Correct!!

The Bible is not politically correct. It's just correct!!

Psalm 119:160 ... Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

John 17:17 ... Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Psalm 119:151 ... Thou art near, O Lord; and all thy commandments are truth. ❤

Perfect Truth!!

The Bible is a vein of pure gold, unalloyed by quartz or any earthly substance. This is a star without a speck, a sun with a blot, a light without darkness, a moon without it's paleness, and a glory without a dimness. 

O Bible! It cannot be said of any other book that it is perfect and pure, but of the Bible we can declare that all wisdom is gathered up in it without a particle of folly. This is the judge that ends the strife where wit and reason fail. This is the Book untainted by any error, but is pure, unalloyed, perfect truth. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon]

2 Samuel 22:31 ... As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.

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"The Bible"

The Bible contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners, and the happiness of believers. 

Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its stories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe, and practice it to be holy. 

It contains light to direct you, food to support you, and comfort to cheer you. It is the traveler's map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's compass, the soldier's sword, and the Christian's charter. 

Here, Paradise is restored, Heaven opened, and the gates of Hell disclosed. Christ is its grand subject, our good the design, and the glory of God its end. It should fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet. 

Read it slowly, frequently, and prayerfully. It is a mine of wealth, health to the soul, and a river of pleasure! It involves the highest responsibility, will reward the greatest labor, and will condemn all who trifle with its sacred contents! 

[Author Unknown]

Psalm 119:89 ... For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ...  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ... For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. ❤

Commenting Upon the Bible

Chrysostom compares the Scripture to a garden every truth is a fragrant flower which we should wear, not on our bosom, but in our heart! David counted the Word "sweeter than honey and the honeycomb". There is that in Scripture which may breed delight. It shows us the way to riches, Deuteronomy 28:8, Proverbs 3:30; to long life, Psalm 34:42; to a Kingdom, Hebrews 12:28. 

Well then may we count those the sweetest hours, which are spent in reading the holy Scriptures. Well may we say with the prophet, "Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became a delight to me and the joy of my heart!" (Jeremiah 15:16) Conform to Scripture. Let us lead Scripture lives. 

Oh, that the Bible might be seen printed in our lives! Do what the Word commands. Obedience is an excellent way of commenting upon the Bible. "Teach me Your way, O Lord, and I will walk in Your truth." (Psalm 86:11) Let the Word be the sundial by which you set your life. What are we the better for having the Scripture, if we do not direct all our speech and actions according to it? What are we the better for the rule of the Word, if we do not make use of it, and regulate our lives by it? What a dishonor is it to religion, for men to live in contradiction to Scripture! The Word is called a "light to our feet".  (Psalm 119:105) It is not only a light to our eyes to mend our sight but to our feet to mend our walk. 

Oh, let us lead Bible lives! Be thankful to God for the Scriptures. What a mercy is it that God has not only acquainted us what His will is, but that He has made it known by writing! The Scripture is our polestar to direct us to Heaven, it shows us every step we are to take. When we go wrong it instructs us; when we go right it comforts us. Adore God's distinguishing grace, if you have felt the power and authority of the Word upon your conscience if you can say as David, "Your Word has quickened me." (Psalm 119:50)

Christian, bless God that He has not only given you His Word to be a rule of holiness but His grace to be a principle of holiness. Bless God that He has not only written His Word, but sealed it upon your heart, and made it effectual. Can you say it is of divine inspiration, because you have felt it to be of lively operation? 

Oh, free grace! That God should send out His Word and heal you. That He should heal you, and not others! That the same Scripture which to them is a dead letter, should be to you a savor of life! 

[Thomas Watson] 

Psalm 119:97 ...  O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. ❤

Our Bible!!

Our Bible is an armory of heavenly weapons, a pharmacy of infallible medicines, a mine of exhaustless wealth, a guidebook for every road, a chart for every sea, a medicine for every malady, and a balm for every wound! 

Rob us of our Bible, and our sky has lost its sun! 

[Thomas Guthrie]

2 Timothy 3:16 ... All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Romans 10:17 ... So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Psalm 119:105 ... Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. ❤

The Bible!!

The Bible is the richest treasure of the world! Without it, the palace is a dark blank. With it, the poor cottage sparkles with celestial light. It is the transcript of God's heart. It tells what human reason is too weak to find. It is pure truth without one shadow of error. It gives knowledge on all things needful for time and for eternity. It is a safe guide through life's entangled path. 

It is a compass through shoals and rocks; amid winds and waves; to Heaven's eternal rest! The wise man is ignorant without it. The peasant learns from it, salvation's road. 

It is a solace for every hour. It is a companion always ready to converse. It cheers when other comforts fail. It is arrayed in every charm for the intellect. It never wearies. It is always fresh. Its oldest truths cannot grow old. Its readers become more wise and more holy. 

