The Abide Podcast

The bible is the divine word of God from God Himself written through people 

2 tim 3:16 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God[b] may be complete, equipped for every good work.

This is done through the inspiration of the holy spirit, but what does this practically mean and how can I understand it from a secular worldview?

The bible is a reliable historical document that was written by eyewitnesses during the lifetimes of other eyewitnesses in reference to the fulfillment of specific prophecies claiming the divinity of the events that occurred.

The bible has not been translated thousands of times. We have access to COMPLETE New testaments from as early as the 4th Century AD, so when people translate a new version of the bible what they do is go back to the original texts from the 4th century or earlier, and not to the most recent english translation (this is a common misunderstanding for people who do not follow Jesus)

The early church fathers referenced the epistles in their own works from the first century AD, and through their commentaries we can piece together 95% of the whole new testament. 

Do you believe that Homer wrote the iliad and the odyssey? The earliest copies of these works were uncovered over 1000 years after homers death. Do you believe in the battle of Troy? Homer wrote that story over 600 years after the battle even happened. How could we consider this historical evidence for the existence of Homer or the battle of TROY, but not consider Christ as historically reliable when authors began writing about him within 30 years of his life?

Flavius Josephus (JEWISH historian even references Jesus

4 gospels by 4 authors telling the same story

Matthew, mark, luke and john all friends and disciples of jesus but they never knew what the other was going to write yet all the gospels tell the same stories of jesus and his life. 

65000 cross references from 44 different authors

Jesus fulfilled over 300 prophecies from the Old Testament (48 Specific messianic prophecies). Mathmetician Peter stoner concluded that the odds of this were .000(add154 more zeroes) then a 1. 

So we are confident that the Scriptures are indeed God’s inspired word because of the Historical reliability and the fulfillment of the scriptures themselves which mathematically is next to impossible unless Jesus was the true Messiah. And if Jesus is the Messiah then we believe his words to be true, and if his words are true then the whole bible must be true.

Romans 5:6-8 6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Galatians 2:20 20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

2 Corinthians 5:17 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here!

1 peter 4:10-13 “As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever.” 

 Matthew 28:18-20 “18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Jesus said commanded of his followers That we GO. and that we make DISCIPLES of every tribe, tongue, and nation and BAPTIZE THEM as well as TEACH THEM all the things Jesus commands us as believers, so that the glory of God and the revelation of God to man can be made available to everyone in the world! That because of God’s abundant grace we can be granted eternal life.

Obtaining Communion with God is our final reward for the work that JESUS did on the Cross and imputed to us. 

As it is said in Revelation 21 vs 2-5: “And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.  4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” 5And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.”

Hey yall welcome back to the Abide Podcast we are excited to be talking about a topic that really hits close to home for us and we hope that it is really helpful!

ephesians 5:22-24 “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.”