The Keys to Understanding Your Bible
There are two activities which I strongly recommend for every believer in Jesus Christ to make a priority in their faith and a third discipline that strengthens the first two. Prayer is the ultimate discipline for every believer. Prayer is foundational for a living relationship with the one God who created all things. Prayer is also the primary key for success with the second discipline which is learning how to understand your Bible! Solomon asked God for wisdom and understanding so God made Solomon the wisest of that time. The third key is fellowship with other believers that put God’s word and prayer first in their lives!
Many different opinions exist today as to what the Bible really means or about how to apply the written word of God to our lives as individual creatures. However, the Bible is complete in the sense that God made it understandable for any who would seek after His truth. In John 17:17 Jesus prays for His disciples and said “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” In John 8:31-32 Jesus said “If you abide in my words you are my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” He was speaking the Pharisees and other Jews in the Temple. They were scholars of His word. But He told them they needed to be free and that freedom was in the very word they studied. Yet like many Dispensationalists and others who deny the Power of God for today, the Jews tried to study so deep they couldn’t understand the simplicity of God’s salvation and empowerment! They were so entangled in doctrinal disputes that they missed the Messiah who stood in their midst.
The Bible is God’s word of revelation to all humanity. God does not intend for some to understand Him and others not to. He does say that there would be those who hear and not understand but that was because they do not want His word as truth! Rather they want His word as justification for their misleading. When someone says; “the Bible doesn’t really mean this or that” are they really saying; “I’m more qualified than the original translators were!” I hold to the stance that God anointed several people to translate the Bible for common people to read it and understand God’s message for humanity. We don’t need to re-write it any more. We need to pray and read it and let God speak to us in our hearts. Pray in Jesus’ name for discernment and understanding. And let His word speak to us and change us into who God wants us to be.
The Bible means what it says! Be careful of people that try and tell you that the Bible doesn’t really mean what it says. The serpent beguiled Eve in Genesis 3 with the words “Hath God indeed said…?” and “That’s not true” “He really meant” But when it came time for the man and woman to meet with God again God said “Did I not tell you?” Always remember that God’s word is truth! God means what is written. And you don’t need to be a Greek scholar to understand Him at His word. I strongly recommend that if you read from different translations that you often reflect from the King James Version as a way of staying on track with God’s plan for His word in your life. I will close for now with a small list of verses for you read in light of God’s word:
Psalm 119:160 KJV - Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Hebrews 4:12 KJV - 12For 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.
1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Revelation 22:17-19(KJV) 17And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
There are two activities which I strongly recommend for every believer in Jesus Christ to make a priority in their faith and a third discipline that strengthens the first two. Prayer is the ultimate discipline for every believer. Prayer is foundational for a living relationship with the one God who created all things. Prayer is also the primary key for success with the second discipline which is learning how to understand your Bible! Solomon asked God for wisdom and understanding so God made Solomon the wisest of that time. The third key is fellowship with other believers that put God’s word and prayer first in their lives!
Many different opinions exist today as to what the Bible really means or about how to apply the written word of God to our lives as individual creatures. However, the Bible is complete in the sense that God made it understandable for any who would seek after His truth. In John 17:17 Jesus prays for His disciples and said “Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.” In John 8:31-32 Jesus said “If you abide in my words you are my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” He was speaking the Pharisees and other Jews in the Temple. They were scholars of His word. But He told them they needed to be free and that freedom was in the very word they studied. Yet like many Dispensationalists and others who deny the Power of God for today, the Jews tried to study so deep they couldn’t understand the simplicity of God’s salvation and empowerment! They were so entangled in doctrinal disputes that they missed the Messiah who stood in their midst.
The Bible is God’s word of revelation to all humanity. God does not intend for some to understand Him and others not to. He does say that there would be those who hear and not understand but that was because they do not want His word as truth! Rather they want His word as justification for their misleading. When someone says; “the Bible doesn’t really mean this or that” are they really saying; “I’m more qualified than the original translators were!” I hold to the stance that God anointed several people to translate the Bible for common people to read it and understand God’s message for humanity. We don’t need to re-write it any more. We need to pray and read it and let God speak to us in our hearts. Pray in Jesus’ name for discernment and understanding. And let His word speak to us and change us into who God wants us to be.
The Bible means what it says! Be careful of people that try and tell you that the Bible doesn’t really mean what it says. The serpent beguiled Eve in Genesis 3 with the words “Hath God indeed said…?” and “That’s not true” “He really meant” But when it came time for the man and woman to meet with God again God said “Did I not tell you?” Always remember that God’s word is truth! God means what is written. And you don’t need to be a Greek scholar to understand Him at His word. I strongly recommend that if you read from different translations that you often reflect from the King James Version as a way of staying on track with God’s plan for His word in your life. I will close for now with a small list of verses for you read in light of God’s word:
Psalm 119:160 KJV - Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
Hebrews 4:12 KJV - 12For 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.
1 John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.
Revelation 22:17-19(KJV) 17And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
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