It is said that "the Bible is God's voice speaking to us, just as surely as though we could hear it with our ears. If we realized this, with what awe would we open God's word, and with what earnestness would we search its precepts! The reading and contemplation of the Scriptures would be regarded as an audience with the Infinite One."
The scribes of God wrote as they were dictated by the Holy Spirit, having no control of the work themselves. They penned the literal truth, and stern, forbidding facts are revealed for reasons that our finite minds cannot fully comprehend. {4T 9.1} Yet we have this assurance from God that we as His children can understand. He tells us that "We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God," (1 Cor. 2:12, KJV). Let's discover His trust as we learn to trust in Him.
1. How was the Bible given? All scripture is given by __________ of God… (2 Tim. 3:16). Holy men of God spake as they were ______ by the Holy Ghost (2 Peter 1:21). 2. How did God reveal truth to His prophets? If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a _______, and will speak unto him in a ________ (Num. 12:6). For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the ____________ of Jesus Christ (Gal. 1:12). 3. Who preserves the purity of Scripture? The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O ______, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever (Ps. 12:6, 7). 4. Is it easier for heaven and earth to pass away or for the Scriptures to pass?
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words _____ ____ pass away
(Matthew 24:35).
5. Can
the Scriptures be wrong?
Thy word is ______ from the beginning: and every one of thy
righteous judgments endureth for ever (Ps. 119:160).
6.
Are the prophecies still important?
Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he ________ his secret unto his
servants the prophets (Amos 3:7). We have also a _____ _____ word of prophecy;
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed…until the day dawn, and the day star
arise in your hearts (2 Peter 1:19).
7.
Why was the Scriptures given?
For doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in _________: That
The Team of God may be ______ (2 Tim. 3:16, 17). That we may ___ all
the words of this law (Deut. 29:29). But these are written, that ye might
_______ that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might
have life through his name (John 20:31).
8.
What must we do with the Scripture?
_________ the scriptures (John 5:39). Thy word
have I ____ in mine heart and I will ___ forget thy word (Ps. 119:11, 16).
9.
How should we search the Scriptures?
Not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth;
_______ spiritual things with spiritual (1 Cor. 2:13). For _______ must be
upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon ______, line upon line; here a
_______, and there a little (Isa. 28:10). And ________ at Moses and ___
the prophets (Luke 24:27).
Our
relationship with the Scriptures?
And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the
things which I say?… he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without
a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat
vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
(Luke 6:46-49).
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