over a period of 1600 years.
And then all the little pieces are brought together at the end
of 1600 years by 40 men or so on and so forth and they've each
made a part for a wristwatch. Many of them never spoke to each
other, many of them didn't know each other, many of them had
never met each other, some of them hadn't even heard of each
other. And then each person's asked to make two or three parts
for a wristwatch, bring those parts together, do you honestly
think the watch is going to keep good time? None of the pieces
would fit together. And yet here we've a book, 66
books in all, and yet you bring it together and it's entirely
consistent in everything that it says, everything that it teaches,
everything that it commands, and its central theme. I also
consider evidence for inspiration in the relevancy of the Bible.
It's the oldest book that you could buy on the shelf in any
bookstore, and yet it's more up to date than tomorrow's newspaper. You read Matthew 24. You read
1 Thessalonians. You read 2 Peter. You read Genesis
49. You read the book of Daniel.
You read the book of Revelation. Read 2 Timothy chapter 3. And
I believe in the next 20, 30, 40 years as you watch your news
headlines and you see what is going on in the world, as the
news unfolds before us, you will see things that have been prophesied
hundreds, thousands of years ago in the Bible coming to pass
before your very eyes. One French infidel by the name
of Voltaire said that shortly after he died, the only place
you would find a Bible would be in a museum. But yet after
Voltaire died and his house was empty, people came in and they
erected a printing press in his house and they began to print
the very scriptures in the house that Voltaire had lived and died
in. You see, the Bible will be read
until the climax of the ages. The Lord Jesus Christ said, Thy
word is truth. You think about a book. that
reached its completion 2,000 years ago by a collection of
unlearned and ignorant Jewish men. And yet today the Bible
is being read in Korean. The Bible is being read as far
away as Cork. It's being read in Cuba. It's
being read in Columbia. It's being read in Canada. It's
being read in China. It's being read all across the
world. And it's the world's best seller. It's the world's most
widely circulated book, written in over 1,000 languages. Do you
honestly think that in 2,000 years from now, if the Lord tarries,
they'll still be reading the works of Richard Dawkins and
Charles Darwin in 2,000 years? I don't think so. It's read by
paupers and it's read by presidents. It's read by kids and it's read
by kings. It's read by scientists and it's
read by schoolboys. It's read by the black man and
it's read by the white man. It's read by male, it's read
by female. It's read by old and it's read
by young. Why? Because it's so very relevant. There's something in the Bible
for everyone. Poetry, romance, adventure, prophecy,
counsel for the family, counsel for the individual. The Bible
gives guidance. It gives answers to life's hardest
questions. It gives counsel. It gives warning. It gives wisdom. It gives comfort. And yet it was written by unlearned
and ignorant men. And yet it satisfies the minds
of the greatest geniuses that have ever walked the face of
the earth. I see in the Scripture, whenever
I look at the Bible, and the Bible comes to witness for itself,
I see its testimony. It claims to be the Word of God.
I see its unity. I see its consistency. I see
its relevancy, but I also see in closing its inexhaustibility. Thousands upon thousands of books
have been written about the Bible, and yet its depths have never
fully been plumbed. It's an unfathomable mine. of
eternal wisdom. It's an eternal book, written
by the hand of an eternal God. And it's a book of eternal worth.
You will never wear it out. You'll never wear out its promises.
The Bible has freed nations. The Bible has abolished slavery. The Bible has united families.
The Bible has saved lives. The Bible has saved souls. The
Bible has satisfied minds. Every missionary movement of
any worth is established on the principles of Scripture. Every
movement of social reform, whether it's the abolition of slavery,
the looking after of orphans, has been established upon the
principles of God's Word. It's inexhaustible. You can never
wear out its promises. Think, for example, of Romans
8, 28. We know that all things work together for good to them
that love God and to them who are called according to His purpose.
And you think about the thousands and thousands and thousands of
people who have fallen down in their faces before God and said,
Lord, You have promised to satisfy my soul and drought. Lord, You
have promised to lead me. You have promised to guide for
me. You have promised that my God shall supply all my need
according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus. Lord, You have
promised to direct my path. Lord, You have promised to save.
You have promised to revive. You have promised to satisfy
the longing soul. And all these promises are still
good today. Some of them given and recorded
4,000 years before and yet we can claim them today because
the Bible is God's inexhaustible book. It's either back to God's
authority or it's back to man's anarchy. As I've said in the
weeks gone past, it's either back to the Bible or back to
the jungle. The Bible is a book of life and
it's a book for life. One young person I heard one
time give an acrostic, B-I-B-L-E, best instruction before leaving
earth. Let me ask you in closing, what
are you doing with this precious book? You know, I believe today
that all our problems, and all our fears, and all our anxieties,
and all our worries, and all our coldness, and all our lack
of success, and our lack of victory, and our deadness, and our lethargy
all stem from one thing. We just don't read this book.
I believe it's as simple as that. There was one old Puritan said,
preaching in a church, he says, many people here today could
write the word damnation on the dust that lies in the top of
your Bible. Dear friend, let me ask you today,
what are you doing with this old book? The word of God is
quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. The
Bible is the Christian's food. And if you're weak in the Christian
life, we'll then get some good food into you. If you're starving
in the Christian life, we'll then get some good meat into
you. If you're hungry for God, we'll then feed in God's Word.
If you're looking for answers in prayer, then get into the
Bible and claim its promises. We need to get back to this old
book, God's inspired Word. Let's turn, in closing please,
to the hymn, Number 186, please. Hymn number 186. It's a hymn
maybe that we're not familiar with, but it should be a familiar
tune. How wonderful a book divine by
inspiration given, bright as a lamp its doctrines shine, and
to guide our souls to heaven. Let's stand together as we sing
number 186 and let's praise the Lord for this wonderful book
that we have in our hands that's been given to us from the hand
of a loving God. Number 186, we'll stand together
as we sing.
The Authentic Word of God
Series The World's Bestseller
| Sermon ID | 32909811135 |
| Duration | 36:50 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - AM |
| Bible Text | Hebrews 4:12 |
| Language | English |
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