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Ultimately, your success as a Christian is going to be determined by two
things:
- Your Love for God and
Your Fellow Man, and
- Your Spiritual
Knowledge of the scritpure, which is the Word of God.
We can find the Word of God in the Scriptures:
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:
The Spirit of God inspired men to write
the Scriptures.
It took over 2500 years. Because the scriptures
are the recorded Words of God, we can get faith.
Faith comes from hearing God speak.
Romans 10:17
So then faith [cometh] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
How do people believe?
The Book of Acts tells us that when people read the scriptures and
have the truth revealed to them, "therefore many of them
believed.."
The scripture was the standard and source of their faith.
Acts 17
11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,
in that they received the word with all readiness of mind,
and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things
were so.
12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable
women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
There is power and life in the words God speaks.
It will have an effect on the reader and hearer.
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.
Dear friend,
The scripture is indeed God speaking to us. Did you know that Jesus died for
your sins according to the scriptures, and was raised from the dead by God?
(1 Corinthians 15:1-3) Did you know that God made Jesus both Lord and Christ?
(Acts 2:36) The Lord Jesus has all authority. He is Lord of all and merciful
upon all who call on His name. Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord
shall be saved. (Romans 10:9-13)
His name is Jesus!
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