Living Loaves of Bread

001 Introduction

Episode Summary

Bible exploration

Episode Notes

Bible exploration foundations. Some characteristics of the Word examined.

 

Episode Transcription

Auto generated transcript:

0:02 all the glory must be to the lord 0:08 [Music] 0:21 should give glory to himself 0:29 [Music] 0:36 praise the lord hallelujah let us pray 0:43 father we thank you for this time today father we ask that you fulfill your will 0:50 for this hour in us through us 0:56 in jesus name amen hello brothers and sisters 1:03 welcome to the living loaves of bread podcast i am brother joshua 1:11 and our mission here is by god's mercies 1:16 to regularly break some living bread so that we can all be nourished and 1:23 edified to the glory of god our goal is 1:29 not to win an argument any argument 1:35 our goal is simply to be scriptural our goal is to rightly divide 1:43 the scriptures the living scriptures of the lord 1:50 by the grace of god i have been saved by the lord jesus christ 1:57 and this podcast is merely an extension 2:02 a for the manifestation of that grace 2:08 an introduction to our examination of the scriptures 2:13 i want us to kind of look at some basic things 2:20 foundational things things that'll be the basis for our 2:26 discussions going forward 2:32 those basic things uh some characteristics that we'll see 2:40 in god's word concerning his word 2:47 i do not pretend to exhaust or be able to exhaust those 2:53 characteristics now or later 2:59 but we're gonna look at a few of them so we can set the tone 3:05 for our discussions first characteristic i want us to look 3:11 at is that the word of god explains itself 3:17 it explains itself first corinthians chapter 2 verse 13 the 3:22 bible says which things also we speak not in the words which man's wisdom 3:29 teach it but which the holy ghost teach it comparing spiritual things with 3:36 spiritual what are those spiritual things 3:44 john 6 and 63 the scriptures 3:51 quote our lord jesus saying it is the spirit that quickness 3:57 the flesh profited nothing the words that i speak unto you they are 4:03 spirit and they are life the holy ghost teach it 4:10 by comparing a spiritual thing with another spiritual thing 4:16 it compares one word of god with another word of god 4:23 in the word of god 4:30 second characteristic want us to look at is that the word of god balances itself 4:37 it checks itself 4:44 we see that i guess graphically displayed 4:51 in proverbs 26 verses 4 and 5. 4:58 the scriptures always tickle me when i read them proverbs 26 verse 4 and 5 verse 4 says 5:06 answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him 5:16 and the very next verse verse 5 says answer a fool 5:21 according to his foley lest he be wise in his own conceit 5:30 no there is no contradiction 5:35 it's balancing itself and checking itself 5:41 the spirit of god may lead you to be quiet and not to answer a fool 5:50 but the spirit of god may also lead you not to be quiet 5:56 and to answer a fool the word balances itself 6:03 we see that again for example in matthew chapter 4 6:08 verse 5 to verse 7. the bible says verse 5 then the devil 6:15 ticket him talking about jesus ticket him up into the holy city 6:22 and setted him on a pinnacle of the temple and said unto him the devil said to 6:29 jesus if thou be the son of god cast the save 6:35 down for it is written 6:41 he shall give his angels charged concerning thee and in the in their hands 6:46 they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone 6:56 verse 7 says jesus said unto him it is written again 7:04 thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god 7:09 we see from this discourse that jesus did not 7:16 deny that it is written 7:22 that the angels have been given charge concerning him 7:31 and they will bear him up lest he dash his foot against the stone 7:36 but jesus said there is a balance in the same word of 7:44 god to that word no it's not a contradiction 7:51 it's a balance it's a check and the balance 7:56 in this instance because the balance is dynamic 8:02 in this instance the balance is 8:07 you shall not tempt the lord thy god 8:14 some of us have gotten bent out of shape 8:19 because we latch onto a word of god that is 8:25 the word of god but when we latch on to that word 8:34 we forget or are oblivious 8:40 or do not see or do not want to see 8:46 a balance to that word that we latch onto 8:55 i'll leave that alone for now another characteristic we can see from 9:00 the word of god is 9:08 even in this balancing and checking act of itself 9:14 the word of god does not contradict itself 9:21 first corinthians chapter 14 verse 13 the bible says for god 9:26 is not the author of confusion but of peace as in all churches of the saints 9:37 a fourth characteristic we can notice 9:43 is that the word of god is 9:48 complete and self-contained and perfect 9:55 the way it is it does 10:00 does not need it does not need 10:05 the word of god does not need addition 10:10 subtraction or modification 10:17 the bible says in deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 2 ye shall not add unto the word which i 10:26 command you neither