"What's the Bible About?"
Ezekiel 23:1-49
Hebrews 10:18-39
Psalm 109:1-31
Proverbs 27:13
In the movie "City Slickers", the weathered cowboy, Curly is saying to a searching man in mid-life crisis. "Life is all about one thing." Billy Crystal's character asks him, "what's that one thing?" He replies, "That's what you have to figure out."
If someone were to ask you, "What's the Bible about?" What would you answer? Guess what? Just like Curly's philosophy, the Bible is about "one thing."
This is nothing profound or anything to make a slogan out of or anything, but I was thinking that The Bible is an epic story of the contrast between a holy God and depraved man and of a love so intense that the Creator will stop at nothing to reconcile the relationship. In simpler term"s, the one thing is, "God wants to be in relationship with you.
The 23rd chapter of Ezekiel describes two daughters, Jerusalem & Samaria, and how thy prostitute themselves to Egypt. How in spite of being delivered from bondage, their heart for "prostitution" never left (Ez. 23:8). Can you imagine if this was the life of your daughters? How bad would that hurt? God's description only scratches the surface of how he must feel when the people he created out of love choose to worship other Gods.
Then the ultimate price for our sins is paid in the death of Christ on the cross.
Hebrews 10 sums it up. "Now, when sins have once been forever forgiven and forgotten, there is no need to offer more sacrifices to get rid of them. And so, dear brothers, now we may walk right into the very Holy of Holies where God is, because of the blood of Jesus. This is the fresh, new, life-giving way which Christ has opened up for us by tearing the curtain - his human body - to let us into the holy presence of God." Heb. 10:18-20
verse 23 :"Now we can look forward to the salvation God has promised us. There is no longer any room for doubt,..." Dynamic Lifestyle of Worship - our relationship with him is right! "...and we can tell others that salvation is ours, for there is no question that he will do what he says." We have a Mission to Reach our world for Christ with this good news!
Verse 24 commands us to serve one another (Active Ministry Involvement) and be committed to each other (Relationships Devoted to Unity). "In response to all he has done for us, let us outdo each other in being helpful and kind to each other and in doing good."
Verse 25 directs us to be Empowered through Biblical Training. "Let us not neglect our church meetings, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near."
What an incredible love God has for us. If we REALLY understand the price he paid, and REALLY could fathom the reward for those who accept his love, there's no way we would falter in our walk with him.
What's the bible about? God is Good and I'm bad, but he loved me enough to make me right with him. He died for me, so I can live for him!
Through the Power of the Spirit,
Live the DREAM!
Pastor Greg Lathe
Dynamic Lifestyle of Worship
Relationships Devoted to Unity
Empowered Through Biblical Training
Active Ministry Involvement
Mission to Reach our World for Christ
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