“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me” (John 5:39).
Jesus says when the people read the Bible, they think of themselves and not the Scriptures. They do not think of Christ, but the Bible is Christ. And “you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life” (John 5:40).
The Father wants everyone to come to the Scriptures, because they are the very Christ, the living Word of God. Jesus says: “Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).
God gave the Israelites the Scriptures so that through the Holy Writing they could have the Word of God and have Him more abundantly; not only at that time He spoke to them in Mount Sinai, but every day of their lives.
They were supposed to abide in the Bible which is the Son of God. Jesus clearly said that He is the Word of God written in the Bible: “For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me” (John 5:46).
After His resurrection Jesus opened the understanding of His disciples to see Him through the Bible: “And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Luke 24:27).
Peter the apostle said, “But the word of the Lord endures forever. Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you” (1 Peter 1:25). All Scriptures are Christ, the holy apostles and prophets wrote of Him.
The Word of God is the Christ, which was the Scriptures that followed the Israelites for forty years in the wilderness, but the people did not receive the Spiritual Writing as the Son of God (see 1 Corinthians 10:4).
They heard the voice of God and saw the Ark of the Covenant. The Word was very near to them, even in their mouth. They could recite the Scriptures, but they did not believe that the very Word they were quoting is Christ the Son of the living God.
We should not only quote the Scriptures, but we should believe the personality of the Scriptures. This is the Son of God that proceeded from the invisible God. The Word in the Bible came directly from God (see 2 Timothy 3:16).
The Bible is the Evidence of Christ, the Word of God, written by the Holy Spirit of God. We are admonished to take to Him for God loved us so much that He gave us His only begotten Son (see John 3:16).
PRAYER
Heavenly Father, pour upon us the Spirit of the Bible. Amen.
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