Category: God’s Word

I have been researching the Scriptures for many years for varied reasons: personal growth, understanding God, preaching and teaching needs, evidence for something I have been challenged with, etc., etc. Some of these purposes are for my own needs some of them for the direct benefit of others. During the past year and a half,…
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It is often recognized that portions of Scripture are geared to encourage and exhort. Sometimes, we need to hear the sweetness of a word that is timely in our downtrodden condition to uplift us emotionally and spiritually. The Proverbs speak of “a word fitly spoken” (25:11). Words have power. Not like the prosperity preachers imagine,…
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In James 1:18 we are reminded that the word of God is the means that God uses to bring forth (regenerate) His people. This word of truth is powerful to raise the dead. It is illustrated in the resurrection of Lazarus. Jesus spoke the words, “Lazarus, Come Forth!” and the dead man emerged from the…
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It has been said that the Bible, the Sacred Scriptures, is our attacking option, so reading and meditating on the Word of God forms our positive battle approach. Now, in a sense, there is nothing too untoward in this, but it is based on a misunderstanding of the expression, “the Word of God,” which is…
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For the authentic Christian faith, belief in the complete Bible is axiomatic. The famous slogan made at the time of the Reformation in the sixteenth century affirmed Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone). But a similar slogan has not caught on as much, Tota Scriptura (All Scripture). While many today are functionally working with a “canon within a canon,” biblical…
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This brief article is written to advocate why we should prefer the underlying Hebrew and Greek texts that have been preserved by the Lord according to His promise for any English and other language translations. The Hebrew Masoretic Text and the Greek (textus receptus) Ecclesiastical or Received Text are those which are superior and preserved…
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It is so common it is almost the new orthodoxy, that God wants some things that we just won’t let Him have them. Take for instance salvation. God wants to save everybody, says the average popular evangelical sermon, book or tract. So why doesn’t it happen? Well the answer is simple. It was glorified in…
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In today’s highly competitive publishing market, one thing remains a surety of making a windfall: Bible production. It has been estimated that every year since the printing revolution began with Gutenberg’s press, the Bible has been a best seller. So, maybe it isn’t religious purity but an economic pleroma that has driven the production and…
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The Bible is a book. It has many manifestations in many versions and is produced on differing materials. The book in and of itself is not the important aspect of the Bible; the Word is! I ask my children to try to take care of the Bibles we own, and we understand that if we…
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In James 1:18 we are reminded that the word of God is the means that God uses to bring forth (regenerate) His people. This word of truth is powerful to raise the dead. It is illustrated in the resurrection of Lazarus. Jesus spoke the words, “Lazarus, Come Forth!” and the dead man emerged from the…
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