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NO HIDING PLACE DOWN HERE

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How the Word of God exposes man.

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By Ken Blue

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Hebrews 4:11-12.

The context is revealing that there is nothing in our life that is hidden from the all-knowing eye of God. The Word of God is the instrument He uses to lay open all our thoughts and intents. Man may not be aware of these himself, but the Word of God exposes all to the individual. Heb. 4:13.

The Word of God is “quick,” or alive.

No other book on earth is like the Word of God! Men discover that not only is it alive, it is life giving. It speaks to the inner man in a multitude of ways. It pleads, it warns, it comforts, it convicts, it leads, and it guides. Of all the books ever written, it is the only one that has life, and imparts life.

The Word of God is powerful.

It has power to revive the spiritually dead. It has power to save, and to sanctify. It makes the week strong. It fills the hopeless with hope. It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces. It can take the heart of stone and reduce it to powder or clay. Therefore, it has the power to convict, to convert, and condemn.

The Word of God is piercing, and there is no limit to its reach.

Not only must the priest kill and skin the sacrifice, it must also be dismembered. A sharp knife was required to separate the joints of the bones. Thus, the priest was getting deeper inside the slain animal with each cut. Just so, the Word of God does more that skin us. It pierces to the very joints that hold us together. No wonder Isaiah could say, “…Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.” Isaiah 6:5. Many souls have cried those words as they read or heard the Word of God. It dismembers us, and who can stand under its all piercing eye?

The Word of God is a discerner of our thoughts and the intents of the heart.

Many times these are hidden from our own eyes. But, the Word of God goes even deeper and reveals these to us. You may ask, how much deeper can it Go? The priest’s knife had the ability to divide the very bones and reveal the marrow. That is where the blood was made. The skeleton hid the marrow, but with the priest’s knife God lays wide the bones, and exposes the deepest, innermost part of the animal. This is what the Word of God does. It exposes those secret part of our life, and lays bare the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Now we can understand why lost men hate the Book, and why backslidden Christians ignore it. They cannot hide from its all seeing eyes. Oh, how it ought to make us tremble, as we contemplate the truth that the outward man, and the deepest recesses of our soul are naked before Him.

 

 

BRIDER SAYS TRANSLATORS OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE NOT CHRISTIANS

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By Ken Blue

According to Baptist briders, not one of the men who translated the King James Bible was a “true Christian.” The following quote is from an article by a brider. “I don’t believe that you can be a Christian without being a Baptist.” If the brider is correct, we are preaching and teaching from a Bible that was translated by non-Christians.

If Baptist are the only Christians, that means that Baptist are singing songs in every service that were written by non-Christians. Most of the books in their office and colleges were written by non-Christians, if the briders definition is correct.

What shall we think of such men as Martin Luther, John Calvin, John and Charles Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, Billy Sunday, Jack Hyles, Tom Malone, Bob Jones Sr., and a host of others? What of the Disciples, and the Church at Corinth? Was Peter a Christian when he denied the Lord three times, and was called Satan? Was Thomas a Christian when he and the Disciples refused to believe in Christ’s resurrection? Were the believers in Corinth Christians? Will our brother admit that there are multitudes in the Baptist bride churches who are not Christians, or do all in the bride obey ALL that Jesus commanded?

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 So, we must conclude that we have a King James Bible given to us by non-Christians. Our song book is filled with songs written by non-Christians, and some of the greatest believers since Paul were non-Christians. This, I say is nonsense; and they call us hyper-dispensationalist?   This is an example of church theology gone amuck.

 

WOULD I USE OTHER BIBLE VERSIONS

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Under what conditions would I use other Bible versions?

By Ken Blue

Recently I was asked if I would use any Bible other than the King James Version if it meant reaching someone for Christ. My response was that I would not. However, my answer was in the context of my pulpit ministry.

As pastor of Open Door, I always believed and used the King James Bible only. However, I never insisted that others agree with me to be my friend, or for fellowship.

Under what conditions would I use other versions? Let me give some hypothetical situations. Let’s suppose I was in the home of a Catholic and was given permission to present the gospel to them. However, they had a large Catholic Bible on the coffee table, and ask if I would use it. In that situation, I would have no problem showing the gospel to them in their Bible. It is there.

If I was a missionary in another country and they did not have a Bible in their language true to the King James, I would present the gospel from their Bible and attempt to win them to Christ. Where their version deviated, I would correct it as needed. “ For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.  And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;” 1 Corinthians 9:19-20.

Many, who will not bend to win a soul to Christ, think nothing about quoting or singing songs written by those who taught you can lose your salvation, sprinkled babies, and did not embrace the infallibility of the King James Bible themselves. Since we cannot be consistent, let’s hope God will cut us a little slack when trying to keep a lost person from going to hell.

ANTI-BIBLICAL VS UN-BIBLICAL

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN “ANTI” AND “UN.”

By Ken Blue

In an attempt to justify one’s personal decisions, Bible believers have resorted to terms such as anti- biblical and unbiblical. Anti-biblical means, the decision, or action taken is against the Bible. Verses will be cited to demonstrate this anti-biblical violation.

However, where the Scriptures are silent, (un-biblical), anything we approve may be protected. To illustrate the point; I might show that the Scriptures are anti-alcohol at a stock car race. But, going to the race is acceptable, since nothing in Scripture speaks against auto racing. Racing is un-biblical and acceptable because nothing is said against it. It is also not anti-biblical for the same reason. Another example would be the Sunday school. Since the Bible says nothing about it, it is un-scriptural, (Not in the Scriptures), but not anti-scriptural, therefore acceptable.

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Now that these two standards have been established only one more authority remains. And who would that be? Why, it would be the person who approves or disapproves that which is un-scriptural, (not in the Bible). Since there are no Scriptures to make it anti-biblical, I may choose as I please. The problem is, others may not be pleased with what I choose.

This is the word game some of the brethren are playing to justify themselves and their friends while condemning others. Once you see how it is played, you too can play it. However, you should not be the hypocrite when playing it. If you are going to justify your actions on the basis that it is not in the Scriptures, (un-scriptural), you should at least give others the same courtesy.

Bible Boasters

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By Richard Sandlin [mailto:[email protected]]

I held a meeting for a pastor once who boasted of the fact he had read the Bible through over seventy-five times; he later ran off with a woman in his church. I’m acquainted with a dear man, of a different sort from the above mentioned, a godly man, who has read the Book over one hundred times; he believes bell-bottom pants, wire-rimmed glasses, and cowboy boots are wrong to wear. Then there is another Bible consumer that I know of who has gone through the Holy Writ close to two hundred times; he has been married five times.

What am I saying? Simply that reading vast amounts of scripture does not necessarily make one morally clean, doctrinally sound, or able to subdue the flesh. Satan knows and quotes the Bible, and yet is not helped, but remains a devil. It is not how many times we have gone through the Bible, but how many times it has gone through us. Putting a notch on your Bible each time you read it does not make an individual a better Christian, but I do strongly suspect it will make one more accountable to God.

The question is not so much how many times we have read God’s Word, but rather, how many times has it read us? Certainly we are to know the “Letter,” but not in the absence of the “Spirit.” There is nothing magical in Bible reading, but something does happen when we obey it. Charles Spurgeon said it best when he wrote, “Some people like to read so many (Bible) chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!”