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Anointed Profit for February 2016
The Purpose for the Bible
1. The Bible was given to us so we may get to know God our Father (Exodus 20:3, Malachi 3:6).
2. The Holy Bible stands entirely alone and it contains within it the Living Word of the Living God; the only book in which God is the author (2 Timothy 3:16).
3. Since God is the author of the Bible, we are to approach the study of the Bible, which is His word, with an attitude of reverence and humility. When you approach the study of the scriptures, keep in mind that the Bible is written by the hand of the almighty God so that we may learn His ways (Isaiah 55:8-9). Therefore prepare your heart and mind with that degree of reverence, humility, and desire that you may grow thereby (1 Peter 2:2).
4. In the light of science some may ask why is the Bible necessary? The answer to that question is that God speaks to us through faith in His Word, the written Word of God. We can only know God as our Father through reading and hearing the gospel of the Bible (Matthew 4:4, Romans 10;17) .
5. What do we mean by revelation?
Revelation is revealed knowledge without the use or aid of our five physical senses. It is knowledge that can only be given to men and women by God and His Holy Spirit (Matt. 16:16-18). The Bible is revelation because without God we would have no Bible, hence no revelation.
6. Consider how we account for the fact the plainer and fuller revelation of the New Testament since the same God is in both the Old and New Testaments?
In the dispensation of the Old Testament Law it was dim light, but it was leading to the Son of God. In the dispensation of prophets of the Old Testament it became a brighter light and was still pointing to the Son of God in the dispensation of Grace, the New Testament era. Today, we look back at the Son (Heb. 12:2). The New Testament fulfills the Old Testament and the Old Testament was a shadow and type of what was to come in the New. The Son speaks for Himself (Heb. 1:1-2).
7. Why must a Bible teacher be a Christian? In
Proverbs 20:27 and in I Corth. 2:14 God reveals His Word through the Holy Spirit in the spirit of believers. Without this inner guidance and teaching (John 14:26) we could not understand His Word because God's Word is foolishness to the unbeliever for it must be spiritually discerned. The Bible's truth and revelation can not be understood unless one is a Christian; consequently, one would be unable to receive or give sound teaching.
8. What purpose should guide the Bible teacher?
A sincere desire and drive to help people (Ephesians 4:11-13) and meet their needs spirit, soul, and body (2 Thessalonians 5:23) in an effort to set them free from the works of the devil (Acts 10:38, 1 John 3:8), with the final results or goal of leading them to be able to help others as they have been taught . Another purpose of a teacher is to get people to get in the Word and learn of their Father God.
God has exalted and magnified His Word even above all His name (Psalm 138:2).
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all (I Timothy 4:15).
Marinating in His Love - George Dillon
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