Thursday, July 27, 2023

Why the word matters over anything -

 These are two very different views of the Bible. In the one, the Bible is God’s Word to us. In the other, the Bible is our word about God.

What you believe about the Bible will shape how you use it and respond to it.

If you believe that the Bible is a human word about God, you may want to read it for inspiration, but when it does not fit well with your view of life or of the world, you will feel free to disagree and choose your own path.

If the Bible is merely a collection of human words about God, it will be natural for you to say, “That was then, but this is now.”

Why the Word Matters: Three Biblical Convictions

Why is this important? What difference does it make? Why should anyone care whether the Bible is our speaking about God or God speaking to us? It makes all the difference in the world:  Here’s why:

1. If God has not spoken, His promises are replaced by our wishes.

Think about some of the great promises of Scripture:

I will never leave you nor forsake you (Heb. 13:5).

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved (Acts 16:31).

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory (Phil. 4:19).

Who said these things? If these words came from the mouth of God, if God said them, if they are indeed the Word of God to us, then they are promises on which we can depend. You can take them to the bank. You can build on them in every circumstance of your life.

But if these are human words about God, then they are not promises on which we can depend but merely wishes arising from the heart of Paul or from Isaiah, that we might also cherish.

If you believe that the Bible is our word about God rather than God’s word to us, you undermine the foundation of hope and replace God’s promises to us with our wishes about God.

2. If God has not spoken, His truth is replaced by our opinion.

The Bible says that God is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in love. These words are repeated no less than seven times in the Old Testament (Ex. 34:6, Neh. 9:7, Psa. 86:15, Psa. 103:8, Psa. 145:8, Joel 2:13, Jonah 4:2).

But whose words are these? If God spoke these words to Moses and the prophets, we can be sure that he is indeed gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in love, because He is the one who said it. He has disclosed this Himself.

But if these words arose from the thoughts of Moses, David, Nehemiah, or Jonah, then we do not have truth that we can count on for our lives today. All we have is opinion that arose from the experience of these particular men, and it may or may not prove true for us today.

When you buy into evolutionary theory, conversations in small groups around the Word of God go something like this… Moses believed that God is gracious and merciful, but others have a different experience.  What about you? What do you think God is like? How do you see him?

When the Word of God to us is viewed as our word about God, His truth gets replaced by our opinion—and that undermines the foundations of our faith.

3. If God has not spoken, His welcome is replaced by our journey.

The Bible is full of invitations:

Incline your ear and come to me. Hear that your soul may live; I will make with you an everlasting covenant (Isa. 55:3).

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you (Jas. 4:8).

Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow (Isa. 1:18).

Who said these things? If God said them (to and through the prophet Isaiah and the apostle James), then you can be certain that God is reaching out to us in love. That means we can come to Him with confidence. We can enjoy a true and authentic relationship with God because He has invited us to come to Him.

If these words were simply reflections of the thoughts or experience of James and Isaiah, they are only pointers on a journey. They tell us what others have found, but they offer no assurance that we will find the same.

If the Bible is viewed as our words about God rather than God’s word to us, you may have people reaching out and seeking after God, but very, very little finding. Why? Because what is lost is God reaching out in love through his Son, and what you have left is people seeking.

What’s at stake? If the Bible is our word about God rather than God’s word to us, then God’s welcome is replaced by our journey, and we lose the assurance of His love.

Do you see how much this matters? The basis of faith, hope, and love all rest on God having spoken—giving us promises, telling us who He is, inviting us into a relationship with Himself, and telling is how that is possible through His Son Jesus Christ.

When I think about all this, it makes me step back and breathe a big sigh of relief. Thank God for the Word of ChristJohn 17:17-Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Sanctify=hagiazó in the greek. To set apart for God' service.

The Word of the Lord is the final authority where "truth" is concerned.

God has set a standard in His Word in which He commands us to not go beyond, but heed and daily apply to our lives.

We are reminded of 2 truths in this text. (1) The Word of God is the truth that we ALL must be sanctified by for there is no other way to be set apart for God's service apart from His Word which is truth.

