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Three Tremendous Reason
Bible – the Holy Scripture, or the Word of God – is the most read and the most sold book in history.
And precisely because of its unsurpassed influence, no other book has been attacked so much.
No other book has been submitted to so many trials and tests of reliability.
Though for centuries it has been persecuted, hated and attempted to be destroyed;
though it is mocked and humiliated, the Bible is still on top, alive and indestructible.
There are at least three tremendous reasons why it will always stay on top.
The first reason is that its origin and teaching is not of this earth.
It bears the seal of Eternal God who has, through His servants, written down those words, including this verse from the 24th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew:
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.“ In the Epistle to Hebrews, chapter 4, it is written:
“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword.“
Through the prophet Jeremiah, in chapter 23, God said: “Is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces?“
The second great reason why the Bible is absolutely irrefutable and indestructible is that there is a great number of prophecies in it.
Limitless God –who simultaneously is out of time and space and in time and space – knows, sees and announces that which will happen in the near or far future.
In the Bible, therefore, are manifold events which God had prophesied in remote past and which have been fulfilled in the certain moment of history.
There are also events which God had prophesied before and are fulfilling today, right before our eyes.
Their fulfilment includes our present time.
And what is most exciting, there are prophecies in Bible which encompass the present, but are to be fulfilled in near future.
And since we’ve been given concrete signs and descriptions of the state in which the world will find itself before the fulfilment of those prophecies,
we can only wonder at God’s great power and wisdom.
And while observing this world, we can have sure confidence in His infallible and powerful Word.
This system of prophecies is so powerful that no sound reason has been able to take it down by plain reasoning.
And the third great reason why the Bible is still on top, alive and indestructible is that here is revealed,
in a most majestic way, the infinite and incomparable love of God, as in no other book in the world.
It testifies of God who was ready – out of His infinite love towards every human – to humiliate Himself down to such level so as to become
the servant made of flesh and blood, and to allow His own creatures to nail Him on the piece of wood as some animal or the worst criminal.
All other gods are false and any other alleged love is just a pale counterfeit.
This book testifies about the God who took all our shame and sins on the Cross so that He could forgive us, change us and open to us the door of eternity.
Undeservedly and freely.
In my own personal life, God has confirmed to me again and again, in a thousand ways, that all of His promises are sure and that He Himself,
by His own blood, stands behind His every word in the Bible. That is my living and personal experience.
He invites you today to read His Word, humbly and honestly, to open your heart for the influence of His Spirit,
and to taste something better than the life you know. Jesus is alive. Jesus is present. Jesus is wonderful.