Other books may puzzle and corrupt. The Bible is from Heaven and leads to Heaven. It enters the heart with purifying grace. The more you search the Bible the more your minds will wonder, and your hearts will love. Read it as literally true. Then no human philosophy will beguile you. Ponder its characters. You will find on them the intrinsic stamp of truth. 

[Henry Law] 

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Psalm 119:97 ... O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

Jeremiah 15:16 ... Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. ❤

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Hebrews 4:12 ...  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ❤

A Needed Book.

So long as there are . . .
  tears and sorrows,
  and broken hearts,
  and crushed hopes,
  and human failures,
  and lives burdened and bowed down,
  and spirits sad and despairing,
so long will the Bible be a needed book.

It is full of inspiration, light, help and strength for earth's weary ones.

[J. R. Miller]

Psalm 19:7-8 ... The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. 

Psalm 119:81 ... My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word. ❤

The One, Precious, All Absorbing Theme!

The Word of God must ever be transcendently precious to the believer. The Bible is, from its commencement to its close, a record of the Lord Jesus. Around Him the divine and glorious Word centers; all its wondrous types, prophecies and facts gather. His Promise and Foreshadowing, His holy Incarnation, Nativity and Baptism, His Obedience and Passion, His Death, Burial and Resurrection, His Ascension to Heaven, His Second coming to judge the world are the grand and touching, the sublime and tender, the priceless and precious truths interwoven with the whole texture of the Bible, to which the Two Witnesses of Revelation, the Old and the New Testaments bear their harmonious and solemn testimony. 

Beloved, let this be the one and chief object in your study of the Bible the knowledge of Jesus! The Bible is not a history, a book of science or a poem it is a record of Christ. Study it to know more of Him His nature, His love, His work. With the magnanimous Paul, "count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus your Lord." (Philippians 3:8) Then will God's Word become increasingly precious to your soul, and its truths unfold. 

In every page you will: trace the history of Jesus, see the glory of Jesus, admire the work of Jesus, learn the love of Jesus, and hear the voice of Jesus! The whole volume will be redolent of His name, and luminous with His beauty! Oh, what is the Bible to us apart from its revelation of a Savior! Is there not great danger of studying it merely intellectually and scientifically, of reveling among its literary beauties and its grandeur blind to its true value, and without any desire to know that precious Savior who died for sinners, that Divine Redeemer who purchased the ransom of His Church with His own blood; that Friend who loves us; that Brother who sympathizes with us, that enthroned High Priest who intercedes for us within the veil? 

Do we study the "Word of Christ" spiritually and honestly as those whose souls hunger and thirst for this, the bread and water of life? Do we search it diligently and earnestly as for hidden treasure, treasure beyond all prices? Can we say with David, "O how love I Your law! It is my meditation all the day!" (Psalm 119:97) Do we: read it with a child-like mind, receive it with a believing heart, bow to its teaching with reverence of soul, and receive its decisions in all questions of faith and practice as decisive and ultimate? In a word, do we search the Scriptures humbly, prayerfully, depending upon the guidance of the Spirit to find Jesus in them? 

Of these Scriptures He is the Alpha and the Omega, the substance, the sweetness, the glory, the one, precious, all absorbing theme! Yes, Lord! Your word is precious to our souls, because it reveals to us Your glory, and tells us of Your love! 

[Octavius Winslow]

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1 John 5:11 ... And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

John 1:14 ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

2 Timothy 2:15 ... Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. ❤

Human Guidance

We have need to be on our watch against the powerful influence of spiritual mentors lest, fascinated by the fame of some popular leader, we become the willing dupes of a childish superstition, or the blind followers of a fatal error. 

Do not take your views of Divine truth from man; draw them primarily from God's Word. Do not study the Bible through your theological system but let your system be taken from, and faithfully weighed with, the Bible. Our theological system must not be allowed to give its complexion to, or to be the interpreter of, revealed truth. But on the contrary, God's Word is to suggest and mold and tint all our thoughts and opinions and systems. 

We must not set the sun by our watch, but our watch by the sun. In other words, we must not attempt to make God's Word dovetail with our creed, but must test every doctrine we hold, every opinion we receive, every principle we maintain, the hope we cherish by the unerring standard of revealed truth! This will give a Divine and proper complexion to our views. 

If we receive the light of the sun through a tinted lens, the light will necessarily reflect the hue of the medium through which it passes. So, if we receive the light of God's Word through any theological system whatever it will necessarily reflect the error and imperfection, if such there be, of that system. And thus, we shall fail to receive the teaching of God as it flows pure and simple from His Word as light flows from the sun, and as streams from the fountain. 