(2) The Word of God is truth. Believing or attempting to believe that sanctification is done any other way than through the Word of God is a lie. God's word is final authority, even if man chooses to willfully disobey it.

God and His Word is One. We cannot love God and not love His Word. The two go hand in hand. 

"Sanctify" them with your truth is the powerful statement that is made by Jesus in this text.

Sanctification is not something we do ourselves, it is a work and a process that is done in us by means of God's Holy Spirit that dwells in us after our confession of faith in Christ Jesus. In other words, after salvation.

The "Word of God" is what sanctifies, washes, regenerate and transforms the mind. It is with the mind that we are taught and learned truth through God's Word.

With our hearts, we learn to love God's truth. With our will, we yield and submit to God's will and authority by yielding to the spirit of truth which is God's Word by daily application of it in every area of our lives. 

John 14:15-If you love me, keep my commands.

The point that Jesus is driving home to ALL of us who are of the household of faith is that we must be taking God’s word and daily applying it to every area of our lives if we are to grow and be conformed to His likeness, which is God's purpose for all of us.

Romans 8:28-30 8 We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew, He predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom He predestined, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified; and those whom He justified, He also glorified.

The Word of God is meant to change our minds and our hearts from sinful to holy and from carnal to spiritual.

What sense does it make to claim that we read the Word of God daily and there is no fruit that shows evidence of any change taking place within us? Reading the Word and seeing no change, makes no sense!

If we are saved, we are in Christ and He is in us. The Word of God should renew our way of thinking and living.

Romans 12:1-2 I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service of worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

The renewing of our mind through If we are saved, we are in Christ and He is in us. The Word of God should renew our way of thinking and living.

Romans 12:1-2 I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service of worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

The renewing of our mind through the washing of it with the Word of God and the application of  the Word of God in every are of our lives is how the sanctification process works.

Are you growing spiritually? Is there fruit in your life that reveals that you daily spend time with the Lord? Is your character beginning to look Christ like? Is the fruit of the spirit being manifested daily in the way you live and in your relationships with others?

If you answered yes to the questions above, that is wonderful, but if you answered no, why not? If you are reading and applying, there should be fruit.

Matthew 7:16a-By their fruit you will recognize them. What's hanging from your tree? Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they?

Believe it or not, but today is the day to make God's Word final authority in all areas of your life. This applies to me too!

When all is said and done and when life on this side is over, all that will matter is the "Authority of God's Word." NOTHING ELSE WILL MATTER!

ur ongoing study of kingdom authority, previously we looked at the lordship of Christ—when the King is on the throne of our lives. Today we look at the Word of the King—the Bible. Can it be trusted as the true Word of God? Or is it just a nice collection of ancient literature, quaint, but not fully divine?

The Apostle Peter describes the Word of God in 1 Peter 1:23-25. He makes it clear: we are saved through the Word of God.

[You have] been born again, not of corruptible [perishable] seed but incorruptible [imperishable], through the Word of God, which lives and abides forever, because [and here Peter quotes Isaiah 40:6-8] “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the Word of the Lord endures forever. (Bracketed information is added for explanation.)

The Bible is not the book of the month. It’s the Book of the Ages. It took 1,500 years for the Bible to be written. Its authors spanned 30 generations. It was completed 2,000 years ago, yet it’s still a fresh reality. The Word of God is…

…living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)

The Issue Is Authority

We cannot live victoriously in spiritual warfare without a final source of authority, an authoritative Word of God. Our own conscience won’t cut it. A religious hierarchy won’t do. Only Jesus Christ Himself, speaking through inspired, infallible Scripture, provides the foundation we need.

But Satan continues to muddy the waters in the issue of biblical authority. Since the Garden of Eden, he’s been asking, “Did God really say that?” insinuating, of course, that He didn’t.

What Does God Say About It?

More than 500 times in the first five books of the Bible, God says, “This is My Word.” More than 1,000 times in the prophets, God says, “This is My Word.” More than 4,000 times in the Old Testament and 44 times in the New Testament, the Bible is called the “Word of God.”

