Word of God
Dear friends,
Has God ever spoken to you directly? What does it mean to “get a word from the Lord?” Is the written Word in the Bible just as authoritative as a voice from heaven? How important is the Bible to our Christian life? What steps can we take to make the Bible more real to us? How do you respond when someone says:”God told me to do this.”In what way do you think that can happen? How does the nature of God influence the way he speaks to us as His creation? Our Bible reading and study routine over the long haul depends on our answer to these kind of questions. Will the dust on our Bible covers rise up in judgement against us when we stand before the Lord? May we be diligent in our consideration of this subject.
This week consider these passages as you think through the issue of ‘what is the Word of God’? Joshua 1 and Psalm 1 both reveal the blessings of knowing the Scripture. John 1:1-18 tells us about Jesus being the living Word. 2 Timothy 3:10-17 teach us the role of the Bible and what it is designed to do in our lives. Read these over carefully considering the plain teaching of Deuteronomy 6:4-9. Remember the basic interpretative principle of Scripture: Make the plain and clear passages teach what the difficult and obscure ones imply. The explicit Scripture must always be used to explain the implicit teaching. This is easily seen in the strange passage: 1 Timothy 2:15 – Yet she (women) will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control. We are saved and justified according to Ephesians 2 by faith in Christ because of His grace. Saved here must mean being possibly rescued from disgrace or the disappointment of family due to a barren womb, but clearly not as an alternative means of justification. Men and women are saved the same way. We must properly handle the word of truth.
See you Sunday,
Lee
