“The people there were more open-minded than the people in Thessalonica. They listened to the message with great eagerness, and every day they studied the Scriptures to see if what Paul said was really true” (Acts 17:11 GNT).
Scriptures say that the believers in Berea were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, because after they listened to the preaching of Paul they searched the Scriptures to see whether Paul’s preaching agrees with Scriptures.
If we believe in God we should also believe in His Word. True believers are those who believe in the Scriptures, as we cannot genuinely believe in God whom we have not seen, if we do not believe His Word whom we have seen.
The only way to believe in God is by believing His Word. “No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him” (John 1:18).
God wants us to believe His Word because the Word of God is the express image of the invisible God, which is Jesus Christ. That’s why Jesus says, “You believe in God, believe also in Me” (John 14:1).
Whoever refuses to believe that the Scripture is the Word of God in effect calls God a liar, because they have not believed God’s own testimony. According to the Scripture, God gave birth to the Bible (see 2 Timothy 3:16).
Therefore Jesus says, “He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day” (John 12:48).
God gave His Son the full right to judge. “Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God’s only Son” (John 3:18 GNT).
The Father gave us the Bible so that we should believe in Him. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
When we believe in the Bible we become true believers in God. Jesus says, “For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day” (John 6:40 GNT).
Scripture is the only begotten of the Father, which is Jesus Christ. Through faith in the Bible alone we are saved. “Salvation is to be found through him alone; in all the world there is no one else whom God has given who can save us” (Acts 4:12 GNT).
It was God of the Holy Bible Abraham believed. “And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, in you all the nations shall be blessed” (Galatians 3:8).
The Scripture is that living God Abraham believed. You should understand then that the real descendants of Abraham are the people who have faith in the Bible (see Galatians 3:7).
PRAYER
Dear Father, open my mind to believe the Scriptures with all my heart, in Jesus name. Amen.
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