God Himself calls the Bible the Word of God. I could give hundreds of examples, but here are a few:

  • And they spoke the Word of God with boldness. (Acts 4:31)
  • So faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. (Romans 10:17)
  • And take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. (Ephesians 6:17)
  • For this reason, we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the Word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the Word of God…. (1 Thessalonians 2:13)

It’s not the word of man. The Old Testament prophets prophesied because the Holy Spirit was prophesying through them. (See 1 Peter 1:10.) Although the Bible had human penmen, it wasn’t written by men but by the Holy Spirit.

Jesus’ Connection with the Bible

Consider this: The Holy Spirit inspired the writers to call both Jesus and the Bible the “Word of God.” God not only called His Book the “Word of God,” but He also called His Son the “Word of God.” He gave Jesus the same name as He gave to His book.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made…. And the Word became 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. (John 1:1-314)

In Revelation 19:13, Jesus comes in power and great glory, “and He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called the Word of God.” Both Jesus and the Bible are called the “Word of God.”

The character of the Bible and the character of Jesus are inseparably linked. From cover to cover, the written Word presents unerringly the living Word. And the living Word believed the written Word.

A man and his word may be different, but Christ and His Word are not different. There is a beautiful, miraculous connection. The things that are true about Jesus are in many ways true about the Bible. I’m not saying Jesus and the Bible are identical, but they are inseparable. Look how they are linked:

  • Both Jesus and the Word of God came from Heaven.
  • Both live forever. Jesus is alive forevermore (See Revelation 1:18.), and “The Word of the Lord endures forever” (1 Peter 1:25).
  • Both Jesus (See Hebrews 13:8.) and the Word (See Matthew 5:18.) are unchanging.
  • Both Jesus and the Word are light in a dark place. Jesus is the light of the world. (See John 8:12.) So is the Bible. (See Psalm 119:105.)
  • Both are absolute truth. “I am the truth” (John 14:6); “Your Word is truth” (John 17:17).45
  • The Bible is as spotless in character as the Lord Jesus. If we take a lesser view of Scripture, we’re making less of Jesus as well by disbelieving His testimony. Jesus held the Word of God in the highest place of honor, and so must we. How can we logically call Jesus Lord and reject His view of Scripture?

    “God-breathed” Means “Perfect”

    All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. (See 2 Timothy 3:16.) “Inspiration” here is literally translated “God-breathed.” The Bible isn’t a compilation of possible thoughts God might have had. No! God breathed out the Scriptures, and the God of truth cannot “breathe out” error.

    • Jesus said the Scriptures came from the mouth of God. (See Matthew 4:4.)
    • Every word of God is pure. (See Proverbs 30:5.)
    • The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. (See Psalm 19:7.)

    The Bible is nothing less than revelation from the transcendent, personal God. Take away its inerrancy, and all that’s left is human opinion.

  • For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

    No wonder the God-breathed Scriptures pulsate with power.

    The Incorruptible Word

    Incorruptible, “imperishable,” (See 1 Peter 1:23.) means no taint, no impurities hide within the words of Scripture. Protected by the Holy Spirit, the Bible has survived the challenges of the years. Atheists rail against it; agnostics smile cynically; liberals move Heaven and Earth to disprove it; materialists ignore it; radicals and false cults twist it, and yet the Bible still stands, imperishable.

    Dr. Robert G. Lee said of the Bible,

    All of its enemies have not torn one hole in its holy vesture, or stolen one flower from its wonderful garden, nor diluted one drop of honey from its abundant hive, nor broken one string on its thousand-stringed harp, nor drowned one sweet word in infidel ink.

    The Indestructible Word

    The Word of God lives and abides forever (1 Peter 1:23).
    The Word of the Lord endures forever (1 Peter 1:25).
    Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. (Matthew 24:35)

    For centuries people have tried to discredit or destroy it. The kings of this Earth have set themselves against it. America’s public schools have banned it. Yet the Word of God endures.

