This is a question that all the genuine believers in Christ should ask themselves and have it settled within them! The Bible speaks about a lot of things and it has many topics, many books, and many writers. But the Scriptures as the God-breathed Word(2 Tim. 3:16) have a central line – there is a central line of the divine revelation in the Bible! On the one hand, we need to know the main revelation in the Bible and, on the other hand, we need to know also the minor points in the Bible! There is a “trunk” and there are “the branches” – the trunk is only ONE, while the branches are many. What matters is knowing and seeing the “trunk” – the central line of the divine revelation; we should stress the central line of the divine revelation – but we should not “forget the branches”, the other minor points in the Scriptures. Actually, since the Bible is the Word of God and is written of God through men borne by the Holy Spirit(2 Pet. 1:21), … – read this full article via,
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sharing from the winter school of truth – the Bible is God’s personal letter to us!
To be honest, the Winter School of Truth is a very crucial time in which we all can come back to the Lord in His Word and enjoy Him, be constituted with Him, and even renew our consecration to Him. Every year we can just stop from any of the outward doings, any activities, and any other things – and just enjoy the Lord! There are so many precious testimonies of the young ones after the winter school – below is brother Joseph’s testimony and then sister Ayo’s testimony – short sharings from their enjoyment of the past winter school of the truth.
~~~~~~~~~~~~ brother Joseph’s testimony ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Bible – A personal letter from God to his children. The Subject of the Winter school of Truth this year was the Bible, and what I enjoyed was that the Bible was a physical expression of God. God the Spirit is expressed through the Bible as His embodiment. God the Spirit resides in His Word and if we do not read it we cannot touch God, since the Bible is the dwelling place of God.It is also very important to see that we need to have the Spirit within and the Bible without – if we only have the Spirit within we would easily commit errors, and if we have only the Bible without we would be lifeless. We can be likened to as a train – without the fuel the train cannot move, but without the tracks the train cannot run; therefore the train must have an inner aspect(the fuel) and an outer aspect(the tracks). In Conclusion we must have both the Spirit within as the fuel energising us and the Bible as a track keeping us moving in the right direction.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ sister Ayo’s testimony ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I really enjoyed 2 Timothy 3:15-17 … Before this past Winter School of Truth I didn’t take the Bible seriously and I hardly read it. But now I know that the Bible is GOD’S BREATH! It is His personal letter to us – so to know God you really need to know the Bible! Actually, knowing the Word of God will benefit us both spiritually and in our everyday life … Jesus knew the Word and He overcame Satan at the time of temptation… “A verse a day keeps the devil away“…. If we know the word of God we can defeat the enemy because he would never be able to make us doubt God…. Oh the Bible is sooo wonderful! That is why many people have sacrificed even their life for it… Oh and lastly – the Bible is the only book that can change you inwardly – try it and see!
Lord help us to know and enjoy your Word… keep us in You, Lord… And when we know this word help us to speak it out to our friends and family!!! Lord, we love You! 🙂
sharing from the 2010 Winter School of Truth – the Bible testifies concerning the Lord Jesus
The Winter School of the Truth is a one-week-long period of time when the young people come together to enter into the truth, blend together, and fellowship around the Word of God. In Europe until now the winter school has been in London, UK. This past year – year 2010 – we went through “The Bible”: below is sister Grace’s top enjoyment from this wonderful time. [Read this portion also in Spanish / Puede leer esta porción también en español, Testimonio de la Escuela de Invierno de la Verdad. Acerca de “La Biblia testifica del Señor Jesús“]
2 Timothy 3:16: “All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” The subject of the Winter School of Truth this year was the Bible. God expresses Himself through His Word. We need to see that the Bible is unlike any other book; it has the ability to change people inwardly. If we want to know God, we have to know the Bible. How can we please God if we do not know what He wants? The Bible is the means of God the Spirit to reach us. Whatever God does towards us and anything He wants us to do is written in His Word. This week, we saw that God has given us two spiritual inheritances: the Spirit, which cannot be seen, and the Bible, which can be seen. We have to realize that we need to use both the Bible and the Spirit. We need to be trained in our mind in order to understand the Word, and we need to be exercised in our spirit to experience the Word and to touch the Lord.
What I really enjoyed was the example given to support this. The Bible can be referred to as being the tracks of a train, and the Spirit as the fuel for the train to run. The train cannot run if one or the other is missing. The tracks are outward; this is the Word of God to lead and guide us in the right direction. The fuel is inward; this is the Spirit to energise us so that we can go. When we touch the Spirit, we get the life of the Spirit.
What is the Subject of the Bible? We saw in the Winter School that the subject of the Bible is contained in four statements: God planned and created, Satan rebelled and damaged, man fell and was lost, and Christ redeemed and built. However, the central thought of the Bible is Christ and the church. Everything was created according to God’s purpose; the church is God’s heart’s desire and should be our vision today.
Also, the Bible has many functions. First, the Bible is an expression and explanation of the Lord Jesus. The Bible also makes us wise unto salvation. The Word causes us to be regenerated. The Scriptures are our milk as nourishment, and also our spiritual bread of life. Finally, the Bible is for our perfecting. We can know the Word and be constituted with the Lord. Then we can speak life into others. The more we are filled with the Word of God, the more we life to speak and the more we have to speak; the more we speak, the more we are filled in spirit.
The Bible reveals God to us. Our God is one: Isaiah 45:5a says, “I am Jehovah and there is no one else; / Besides Me there is no God.”
God is mighty and faithful, self-existing and ever-existing, triune; He is three yet one, and He is co-existing and eternal. Why is God Triune? The Triune God is triune to dispense Himself into us, because we were created to contain God.
We need to have the burden to preach the gospel to our friends in this age, the church age. This is the age in which anyone can receive eternal life by just believing into Him. However in the next age, the Kingdom Age, we can only enter into the eternal life, it can no longer be received. In the eternal age, with the New Jerusalem, we will manifest the Triune God for eternity. Everyone is seeking something today. We live in an age that rejects God; Christianity today is filled with things that are not of Christ. God’s intention is that His will be done, and that His kingdom is made manifest on the earth. He cannot do so without the Body, the church. The church is the goal God wants to obtain in His eternal economy; each one of us who is saved participates in this goal that God may obtain His heart’s desire according to His good pleasure.
A normal believer in Christ 