HIS BREATH

By Rick Mathes

2 Timothy 3:16 (NASB77) ¹⁶   All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

We must have doctrinal balance between the curbs of soggy Wheaties and frosted flakes. Too much Word and we dry up and too much Spirit and we blow up. But just the right amount of both and we grow up! Father God is not a Presbyterian, Jesus is not a Baptist and the Holy Spirit is not a Pentecostal. There aren’t any denominations in glory and there aren’t any minsters on earth that are 100% accurate in their interpretation of the Word.

The proof of that is our unity in the fundamentals of faith. We might vary a bit on our distinctive but we are not slaves of the Roman heresies, we strongly protest the arrogance of man-made Popery!

The Bible is complete in itself and anything added is not of God but an invention of man. The Words of God are superior to any penned since the “mark of Cain.” Nothing compared in world influence but the 66 books written by 40 authors, in three languages, over 1700 years all seamless and without contradiction or any major difference in teaching or doctrine. It is the essence or character of God in writing and wholly beyond our understanding.

It was written by God as He moved the pens of the writers as wind moves the sails of a boat to the perfect course ordained before the beginning of time, the safe harbor. All of man’s needs are met and god’s thoughts are preserved in a heavenly content that no other writing can compare.

The Holy Book affects the fery root of our soul with an infinite depth that will extend into all eternity of understanding and fulfilled prophecy. Its miracles are not just within its pages but within the very lines of those who study it. Life changing to be sure and ever pressing on to perfect holiness without which we wil never see god as He really is.

The Word has adapted to every generation of readers and is as alive today as it was when the ink was still wet on the parchmens. Who can even measure the Spiritual power that has exploded from its doctrines oer the centuries of history AS His-story was unfolded refusing to die in the face of Lucifer’s best efforts to kill and bury it. The ground couldn’t hold it as He setpped from the tomb and reminded us tht He never left nor will He ever leave us nor forsake us!