shall ye diminish ought from it 10:34 that you may keep the commandments of the lord your god which i command you 10:42 proverbs 30 verse 5 to 6 says 10:49 every word of god is pure every word 10:55 of god is pure he is a shield unto them that put their 11:01 trust in him verse 6 says add 11:06 thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee 11:14 and thou be found a liar 11:20 deuteronomy 12 32 the bible says 11:25 what thing so ever i command you observe to do it 11:31 thou shall not add dieto nor 11:37 diminish from it so the word of god 11:45 does not need 11:50 addition subtraction or modification 11:57 it is good complete self-contained 12:03 perfect just the way it is praise the lord 12:10 another characteristic of the word of god we'll see 12:15 a fifth one if you're counting 12:22 is where the word of god conflicts 12:29 with any underlying bold italicized 12:34 highlight conflicts with any church doctrine 12:42 or any church practice or 12:48 any custom or tradition 12:54 of old where the word of god conflicts 13:01 with any i'm not even bothering 13:07 speaking about conflicting with the world that's a given 13:16 we don't need to compute or examine 13:23 what the outcome of that will be 13:28 i don't need to talk about where the word of god conflicts with heathen tradition 13:35 or healing practices or ungodliness or worldliness or saying 13:42 i'm not even bothered about that for now but where the word of god conflicts with 13:49 any church doctrine any church practice or any church custom 13:55 or tradition of old the word of god always wins 14:04 because no church no denomination 14:12 no christian grouping is greater than the word of god 14:18 let me say that again no church 14:26 belief no church doctrine no church 14:32 tradition [Music] that conflicts with the word of god is greater than the 14:39 word of god none zero 14:46 the bible says in the book of acts that they were first called christians 14:53 at antioch they were not first called blank 14:59 by blank fill in your denomination name 15:08 let me say that again your denomination beloved is not in the bible 15:16 your being a christian is in the bible 15:24 so we have 15:31 to be biblical not denominational 15:37 but i'll leave that alone for now i don't want to get in trouble too early 15:43 praise the lord psalm 119 verse 128 15:51 the psalmist says therefore i esteem all thy precepts 15:57 concerning all things to be right and i hate 16:02 every false way the psalmist says psalm 119 verse 128 16:11 lord whatever you said about 16:16 anything is right and that's it 16:22 it's not what the church said it's whatever you said 16:28 obviously it's not what he didn't said obviously it's not what the world said obviously it's not what the unbelievers 16:35 said that's a given 16:44 but it is what you said in the scriptures that is right 16:51 because the scriptures also says in romans 3 verse 4 16:56 god forbid yea let god be true but every man 17:03 a liar as it is written that thou might be justified in thy saints 17:09 and my tests overcome when thou art judged praise the lord 17:17 let's move on to another characteristic very quickly 17:22 number six 17:31 beloved the 17:37 word of god must 17:43 be verified 17:49 oh let me put it this way if beloved 17:54 on this podcast we cannot 17:59 point you to the scriptures that support whatever we say 18:07 i beg of you my brothers and sisters dump it 18:12 trash it flush it throw it away 18:19 delete it beloved if i fail in my duty to present 18:28 living loaves of bread to you by the mercies of god 18:34 please i beg of you do not fail in your duty 18:41 to reject it the bible says in the book of acts 18:46 chapter 17 verse 10 to 11 and the brethren immediately sent away 18:53 paul and silas by night onto berea who coming theta went into the synagogue of 19:00 the jews verse 11 acts 17 verse 11. 19:07 these were more noble than those in thessalonica in that they received 19:13 the word with all readiness of mind and 19:19 search the scriptures daily every day 19:24 whether those things were so 19:30 the holy ghost is issuing a commendation 19:37 to the saints in berea so that we can have that for us a 19:43 template it doesn't matter if it is bishop wonderful speaking to you 19:50 it doesn't matter if he's apostle awesome or prophet precise 19:58 maybe he's that wonderful pastor of yours 20:03 god bless him beloved 20:09 if if he cannot produce 20:15 the foundation the basis of whatever 20:21 is being said and you cannot find the foundation 20:26 or the basis of whatever is being said we all have a duty 20:33 to dump it to delete it to trash it 20:38 let me move on 20:44 another characteristic you want us to look at of the word of god is that the word of god prevents us 20:55 from tickling your ears with 21:01 worthless and dangerous tails 21:06 tails fables 21:11 i've heard about eye candy well this is ear candy 21:16 it sounds good feels good and the word of god 21:23 does sound and feel good 21:28 but let it be the word of god 21:34 not tales the bible says in titus 1 verse 14 21:39 not giving heed to jewish fables 21:46 and commandments of men that turn from the truth 21:54 