Why Do We Have The Bible

Why Do We Have The Bible?

Deuteronomy 6:4-19 2 Timothy 3:10-17 September 15, 2019 Pastor Rick

If someone were to ask you, why do have the Bible, what would you be your first response?

The Bible has been called the Word of God. It has been called the Scriptures. God has told us to read it, study it, and apply it to our lives. God has allowed the creation of the smart phone so that you can have the bible with your 24/7. If you have a smart phone, the first app you should download is Youversion, bible app. The second is New Life At Calvary. Before you get influenced by anything on your phone, read some of the word of God. Remind yourself, your first information should come from God.

We live in a society that wants to either rewrite or ban the bible and without really knowing what they say or what it is all about. Whereas at one time the Bible was seen as the final authority, today we often try to make it just another book. When you get to college they put it on the same level as Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.

But before we say that’s a shame we have to look at ourselves. Haven’t we even place out own opinion above the truth of God’s word. Either openly or silently, we have all said, “I don’t care what the bible says, I am going to do this anyways.” How many times can a person you love tell you, “I don’t care what you say, I am going to do this anyways before you start to lose your love for them.”

Yet we serve a God who is revealed in the Scriptures who have seen us put our fist in defiance in God’s face with our rejection of God’s word, yet God still loves us and invites us back into a relationship with Him through His Son Jesus Christ. No matter how much time you spend communing with in nature, nature is not going to reveal that truth about God to you.

How many of you have ever seen the show myth busters? A couple of guys go out and challenge certain things that people think are true, but may in fact not be true at all. We are going to begin with some myth-busters about the Bible, so that we can all be on the same page talking about the same book

1. The Bible is a book written by the white Man to keep everybody else under control.

• The bible is not one book, it is actually 66 books.

• The Bible was written in one person’s lifetime but took 1500 years to write.

• The Books of the bible came from Asia, Europe and Africa.

• The first five books were written by an African married to a black Woman. His name was Moses.

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2. Everything in the bible is True.

• The bible records the lives of people. It records, the truth, half-truths and lies depending on what is being said. When Satan told Adam and Eve, if they eat from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they would not die, but would become like God. It’s in the bible, but it was a flat out lie.

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3. God APPROVES of everything in the bible.

• In Judges 19 a woman was violently raped in the bible and died as a result. God records this action but does not approve of rape. The resulting consequence was 60,000 soldiers were killed in battle stemming from this incident.

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4. The bible teaches, Judge Not.

• The Bible teaches that we are always to judge, but we are to judge fairly. The rest of the passage says, that when you are judging make sure that you are not doing the same thing, otherwise you can’t help the person who has the problem. In Matthew 7, Jesus was dealing with being a hypocrite in Judging. He speaks of a log in your eye with a speck in your brother’s eye. First take out the log, then help your brother get out the speck.

• I Corinthians 5: tells us to judge the behavior of other believers.

5. Every book in the bible carries EQUAL weight today.

• Some books were to point us to Jesus. Those books that were to point us to Jesus have things in them that no longer apply. The purpose of the books on the sacrifice of animals was to show that one day God would provide a sacrificial lamb whose blood would take away the sins of the world. Jesus is that sacrificial lamb whose blood did just that.

That is why we no longer offer animal sacrifices for the forgiveness of sins. Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice that took away our sins once and for all .