Sermon Lesson for Monday January 9, 2012.
THE BIBLE, GODS HOLY INSPIRED WORD - THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH OF GOD OR JUST THE BEST SELLING BOOK IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD.
The Word of God will prepare you to Hear His Voice "Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."Psalm 119:105. Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1:20-21. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.
The Bible has inspired the greatest literature, the greatest art, the greatest examples of architecture, the cathedrals, churches, the age of exploration, world missions, the rule of law, the separation of powers, checks and balances, representative government, the sanctity of life, and so much more that we take for granted.
Just consider some of the everyday things which has been inspired by the Bible. The word "breakfast" comes from the concept of breaking the fast. The word "restaurant" comes from Jesus' promise in Matthew 11:28 "come to me, all you who labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." The first restaurant, founded in Paris in 1766, placed that verse from Matthew 11:28 in bold letters outside this first public establishment dedicated to providing meals in a pleasant atmosphere.
The fact that our week consists of seven days is a testimony to the fact of God creating the world in six days and rested on the seventh. The practice of Sunday being a Day of rest dates back to the Christian tradition of honouring the first day of the week as the Lord's Day, remembering that Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the first day of the week. The very way we date our years is a testimony to the centrality of Christ. All of history is divided into BC - Before Christ; or AD - Anno Domini - in the year of our Lord for Jesus Christ is the focus of history.
It is not only an armor, but also a whole armory of weapons, both offensive and defensive. It has withstood the test of wide usage in all English speaking countries. The Bible, of course, is the best selling book of all time....The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's Church.....A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of the Word of God!
THE BIBLE IS TRUTH
But what proof do we have that the HOLY BIBLE, the word of God is real and that it is the absolute truth of God. I ask this because, the muslims have a quran that they say is real, and the hindus and the buddhist have their books that they also say are real. So how do we prove that GODS HOLY BIBLE is true and real?
Well the most obvious way we know and can prove that the Holy Bible, Gods Holy Word is real, is because of the Universal Authority that occurs when the word is preached anywhere in the world. The Bible has stood the test of time. The words of wisdom found in Scriptures of old, still hold true today. History has also proven God’s Word to be true. The truths and principles therein are as applicable to our lives as they were to the lives of Abraham, David and the Apostle Paul.
For example there are other religions that if you were to go into their building and sit and listen to the reading, it would be like listening to poetry, or reading a novel or listening to a story, it stirs emotions but it is void of HOLY SPIRIT power! Then you are told by the reader to go out and act like it says to act like the holy book says to act. With no power, that is all it will ever be an act.
But let me tell you about Gods Holy Bible, His Holy word is Quick and Powerful, "For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart." Hebrews 4:12. and David said "This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy word hath quickened me" Psalm 119:50 and the word Quiken means to make alive! I am constantly amazed by the fact that the Bible, written so long ago, is still relevant today. In Matthew 24:3, Jesus tells us, “Heaven and earth will pass away but My words shall not pass away.” Again in Isaiah 40:8, God assures us, “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of God stands forever.”
Let me tell you again how I know Gods Holy Bible is real, because there have been hundreds, thousands, even millions of people whose lives has been impacted instantly and completely totally healed, delivered and changed by the power and preaching of the gospel in the word of God including mine and even yours!
The Holy bible is the only book where you can begin reading a story anywhere from Genesis to the book of Revelations and people get up jumping and shouting Hallelujah because of the illumination of the word as well as the power that comes forth out of it. Anywhere in the world, the reading of THE HOLY BIBLE, God's Holy Book, His Holy Spirit Inspired Words has the same effect. Gods word is the same Yesterday, Today and Forever.
The most powerful weapon against fear and worry is scripture. You can find a scripture that pertains to your circumstances no matter what they are and lean on their power to reassure you. But why are the words of the Bible so much more powerful than others? It's because the Word of God has been unchangeable down through the centuries, unchangeable and reliable at all times.
No matter where in the world you go and preach Gods Holy Words, conviction comes. Its the only book that promises eternal life, its the only book that promises eternal salvation Hallelujah!! The God who delivered the Israelites yesterday will deliver you today and your children tomorrow. God's love, power and almighty presence are unceasing. What a wonderful and reassuring feeling that is!
THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD
"Your Word, oh Lord, is eternal; it stands firm…" Psalm 119:89
"the Word of our God stands forever." Isaiah 40:8
"I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." Matthew 5:18
"Heaven and earth with pass away, but My Words will never pass away." Matthew 24:35
"But the Word of the Lord stands forever." 1 Peter 1:25
"Fix these Words of Mine in your hearts and minds…" Deuteronomy 11:18
"I have hidden Your Word in my heart that I might not sin against You." Psalm 119:11
"The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes." Psalm 119:18
"Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." Psalm 119:105
"The entrance of Your Word gives light; it gives understanding to the simple."
Psalm 119:130
"For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." Hebrews 4:12
"Is not My Word like fire? declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?" Jeremiah 23:29
"Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God." Colossians 3:16
"Oh, how I love Your Law! I meditate on it all day long." Psalm 119:97
I CLOSE WITH QUOTES OF ADORATION FOR GODS HOLY WORD, FROM SOME VERY ANOINTED AND NOBLE SCHOLARS, MEN OF GOD!
"The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed." Patrick Henry.
"The Bible is a book, in comparison with which, all others in my eyes are of minor importance; which in all my perplexities and distresses has never failed to give me light and strength." Robert E. Lee.
"The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church." John Calvin.
"The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's Church." Charles Spurgeon.
"The truly wise man is he who always believes the Bible against the opinion of any man." R.A. Torrey.
"The Word of God is above the Church." Thomas Cranmer.
"I will put down all apparent inconsistencies in the Bible to my own ignorance."Isaac Newton.
"We must never edit God." A.W. Tozer.
"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if were now posterity to neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury our glory in profound obscurity." Daniel Webster.
"Every thinking man, when he thinks, realises that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us to figure what life would be if those teachings were removed. We would lose almost all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards to which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves." Theodore Roosevelt.
"The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying." John Flavel.
"I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything." Martin Luther.
"A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error." J.C. Ryle.
"It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!" Martin Luther.
"The Christian feels that the tooth of time gnaws all books but the Bible…19 centuries of experience have tested it. It has passed through critical fires no other volume has suffered and its spiritual truth has endured the flames and come out without so much as the smell of burning." W.E. Sangster.
"Doers of the Word are the best hearers." Thomas Watson.
"My conscience is captive to the Word of God." Martin Luther.
"In regard to this great book, I have got to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it, we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in It." Abraham Lincoln.
"A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this, a knowledge of the Bible. When you have read the Bible, you will know that it is the Word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty." Woodrow Wilson.
"In this age of space flight when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity, the Bible…remains in every way an up to date book. Our knowledge and use of the laws of nature that enable us to fly to the moon, also enable us to destroy our home planet with the atom bomb. Science itself does not address the question whether we should use the power at our disposal for good or for evil. The guidelines of what we ought to do are furnished in the moral Law of God." Wernher von Braun.
"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." Theodore Roosevelt.
"Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; The Book widens and deepens with our years." Charles Spurgeon.
"Education is useless without the Bible." Noah Webster.
"The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good, and the best corrective of all that is evil, in human society; the best Book for regulating the temporal concerns of men, and the only Book that can serve as an infallible guide…the principles of genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations, are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man therefore, who weakens or destroys the Divine authority of that Book may be accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer…" Noah Webster.
"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws…All the miseries and evils which men suffer from - crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war - proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." Noah.
So brethren understand this, the fact that the authority of words of the HOLY BIBLE can be felt and has the same effect, when it is preached in any nation, tells us something about Gods book. It is not just a book written by any man who just put a bunch of stories together, because if it was a man made book, it would have no more power than just reading a novel.
HOLY BIBLE the best selling book in the whole wide world! Amen, Amen & Amen!
All GLORY,HONOR AND PRAISE TO OUR Lord and Father, Who gives us the grace, wisdom and knowledge to express His Heart through His inspired word. Amen!!
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