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Introduction: A. Ps. 119.105, Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. B. Do you really want the Bible? 1. When do you want the Bible? 2. Do you want Bible authority when preachers preach, or do you want your ears tickled? 3. Do you want the Bible if it is different than your beliefs or practices? 4. Do you want the Bible more than feeling or experience? Body:
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I. The Bible purifies, 1 Pet. 1.22, Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, J. The Bible gives light, Ps. 119.130, The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. K. The Bible provides necessary nourishment for life, Matt. 4.4, But he answered, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. L. The Bible builds up, Acts 20.32, And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. M. The Bible stands forever, 1. Matt. 24.35, Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. 2. 1 Pet. 1.24, for All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever. And this word is the good news that was preached to you. N. The Bible will judge us 1. Joh 12.48, The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. 2. {Rev 20.12, And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.}
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Give me the Bible, Holy message shining, Thy light shall guide me in the narrow way; Precept and promise, law and love combining, Till night shall vanish in eternal day. Conclusion: A. Do you want to be a strong Christian? Let, Give me the Bible be your motto. B. A church is only as strong as the preaching it demandsdemand, Give me the Bible.
John R. Gentry, www.HaveBibleWillPreach.com For audio and other study helps visit http://sierraleone.havebiblewillpreach.com Originally aired on BBN in Freetown, Sierra Leone on 2008.12.07
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