    Diocletian was emperor of Rome from 284-305 A.D., responsible for the worst persecution, torture, and martyrdom Christians ever faced. He hated the Bible and was determined to wipe it out.

    As many Bibles as he could find, he destroyed, and in 303 he erected a monument over the ashes with these words: “Extincto nomene christianorum.” (“The name of Christian is extinct”).

    But in 312, the next emperor, Constantine, declared himself to be a Christian, and in 325 Constantine made the Bible the infallible judge of truth for the Empire. Today, Diocletian is rarely heard of, and the Bible is preached worldwide.

    The Indispensable Word

    You will never have kingdom authority, speak with authority, or live with authority until you get under the authority of the Word of God.

    Before his ministry became known worldwide, Billy Graham came to a moment that changed everything. He was struggling with accepting by faith the authority of the Word of God. At a secluded, wooded retreat, he knelt before God and prayed,

    Here and now by faith, I accept the Bible as Your Word. I take it all. I take it without reservation. Where there are things I can’t understand, I will reserve judgment until I receive more light. If this pleases You, give me authority as I proclaim Your Word, and through that authority convict me of sin and turn sinners to the Savior.

    He stopped trying to prove the Bible was true. He settled in his mind that it was. Within six weeks, the historic Los Angeles crusade began. His faith was conveyed to the audience. Again and again, he found himself saying, “The Bible says,” a voice through which the Holy Spirit was speaking.

    The Bible became a flame in his hands that melted unbelief and moved people to decide for Christ.

    The Word of God, with its discerning, piercing, burning message, is the authoritative basis for our faith. If you want to believe, you can, because God will give you faith.

    If you don’t believe the Bible, your problem is not intellectual but moral. It comes not out of your head but out of your heart. Your problem is your will. Billy Graham said, “When I surrendered my will, I got it settled.” The Bible says “Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief…” (Hebrews 3:12).

    The Word of God implants faith in your heart, and if you want to know, you can know. Your heart will respond to the Word of God like your eye responds to light. Open your heart today to the perfect, powerful, inerrant, indestructible Word of God.

    If you want to give your life to God, stop now and pray something like this: “Lord Jesus, I believe Your Word. I believe it when it teaches that You are the Son of God. I believe it when it teaches that You died upon the cross for my sin. I believe it when it teaches that You rose again from the dead. I believe it when it teaches if I will believe on You and trust You, You will save me as You said in Your Word: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31). I do believe. I do trust You right now with all of my heart, once and for all, now and forever I receive You as my Lord and Savior and I stand upon Your Word.”

DEFINITION

The doctrine of the authority and inerrancy of Scripture is that, as a corollary of the inspiration of Scripture, the God-breathed Scriptures are wholly true in all things that they assert in the original autographs and therefore function with the authority of God’s own words.

SUMMARY

The doctrine of the authority and inerrancy of Scripture is rooted in the doctrine of God; as God is true and trustworthy, so is his word recorded in the original autographs of Scriptures. This means that all things that the Scriptures assert are wholly true, both in the Old Testament, the Scriptures of Jesus and the apostles, and in the New Testament, the writings of the apostles. So far as the original autographs have been faithfully copied, translated, and passed down, Scripture is inerrant in its copies. This inerrancy means that all things that the Scriptures assert function with the authority of God’s own Word for Christians.

“The trustworthiness of the Scriptures lies at the foundation of trust in the Christian system of doctrine, and is therefore fundamental to the Christian hope and life.” These words from Benjamin B. Warfield highlight just how important the doctrine of inerrancy is for the church. Abandon it, and the entire Christian system of doctrine now rests on a shaky foundation.

That is because without it, our assurance in Scripture’s full truthfulness and total trustworthiness is thrown into question. Doubt naturally follows for the preacher of God’s Word: “How can I know whether the passage I am preaching is reliable?” Much is at stake, then, with inerrancy. Faith and practice readily depend on whether we can trust God’s Word and whether it is God’s Word at all or in its entirety.

