THE BIBLE IS NOT THE MEAL- IT’S THE MENU #1306/ WITHDR GEORGE WATKINS

THE BIBLE IS NOT THE MEAL IT'S THE MENU

 

A few days ago, on this program, I talked about looking through my old Bibles and being inspired by the notes I made in the flyleaf. In doing that program, I took a picture of 17 Bibles I've managed to keep from the 65 years I've been active in the ministry. Many of them are worn out, and pages are falling apart—some I set aside for a different translation. 

I love the Bible. It is the foundation of our Christian life in our relationship with God. However, somewhere along the journey, I discovered that the Bible was not the meal but the menu. The Bible is a dead book without God's spirit involved as you read and meditate. The Scriptures tell us that the letter kills us, but the spirit makes us alive.

Professors worldwide in various universities and higher learning centers teach the Bible through the eyes of the unconverted. To those professors, it is history or poetry, and most of it isn't very clear to them.

Unfortunately, too many Christians read the Bible in somewhat the same way. When Paul received the revelation of Jesus Christ and who he was to us, he made a bold, interesting statement. First, he said he wanted to avoid going back and interacting with the apostles so they would tell him about the historical Jesus. He was interested in something other than the repetitive pictures of Jesus feeding the 5000 or healing the sick. 

He commented that he didn't want to know Jesus after the flesh.

When the gospels tell us about the life and ministry of Jesus, there's something behind that story that is greater than the fact he fed the 5000 and healed the sick. The more significant message is that he completed the desires of the Father by fulfilling the Old Testament covenant and preparing for the New Testament covenant. The acts of his miracles were not just to be studied in themselves, but they pointed as a menu does toward more incredible things.

Those more incredible things for Jesus were his preparation for the cross and the resurrection. Everything we see him do in the New Testament points toward the activity that changed history: his sacrifice for mankind. And his resurrection proves his deity.

I love the Bible, but I look through the page past the ink to the Holy Spirit's message that it gives to me.

 

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