Volume 1, Issue 14
22 Aug 2015
 When it comes to the “word” of “the Father” testifying of Christ, there is not just the spoken Word, but also the written Word—the Scripture (John 5:39-47).
Jesus is the subject of the Bible. You should see Him on every page and in every verse. No matter what you are reading, in someway or another, it is teaching you something about Jesus Christ. The problem with many people today, like the problem with the Jews in Jesus’ day, is that they “search the Scripture,” but spurn the subject.
The whole purpose of the written Word of God (the Bible) is to get you to Jesus (the Living Word of God). Only Jesus can save and deliver you! Only He can give you eternal life! If the Bible doesn’t get you to Jesus, then, the Bible can’t help you, since it can’t save you, deliver you or give you eternal life. Only Jesus can!
Just as people fail to see the Father in the Son (John 5:37), they also fail to see the Son in the Scripture (John 5:38). Many know the shell of the Scripture, but know nothing of the kernel within. They minutely and superstitiously search the body of the Scripture, but have no sympathy for its soul. They idolize the written word, but ignore the Living Word.
In the end, it is their bibliolatry that keeps them from Christ. They end up worshipping the Book of God rather than the God of the Book! They search for salvation in the Scripture rather than in the Savior, of whom the Scripture testifies (John 5:39-40). They mistakenly believe that salvation is a matter of outwardly conforming to the written Word rather than being inwardly transformed by the Living Word!
Make no mistake about it; to profess a belief in the Bible while rejecting Christ is tantamount to professing faith in a physician whose prescription you refuse to take. The only prescription the Bible offers for man’s sin sickness is Jesus! He is our only cure. He is our only hope. Apart from Him there is no salvation. Thus, for someone to profess belief in the Bible while refusing to believe in Jesus is absolutely absurd.
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Don Walton
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