The God of Truth

As hinted at already, it is appropriate to associate inerrancy with God himself. Inerrancy is, after all, a corollary of inspiration. It is because Scripture is breathed-out by God (2 Tim. 3:16) that it is also truthful in all it affirms. The God who has breathed out his Word has done so in a way that is truthful; what else would we expect from a triune God who is truth itself (John 1:18; 8:40; 14:6; 17:3, 17; 18:371 John 4:6)?

Assumed in such a statement is the belief that our doctrine of Scripture should be grounded in our doctrine of God. If God is Scripture’s author, then we should not divorce the character of the divine author from the character of his divine speech. After all, this is God’s Word we are describing; Scripture has many human authors, but it ultimately originates from one divine author. While God and the text are distinct, nevertheless, the text is his speech act; it should not surprise us that it reflects his character. Communicable attributes characterize his communicable speech, and truthfulness is one of them. As the God of truth and the God who is truth, he speaks a word of truth. The truthfulness of the text reflects the truthfulness of its divine author. Hence the psalmist could say that the God whose way is “perfect” communicates a word that always “proves true” and, for that reason, is a comfort to those who trust in it for their salvation (119:96; cf. 119:160).

The truthfulness of the text reflects the truthfulness of its divine author.

“But wait, isn’t Scripture written by human hands? We all know humans are fallible creatures,” one might object. It is true that humans are fallible. And apart from the Spirit’s superintendence, any human author would be fallible. But since it is the Spirit of God—also called the Spirit of truth (John 15:26)—that carries along these human authors (2 Peter 1:21), what they say is what God says, and no human error is mixed in with it. Surely this is not beyond God’s omnipotent abilities. If we, as Christians, believe the Son of God himself can become incarnate yet without sin in order to communicate a saving word to us as the Word (John 1:1, 14), then carrying along the biblical authors so that they speak truthfully is a small thing by comparison.

Jesus’ View of the Scriptures

Moreover, when we look at how Jesus and his disciples treat the Old Testament Scriptures, it is always with utter trust and reverence, never with suspicion towards its reliability. Even Jesus’s Jewish opponents did the same. While Jesus and the Jews had strong disagreements over how the OT was to be interpreted and whether Jesus is who he says he is, never—not once—do they disagree as to whether the text interpreted is trustworthy. Apart from such a presupposition, their debates never would have happened in the first place.

Jesus brings a unique credibility to the issue as well; he is, after all, the Son of God himself. Naturally, our view of the Scriptures should be the same as Jesus’s view of the Scriptures. Beyond assuming trust in Scripture, both in its details and as a whole, the inerrancy of Scripture shines brightest when Jesus expresses his belief that God’s covenant promises in the Scriptures have come true in his own life, death, and resurrection. In Jesus Christ, God’s inscripturated word has proven true. God’s saving promises have come to fruition in the Word, his own Son.

We can conclude, then, that the gospel itself is proof that not one word of God has failed. The truthfulness of God’s Word, along with its lifegiving power, has been manifested in he who is the way and the truth and the life (John 14:6). God is faithful; all his promises find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ. What greater affirmation of scriptural inerrancy could there be?

The gospel itself is proof that not one word of God has failed.

Clarifying Inerrancy

That said, we must qualify what inerrancy does and does not mean. Paul Feinberg defines inerrancy as follows: “When all the facts are known, the Scriptures in their original autographs and properly interpreted will be shown to be wholly true in everything they affirm, whether that has to do with doctrine or morality or with the social, physical, or life sciences.” If this definition labors to define what inerrancy does and does not mean, that is because inerrancy is one of the most misunderstood and caricatured attributes of Scripture by its critics. Note several components of this definitions.

To begin with, inerrancy applies to the original autographs. That is an important qualification because sometimes critics see mistakes in copies and assume the Bible is full of errors. But when we say Scripture is inerrant, we have in mind that original text breathed out by God through the human authors (2 Tim. 3:162 Peter 1:21). The product of inspiration is an inerrant text of Scripture. So far as it has been faithfully copied, translated, and passed down, it is inerrant in its copies. (And it should be noted that the copies we possess are very accurate.)

