Daily Bible Study: God's Word Stands Firm 05.30.10

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Today is Sunday May 30, 2010 and we are reading through the Bible in a year. Today's message comes from the reading of the Book of II Chronicles, chapters 31-33. If you would like to read the chapters along with us here online you can Click Here to read them or copy & paste this link onto your browser: http://www.readytofollow.com/bible-may-30

Title: Bible Study: God's Word Stands Firm
As Christian's perhaps one of the most common comments received by non-believers is, the Bible is not God's Word, men wrote it. While men might have put pen to paper, every word in the Bible was given to them by God Himself. Just as a transcriber transcribes word for word what is being spoken for proof and documentation, Holy Spirit inspired men transcribed the Bible, word for word what God had spoken to them. Why do some believe and some do not? In order to believe what you are reading you need the Holy Spirit. He is the only one who was there to help the forty inspired men to write the Bible and He is the only one who can help us understand and know that it is God's Word that we are reading. Now, there are many versions that claim to be the Bible that are written by man, but there is only One Bible, One God, and One Word. Since God created people in the earth they have been trying to test God and His Word, even Satan, but God's Word stands firm and can not be changed. They can try to ignore it, claim that it is not true, or even put words in His mouth, but no one can change God.

When Hezekiah became king and assumed leadership, idol worship was both popular and accepted in the nation. Furthermore, his father had placed the kingdom of Judah in subjection to Assyria, which was fast becoming the world's most powerful kingdom. In addition, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, had jurisdiction over 46 walled cities inside the kingdom of Judah. Hezekiah could have mourned over the mess he inherited, either hating his father or blaming God for the wretched moral and economic conditions that prevailed throughout the nation. Instead he chose to put his faith and trust in God and destroyed everything that was wicked and restored true worship of God. “Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD. He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD. Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD. And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. ” - II Chronicles 31:1-5. Hezekiah encouraged all the people to follow the Law of God, which was God's Word. When Jerusalem was cleansed of idolatry, the tithes poured in from all parts of the nation. The king was amazed at the overabundance when the people were in a right relationship with God.

You can be sure that you are going to face opposition from those who do not know God's Word, even those trying to get you to question it yourself. Rest assure they too will find out that God and His Word are true and it is usually not something subtle that proves it. The king of Assyria tried to get the people of Jerusalem to believe that Hezekiah was deceiving them. “Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem? Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?...Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?...And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man....And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword. ” - II Chronicles 32:10,11,14,15,19,21. After all that taunting and boasting and trying to get the people to discredit God and Hezekiah the only thing it got the king was shame and to be killed by his own people. They can taunt us and give us a hard time, but they can not change the fact that God does exist, His Word is true and He never goes back on His Word.

There is only One God and One Word of God and when we learn God's Word we learn what is good and bad for us and are able to know what to remove to be cleansed and have a right relationship with God. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” - II Timothy 3:16,17.

Enjoy the rest of your day/night and the rest of your weekend.
God Bless You, I am praying for you,
Christina

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