The Bible is our rule of faith, and our only and ultimate appeal. By the law and the testimony let every doctrine, and system, and hope for eternity be tried! Do not be, then, carried away by the learning, the influence, or even the piety attaching to a popular name. Allow no human leader the mastery of your mind and conscience. Yield yourself meekly and obediently to the authority and teaching of Christ accepting human guidance only so far as it comes with a "thus says the Lord" as its divine endorsement. 

Our only safeguard in a matter of such infinite moment as our future wellbeing, is God's pure Word, our only secure place, the feet of the Savior. Sitting there as His lowly disciple, the Holy Spirit will lead our minds into the truth, even "the truth as it is in Jesus" as it emanates from Jesus, as it speaks of Jesus, as it strengthens our faith in, and inspires our love to, Jesus; and as it prepares us to go and be with Jesus forever! 

[Octavius Winslow]

1 John 4:1 ... Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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Where is Christ in Your Theological System?

Take this Book and distill it into one word and that one word will be JESUS! The Bible itself, is but the body of Christ, and we may look upon all its pages as the swaddling bands of the infant Savior for if we unroll the Scripture, we come upon Jesus Christ Himself. 

Where is Christ in your theological system? He Himself is the Doctor and Doctrine, the Revealer and Revelation, the Illuminator and the Light of men. He is exalted in every word of truth, because He is its sum and substance. He sits above the gospel, like a prince on His own throne. Doctrine is most precious, when we see it distilling from His lips and embodied in His person. Sermons are only valuable, in proportion as they speak of Him and point to Him!

[Charles H. Spurgeon]

Luke 24:27 ... And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

John 5:39 ... Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

John 1:14 ... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. ❤

What a Treasure.

What a treasure is the Word of God! Here we have: Light, to dissipate our darkness. Truth, to guide us amid the mazes of error. Consolations, to gladden us in a world of misery. The Bible is the Revelation of our Father's love; the Expression of Jehovah's grace to sinners; the Depository of heavenly blessings; the Charter of our highest privileges; the Religion of true Christians; the Glory of our churches; the poor man's Friend. 

Everything sublime in conception, and tender in expression is to be found in the sacred Scriptures. The Eternal Jehovah has there revealed Himself as clothed with majesty and honor; glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders; of purer eyes than to behold iniquity; in whose sight the heavens are not clean. In the sacred Scriptures, 

He has manifested His glory as mighty to save, forgiving iniquity transgression and sin. In that blessed volume, Mercy is seen to arrest the arm of Justice and all the tenderness of the Father is displayed in the person of the adorable Son. Love breathes throughout its sacred pages! 

 [Thomas Reade]

 Psalm 1:2 ... But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 119:97 ... O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

Jeremiah 15:16 ... Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. ❤

The Diamond in That Ring!

The whole of Scripture is but one entire love-letter, all written in golden letters, dispatched from the Lord Christ to His beloved spouse on earth. In it, there is so much to be read of the love of Christ, the heart of Christ, the kindness of Christ, the grace of Christ, and the glory of Christ, that a holy heart cannot but love, and embrace, and endeavor to conform to every line. 

The whole Word of God is a field and Christ is the treasure which is hidden in that field! The whole Word of God is a ring of gold and Christ is the diamond in that ring! 

[Thomas Brooks] 

John 5:39 ... Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

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Modern Science and The Bible Disagree

What if science, as at present understood, and the Bible, do not agree? Shall we be troubled thereat? I think not. I rejoice to know that what is termed modern science and the Bible do not agree. I would be sorry if they did agree! Modern science is changeable, the Bible is unchangeable! The science of today is not the science of last year and will not be the science of the next year. The Bible of today, is the Bible of all the Christian centuries; and will be a thousand years hence, just what it was nearly eighteen hundred years ago, when the canon of Scripture was closed! 

Mark the changes which have taken place along the whole line of sciences since the beginning of this nineteenth century. What a catastrophe then would it have been, had it been proved that the Bible and science as known at the beginning of this century, fully agreed; that all the assertions of the Bible could be squared with the facts of science as then understood! The great tidal waves of science which have rolled over the world since, would have left the Bible stranded and ruined! And just so now, could it be made clear today that every truth in the Bible accords with the received theories of science what would become of the Bible fifty years hence, when science will have moved on with even more rapid strides, and left behind more wrecks of theories and more stranded speculations? 

In the meanwhile, the Bible stands still in the solitary grandeur of its own perfection! It waits, as the ages roll on, for confirmation and acceptance. It was said by one of old, "God is patient, because He is eternal;" and the Bible, as the book of the God of truth, has this attribute of its divine Author. Its strength is to sit still. It does not go out hastily to meet a half-formed science, and embrace it as an ally, lest it should turn into a foe. It calmly tarries in the consciousness of its own truth, as the advances of science come nearer and nearer; and every advance of true science does bring it nearer to the Bible. The opposition to that Bible, comes only from a class whose utterances, Paul has justly characterized as "the profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science falsely so called." (1 Timothy 6:20) 

 These differences between science and Scripture cannot be settled, because science is not settled. And science will never be settled, so long as there is an undiscovered fact in nature, or an inquiring mind in man! 

