Maybe you’ve heard about the gorilla in a zoo holding a Bible in one hand & a book about evolution in the other. He was looking confused, so someone asked, “What are you doing?” The gorilla answered, “Well, I’m trying to decide if I’m my brother’s keeper or my keeper’s brother.”
There’s a story I heard once about a man who was trying to cut costs, so he began to gradually substitute sawdust in the oats of his mule. Everything was fine for a period, and the animal was satisfied with sawdust. Then he died.
We see the same in spiritual life. Some people exchange truth with error in the believer’s lives. It’s great for a while, but before you know it they are dead spiritually.
Pastor Vsevolod Lytkin from Siberia recently spoke at a church in Minneapolis during a U.S. visit. He described his personal journey to faith in Jesus Christ. Listen to his struggle: His parents were atheistic university professors at a local university who raised their son to “think for himself.” During his teen years, he struggled with many spiritual questions. When the communists told him there was no god, he reasoned that there might be a God, and so began a search for reading material where he might find the answers.
The only books of religion available at his local library were atheistic, but they often quoted verses from the Bible to mock or refute them. His greatest discovery was a set of encyclopedias on atheism from which he copied every Bible verse by hand. It was not very long before he began to pray to God and ask Him to forgive his sins. II Timothy 2:9: “The word of God is not bound.”
I happened on an interview with Dr. Adrian Rogers’ longtime Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis. Dr. Rogers is summing up what made his years of ministry there possible:
“If you were to put Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, anybody else out there and let them speak to the same people three times a week for 27 years, they would be climbing the walls to get out if you are drawing from your own well; I don’t care who you are. The reason I preach the Bible is, first, I’m not smart enough to preach anything else. The Bible is a bottomless well. The other reason is that I am smart enough not to preach anything else because I know that the Bible has staying power. Our Church is packed. They come for the Word of God. They want it to be warm; they want it to be understandable and applicable. But I have learned that there is power in the preaching of the Word of God.”
The Bible is called the Word of God because it is the Word of God. That alone should cause us to come to the Bible for our every need, our every hope and our every desire.
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