Consider what some great men have said about the Bible – God’s Word – adapted from Lists to Live By – “The Christian Collection for Everything that Really Matters” by Gray, Stephens, and Van Diest.

“The Bible is a window in this prison – world, through which we may look into eternity” – Timothy Dwight.

“As in paradise God walks in the Holy Scriptures seeking man” – Saint Ambrose.

“Be astounded that God should have written to us” – Antony of Egypt.

“A Bible that’s falling apart probably belongs to someone who isn’t” – Christian Johnson.

“It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand” – Mark Twain.

“No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets the author face – to – face” – E. T. Harris.

Why should you read the Bible? The Bible provides direction for your life, your character, changes lives, calms your fears, comforts troubled minds, gives you hope, makes you wise unto salvation, points to promises to claim in prayer, prepares you for eternity, renews your mind, is health for your body, cleans your soul, and reveals Jesus.

When you read the Bible keep J. I. Packers’ words of wisdom before you, “God the Father is the giver of the Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of the Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of the Holy Scripture.”

James tells us that the Word of God is like a mirror. It shows us our imperfections and blemishes. (James 1:25) When you look at yourself in a mirror and go away, you soon forget what you looked like. When we look into “the perfect law of liberty” we must become “a doer of the Word and not a forgetful hearer of the Word.”

“Is that in the Bible” someone once asked? The following are some things that perhaps you didn’t know were in the Bible. Snakes once walked upright until Satan used a serpent to speak to Adam and Eve. God then cursed them for being an instrument to tempt Adam and Eve to sin. They were doomed to crawl on their bellies and eat dirt. (Genesis 3:14) The Bible told us that the earth was not flat – even before man determined it. “God sits on the circle of the earth,” said the prophet by revelation of the Holy Spirit in Isaiah 40:22. God gave sanitation, health, and diet laws even before they were considered essential by much of the world’s population. (Leviticus and Deuteronomy)

“God whistles” Isaiah 7:18 NASB). I can’t play an instrument or sing very good so I used to enjoy whistling a gospel song until someone said that they didn’t trust anyone who whistles. But if God whistles, I guess I will. God wants us to be happy. (Psalm 1; Matthew 5; Ephesians 5:17-18)

“God is love,” but there are some things that He hates. (Proverbs 6:16) We should hate the things that the Bible says that we should. (Jude 1:23) Jesus made a whip and drove hypocritical moneychangers out of the temple. (Matthew 21:12) “Jesus wept” (John 4:35).

A donkey talked once by God’s intervention. (Numbers 22:28) Don’t be so stubborn and disobedient to listen to God through His Word. Your life depends on your believing and receiving His engrafted Word into your life. (James 1:21)

The Bible says that we can never be good enough or righteous enough to go to heaven. Only by God’s grace can we be saved. “For by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8).

Is the free gift of salvation in the Bible? “Happy are those who wash their robes so they will receive the right to eat the fruit from the tree of life and may go through the gates into city . . . The Spirit and the Lamb say, ‘Come!’ Let whoever is thirst come; whoever wishes may have the water of life as a free gift” (Revelation 22:14-17).