[William Bacon Stevens] 

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 Psalm 119:89 ... For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.

 Isaiah 40:8 ...  The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. ❤

Marked.

It doesn't matter how much you mark your Bible. 

If you haven't allowed it to mark you, you will remain unchanged.

Galatians 6:17 ... From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. ❤

Experimental and Practical Book!

The main value of any Scriptural truth to a child of God, is the conscious power of that truth in his own soul. The Bible is designed to be an experimental and a practical book. It does not deal with mere academic or theoretical truths. Its teachings were intended by its Divine Author to address themselves to the judgment, thus finding an inlet to the conscience and the heart, and becoming a leaven of holiness in the soul, diffusing its influence through the affections and desires of the Christian. 

We repeat the observation, that any truth is valuable to the Christian, only in proportion to his personal and experimental acquaintance with its nature and effects. A mere religious professor may have an intellectual belief in, and a theoretical reception of, vital and essential truth and yet be utterly ignorant of its renewing and sanctifying power in his soul! O that there were more experimental Christianity among us! 

[Octavius Winslow] 

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Psalm 63:1 ... O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Psalm 42:1-2 ...  As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

Hebrews 4:12 ... For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ❤

A Great Blessing!!

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. 

 [John Locke] 

2 Timothy 3:16 ... All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Proverbs 30:5 ... Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

Hebrews 4:12 ... For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ❤️

The Gospel...

The gospel reveals a Savior, in whom we must trust; a Sovereign, whom we must obey; a Priest, on whose atonement we must rest; a Prophet, from whom we must learn; a Friend, in whose love we must confide; a Brother, from whom we may expect; a Father, whose authority we must revere; an Apostle, whose mission we must copy; and an Advocate, to whom we must commit our cause. 

The gospel flows from the free love, rich grace and abundant mercy of our God; is founded in the Savior's person, mediation and death; becomes effectual through the revelation, operation and application of the Holy Spirit. By it He begets faith, imparts love and excites hope; and when accompanied by His blessing, the gospel is received in demonstration and power. 

The gospel produces penitence, and godly sorrow for sin; begets hatred to sin, and love to holiness; weans from the world, and wafts the affections to heaven; makes us zealous for God, and the good of immortal souls; delivers us from the power of darkness, and translates us into the kingdom of Jesus; crucifies the flesh, and liberates the spirit; unites Christians in love, and raises us above the fear of death; fortifies us against persecution, and makes us rejoice in suffering for Immanuel's name; humbles the spirit, and dignifies the man; destroys covetousness, and makes us benevolent; roots out pride, and implants meekness; transforms us from the world, and conforms us to God; begets hatred to impurity, and makes us chaste; throws down idolatry, and leads us to worship God; conquers SELF, and exalts Christ; softens the hard heart, and produces kindness; delivers from sin, Satan and the world; and devotes body, soul and spirit to the Lord.

[James Smith] 

1 Thessalonians 1:4-5 ...  Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.  For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.

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The Source of All Power!!

No language ever stirs the deeps of my nature like the Word of God, and none produces such a profound calm within my spirit. As no other voice can, it melts me to tears, it humbles me in the dust, it fires me with enthusiasm, it fills me with pleasure, it elevates me to holiness. Every faculty of my being owns the power of the sacred Word. It sweetens my memory, it brightens my hope, it stimulates my imagination, it directs my judgment, it commands my will, and it cheers my heart. 

The word of man charms me for the time, but I outlive and outgrow its power. It is altogether the reverse with the Word of the King of kings; it rules me more sovereignly, more practically, more habitually, more completely every day. Its power is for all seasons for sickness and for health, for solitude and for company, for personal emergencies and for public assemblies. 

I had sooner have the Word of God at my back than all the armies and navies of all the great powers, aye, than all the forces of nature; for the Word of the Lord is the source of all the power in the universe, and within it there is an infinite supply in reserve. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon]

 

Psalm 147:15 ... He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly. ❤

Perfect Truth.

The Bible is a vein of pure gold, unalloyed by quartz or any earthly substance. This is a star without a speck, a sun with a blot, a light without darkness, a moon without it's paleness, and a glory without a dimness. O Bible! It cannot be said of any other book that it is perfect and pure, but of the Bible we can declare that all wisdom is gathered up in it without a particle of folly. This is the judge that ends the strife where wit and reason fail. This is the Book untainted by any error, but is pure, unalloyed, perfect truth. 

[Charles H. Spurgeon]

Psalm 18:30 ... As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the Lord is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. ❤