What is the Bible?
The Bible is God talking to humanity.
Let me start out with some facts about this book called the Bible. (I use the word facts, I don’t know if the numbers are totally accurate. I read and heard over the years that the Bible having 35 to 45 authors, that it took 1200 to 2100 years to write; now that type of information or accuracy is not all that important to me but it matters to some. My point here is don’t let precision make you miss the points.)
First and foremost you must be convinced that God wrote the Bible, 66 books broken down into the Old and the New Testament, the Old Testament in the Hebrew language and the New Testament in the Greek language. (Over the years I’ve come across people saying that they are hiding books of the Bible: my answer to that is I am still trying to learn and figure out the 66 I have access to. I don’t concern myself with those types of things: if I need to know something, God will enlighten me). He used 40 plus different human authors inspired by the Holy Spirit. Over a two thousand years, a variety of priests, kings, shepherds, fisherman, and a host of other profession to document what He wanted mankind to know. One writer picks up where the other left off without missing a beat and hundreds of years between their writings. Some books of the Bible need each other to get the full understanding of what God is saying. This book is amazing: it shows you how to reach God, how to parent, how to fix your marriage, how to run a business, and how governments be should run. It talks about politics, economics, sociology and philosophy. It’s the ultimate guide to living in peace filled with love and joy. It introduces ideals and concepts we need to know and yet we had no idea these things even existed. It talks of dimension and earth ages, parallel universes, angelic beings. It speaks of creation of the universe and heaven. It gives the history of human existence. It tells us who we are and who we belong to. It has the understanding of how to tap into God’s power for ourselves. It’s a book of laws, precepts, commands and patterns. It’s packed with promises and principles. It wakes us up to justice and an equity a sense of fairness. It talks of the afterlife and, even though the Bible speaks of all these things and so much more, I believe its main purpose is to reveal the plans of God to humanity. God is moving us in a specific direction.
Now let me give you what I believe is the best thing about this book, what makes this book so powerful! Is that it is alive! it has a power in it that is only explained with one word: GOD! It is alive and moving today as when it was written. I truly believe that God is in His word, just like He said so. When you use the name Jesus and speak the Bible over and into circumstanced and situations with faith, God moves.
Hebrews 4 (AMPC)
12 For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the [g]breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.
He is watching over His word to perform it and it does not come back void. He sees to it that it does what He sent it to do.
This Bible has predicted events and characters that have come to pass in precise detail. It speaks of future events and characters to come and they will happen just as He said it will. Those of us who are able, to discern times and season, can clearly see that what is written is currently playing out before our eyes. God’s plans are manifesting daily. Ask the Holy Spirit to open up the eyes of your understanding so you can see where you fit in.
Ephesians 1 (Living Bible)
17 asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom[f] and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God. 18 I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance.[g]
Seek the word because the word works if you work it.
Randy McKinney