Understand The Word of God


What does the Bible say about what is happening?



The fruit of the coronavirus is fear and confusion.

The Bible says the devil, Satan, is the source of fear and confusion.

God is the God of order and peace, repeatedly telling His people to, “Fear not.”

 The nations are not sure what to do the stop this pandemic.

The Bible says in the Last Days there will be distress of nations with perplexity.

 The Bible says in the Last Days there will be pestilences.

The Almighty Creator God is not the source of the coronavirus;  the coronavirus is not the judgment of God.

 

But Living God is using the coronavirus – He is trying to get mankind’s attention.

 

Mankind has run away from God.

Mankind is not receptive to what God has to say to them (The Bible, The Word of God).

Mankind refuses to be accountable to the Creator.

 

Mankind has sinned against God.

 God knows that mankind’s path leads to eternal death, and it is not His will that that happen.

 God is using the coronavirus to upset the apple carts of mankind so that he might turn back to Him

God is saying,

  1. “Repent of your ways and embrace My ways."
  2. “Be reconciled to Me.”
  3. “Come home.”
  4. “I love you and I desire that you stop hurting yourself.”

 How can a holy God say that to sinful people

     - Because He Personally came to earth to pay for our sins .

     - And God is simply asking us to believe what He has said and done.

     - When we put our faith in Jesus Christ, our sins are removed from us

     - We are pleasing to our Creator by faith…by believing and trusting Him and not ourselves

 

Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh, is pleading with you to make peace with His Father

How do I understand the Bible?

The Bible is the Word of God, the very words of God. 

The Word of God is

  • Inspired – God-breathed, God-authored
  • Inerrant – without error or contradiction
  • Infallible – cannot fail

 

Since the words in the Bible are the words of God Himself, the Word of God is the Final Authority in matters of morality and truth.

 

The Word of God is prophetic, giving mankind history in advance

The Word of God is eternal, more enduring than the universe in which we live

 

            Matthew 24:35

 

Since every word in the Bible is the Word of God, how do we understand what God is saying?

 

  • Believe:  Seeing is not believing and understanding is not believing.  Believing is seeing and understanding.
  •  God says what He means and means what He says:  Our Creator does not play mind games with us.  He speaks directly and plainly because He wants us to understand.  Unless an obvious metaphor or allegory is being used, read the Word of God literally.
  • Context:  From micro (little) to macro (big) and from macro to micro.  Be sure to understand the context of the word within the verse, the verse within the passage, the passage within the chapter, the chapter within the Book, and the Book within the Bible.  Incorrect context will lead to mis-understanding and error/false doctrine.
  • Scripture interprets Scripture:  The Author and Teacher (John 14:26, John 15:26, John 16:13) of the very words of God interprets His words, man does not.  The Word of God is not the subject of a private interpretation by any person;  The Author interprets His Word for us.  Jesus Christ is the Central Topic of Scripture (John 5:39 with Psalm 40:7-8 and Hebrews 10:7).  With ready minds, man is to search the Scriptures to learn the Truth  (Acts 17:11, John 14:6).
  • Time and effort:  There is no substitute for time and effort to study, rightly divide, and understand the Word of God.  And the Lord will reward your time and effort with understanding.
  • Study the right Bible:  Translators of the original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts into English used a variety of methods.  Word-for-word  (e.g. KJV, NKJV, NASB).  Thought-for-thought (e.g. NIV).  Paraphrase (e.g. New Living Translation), which is tantamount to putting words in God’s mouth.  Since every word in the Bible is God-breathed and every word is true (Titus 1:2), every word is important.  Study a word-for-word translation.

And since Jesus Christ is the Living Word, the Word of God is about Him…

      Who He is, what He did, what He said,

 

            John 5:39

            Hebrews 10:1-10