Do You Read The Owner's Manual?
by Bro. Duane Marshall
06/26/2023
When I was a seven-year-old boy living with my family in Wichita, Kansas, my dad thought it would be a good idea if we enrolled in the Y Indian guides. It was a program similar to cub scouts.
Wichita is an Indian name and made the program seem more popular. At the first gathering, we had to choose a name for ourselves that would identify us from the other little Indians. I chose the title ‘little moose’ which made my dad the ‘big moose’. He laughed, probably because his nose was large, like the moose's. Upon completing the first meeting, they gave us a booklet that instructed us how to earn badges and a feather for the headband each of us wore. The number of feathers in our headband showed our progress in the booklet.
By the same token, God has given us an owner’s manual, called the Bible, which simply means ‘book’. It is the only true revelation of God. The Bible sets forth His plan and program for everyone born. You will find yourself in the pages if you read it carefully. He did not leave anything out about life or happiness or how to obtain it.
How to know the Bible is from God. 1. Its Preservation
Psalms 12:6-7, “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”
2. Archaeology
Supporting evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947. These writings contained portions of Genesis, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, 1 Kings, Psalms, and Daniel.
3. Fulfilled Prophecy
For example, there are 333 prophecies concerning Jesus Christ, all fulfilled except his return.
4. Transformations
2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” The innumerable amount of transformed lives by the Gospel, of whom, I am one.
To give you an example from nature, we believe our universe was brought into existence by the spoken Word of God. Our sun is 93,000,000 miles from the Earth and 1,000,000 times larger. If God is powerful enough to keep the sun in place don’t you think He can keep his word?
Some of the translators of the King James Version had these credentials:
John Boys or Bois could read the Bible in Hebrew at five years of age. When he was fourteen, he was a proficient Greek scholar. Lancelot Andrews was the chairman who was fluent in twenty languages. John Chedderton was fluent in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. There were 48 translators divided into six groups, and each group would review each other’s work. God’s hand guided and directed these men so His word would be preserved for English-speaking people.
Question: With such an important, inspired book in our hands, don’t you think it deserves our undivided attention?
06/26/2023
When I was a seven-year-old boy living with my family in Wichita, Kansas, my dad thought it would be a good idea if we enrolled in the Y Indian guides. It was a program similar to cub scouts.
Wichita is an Indian name and made the program seem more popular. At the first gathering, we had to choose a name for ourselves that would identify us from the other little Indians. I chose the title ‘little moose’ which made my dad the ‘big moose’. He laughed, probably because his nose was large, like the moose's. Upon completing the first meeting, they gave us a booklet that instructed us how to earn badges and a feather for the headband each of us wore. The number of feathers in our headband showed our progress in the booklet.
By the same token, God has given us an owner’s manual, called the Bible, which simply means ‘book’. It is the only true revelation of God. The Bible sets forth His plan and program for everyone born. You will find yourself in the pages if you read it carefully. He did not leave anything out about life or happiness or how to obtain it.
How to know the Bible is from God. 1. Its Preservation
Psalms 12:6-7, “The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.”
2. Archaeology
Supporting evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in 1947. These writings contained portions of Genesis, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, 1 Kings, Psalms, and Daniel.
3. Fulfilled Prophecy
For example, there are 333 prophecies concerning Jesus Christ, all fulfilled except his return.
4. Transformations
2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” The innumerable amount of transformed lives by the Gospel, of whom, I am one.
To give you an example from nature, we believe our universe was brought into existence by the spoken Word of God. Our sun is 93,000,000 miles from the Earth and 1,000,000 times larger. If God is powerful enough to keep the sun in place don’t you think He can keep his word?
Some of the translators of the King James Version had these credentials:
John Boys or Bois could read the Bible in Hebrew at five years of age. When he was fourteen, he was a proficient Greek scholar. Lancelot Andrews was the chairman who was fluent in twenty languages. John Chedderton was fluent in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. There were 48 translators divided into six groups, and each group would review each other’s work. God’s hand guided and directed these men so His word would be preserved for English-speaking people.
Question: With such an important, inspired book in our hands, don’t you think it deserves our undivided attention?
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