15/08/2022
WHO JESUS TO YOU?
"The Bible presents Jesus in unambiguous & unmistakable terms, & the only way you can go look for Jesus & not find Him is if you don’t believe what the Bible says... And if you take it upon yourself not to believe what the Bible says, you've ordained for yourself a pretty significant position in the world - you are a greater authority than Scripture.. It always kind of makes me chuckle - and I guess it’s part of human nature, but it always makes me chuckle when somebody says, “I don’t believe the Bible is true.” Really?...
All these thousands of years, all these millions of people, all these lives, all these prophecies, all these miracles, the glory and the wonder, the staggering reality of Jesus Christ, what He did, who He was, what He said, how He acted, all of that which has been affirmed by millions of people, and you’re now telling us it’s all bogus??? By what... means did you rise to such a position where you could make yourself the final word on the veracity of Scripture? That’s a monumental step to... take,...and the only thing that I could imagine is that you’ve studied it carefully from front to back, analyzed it thoroughly all the way through, and come to this conclusion.
Inevitably, if I say that to somebody, they say, “Well, . . .” So I back off a little. “Ok, have you ever read... it? Well, it’s a good starting point if you’re going to stand as the authority on the veracity of Scripture, maybe reading... it... would be a start. And then... having read. it, you could do what those Bereans did in the book of Acts, they searched the Scripture to find out what was true... Or do what Jesus said, He said, ‘Search the Scriptures, they are they which speak of me.’.
Look, the Lord’s not afraid for you to read the Bible. If you do it with an open heart and an open mind, you’re going to find the truth there because it’s the purpose of the Bible to reveal the truth."