God literally “breathed” His Word through human personalities to give us an inerrant, infallible and inspired record of His revelation of Himself and of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 40:8, “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.”
Down through the ages, there have been several efforts by pagan unbelievers to destroy the Word of God.
In A.D. 303, the Roman emperor Diocletion ordered the confiscation and destruction of all the Christian scriptures. Thousands of early copies and possibly some originalS were burned.
But earnest believers hid it away in the catacombs, in caves and in graves. Thus the Word of God survived that attack.
The French humanist Voltaire once said, "Another century and there will not be a Bible on the earth." Two centuries have gone, and the circulation of the Bible is one of the marvels of the age.
Joseph Stalin took over all of Russia upon the death of Lenin in the late twenties. He literally attempted to wipe the Word of God and the God of the Word from the Russian people’s minds.
Did he succeed? A recent poll taken in Russia shows that today more people than ever believe in God and His Word.
For thousands of years the enemies of truth have sought to destroy the precious Word of God. Every attempt has failed miserably.
The Word of God is the Believer’s precious foundation of faith.
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“How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, —. Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word. — What more can He say than to you He hath said, — To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?
"Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed, — For I am thy God and will still give thee aid; — I'll strengthen and help thee, and cause thee to stand — Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.
"When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie, — My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply; — The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design — Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.
"The soul that on Jesus still leans for repose, — I will not, I will not desert to it's foes; — That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, ==I'll never, no never, no never forsake.”
Anonymous 1787
Ideas for this unprofitable blog are taken from The Sermon Notebook—Biblical resources for preachers and teachers of the word of God. They allow these sermons to be used as the Lord leads but not for profit.
