Has God Spoken? (3 of 4)
Series: Apologetics: Asking for a Friend
Zach Terry
Matthew 5:18
INTRODUCTION: There was an article that appear in the Sterling City Bulletin a while back, it read like this:
A young preacher being interview for his first Pastorate claimed that he really knew the bible. So the interviewing board asked him if he would tell the story of the prodigal son. He said,
''Yes, I will - one night there was a man of the pharisees named Nicodemus the same came to Jericho by night. And he fell upon stony ground and thorns arose and choked him half to death. The next morning Solomon and his wife Gomorrah came by and carried him down to the Ark for Moses to take care of. As he entered the eastern gate into the ark he caught his hair in a loom and he hung there 40 days and 40 nights and he was afterwards hungered and the ravens came and fed him. The next day three wise men came and carried him down to a boat dock where he caught a ship to Nineveh and there he found Delilah sitting on a wall and he said, ''Chunk her down boys'', and they said to him, ''how many times shall we chuck her down'' and he said, ''70 times 7'' So they chucked her down 490 times and she burst asunder in their midst. The disciples picked up 12 baskets of fragments that were left over. And in the resurrection whose wife will she be?''
The story goes that after he left one of the elders said, ''I don't know about hiring this fella, he's awfully young, but he sure knows his bible''.
Sadly enough, That's kind of the way we approach the bible, a conglomeration of facts but we really don't know much about the whole.
ILLUSTRATION: In years gone by when the Sailors would cross the Atlantic Ocean they would navigate by the stars, because the stars were fixed points of light, they didn't move. That is how you are to move through life - with FIXED points of light that are immutable. Precise biblical understanding.
You read the BIBLE, you study and understand it ...
Series: Apologetics: Asking for a Friend
Zach Terry
Matthew 5:18
INTRODUCTION: There was an article that appear in the Sterling City Bulletin a while back, it read like this:
A young preacher being interview for his first Pastorate claimed that he really knew the bible. So the interviewing board asked him if he would tell the story of the prodigal son. He said,
''Yes, I will - one night there was a man of the pharisees named Nicodemus the same came to Jericho by night. And he fell upon stony ground and thorns arose and choked him half to death. The next morning Solomon and his wife Gomorrah came by and carried him down to the Ark for Moses to take care of. As he entered the eastern gate into the ark he caught his hair in a loom and he hung there 40 days and 40 nights and he was afterwards hungered and the ravens came and fed him. The next day three wise men came and carried him down to a boat dock where he caught a ship to Nineveh and there he found Delilah sitting on a wall and he said, ''Chunk her down boys'', and they said to him, ''how many times shall we chuck her down'' and he said, ''70 times 7'' So they chucked her down 490 times and she burst asunder in their midst. The disciples picked up 12 baskets of fragments that were left over. And in the resurrection whose wife will she be?''
The story goes that after he left one of the elders said, ''I don't know about hiring this fella, he's awfully young, but he sure knows his bible''.
Sadly enough, That's kind of the way we approach the bible, a conglomeration of facts but we really don't know much about the whole.
ILLUSTRATION: In years gone by when the Sailors would cross the Atlantic Ocean they would navigate by the stars, because the stars were fixed points of light, they didn't move. That is how you are to move through life - with FIXED points of light that are immutable. Precise biblical understanding.
You read the BIBLE, you study and understand it ...
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