ah i feel it's sometimes 22:02 like an itch like a burning just inside of me and say ah lord 22:08 why are they doing that again i'm talking about when i hear 22:15 ministers of god living 22:21 the oracles of god his scriptures and scavenging 22:27 in tails and fables just to tickle the ears of their 22:32 listeners not giving heat to titles 114 says 22:38 jewish fables ii timothy 4 2 4 the bible says 22:44 preach the word not fables 22:51 not tales preach the word 22:57 not what jewish scholars believe preach the word not what gentile scholars believe 23:04 preach the word not what 23:10 a conglomeration of erudite phd scholars believe i'm not knocking 23:16 them please please do study please that's not the point 23:26 paul studied but all he preached in berea was in the old testament 23:35 let me say that again paul was a scholar 23:40 an erudite scholar but when he went to go preach in berea 23:47 the folks he preached to in beria went to check the scriptures 23:53 whether what paul was preaching was true meaning 23:58 he gave them chapter and verse and book and they want to go check for themselves 24:08 being a scholar does not give you license to tell tales 24:16 being a scholar it's a privilege 24:23 to reveal the mysteries 24:29 of the word of god 24:35 ii timothy 4 verse 2 to 4 preach the word be instant in season out of 24:41 season re prove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine 24:48 for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own 24:54 lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn 25:02 away their ears from the truth and shall be 25:07 turned onto fables 25:16 fables 25:22 fables beloved 25:28 many scholars believe that a b c d e f g 25:36 i'm sorry if what those scholars believe is not congruent with what god believes 25:45 guess who is lying 25:50 well if what those scholars believe is congruent with what god believes 26:00 then show me where god said it because i can lean on his word 26:08 peter says we have a more sure word of prophecy 26:14 peter said yes it was already written 26:21 is sure is set not 26:27 scholars believe oh well 26:33 it's too early to get into trouble praise the lord 26:40 one last characteristic uh of the word 26:48 if we'll call it that 26:53 number eight is jesus is the word 27:02 that's why i said we may call it a characteristic but it is the characteristic 27:09 of the word jesus is the word 27:16 beloved this is all just a ground walk for how we're gonna 27:21 look at the scriptures going forward this characteristics are not exhaustive 27:27 just a ground walk revelations chapter 19 verse 11 to 13 revelations 19 11-13 the bible says 27:35 and i saw heaven open and behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful 27:43 and true and in righteousness he does george and make war 27:50 his eyes whereas a flame of fire and on his head were many crowns 27:57 and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself 28:04 and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called 28:11 the word of god hallelujah 28:18 beloved jesus is the word of god 28:27 beloved we cannot 28:32 improve on jesus 28:40 let me say that again we cannot improve 28:46 on jesus we cannot 28:52 add to or improve on his life 29:02 we cannot subtract from him 29:11 or the life that he lived 29:22 hebrews 4 29:28 verse 14 to 15. hebrews 4 29:36 verse 14 to 15 the bible says saying then that we have a great high priest that is 29:44 passed into the heavens jesus the son of god let us hold fast 29:52 our confession i'm sorry let us hold fast our 29:58 profession for we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling 30:07 of our infirmities 30:12 but was in all points tempted 30:20 like us we are yes yet 30:26 without sin hallelujah 30:33 this is what jesus said in 30:40 matthew chapter 10 verse 24 and 25 he says the disciple is not above his 30:48 master nor the servant above his lord verse 25 30:54 it is enough for the disciple that he be as his master 31:00 and the servant as his lord 31:05 what am what are we saying beloved we cannot improve on the life of 31:11 jesus but jesus says we can be like him 31:21 therefore we cannot improve on the word of god which is jesus 31:28 we have to take it the way it is say it the way it is 31:34 if there are some parts of the word of god that cause us to cringe 31:40 and cause us to bend backwards to fit into our own church doctrine and 31:48 tradition guess who is in error it's not jesus 31:54 it's not his word because he's without sin it's perfect 32:06 we have to say god's word the way it is because god is not ashamed of his word 32:14 some of us may be ashamed of some parts of the word of god god is not 32:19 it is his word his word is jesus 32:26 jesus lived a perfect life the word of god is perfect 32:34 we have to take it and say it the way it is 32:39 because we cannot improve on god 32:44 oh well but i digress 32:50 beloved we're going to stop here for now for today 32:57 and i pray that lord will be with you and keep you 33:03 and bless you and yours till i see you next time by his grace 33:12 god bless you in jesus name amen [Music] 33:35 [Music] give is to himself 33:45 [Music]