“For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth
disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any
means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished”
(Matthew 5:18 NIV).
You may have heard someone say, “I trust Jesus, but not the
other guys who wrote the Bible.” There’s a problem with that logic.
Jesus trusted the Bible — every word of it! He taught that
the Bible was a unique book, above all the others.
Jesus said in Matthew 5:18, “For truly I tell you, until
heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a
pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished”
(NIV).
Jesus says the Bible will last until the end of time. It will
accomplish what God wants to accomplish in this world. In John 10:35a Jesus
said, “We know that Scripture is always true” (NIRV). Jesus proclaimed
the truth of the Bible. And when Jesus talks about the truthfulness of the
Bible, we need to listen.
When Jesus talked about the Bible with people, he would
often base his argument about the truth of the Bible on a single sentence or
even a single word from the Bible. He believed every single sentence, every
single word of Scripture. So if I trust Jesus, why wouldn’t I trust the Bible?
When Jesus talks about the Bible, he doesn’t just talk
about it as poetry and history, either. He saw the Bible as something that
changes lives. In Luke 11:28 Jesus said, “Blessed rather are those who hear
the word of God and obey it” (NIV). Jesus doesn’t just want us to read the
Bible. That’s what you do with poetry and history. Jesus wants us to obey
the Bible. That’s what you do with anything the Creator of the universe
writes.
When Jesus talked about the Bible, he talked about it as if
the people and events in it were real. He talked about all the prophets being
real. He talked about Daniel being real. Jesus believed in Noah and everything
that happened with the flood. He believed in Adam and Eve. He believed in the
tragedy of Sodom and Gomorrah. He believed that Jonah was swallowed by a large
fish.
Jesus believed in some of the most disputed stories in the
Bible, particularly Noah, Adam and Eve, Sodom and Gomorrah, and Jonah. People
who think that the Bible is mostly good stories that didn’t really happen
always point to those four stories.
If Jesus really believed in Jonah, then I should, too. I
don’t know how God created a fish that could swallow a guy, but he did.
I trust in the Bible because Jesus trusted in it.
Source: Pastor Rick Warren
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