The Bible.
The Bible is a book about God that contains some of the words of God penned by fallible men with fallible minds and fallible hands.
Jesus is the infallible Word of God with a infallible mind and infallible hands, living in men.
The scriptures does not say that the Bible is the WORD of God, it tells us that Jesus is the WORD of God.
It is impossible to understand the word about God without knowing the Word of God.
Knowing the word is not the same as knowing the Word!
The idolization given to the Bible in churches today prompts me to wonder how the early church could ever maintain faith in Christ without their own personal Bibles and all these scholastic resources and Bible teachers believers depend on today? The early Church had no seminaries or Bible schools, no Sunday school classes or Vacation Bible schools, no study guides, but they had the Holy Spirit Guide, no concordances or ordinances, no daily devotionals to read celebrity preachers books to read, yet they had a faith in Christ, the power of Christ that enabled them turned the world upside down.
The Bible, though pointing to the Way to receive eternal life, does not have the power to give eternal life! Hear the words of Jesus the Word... “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life” (John 5:39-40) NKJV.
The power is not in books written by man, not even the Bible produces power no mater how much people believe it does. Jesus gave us the answer to a powerful life as a believer in His divine plan, “But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you” (John 16:13-14). JESUS is the POWER PRODUCER of the word that gives power to the word by His Holy Spirit.
The Apostle John was so convinced of the need of the Spirit abiding in each saint as their Teacher and Leader that he wrote to the early church and said, “The anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him” (1 John 2:27).
The Bible instructs, but we refuse its instruction.
The Bible corrects, but we refuse its correction.
The Bible directs us to Jesus, but we refuse its direction.
Jesus is the infallible Word of God with a infallible mind and infallible hands, living in men.
The scriptures does not say that the Bible is the WORD of God, it tells us that Jesus is the WORD of God.
It is impossible to understand the word about God without knowing the Word of God.
Knowing the word is not the same as knowing the Word!
The idolization given to the Bible in churches today prompts me to wonder how the early church could ever maintain faith in Christ without their own personal Bibles and all these scholastic resources and Bible teachers believers depend on today? The early Church had no seminaries or Bible schools, no Sunday school classes or Vacation Bible schools, no study guides, but they had the Holy Spirit Guide, no concordances or ordinances, no daily devotionals to read celebrity preachers books to read, yet they had a faith in Christ, the power of Christ that enabled them turned the world upside down.
The Bible, though pointing to the Way to receive eternal life, does not have the power to give eternal life! Hear the words of Jesus the Word... “You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life” (John 5:39-40) NKJV.
The power is not in books written by man, not even the Bible produces power no mater how much people believe it does. Jesus gave us the answer to a powerful life as a believer in His divine plan, “But when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you” (John 16:13-14). JESUS is the POWER PRODUCER of the word that gives power to the word by His Holy Spirit.
The Apostle John was so convinced of the need of the Spirit abiding in each saint as their Teacher and Leader that he wrote to the early church and said, “The anointing which you have received of him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him” (1 John 2:27).
The Bible instructs, but we refuse its instruction.
The Bible corrects, but we refuse its correction.
The Bible directs us to Jesus, but we refuse its direction.
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