God’s Word does not change
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Faith Fitness
Bro. Sam Kaufman
As we were doing our family devotion the other night, I turned to the longest chapter of the Bible.
Psalm 119 has a whopping 176 verses.
Obviously, my family looked at me kind of funny when I brought that chapter to their attention.
No, I did not read the whole thing in one devotion. But we did go over the first 50 verses one night, and then 126 the next night.
It was a lot of reading, but there is much to glean spiritually from the chapter.
The interesting aspect is that the shortest chapter in the Bible is close in proximity to the longest chapter.
In other words, the Psalms go from one extreme to the next. Chapter 117 contains just two verses and is separated by the 176-verse Chapter 119 by only one chapter.
It’s easy to get a lot from the mere two verses in Chapter 117, but it is not easy to glean little from the 176 verses in Chapter 119.
This is what Chapter 117 says: “O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.”
That is short and sweet, and to the point.
If you stop and meditate on that chapter, a lot will open up.
God’s truth will endure forever. That is quite a statement to consider. If you break it down, God’s truth is God’s Word. This verse correlates with a well-known verse in Chapter 119, verse 89, which states, “For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.”
Though the devil and men here have attempted to twist and change God’s Word, it is settled forever in heaven. That means it doesn’t change. Jesus Christ, the Word of God in flesh, is the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.
I’m so thankful we have the King James version Bible. God is well-able to preserve His Word for men.
Some try to say that it was simply men who wrote the Bible. But the Word of God says differently.
Two sets of verses come to mind concerning verifying the authenticity of God’s Word. Those verses refute the false notion that the Bible was merely conjured up by men.
One set is found in II Peter 1. In the nineteenth verse, Peter says, “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
It is evident that many Old Testament prophecies have been fulfilled, and others will follow suit as time unfolds. The Bible tells us in Revelation 19 that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. In other words, He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
God knows the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end.
Many of the Old Testament prophecies point to Jesus’ coming, sufferings and victory.
Isaiah, through the Holy Ghost, proclaimed many of these prophecies, as did David in the Psalms.
Consider the words of Isaiah that were recorded more than 700 years before the Word of God was made flesh in the Person of Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 53:3-6 state: “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
More confirmation of the Bible being God’s Word is found in II Timothy 3:16,17, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”