Moreover, inerrancy means Scripture is “wholly true” in all that it affirms. Or as Kevin Vanhoozer says, “To say that Scripture is inerrant is to confess faith that the authors speak the truth in all things they affirm (when they make affirmations).” In whatever Scripture asserts and affirms, it speaks truthfully and in a trustworthy manner. To say it is “wholly” true means we should not limit inerrancy to Scripture’s main doctrinal message. We never see the biblical authors place such a limitation on their writings. Instead, they believe God speaks truly through them in whatever they affirm. So, inerrancy applies to all areas, including its ethical instruction, to name just one example. Just as inspiration is both verbal and plenary, so too is inerrancy.

In whatever Scripture asserts and affirms, it speaks truthfully and in a trustworthy manner.

Inerrancy and Authority

Affirming inerrancy today can be tricky. There are some, for example, who affirm Scripture’s inspiration but reject its inerrancy. This limited inerrancy view sounds, at first glance, evangelical: “I believe Scripture is true in its message of faith.” But on further investigation, this position denies Scripture is true in all that it asserts. Yes, it is true in its gospel message, but beyond that it may err in its specifics. Ironically, this view claims it can still herald sola scriptura, as if Scripture is still the final authority.

The problem is, this view cannot claim Scripture is its final inerrant authority, which is what the church has always assumed in proclaiming sola scriptura. Pay attention to this key difference between a full inerrancy view and the limited inerrancy view. The full inerrancy view says,

“All Scripture is our inerrant authority.”

Not so with the limited view, which says instead,

“Only when Scripture addresses matters of faith is it our inerrant authority.”

Notice, the limited inerrancy view can only (consistently) claim sola scriptura when Scripture puts forward its main message. At other times, it is not inerrant and cannot, therefore, been the final authority. This is not what the Reformers meant by sola scriptura. When Luther protested Rome and took his stand on the authority of Scripture at a Diet like Worms, it was inerrancy (among other things) that distinguished his cause. Luther made the bold claim that while popes and councils err, Scripture does not. It is because Scripture alone is inspired by God that it is also inerrant, sufficient, and the Christian’s final authority.

Making God’s word Final authority is believing what the word says instead of believing people, Satan or Circumstances. What God says settles the issues of life as far as you are concerned. You believe that you are what God says you are. You believe that you can do what God says that you can do. You know that you have what God says is yours. He is the authority in your life. Whatever God says to you in His Word, you will do. You have confidence in your Father that He will perform for you all that He says.

Determine in your heart that God’s word is to your advantage and that you will act on His word in Faith, knowing that He is the God of love. The word will ONLY become alive to you as you accept it as truth and ACT upon it. Fearlessly commit yourself to the authority of God’s word. Make up your mind to walk by Faith and not by sight. Be ready to act on God’s word even when common sense says to do something
else. Common means ordinary. God’s Word gets you out of the ordinary and puts you into the supernatural realm of God’s Power! Making God’s word final authority does not limit your life but makes all things possible to you.


Jesus Christ, The same yesterday, Today and forever, is a message they are ready to hear. For the first time in their lives many are finding that the Rock of the Word of God is the fail-safe in this Hour. The word does not compromise before them and neither do the Christians who have made God’s word final authority.
They refuse the social religion that they have been handed in the name of the Lord. Who could Blame them! It is full of holes and does not work when you need it. For the most part it has been tradition and more talk, with little action and few results. What God says changes things.

The Word Works.  Psalm 112:6-8 says “SURELY HE SHALL NOT BE MOVED FOR EVER: THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE IN EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE. HE SHALL NOT BE AFRAID OF EVIL TIDINGS:HIS HEART IS FIXED, TRUSTING IN THE LORD. HIS HEART IS ESTABLISHED, HE SHALL NOT BE AFRAID, UNTIL HE SEES HIS DESIRE UPON HIS ENEMIES.”

To any believer who puts God’s Word first place in life, Psalm 112 can be the anthem of victory in this hour!



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